“We thought we might be able to go in and sign the guest book, give our condolences, because these are very special circumstances,” said Trudy Ferrier of Edinburgh, Scotland.
,” Thea Scotti, originally of Alfriston in East Sussex, said as she placed a bouquet of pink roses, Queen Anne’s lace and white freesias on the sidewalk outside the office’s 2nd Ave. door.She knew exactly what we needed. When wasn’t she inspiring?”Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/Shutterstock
Anna from London, bearing eight English roses as a tribute to the late monarch, called her “someone you could look up to.” “She always carried herself with such grace and elegance. She treated everyone as equals,” Anna said. The spontaneous display of candles, Union Jacks and piles of orchids, sunflowers and roses in pink, red and white, grew to about 75 bouquets as the day went on.deeply missed across the entire globe“We have a lot of celebrities that we put up on a pedestal, but she was born into this life,” mused Jennifer Downs, who proudly cited her Scottish ancestry although she was born in Tennessee.
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