Passing of a Queen

Queen Elizabeth has died. She visited Nigeria two years before I was born. I don’t remember the visit but have a lot of friends just a little older than me who do. They tell their memories of pomp and circumstance and waving little Nigerian flags as they watched her pass by in varuious Nigerian cities. Nigeria was a British colony until 1960. Growing up, I sometimes didn’t know who the US President was but I always knew who Queen Elizabeth was. She was my queen. When I was born, Nigeria was still a British colony. I had duel citizenship until I was 18 so for the first two years of my life, I was one of her subjects, born in one of her colonies.