Day to Day happenings in my life

Impact of loss

Prompt:
"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
Robert Heinlein
Write about what you think of this quote and/or about what historical event had the most impact on your life.

The death of Queen Elizabeth affected me more than I thought it would. I suppose it’s because she’d been this figure in my life who’d always been there. First in her role of Princess. Her and her sister Margaret were so beautiful and growing up they seemed so glamorous to me. At school we used to sing God Save Our Gracious King for her father King George the sixth and I remember when Elizabeth became Queen at aged 27 in 1953 and we had to change the anthem to Queen. I was nine years old. All school children received a coronation mug. She seemed so sad, young and beautiful on that day. So when she died in 2022 it seemed she’d been there forever.
Of course another Royal death which all the world remembers is the tragic death of Princess Diana. Who could forget the outpouring of grief at her funeral and the weeks leading up to it.