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FAIRFIELD — Kathleen Crenshaw cannot remember a time when she wasn’t quite aware of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the young woman who would become queen for seven decades. The news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday morning left Crenshaw in tears. “It was a shock. I put the TV on this morning, and I was very upset, and I wept all morning,” said Crenshaw, 90, who was born in northern England, but raised in Kent. Many of her memories are tied to World War II, and the leadership provided by the Royal Family, who as Crenshaw recalls, never left even as the palace was bombed. Center to all of those memories is Elizabeth, and one of the strongest is of her coronation June 2, 1953 – 16 months after she succeeded her father, King George, on Feb. 6, 1952. “We will never have anyone like her again,” Crenshaw said. Ann Childress remembers having to go to a neighbor’s house to watch See Solano, Page A7
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This is an undated official portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II, taken in an unknown location in June 1953. MORE ON PAGE A7 •King Charles III, the new line of succession to the British throne. •Crowds pay respect to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. •Here’s what happens across UK after Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
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Queen Elizabeth II, the seemingly eternal monarch who became a bright but inscrutable beacon of continuity in the United Kingdom during more than seven decades of rule, died Sept. 8 at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. She was 96. In her reign, which began in February 1952 after the death of her father, King George VI, Elizabeth served as a constant and reassuring figure in Britain and on the world stage as she helped lead her country through a period of profound shifts in geopolitical power and national identity. The designs of postage stamps and bank notes changed through the decades, but they all depicted the same, if aging, monarch. The British national anthem now shifts to “God AFP/TNS file (1953) Save the King,” Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II but most Britons accompanied by Britain’s Prince have only known Philip, Duke of Edinburgh waves the other version, to the crowd after being crowned for the queen. Her son and heir, at Westminter Abbey in London, Charles, summed up June 2, 1953. the power of her constancy in a rare television documentary aired in 2012 to mark her 60th year as queen. “Perhaps subconsciously,” he said, “people feel encouraged, reassured by something that is always there.” Her last major constitutional action came on Tuesday, when she accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and asked his successor,
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