{"id":10333,"date":"2022-09-08T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2022-09-08T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:31:07","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10333","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II Dies At 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Queen Elizabeth II of England has died at the age of 96 on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The queen was said to have died peacefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Crowd had gathered at the Buckingham Palace residence in London on Thursday as concern was growing over the Queen\u2019s health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Around 100 people braved torrential rain to stand at the palace gates, according to AFP, as senior royals rushed to Balmoral in Scotland, where the queen was being treated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Royal Family, announcing the death in a statement, said, \u201cThe Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Queen\u2019s children \u2013 Charles, Princess Anne, 72, Prince Andrew, 62, and Prince Edward, 58, had flocked to her Scottish Highland retreat, Balmoral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They were joined by Charles\u2019s sons, Prince William, and his estranged brother Prince Harry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two days earlier the queen had appointed Liz Truss as the 15th prime minister of her reign and was seen smiling in photographs but looking frail and using a walking stick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One photograph of the meeting sparked alarm, showing a deep purple bruise on the monarch\u2019s right hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Queen Elizabeth, the longest reigning monarch in the British history, emerged the Queen after the Second World War and reigned for 70 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth II of England has died at the age of 96 on Thursday. The queen was said to have died peacefully. Crowd had gathered at the Buckingham Palace residence in London on Thursday as concern was growing over the Queen\u2019s health. Around 100 people braved torrential rain to stand at the palace gates, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5809,1270,220,5808,5810],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-die","tag-london","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10335,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions\/10335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}