The world spent several hours in a strange common limbo, an interim period during which the news was being shared with those who needed to know first QueenElizabeth
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“Angst um die Queen,” literally “Fear for the Queen,” was the headline on a major German newspaper website. Queen Elizabeth II waits in the Drawing Room before receiving Liz Truss for an audience, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, on Sept. 6, 2022.Much has happened in her reign since she spoke those words at Windsor Castle. Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister, had just met with her at Balmoral to formalize the transfer of power.
In this strange absence of information, Twitter users, from maudlin monarchists to cynical republicans, vaulted their royal hot takes into the discourse like clay pigeons, inviting the shotgun blast replies.