>On top of all this she also represented a beloved family member to which many of us can relate, especially those of us who have lost that grandma, mother, or sister.

She represents a bygone institution that will one day cease to exist, quite possibly the last monarch to die with the title in Australia and hopefully elsewhere.

>Her death is both a single flower dying, and the last flower of its species dying.

This is exactly what my previous comment was getting at. This is HN not poetry corner.