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Death Of Queen Elizabeth II - Coping With Change

Hi everyone. It’s a strange time here in the UK right now. As they used to say in times gone by, “The Queen is dead. Long live the King!”  Thankfully we are a bit more sensitive in the new  century but nevertheless, everything seems totally out of kilter and off balance.   As someone remarked the other day, “There’s a lot of stuff swirling around at the moment” since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II finally came to the end of her long and incredible life and was succeeded with immediate effect (to use a very new  century phrase) by her eldest son who is now King Charles III. This “stuff that is swirling around” is probably an apt way of describing the wide range of feelings and emotions that many of us seem to be experiencing, not just in this country but across the world too. Much like when Princess Diana died so tragically in 1997, a huge number of people (myself included) seem to have been taken by surprise as to how much the death of a 96 year old woman, whom most of us had never