Queen's funeral brings down curtain on new Elizabethan age
By JULIAN SHEA in London |
China Daily Global |
Updated: 2022-09-20 12:31
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Monarch's send-off marked by a service rich in pageantry and attended by numerous world leaders, brings to an end a 10-day period of national mourning, after a 70-year reign that took in many of the most significant events in contemporary world history
The end of any life is a time to look back and reflect on the historic events it has witnessed－and rarely can that be so more than in the case of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who was laid to rest at Windsor on Monday, following her death 11 days earlier, at the age of 96.
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