About 4.5 billion bank notes and more than 27 billion coins featuring the queen’s image are now circulating in the U.K.
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The new money – featuring the visage of King Charles III – will start rolling out by December 2022.
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Throughout Europe, the new king’s name has been translated (or not) in many different ways.
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Research shows people can undergo transformational experiences when they grieve.
Carnegie Mellon University’s denouncing of Uju Anya’s tweet about the Queen shows that universities need to do much more the support racialized faculty.
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Reaction to criticism of the monarchy shows that universities need to do much more to support racialized faculty and staff.
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In the 19th century, ‘old age’ was once a leading cause of death, alongside the vague description ‘found dead’.
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A recent NSW Resolve poll gave Labor 43% of the primary vote, and the Coalition just 30%, though the major party leaders were tied for preferred premier.
The queue to see Queen Elizabeth lying in state stretched for miles along the Thames, snaking through parks on either end.
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Waiting in line to see the Queen lying in state resonates with other contemporary, post-secular forms of pilgrimage.
King Charles and Prince William arrive for Queen Elizabeth’s committal service at Windsor Castle on Sept. 19, 2022.
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Whatever Queen Elizabeth’s personal qualities, it’s time to determine how the monarchy fits Canada’s current situation as an independent country and its aspirations for the future.
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The national mood surrounding the death of the Queen is the result of collective emotion, planned events and spontaneity.
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Appeals to social organisation are about knowing one’s place, a particularly English preoccupation.
When mourning is made official, it erases the complexities and contradictions individuals might bring to the process.
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Many of those critical or skeptical of the monarchy have felt silenced.
Members of the British royal family follow behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her state funeral.
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A scholar of British history explains how the ornate church and its significance to the monarchy have changed over centuries.
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While there is some tapering off of support for the Albanese government since the 2022 election, it is still comfortably ahead of the Coalition.
London’s Piccadilly Circus on the first day of national mourning.
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An award-winning photographer reflects on iconic images of the late monarch and pictures a nation in mourning
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Poets once wrote their verse in “blood” or “wounds” when a king or queen died. On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, what has happened to the epic art of elegy?
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As words go, grief feels inadequate for describing public sentiment in the wake of the Queen’s death.
Princes William and Harry have made several joint public appearances following the death of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Sharing administrative tasks and reminiscing on family moments can bring siblings together during tough times.
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It is amorphous, intangible and difficult to articulate – but it’s worth trying to pin down what lies underneath expressions of grief for a lost monarch.
Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation, age 27.
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Other queens were just teenagers when they ascended the throne.
People file past the Queen’s coffin in St Giles’ church, Edinburgh.
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Queen Elizabeth’s funeral will maintain all the traditions of previous royal funerals but will have some new additions to ease the new sovereign in.