Her death yesterday happened really quickly. On just Tuesday, she was pictured welcoming the new Prime Minister, all dressed smartly yet casually, and all smiles. While she<\/em> was taking care of that official business, little ole moi was at home, not even being able to get out of my PJs! Just one more reason to respect the lady.<\/p>\n Queen Elizabeth just two days before she passed on!<\/p><\/div>\n Queen Elizabeth was one of my idols\u2014always classy, lovely, intelligent, caring, and well-spoken. Or, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put it when he heard the sad news, \u201cShe was thoughtful, wise, curious, helpful, funny, and so much more. She was one of my favorite people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Her Majesty is one of the only people in the world I wanted to meet, even more than I did Hugh Jackman. I\u2019ve been worried about her since her beloved husband died last year. I even composed a missive to her, to post on Prince Philip\u2019s condolence book. But it had already closed, so I planned to just send my note to her in a card, in case the person who does her mail would read it to her, (which I understand often happened,) just so that she’d know that even one more person in the world cared.\u00a0 Sadly, because of the pandemic, I never made it to the post office. But, because she was so timeless, I always thought I had more time.<\/p>\n Even though she was ninety-six-years-old, it seemed that she would live forever. She had slowed down a bit recently, but still always looked great and vibrant. Heck, she was just riding her beloved horse a couple of months\u00a0ago!<\/p>\n The Queen on a ride with her horse groom just this past June!<\/p><\/div>\n Still, for some unknown-even-to-me reason, I had been more concerned for her than usual this week. But, because I\u2019ve been watching the US Open tennis non-stop for almost two weeks, and was always behind, I\u2019ve been shunning all news so as to not find out any results that I haven\u2019t witnessed for myself. But something woke me at 5:30AM yesterday morning, on very little sleep, and I felt compelled to check the Daily Mail,(don’t judge,) to see if there was any news of the Queen feeling better. And there was the shocking news that her doctor had told her family to rush to her side.<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t believe it; it just seemed that if she wasn’t feeling well, the Queen would either rally completely, as she always has, or hold on for at least a few more days. I had to get right out of bed and check on the news about her health every few minutes. And then I took off for my first event in a week and a half.<\/p>\n When I saw that Mr. X was calling me while I was out, my heart stopped\u2014I knew right away that the Queen had died.<\/p>\n The sky over Windsor Castle right after Queen Elizabeth died. Photo by Chris Jackson\/Getty Images.<\/p><\/div>\n I skipped dessert, (which you know means I was incredibly upset,) and came home to write this tiny tribute to her.<\/p>\n But my head is spinning. I can\u2019t get it together to write anything very coherent right now. I just wanted to pay my public respects to her as soon as possible. And I felt it would be just way too inappropriate to post anything else in this spot today, especially the planned article about certain people not being \u201cstars\u201d on a shallow dance show.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll try to write a more heartfelt tribute to her in a few weeks, when I\u2019ve stopped crying and have begun to wrap my mind around the woman who has been my only Queen in my lifetime not being such anymore.<\/p>\n But for now, even though I think the world will have a hard time adjusting to the world without her, I\u2019m happy for Queen Elizabeth to finally be at peace and with her beloved Philip once again.<\/p>\n![\"Queen](\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Queen-Elizabeth-e1662727324280.jpg\")
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