The Only Queen I've Ever Known

 

Tributes are pouring in from around the world of course.  Interesting how different news organizations choose to remember her.

The Toronto Sun

The Toronto Sun remembers her smiling with steely resolve.

The CBC

The CBC choose a frail picture of her the day before she died.

The Toronto Star

Not necessarily the picture I'd want to be remembered by.  Especially on their front page, her picture was almost life size.

Quite jarring when you pick up the paper at 6am.

Judge for yourself (but not the male model appearing in the picture with her).

Now, the Star did have another 12 page spread on the Queen that was more flattering but first impressions count.

CNN

CNN has already moved on from her to bigger problems.

Fox News

Meh.  Playing it fairly safe.

So except for a few long legged beauties on stage at Zelda's Boom Boom Room in the gaybourhood here in Toronto, of course, she was the only queen I'd ever known. 

But I'll leave you with a small vignette showing the Queen's sense of humour...

And to paraphrase the old saying, so long did the queen live.