{"id":25591,"date":"2022-09-08T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=25591"},"modified":"2025-05-21T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:52:25","slug":"25591","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=25591","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9-8-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/RANDYWELLS-Big-Ben-and-Palace-of-Westminster-London-England-Great-Britain-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/RANDYWELLS-Big-Ben-and-Palace-of-Westminster-London-England-Great-Britain-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/RANDYWELLS-Big-Ben-and-Palace-of-Westminster-London-England-Great-Britain-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/RANDYWELLS-Big-Ben-and-Palace-of-Westminster-London-England-Great-Britain-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-1-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/RANDYWELLS-Big-Ben-and-Palace-of-Westminster-London-England-Great-Britain-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>QUEEN ELIZABETH II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s longest-reigning monarch died today at age 96. I was in London the week Princess Diana was killed in Paris. If this next week is anything like what I saw then, and it surely will be, it&#8217;ll be something to experience. The English have always had a special relationship with the queen mother, and it will on full display everywhere.   <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tumblr_7eabc2cf22b383b50f72464bee80e0a8_db33beea_1280-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tumblr_7eabc2cf22b383b50f72464bee80e0a8_db33beea_1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tumblr_7eabc2cf22b383b50f72464bee80e0a8_db33beea_1280-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tumblr_7eabc2cf22b383b50f72464bee80e0a8_db33beea_1280-1-330x228.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tumblr_7eabc2cf22b383b50f72464bee80e0a8_db33beea_1280-1-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photographer: Unknown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9-8-22 QUEEN ELIZABETH II Britain&#8217;s longest-reigning monarch died today at age 96. I was in London the week Princess Diana was killed in Paris. If this next week is anything like what I saw then, and it surely will be, it&#8217;ll be something to experience. The English have always had a special relationship with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=25591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25591"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28952,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions\/28952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}