By Mariano Valladolid and Marcelo del Pozo
GIBRALTAR – Dozens of Gibraltar residents queued on Friday to signal a ebook of condolence after the demise of Queen Elizabeth and go away flowers on the official residence of the governor of the British territory that is named The Rock.
“I've written … that she was very revered right here in Gibraltar, that we’ll be mourning her demise and that we're the British Rock of Gibraltar however she was our rock and that’s what stored us decided,” stated pensioner Simi Benyub Berherbits, 74.
Draped in a Union Flag adorned with a Platinum Jubilee image of the queen, she likened her demise to the lack of an in depth relative.
Many residents of Gibraltar, on the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea and which is formally recognised as British metropolis, really feel notably near Britain and the monarchy.
In 2002, 99% of voters there rejected the concept of Britain sharing sovereignty with Spain, which it borders and which ceded the outpost to Britain in 1713 after a warfare however has lengthy known as for it to be returned.
Flags flew at half-mast and the Royal Gibraltar Regiment fired a gun salute of 96 rounds honouring the monarch, one for yearly of her life.
A message written on the wrapping of a bouquet of flowers left by The Convent residence learn merely: “To my Queen. Thanks.”
“That is the one queen I've even identified, the one monarch I've referred to as my queen,” stated one other Gibraltar resident Edwin Anthony Lopez, describing Gibraltarians as “very near the crown”.
“The truth is that I really feel very unhappy, I believe nearly all of individuals of Gibraltar if not all really feel the identical,” he stated.
Spain has insisted on a bilateral settlement with Britain to collectively rule Gibraltar, however London needs Gibraltar to be included in such discussions.
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