No matter how you are prepared for this eventuality, it still comes as a shock to you as you never expected it would happen so soon and you secretly wish that it would never happen. Glad we had a chance to tell her how much we love her and we thank her for everything during her Platinum Jubilee. Now we say goodbye to everything that is familiar and stable and face strangeness and uncertainty in two lying cheating spineless cowards. Very sad day!!
In 1978, i was reclining on the great grass lawn of Balmoral one sunny summer afternoon, admiring the castle. They had visiting hours for tourists when it was not being used by any royals. Feeling a little like Forest Gump right now.