The newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Truss has expressed grieve over the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch.
Truss who was elected earlier this week as Britain’s 15th prime minister expressed shock at the death of the queen while speaking outside the Downing Street.
She described the Queen’s death as devastating adding that it is “huge shock to the nation and the world” at large.
According to her, the queen was “a rock on which modern Britain was built adding that Britain is the great country it is today because of her.”
Furthermore, she said the Queen was a personal inspiration to her as well as many Britons as her devotion to duty is an example to all.
The Prime Minister who praised the Queen said she left a “great legacy” behind.
Her words: “Today the Crown passes, as it has done for more than a thousand years, to our new monarch, our new head of state, His Majesty King Charles III.
“With the King’s family we mourn the loss of his mother and come together.”
“We offer him our loyalty and devotion, just as his mother devoted so much to us for so long.”
“It is the passing of the second Elizabethan age, God save the King, she concluded.