Neither her notoriety nor her popularity needs promotion, but the late Elizabeth II has still benefited from a major campaign since her death, which occurred on Thursday night. In fact, after her death, her face appeared on many British billboards and bus stops instead of the usual advertising messages.
Observers and Internet users have witnessed this series of tributes.
London on the front line
On Twitter, the correspondent for companion from parish in London, Maud Garmy, evoked this fever which quickly took hold of the local inserts. “Across London, billboards have given way to portraits paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth,” she wrote.
Even a BBC journalist assured on Twitter that “almost all billboards” in the capital were covered with the features of the sovereign. It is in any case true for the Finsbury Park bus stop, immortalized in his photo.
The same process is found this Friday on the side of Piccadilly, a famous London district, seen by a surfer.
The kingdom in unison
Elizabeth II was queen not only of the city of London but of the entire United Kingdom. Additionally, these screens have been deployed elsewhere, notably in Manchester, as the photo below demonstrates. “On all the posters in the city. Beautiful tribute from Manchester,” wrote its author.
The reverence even extends to every screen in the Mancunian city according to Jo Wilson, a netizen who posted: “All the electronic billboards in Manchester pay homage to Her Majesty the Queen. Long live the King.”
The United Kingdom includes England but also Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. That is why Scottish Edinburgh has also been adorned with the face of the monarch, according to a local artist.
The real smile is definitively spreading in Scotland where it is also discovered on the Glasgow panels, according to the media The nationMe, still on Twitter.
Given the profusion of these iconographic tributes, some, however, are not far from being an overdose. This is at least the case of Toni who choked on Twitter: “I traveled eight kilometers and saw nine fucking portraits of the queen.”
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Regardless of the afflicted spirits, the emotion is general and even overflows the British Isles to impose itself in the same way in the Commonwealth, whose sovereign is nominally the supreme authority. As a result, the late Elizabeth II can also be seen on billboards in Toronto, Canada.
“On the way to Toronto airport… Gardiner’s signs pay tribute to the Queen,” wrote a local CBC News reporter.
And the disappearance of the pub in favor of the monarchical face is not only the fact of its subjects. The phenomenon is spreading throughout the very Republican United States, from New York to Los Angeles, via Las Vegas and Atlanta.
Source: BFM TV
