Larry Williams Drive

It’s almost unbelievable today that we only saw Queen Elizabeth II two and half days ago. Two days before she passed away, she was working.  She was greeting the UK’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss in her tartan skirt and light blue cardy in front of the fire at Balmoral.  Clearly, she was frail.  She had her cane and for the first time in her reign, she didn’t’ go to London to meet the new PM; the new PM had to come to her in Scotland.  We all knew she was having a tough time  But I don’t think any of us would’ve realized she would be gone so soon after that, because who else would work right up to the last?   The Queen would.  That is incredible. What a remarkable commitment to her job.  She really was something else. No other monarch in the world commands this much respect. Even from corners of the globe that really have no ties to Britain anymore.  Places like the US. They’ve lowered their flags to half-mast. Because, in a way, the Queen became a symbol for many people in the English speaking world, even if