At Active History, Colin Coates offers a clever essay on the death of a monarch. Just not the monarch you are thinking of:
Early September saw the death of the European monarch who had reigned the longest over the territory some call Canada. The death was not unexpected. In some quarters, it might even have been welcomed. But it took some time for the news to reach Canada. The last ships had left months earlier on their Atlantic crossing. When they arrived in September and October 1715 with their missives from the court, issued in the name of Louis XIV, no one in Canada knew that the king had died.
Image: Hyacinthe Rigaud, Musée du Louvre (full details in Coates essay).
