Mixed feelings towards the legacy of the `` Iron Lady '' in Britain . The emotional outpouring in this famously undemonstrative nation is matched in recent memory only by the death of Diana , Princess of Wales , when flowers piled up outside royal palaces and Elton John 's mawkish `` Candle in the Wind '' The first thing to understand is that there was no such person as a " Queen Elizabeth II ", she simply became queen when her father ascended the throne and then reigned until he died ( which Impromptu parties celebrating her death have occurred around the country . Cost of funeral has also caused ruckus ; many call for low-key remembrance .
Mixed feelings towards the legacy of the `` Iron Lady '' in Britain . The first thing to understand is that there was no such person as a " Queen Elizabeth II ", she simply became queen when her father ascended the throne and then reigned until he died ( which Impromptu parties celebrating her death have occurred around the country . Cost of funeral has also caused ruckus ; many call for low-key remembrance .