{"id":48366,"date":"2022-09-10T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/09\/tears-candles-and-a-farewell-to-boss-lady-the-world-mourns-queen-elizabeth-ii"},"modified":"2022-09-10T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:05:52","slug":"tears-candles-and-a-farewell-to-boss-lady-the-world-mourns-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48366","title":{"rendered":"Tears, candles and a farewell to \u2018boss lady\u2019: the world mourns Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the UK to the Commonwealth and beyond, admirers are paying their respects to the longest reigning monarch in British history<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/live\/2022\/sep\/08\/queen-elizabeth-ii-dies-royals-monarchy-latest-news-updates\">World leaders pay tribute to the Queen \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the streets of Sydney and Kyiv, they laid flowers. In California they lit candles; in Honolulu, flags flew at half-mast, and, in Paris, the Eiffel Tower dimmed its lights. In London, two rainbows emerged in the skies above Buckingham palace.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkably broad sweep of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s life spanned the great to the inglorious, Churchill to Ceau\u0219escu, Mandela to Mugabe. But much of her lasting legacy will lie in the tens of thousands of quieter lives she touched during her reign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/09\/tears-candles-and-a-farewell-to-boss-lady-the-world-mourns-queen-elizabeth-ii\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the UK to the Commonwealth and beyond, admirers are paying their respects to the longest reigning monarch in British historyWorld leaders pay tribute to the Queen \u2013 latest updatesOn the streets of Sydney and Kyiv, they laid flowers. In California &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,62,1611,56,874,63,61,1985,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-india","category-monarchy","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-south-and-central-asia","category-the-queen","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48366\/revisions\/48367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}