For various reasons, I’ve been away from the blog for a while, but I felt I had to post today in honour of The Queen.

What a woman! Seventy years plus the rest leading up to it in the service of others. Many often saw the life of the Royal Family as happening in some parallel universe, so far removed is it from the lives we lead, but it’s what she was born to. She saw her entire life through the lens of duty. It couldn’t have been easy, but she saw it through.

And she managed five months without her beloved Philip by her side — it must have been a very long five months. Someone posted this little cartoon, which made me smile.

She lived an entire lifetime doing her best, and how many of us can say that?

I say a hearty, “Thank you, Your Majesty!”