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'You have to get used to silence': How it feels to be widowed after a lifetime of marriage
sitting alone in a St George’s Chapel pew at the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, saying goodbye to her ‘strength and stay’.In that moment, in a rare display of public emotion, she was no longer the monarch, but a diminutive, lonely widow, contemplating a life without her beloved husband of 73 years.Jenifer Rosenberg, 78, understands the deep pain the Queen was most likely experiencing in that moment. In 2006, her husband Ian died of heart failure weeks after his 70th birthday; they had been married for 24 years.
