Queen Elizabeth II passed away Thursday at the age of 96. Have you noticed newscasters having trouble saying King Charles (instead of Prince Charles), or even the word king? It's very new and strange to them because Elizabeth was always the monarch of the British Empire. At least it seemed that way.
Elizabeth was born in 1926 and became queen of the United Kingdom in 1952, when she was only 25 years old. Holding one job for 70 years is hard to wrap our heads around, but Laurence Brown (previously at Neatorama) is here to help. He gives us some mind-bending statistics to emphasize how long 70 years really is, and how much the world has changed.
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I think the easiest contextualization for Queen Elizabeth's life (instead of the whole civil war thingy on the video) is that when she was born (before the New York stock exchange crash in 1929, but while Al Capone and quite probably Jack the Ripper were still alive) neither Superman (1938) nor Batman (1939) were created by a full decade (hell, she could have owned more the one original copy of Action Comics 1 or Detective Comics 27 when they were first published)And when she was coronated in 1953, Spider-man had yet to debut (in 1962, and just as well, she could have gotten the then fourteen Charles an original copy of Amazing Fantasy signed of by Stan Lee).On the other hand, she died without finding out what the One Piece truly is (and whether or not there is an All Blue), altough the manga series began shortly before Lady Di died (in august 1997, while the manga began in july of the same year).
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It does feel weird seeing the words King Charles
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Yesterday I saw the phrase "what was the cause of Elizabeth's death?" It reminded me of the day Rose Kennedy died at age 104. My husband told his grandmother about it. She said, "What did she die of?" He immediately said, "Skiing accident."
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