{"id":3638,"date":"2022-09-09T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:12:32","slug":"the-death-of-her-majesty-the-queen-elizabeth-ii-1926-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/the-death-of-her-majesty-the-queen-elizabeth-ii-1926-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The death\u00a0of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg?resize=120%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3639\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg?resize=239%2C300&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg?resize=815%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 815w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg?resize=768%2C965&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg?w=1019&amp;ssl=1 1019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Queen Elizabeth II <br>(1926-2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;European Society for the Study of English mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth&nbsp;II, who died on September 8, 2022, aged 96.&nbsp;She was the longest serving monarch&nbsp;the United Kingdom has ever seen. Her death ended a rule of 70 years that saw&nbsp;15 prime&nbsp;ministers from Winston Churchill to Boris Johnson and, finally, to Liz&nbsp;Truss, whom she formally invited to become prime minster only&nbsp;two days before&nbsp;her death. Her son Charles succeeds her on the throne and will now be known as&nbsp;King Charles III. In a statement, he&nbsp;called the death of his mother \u201ca moment&nbsp;of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family,\u201d adding that \u201cher&nbsp;loss will be&nbsp;deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the&nbsp;Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.\u201d ESSE is&nbsp;saddened by&nbsp;the news and wishes to express its deepest condolences to the Royal Family, the&nbsp;United Kingdom and the&nbsp;Commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;European Society for the Study of English mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth&nbsp;II, who died on September 8, 2022, aged 96.&nbsp;She was the longest serving monarch&nbsp;the United Kingdom has ever seen. Her death ended a rule of 70 years that saw&nbsp;15 prime&nbsp;ministers from Winston Churchill to Boris Johnson and, finally, to Liz&nbsp;Truss, whom she formally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esse-matters","category-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}