Some Canadians Are Looking Forward To Watching The Queen S Funeral With Sadness. Others Will Skip It
For some Canadians, the queen’s funeral on Monday will stir sadness and evoke personal memories, but for others it is a distant event they plan to miss. David Edwards, the Anglican bishop of Fredericton, says his mother was born in the same year as Queen Elizabeth and died about five months before her, linking the changes in his family life to the historic end of a 70-year reign. “Important figures in our lives, when they die, leave a void … a hole in our lives,” he said in an interview earlier this week....