Updates: Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s Beacon of Stability, Dies

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Updates: Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s Beacon of Stability, Dies

Doctors had placed the queen, who was 96, under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands.

ImageQueen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.Credit...Chris Jackson Collection, via Getty Images

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Mark Landler
Sept. 8, 2022, 1:37 p.m. ET44 minutes ago
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Mark Landler
The queen’s death brings a moment of reckoning for Britain.

LONDON — The death of Queen Elizabeth II, which Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday, is a watershed moment for Britain, at once incomparable and incalculable.

It marks both the loss of a revered monarch — the only one most Britons have ever known — and the end of a figure who served as a living link to the glories of World War II Britain, presided over its fitful adjustment to a post-colonial, post-imperial era and saw it through its bitter divorce from the European Union.

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