Britain and the world to lay Queen Elizabeth II to rest
Monday has been declared a public holiday in honor of Elizabeth, who died Sept. 8 at 96.
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The Duchess of Kent, seated center on dais, reads a message from the Queen of England in the Parliament House at Accra, Ghana, on March 6, 1957. Ghana, the British colony known as the Gold Coast, is the first black African nation to gain independence from colonial rule. Seated at right is the Governor General Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke and at far right is Lady Arden-Clarke. (AP Photo)