I think the train has sailed on the U.S. having a constitutional monarchy at this point.
Least of all because we'd never be able to pick somebody and agree on that.
She needs to give us a full summary of how this goes once she's back.
Not sure why she's there, but coincidentally being in London during an event of such national sorrow and importance like this is going to be a unique experience.
My friend and I are primarily visiting Paris, but hopped an EasyJet that morning early to London, and took the earliest possible tour of Buckingham. We knew she was at Balmoral, as she had just installed the new PM earlier that week.
We went through the tour (which was AMAZING), and were just leaving the grounds when my friend’s phone alerted her that the Queen was sick. The changing of the guard for that day was cancelled. We were gone before the vigil crowd showed up. We were on a bus and walking tour of town all afternoon, and were at the train station when Janny texted us she had passed. We seemed to know earlier than most everyone else, but it was definitely clear when the news came in. It was about 7 or so London time, so it was much later in the day.
We were chatting with a couple from just outside London who were also taking the Chunnel to Paris when it was announced - they are not royalists, but they were not at all excited that Charles accepted the throne. They described him as a wet blanket.
I sat behind a gal on the train who started the first episode of The Crown on the train. I have been meaning to rewatch it, so I sort of kept an eye on it!
Hope she saw this and had her camera.
I was bummed not to! (It had rained almost all day in London.) We did get a rainbow hitting the pyramid at The Louvre the next night as we started our tour, though!
We are still in Paris, so not back yet - all of the French flags are at half mast, the media coverage is pretty constant.
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