{"id":2645,"date":"2022-09-09T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T09:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2022-09-09T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T09:36:31","slug":"the-kingdom-loses-one-of-its-strongest-pillars-at-a-time-when-it-is-on-the-verge-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/the-kingdom-loses-one-of-its-strongest-pillars-at-a-time-when-it-is-on-the-verge-of-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom Loses One of Its Strongest Pillars, at a Time When it is On the Verge of Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The world knew this day would come, but it seems that one can never really prepare for it. Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died at the age of 96.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She soared to a throne trembling from the tremors of a collapsing Empire. She died in Scotland, where independence enthusiasm is on the rise, with the kingdom she kept together on the verge of splintering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She presided over a turbulent era of women’s liberation, gay and lesbian rights expansion, deindustrialisation, and immigration that altered the face of her country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She remained unmoved throughout the Cold War and Northern Ireland’s civil war, Britain’s entry and acrimonious exit from the European Union, and the disorienting spasms of a globalising economy – the last link with national heroic mythology forged during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n