英国女王伊丽莎白二世（Queen Elizabeth II）于英国当地时间9月8日下午逝世，享年96岁。

伦敦艺术大学校长 James Purnell 向女王的逝世表达了哀悼。

今天，我们悼念英国女王伊丽莎白二世的逝世。

这是王室失去亲人的一天，我代表伦敦艺术大学，在他们悲痛的时刻表示哀悼——我们所有的思念和祈祷与他们同在。

这也是我们的国家蒙受损失的一天。我们失去了在位时间最长的君主，也失去了与逝者的联系，他们以尊严和优雅无私地为我们服务。

在这一天，我们想起了她所象征的价值观：自我牺牲、责任、义务、正派、宽容和对他人的善意。

女王为我们服务了70年，在那些日子里，她见证了我们社会的变革。然而她在这几十年里体现的价值观一直保持不变。

对于我们这些从事公共服务的人来说，这些是我们必须始终追求的价值观：生活中没有比为他人服务更崇高的使命。

— James Purnell

2018, Richard Quinn presented with Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design | Photo: Tristan Fewings/BFC

伦敦艺术大学官网原文：

Today, we mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

It is a day of private loss for the Royal Family, and on behalf of UAL, I want to extend my condolences in their moment of grief - all our thoughts and prayers are with them.

It is a day of loss for our nation too. We have lost our longest-serving monarch; a living connection with the past who served us unselfishly with dignity and grace.

It is a day in which we are reminded of the values she embodied as a living symbol: self-sacrifice, responsibility, duty, decency, tolerance and kindness towards others.

The Queen served us for seventy years and, in that time, saw our society transformed. The values she embodied through those decades, however, remained the same.

For those of us in public service, these are the values we must always aspire towards: that there is no higher calling in life than to serve others.

The Right Honourable James Purnell