Thursday September 8: Long Live the King!
Today, Queen Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. I was just seven months old when she came to the throne. If it's possible to remember anything from such an early age, then my very first memory is of rows of small Union Jack flags hanging outside our house for the Queen's Coronation in 1953, when I was just two years old.
This picture I took when she visited the Nigg Bay oil platform construction yard in northern Scotland in August 1974.
The Queen is Dead - Long Live the King! King Charles III.
And here he is, as Prince Charles, in 1976. I took these photos of his visit to the Loch Kishorn oil platform construction yard in the northwestern Highlands of Scotland:
Finally, here is the view of the flagpole on the top of Perth Town Hall today. The sad news reached us as a small group of us was playing music in the park next to Town Hall. We immediately stopped, and found the music to play "God Save the King" - perhaps the first in Canada to do so after the news was broadcast. How appropriate that would be, since our group are all members of the oldest town band in the Country.
The Passionate Hiker
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