As crowds gather outside Windsor Castle to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, people are commemorating her legacy and some are even remembering the times they interacted with Her Majesty.
One woman told CNN it was “amazing” when she saw the Queen at an opening of a hospice a few months ago. She said the Queen waved at everyone there and gave the crowd a little smirk and said “thank you” when they told her she looked great.
“She just symbolizes everything. I’m such a big royalist. I lived in Windsor all my life so just growing up with my family loving her and kind of instilling that on us, really,” she said.
She said the Queen was “absolutely” a uniting force, adding “she is going to be missed.”
Jonathan Windsor, from Bristol said he found out about the Queen’s death through a notification on his phone while he was at a pub.
“We toasted Her Majesty on the news. I can’t emphasize how sad our country is with the terrible news,” he told CNN.
Another person, Judy Anzel from London, said her mother called her to tell her about the Queen’s passing.
“Of course this was something we were all expecting to come at some point, but it’s different when it actually happens,” Anzel said, adding “the UK has been in a tough position as of late” and because of that, the death is “going to hit it especially hard at this time.”
CNN’s Paul Murphy contributed reporting to this post.
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