The Queen is being transported from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh, where mourners have lined the streets to pay their respects as the hearse passes.
I was horribly unprepared to draw a tribute for Queen Elizabeth II. I just figured she would still be around doing perfectly appropriate Queen things many years after I passed unwittingly into some awful awkward death.
My wife’s family - uncles, aunties and cousins - call Lori the “wee Yankee” because she was the first in her Scottish family born in the United States. Lori’s got serious opinions about the Royal Family. She grew up reading stories about the two princesses - Elizabeth and Margaret Rose - wondering if she could also be a princess. Of course she could! And Lori is a princess. She’s just married to a dork.
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