Description
An "idol" for some and a "bad queen for Cyprus" for others. In the capital Nicosia, many share mixed feelings about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who was intertwined with the island’s painful history of empire, independence and division. And for some Cypriots with good memories, the British Monarch was the head of state blamed for signing the death warrants of freedom fighters against British colonial rule in the late 1950s. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES