For the first time in seventy years, the UK woke up without his queen, Friday, September 9. Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday at the age of 96. Since the tributes have not stopped raining around the world. Joe Biden hailed “a stateswoman of incomparable dignity and constancy” who “embodied an era”. Immanuel Macron sees in her “a friend of France” who “forever marked his century”. Follow all the reactions in our live.
A national mourning of ten days. It opens this Friday, as part of an operation choreographed for years by Buckingham Palace, called “Operation London Bridge”. The operation “unicorn” (unicorn) is also activated: the body of Elizabeth II will first have to be transported to Edinburgh, pThen the coffin will go to London, where the funeral will take place.
The new king takes the name of Charles III. The new King Charles called Thursday in his first intervention as sovereign, the death of his mother Elizabeth II of “moment of great sadness” which will be felt “in the whole world”. Charles III is expected in London on Friday, where he is to hold his first audience with the new Prime Minister Liz Truss and deliver an address to the nation.
The end of a reign. Queen Elizabeth II passed away “peacefully” at his Balmoral Castle on Thursday, Buckingham Palace announced. Earlier today, the Queen of England’s doctors had said “concerned” by the state of health of the sovereign, aged 96. The Queen’s four children, including Charles, the heir to the crown, as well as her grandsons William and Harry, were at her bedside. After having acted the handover of power between Boris Johnson and Liz Truss on Tuesday, the Queen of England had been placed “under medical supervision” in his Scottish castle.