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When we finish mourning, it's time for a republic

When, at 6:30pm on Thursday evening, the death of 96 year-old HM Queen Elizabeth II was officially announced, the nation appeared to breathe a collective sigh of sadness. Indeed, the mood was captured pretty accurately by Huw Edwards' sombre tone when announcing her death on BBC One  that has earnt him huge praise since.  That feeling of collective grief has remained until the time of writing and will likely carry into next week. Naturally, there has been wall-to-wall coverage projecting this mood that has dominated both news and social media. It reflects the reverberating impact her death has had on large proportions of the general population.  Public sentiment akin to this should not be a surprise. For almost all in Britain, this is the first monarchical change in their lifetime. To take away a public figure, whose presence and aura became uniting and acted as an inspiration to millions in the 70 years she reigned, was always going to shake the country dramatically. I would be in