Queen Elizabeth II died in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, on the 8th at the age of 96.
Google Trends shows that "Lily" has soared in search popularity in the UK in the past day, reaching a peak of 100.
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Why Lily? White lilies in Britain mean death and can only be given at funerals.
On the evening of 8 September, royal staff hung an obituary on a railing in front of Buckingham Palace. In the square in front of Buckingham Palace, people are guided to visit the front of Buckingham Palace, and people continue to put flowers in their hands on the railing. These bouquets will be allowed to lay out for 12 hours before being transferred to a designated area in the Green Garden.
♦️A bouquet of mourning flowers is placed outside Buckingham Palace in London, England, on September 8 Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Of course, there is another possibility. "Lilies" literally translates to lily, and "lilies of valley" refers to "valley lily" lily. The lily orchid is a plant of the lily family, and its flowers are like bells, which are highly popular in Europe and the United States.
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According to the Business Times, Ingrid Seward, a writer who specializes in british royal news, once revealed that when Prince Philip was alive, he gave a bouquet of flowers every year on the Queen's birthday. And through years of observation, Seward found that the queen likes white flowers, especially the bell orchid, because there is always a figure of the bell orchid in the bouquet.
The British "Mirror" tells a more special story. The Queen was told at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show that the lily was poisonous and was commonly used as a poison in ancient times, and she had just received a bouquet of the lily orchid this week. The queen made a joke on the spot: "Maybe they want me to die".
Whether it is a lily or a lily orchid, flowers can replace us in expressing our hearts.
This is also one of the reasons why flowers are indispensable to us.