{"id":6234,"date":"2022-09-08T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2022-09-08T23:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:59:48","slug":"elizabeth-ii-of-england-april-21-1926-september-8-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/elizabeth-ii-of-england-april-21-1926-september-8-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth II of England: April 21, 1926 &#8211; September 8, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-61585886\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20220711ff\/20220908-QueenElizabethOfEnglandViaBBC-News-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Queen Elizabeth II of England \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Alexandra Mary became Elizabeth II of England 70 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She died this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-61585886\">Queen Elizabeth II has died<\/a>&#8220;<br>BBC News (September 8, 2022)<\/p><p>&#8220;Queen Elizabeth II, the UK&#8217;s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.<\/p><p>&#8220;She died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the summer.<\/p><p>&#8220;The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no shortage, I&#8217;m sure, of pieces written about Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ll just say that I think she is and will be missed, and go back to what I had been getting ready for this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the death of Elizabeth II is &#8216;current events,&#8217; I&#8217;ve applied the history tag to this post. That makes sense to me. I&#8217;ve talked about history and how I see it fairly often, including this stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/history-viewpoints-narratives-and-ancient-rome\/\">History, Viewpoints, Narratives and Ancient Rome<\/a>&#8220;<br>\n(July 2, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/sifting-through-the-ash-heap-of-history\/\">Sifting Through the Ash Heap of History<\/a>&#8220;<br>\n(October 30, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/homer-hegel-history-and-hope\/\">Homer, Hegel, History and Hope<\/a>&#8220;<br>\n(May 12, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Alexandra Mary became Elizabeth II of England 70 years ago. She died this afternoon. &#8220;Queen Elizabeth II has died&#8220;BBC News (September 8, 2022) &#8220;Queen Elizabeth II, the UK&#8217;s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/elizabeth-ii-of-england-april-21-1926-september-8-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Noting that Elizabeth II of England died today, September 8, 2022; and posting a link to BBC News' announcement, with a brief excerpt.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1Cy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6237,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions\/6237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}