RE:Queen Elizabeth is deadQueen Elizabeth lived a remarkable life of duty, and served for 70 years with honour, grace, dignity and integrity.
She became Queen the same year I was born, and having grown up in an anglo home with a proud Londoner for a mother, perhaps Queen Elizabeth means a little more to me than to others who come from a different background, or to younger people who identify more with Canada as a purely independent nation or with North American society. It is heartening to hear the messages of respect from around the world for this amazing woman. It is the end of an era, because the monarchy will never be the same. As a Canadian I don't believe that she was our Queen, but to me personally, she will forever be "the Queen." I am greatly saddened by her death.