Death Elizabeth, William: “The world has lost a leader, I am the grandmother”

“On Thursday the world lost an extraordinary leader”, but “I still lost a grandmother”. In his first public statement since the death of Elizabeth II, his nephew William then promised, in an Instagram post, to “honor his memory by supporting my father, the King, in any way possible”. I knew that the day of his death “would come, but it will take time before I feel the reality of life without his grandmother”, William continued, recalling how Elizabeth was close to him “in the happiest and saddest moments of my life. “. “My grandmother said that pain is the price we pay for love. All the pain we will feel in the next few weeks will demonstrate the love we felt for our extraordinary queen,” William added.