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GringoView: The last changing of the Old Guard

Queen Elizabeth died Thursday as she lived, quietly, and with royal dignity, a dignity that has characterized her more than 70 tumultuous years on the throne making her the longest-serving British monarch.

Her passing at 96 came at her beloved Balmoral Castle in Scotland, surrounded by her often-troublesome family.

It is truly the end of an era, the last changing of an old guard which will now pass into the history books.

And history should be kind to her.

When Elizabeth become queen in 1953, an English exchange student at my school invited each of his close gringo . . .

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