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Vol. 5 Issue 139 www.theolivepress.es September 9th - September 22nd 2022
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EX CL US IV E
Queen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022
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ISLAND MADNESS
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RIP, MA’AM
THE Queen is dead. Official. British expats around Spain were left stunned and tearful last night after being glued to their TV screens and radio sets all day. The news finally arrived at 19.40pm Spanish time: Queen Elizabeth had died at the age of 96. The longest-serving British monarch passed away peacefully at her Scottish home of Balmoral, hopefully looking out across her beloved rolling Scottish glens. Within hours her family had rushed up to be beside her, although her eldest son Charles is believed to have been with her right until the end.
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Expats in Spain mourn the death of the UK’s longest-serving monarch By Jon Clarke & Jorge Hinojosa
Everyone had known the news was bad when a harrowing photo emerged at around 6pm showing a grim-faced Prince William driving into Balmoral with a very sombre Duke and Duchess of Wessex, sitting behind him. The picture was worth a thousand words. With a myriad of BBC presenters donning black suits and dresses from 5pm British time we knew the news was bad. It had started to look grim since a news flash interrupted an BBC1 episode of Bargain Hunt at 12.45pm. The rolling blanket news coverage
from then on - including all Spanish media outlets - only prolonged the suffering. While the Olive Press newsdesk received continual updates from our many sources back in the UK about the seriousness of her health, we could only finally report the sad death at 7.45pm. A statement from Buckingham Palace read, poignantly: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. “The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.” Reaction continues on Page 5
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‘An iconic person has passed’ Alcudia bike shop owner, Natasha Retzmann, from London, said: “I’m in total shock. I couldn’t believe it when I came in from work just now and found out that she died this afternoon. I am no big royalist but she has been part of our lives forever. We are speechless. An iconic person has passed. She did such a great job.”
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Karen Moon, a former teacher, based in San Miguel de Salinas, said: “I am very sad. I think the world has lost an extraordinary Head of State that we will never see again.” She added: “It feels very strange to accept that she has passed away, she has simply always been there.”
An incredibly gracious woman Estate agent, Tony Reddin, from Estepona, said: “I am completely stunned. I met her once at a shoot in Norfolk and she was incredibly gracious. She will be very sadly missed.”