“She was like a part of our family,\u0022 they said of the monarch who reigned for 70 years before passing away on Thursday.
“She was just a grand, gracious, inimitable lady,” Kimberly Beek, 54, said while tearing up as she described the connection she and her husband, both having served in the air force, felt with the queen who had reigned since before they were born.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“It just seems, when everything else around the country was either exploding, imploding, she’d always find something to say that sort of reassured the whole country,” Cazzaniga said. The cousins both left the United Kingdom in 2008, but still reside in the Commonwealth. Francis lives with her family on Vancouver Island, and Cazzaniga now calls Perth, Australia, home.Article content
Born during King George VI’s reign, and age two at the time of Elizabeth’s coronation, Vanier resident Betty Gagnon said the monarch was “a great queen” whose death had touched her.As for newly acceded King Charles III, “Ahh, yuck. I’m not too fussy about him,” Gagnon said. “What he did to Diana, Princess Diana, that doesn’t fall right with me … But we’re stuck with him, so we have no choice because he’s the one next in line.
When the royals come to Canada, Watson added, it’s a boon to the economy of any city they travel to. In Ottawa’s case, there have been roughly a dozen visits by Queen Elizabeth II.
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