Double Rainbow Appeared Over Buckingham Palace Right Before News Of Queen’s Death

As the world awaited news of the monarch, photos captured the rainbows streaking across the gray London sky.
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A rainbow that appeared outside of Buckingham Palace.
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Two rainbows appeared over Buckingham Palace shortly before it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died on Thursday at the age of 96.

Although the Queen reportedly died “peacefully” at her summer home Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the presence of the rainbows over the palace from which she reigned for 70 years was stunningly beautiful — and a little magical.

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A faint rainbow is seen over a more vivid one outside of Buckingham Palace Thursday.
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Some on Twitter interpreted the rainbows in a variety of ways.

Regardless of the rainbows’ symbolism, they seem like a fitting marker for the life of the longest-reigning British monarch and the world’s second-longest reigning monarch after Louis XIV of France.