https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/08/bay-area-residents-mourn-the-death-of-elizabeth-ii-shes-the-only-queen-i-know/ > The Bay Area is nearly 5,000 miles from Balmoral Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday, but residents here felt the loss of the British monarch keenly, whether they were expatriates from the U.K. or Commonwealth countries or Americans who grew up seeing her as one of the few steady forces in a turbulent, ever-changing world. > “It’s the end of the era and the passing of the guard, given that she was born in the early 20th century and has passed on in the early 21st century,” said Rahul Nair, the Indian-born general manager of Sunnyvale’s Oxford Kitchen and Gastropub.