Queen Elizabeth II Honored With Traditional Tribute Outside Buckingham Palace Following Her Death: Photo
usmagazine.comA royal tradition. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace honored the monarch with a message on an easel set outside the gates.The announcement reads: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.” Hours before the statement was released, photos of a rainbow above the palace went viral.The statement was the same note that the palace shared via social media on Thursday, September 8.
The palace also released a photo of the queen — a portrait taken in February 2006 in honor of her 80th birthday. Late photographer Jane Bown, who took the picture at Buckingham Palace, included the shot in her 2009 book, Exposures.“I spent my whole life worrying about time and light.
If I had time it was something, but if I had light it was even better,” Brown told The Independent before her 2014 death.Friday, September 9, marked the start of the official mourning period in the U.K.
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