A very strange and difficult week, this week.
Whilst I was walking to a live screening at the university's Cope Auditorium, of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' on Thursday evening, it was announced that the Queen had died. The performance went ahead, but was prefaced with a 2-minute silence.
On Friday I was lucky enough to be in the belltower of the parish church, when the muffled bells rang out marking the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The bells were still quite loud from within the tower itself, but I'm not sure how they sounded from outside, hopefully a little more sombre than is usual. I do have some photos, but they are all of people, and as I haven't asked permission to post them I shan't.
On Saturday morning I went along to the carillon in Queen's Park to watch wreaths being laid, and on Sunday I was again at the carillon to hear the local proclamation of Charles III.
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| Awaiting the Proclamation |
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| Deputy Lieutenant of the County |
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| The Mayor of Charnwood |
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| Dignitaries included former mayors, and Freemen of the Borough |
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| Dignitaries from the University, the MP, and the leader of the council |
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| Some of the floral tributes |
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| The Mayor of Charnwood |
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