{"id":49319,"date":"2022-09-25T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=49319"},"modified":"2022-09-25T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T00:53:31","slug":"a-double-rainbow-heralded-the-queens-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/25\/a-double-rainbow-heralded-the-queens-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Double Rainbow Heralded the Queen\u2019s Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Leash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Leash.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Leash-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Leash-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the day the death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced, a double rainbow appeared over Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.\u00a0 The brightly colored arch provided a poignant moment of brightness on a day of sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds had been gathering at Buckingham Palace throughout the day because of concern over the Queen\u2019s health.\u00a0 After a typical London shower, the clouds parted and there was a double rainbow over the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of the Palace.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Buckingham Palace<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen_Rainbow_Buckingham.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Westminster Abbey<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen_Rainbow_Westminster.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"806\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Big Ben<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen_Rainbow_Big-Ben.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>And as far away as Windsor Castle<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen_Rainbow_Windsor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Queen, who was awakened every morning by the music of her much-loved bagpipes, had requested that Pipe Major Paul Burns, the Sovereign\u2019s Piper of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, perform the traditional Lament <em>\u201cSleep, Dearie, Sleep\u201d<\/em> at the end of her service in Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sleep, dearie, sleep\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sL-vxDyr6NM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Godspeed and God Bless<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Flights-Angels-Sing-Thee-Rest_2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Flights-Angels-Sing-Thee-Rest_2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Flights-Angels-Sing-Thee-Rest_2-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Flights-Angels-Sing-Thee-Rest_2.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Heaven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Heaven.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Heaven-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth_Corgis_Heaven-121x150.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day the death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced, a double rainbow appeared over Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.\u00a0 The brightly colored arch provided a poignant moment of brightness on a day of sorrow. Crowds had been gathering at Buckingham Palace throughout the day because of concern over the Queen\u2019s health.\u00a0 After a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/25\/a-double-rainbow-heralded-the-queens-passing\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5132,5131,4626,5130],"class_list":["post-49319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bagpipes","tag-double-rainbow","tag-funeral","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}