Thank You,

I’ve visited many a castle, but to be brutally honest, I’ve never wanted to remain very long

I was always happy when the tour or tours ended, and I was heading back to a hotel or friend’s home with hot and cold running water.

The current queen is a bit older than I, actually quite close to the age of my beloved, who I assume was also watching the festivities from a higher perch than mine.

Yet in her own inimitable way she continues to serve those of us who watch her slow winding road toward a well deserved reward.

I cannot count how many of those I know, and also those who have shared their sorrows with me, who relate to the Grandmother a/k/a Queen, who is now in the very public center of family troubles.

However, few of us have had the public eye so affixed with mixed emotions on our divided family as the beloved Elizabeth.

We may have endured gossip, as well as innumerable “It would never happen in my family,” verbal sling shots of criticism, but not the notoriety the beloved Monarch is currently enduring.

Her mobility is waning, yet her spirit of forgiveness, and yearning to understand the conflicting emotions of other family members reaches across the ocean as an ongoing example of parental love.

Indeed after so many years, because she wears a crown, her burden must be heavier than most women, including this writer, can comprehend,

Although enscounced in a castle, she like the vast army of countless women, once cherished wives, now finds herself in the grips of eternal loneliness without a beloved.

While most of us, have closed the door to our hearts and grieved alone, she has had to do it in. public view ever remaining stoic despite the pain.

Now as the twilight seems to infiltrate the pagentry of parades and applause, Elizabeth R continues to serve not only her Country but countless divided families across the world.

On behalf of many other Mothers, Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers,

Thank you, Your Majesty,

Ma’am, Indeed you are a class act.!