Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral is expected to take place at Westminster Abbey. The funeral and the flood of tributes for Queen Elizabeth II will be unprecedented, much like the British monarch’s reign, says Justin Vovk, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at McMaster. The queen, who died Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at the age of 96, had a way of “disarming” people, said Vovk. “The tributes that are pouring in for her around the world, from leaders, heads of state, politicians, and average people are all using the same vocabulary,” Vovk told CBC News Network. Death always is a process and experience that causes people to question and causes people to look for bonds of community,” he told CBC Radio One.

Source: CBC News September 09, 2022 20:48 UTC