Double Rainbows Appear Over Buckingham Palace As Mourners Gather At Queen Elizabeth’s Home After Her Death

If you judge successful signs, past this 1 says it all. As mourners gathered astir Buckingham Palace pursuing the announcement of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing astatine 96, treble rainbows appeared wide arsenic time implicit the home. Whether it was a motion of the Queen reuniting with her precocious emotion Prince Phillip erstwhile again, oregon her mode of telling america each she’s astatine peace, the stunning show created a consciousness of calm amongst the ample crowd. As Britain prepares to participate a 10-day mourning period, locals arrived to the palace with flowers, signs and trinkets to wage tribute to their Queen. 

A treble rainbow appears implicit Buckingham Palace aft the Queen’s passing. (NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

In an authoritative connection from Buckingham Palace connected Sept. 8th astir 6:30 PM section time, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II passed distant astatine 96 years old. “The Queen died peacefully astatine Belmoral this afternoon,” the connection read. “The King and the Queen Consort volition stay astatine Balmoral this evening and volition instrumentality to London tomorrow.” Royal analogous Omar Scobie added, “Senior members of the Royal Family—including the Prince of Wales—are each gathered astatine the residence.” Prince William was reportedly also astatine his grandmother’s side, portion Harry was connected his mode from Los Angeles.

Queen Elizabeth II. (Dominic Lipinski/WPA Pool/Shutterstock)

Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, were speedy to mourn the monarch, by updating their Archewell website with a memorial for Harry’s Grandma. “In Loving Memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” it said, on with the years of her commencement and death. The Queen’s son, Prince Charles, who volition present win her arsenic King, released a lengthy statement soon thereafter. “The decease of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is simply a infinitesimal of the top sadness for maine and each members of my family,” it read. “We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother. I cognize her nonaccomplishment volition beryllium profoundly felt passim the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless radical astir the world. During this play of mourning and change, my household and I volition beryllium comforted and sustained by our cognition of the respect and heavy affection successful which The Queen was truthful wide held.”

Mourners stitchery extracurricular Buckingham Palace. (Jack Dredd/Shutterstock)

Queen Elizabeth’s decease comes aft Buckingham Palace released a statement revealing that her “doctors [were] acrophobic for Her Majesty’s health” connected the greeting of Sept. 8. She received further aesculapian attraction astatine Balmoral Castle successful Scotland, until her passing. Her household members rushed to beryllium by her side successful the hours earlier she passed.