TWO MONTHS AGO TOMORROW WE LOST THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

THIS POST IS MORE OF A MEMORY FOR ME AS I AM CERTAIN THOSE OF YOU WHO GREW UP WITH THIS QUEEN AND THOSE WHO ARE ROYAL FANATIC’S HAVE HAD YOUR TIME WITH HER MAJESTY.IT’S ALL BEEN A BIT MUCH FOR ME……..THIS HAS DEVASTATED ME AS MUCH AS THE PASSING OF PRINCESS DIANA.

I DID NOT RISE AT 3 AM TO WATCH THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY SERVICE BUT INSTEAD ROSE AT MY NEW NORMAL TIME OF 5:30 AM IN TIME TO WATCH THE DRIVE FROM LONDON TO WINDSOR.THE PEOPLE THE CROWDS THE PAGEANTRY AND THOSE FLOWERS THE GARDENERS LAID OUT ONE BY ONE IN COMPLETE SYMMETRY WAS STUNNING BEYOND BELIEF.

AS I WRITE THIS 4 DAYS LATER AFTER HER DEATH;

I DONOT THINK I NEED TO SEE THAT SERVICE AS THIS WAS ALL I NEEDED.

THIS TOOK SO MUCH OUT OF ME; I NEED A REST BEFORE WATCHING THE BIGGER EVENT.

BEFORE WE CONTINUE I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE BLURRY PHOTOS!I WAS SHOOTING WITH MY PHONE INTO MY IPAD.AS I WATCHED THE PARADE MARCH ON BY…………..

THE FLOWERS LINING THE ENTRANCE TO Windsor Castle.

 THE HEASRT WHO THE QUEEN HERSELF HAD A HAND IN DESIGNING I READ!

I WONDER IF WE KNOW HOW MUCH THOSE UNIFORMS WEIGH WITH HAT INCLUDED!

THESE FLOWERS WERE TOSSED UPON THE MOVING CAR AS MOURNERS LINED THE ROADWAYS.

THE COUNTRY ROAD TO WINDSOR………..

 THE NEWEST CORGI’S GIVEN TO HER BY HER SON ANDREW.

 King Charles THE THIRD.

 FUTURE LITTLE KING OF NINE YEARS OLD!

 BORN ON MY BIRTHDAY!

 THOSE CANADIAN BEARSKIN HATS ARE HINGED AT THE CHIN INSTEAD OF UNDER THE CHIN IN CASE IN BATTLE THEY WOULD FALL BACKWARDS; WHICH WOULD SNAP THEIR NECKS.

 DUE TO THE WEIGHT!

INTERESTING TRIVIA FACT!

 THOSE DIRT MARKS MUST BE ON MY PHONE!

HORRORS!

 SEE THE REFLECTION OF THE SOLIDER IN THE WINDOW!

 LOVE THAT YELLOW ROSE HANGING ON FOR THE RIDE!

 AGAIN MY PHONE OR IPAD HAS DIRT CIRCLES THOSE ARENOT ON HER SKIN!!

 THE QUEEN PICKED THE COLOR OF THE HEARST!

CLARET I READ!

 King Charles III

Windsor Castle 1066

Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.

The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I (who reigned 1100–1135), it has been used by the reigning monarch and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle’s lavish early 19th-century state apartments were described by early 20th century art historian Hugh Roberts as “a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste”.^[4] Inside the castle walls is the 15th-century St George’s Chapel, considered by the historian John Martin Robinson to be “one of the supreme achievements of English Perpendicular Gothic” design.^[5]

 I WOULD HAVE BEEN TERRIFIED TO BE THE DRIVER HERE……….

ANYONE KNOW WHO IS SITTING BESIDE HIM?

 NONE OF THIS WAS REHEARSED!

 HAVE NO IDEA HOW I MADE THIS PHOTO BUT I LOVE IT!

I READ THAT HER COFFIN WAS LINED IN LEAD.

THIS HELPS TO KEEP MOISTURE OUT AND THE BODY PRESERVED.

  ” IN LOVING AND DEVOTED MEMORY,CHARLES R”

THE FLOWERS THAT MADE UP THE WREATH WERE FROM Buckingham Palace AND HIGHGROVE AND Clarence House.

 THE MYRTLE WAS GROWN FROM A SPRIG FROM THE QUEENS WEDDING BOUQUET IN 1947.

 HOW PROUD THE PARENTS OF THESE YOUNG MEN MUST BE!

 THIS CROWN WAS REDUCED IN SIZE!

WHEN HER FATHER WORE IT IT WAS MUCH TALLER!

 ALL PHOTOS HERE ON MY POST TODAY BY SKYNEWS.COM

 WREATH.

NOTE FROM HER SON KING CHARLES III.

PURPLE PILLOW WITH  ROYAL CROWN AND ORB AND SCEPTRE.

 THE SPARKLE EVEN IF IT’S NOT IN FOCUS!

 ANY COMMENTS ON HER…………..?

 I have gone from adoring her to PLEASE just go away!

 Raise your children in seclusion and have that HAPPY LIFE you so desperately need.

  YOU CAN NOT TELL ME SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS GETTING HERSELF INTO WHEN SHE MARRIED INTO THE ROYAL FAMILY!

 I WOULD BE CERTAIN BUT OF COURSE I DO NOT KNOW THAT HARRY WOULD HAVE BRIEFED HER AS WELL AS OTHERS.

PLUS SHE WAS AN ACTRESS WHICH IS THAT ROYAL LIFE ON A SMALLER SCALE.

NO?

There is DIANA’s BROTHER with the white hair.

THE REMOVAL OF THE CROWN………..

 THIS WAS VERY MOVING TO ME AND I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS DONE IN PUBLIC LIKE THIS.

MY FAVORITE PHOTO BELOW!

MY initials were E R before marriage!

I love the color gold!

ANY CROWN with BLING makes me SMILE!

 I CAN RECALL WEARING WHITE GLOVES ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN THE 60’s and 70’s!

 EXACTLY LIKE THESE WITH THE RIBBED BIT?

 WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT IN THE SEWING WORLD?

 LOVE THE COUNTRY VIBE OF THE FLORAL WREATH HERE………….

 THE FUTURE IN THE FIRST PEW!

 IF ONE CAN LOVE A PHOTO OF THIS DEEP SADNESS THIS SAYS IT ALL TO ME!

 AND OFF HE GOES THE NEXT KING OF ENGLAND………..

 LET’S HOPE HE GETS TIME TO GRIEVE AND REST BEFORE THE DUTIES BEGIN!

 THE MAN HAS BEEN NON-STOP FOR THE LAST 10 DAYS…….

  I DIDNOT PUT THE VIDEO IN OF THE BAGPIPES PLAYING.

SO IF YOU MISSED THAT I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU GOOGLE IT AS IT WAS VERY MOVING!

  SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE AND WE SHARED THE SAME NAME!

  I CAN RECALL VISITING THE CHANGING OF THE GUARDS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE AT AGE SEVEN

WITH MY MOTHER ON OUR WAY TO HOLLAND TO SEE MY AUNT BETTY AND COUSINS.

 I ASKED MY MOTHER WHY SHE DIDNOT COME TO THE WINDOW AND WAVE AT ME!

 MY AUNT BETTY TALKED US INTO THE CARRIAGE HOUSE AND I GOT TO SIT IN THE ANTIQUE ALL GOLD GILTWOOD CARRIAGE FROM 1760!

 DO YOU THINK I CAN FIND THAT PHOTO NOW?!!

NOPE!

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