Queen Elizabeth II has passed away - keep posts civil and respectful
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It 's really sad but you can bet some group is going to try something on Monday. Just hope the police will move quickly enough to stop it before it happens, or at the very least get a seriously good kicking from the general public
The time to join the queue was a couple of nights ago, warmer and it was apparently only 4 hours. I'd say it's not worth it now and don't bother.
It's quite amazing the detail when you see their suits up close. It's quite impressive the work whoever works on their attire. Even recently going through old footage of the Queen in recent years and 10 years ago or so seeing her bright dresses, gold buttons, hats the detail and thickness of the clothing. You can see it's the best of the best and the skill that went into their clothes. Everything about their attire is so pristine, perfect craftsmanship.
If only our politicians had pride like that. Our politicians are always in cheap suits looking like they slept in them the day before from a smoky event.
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It seems that they have put some out of the way of temptation to make more disruption:
"More than 50 protesters who are demanding urgent action to address the climate crisis were sent to jail on one day this week after refusing to comply with court proceedings.
The campaigners, who were appearing before judges at two separate hearings in London and Birmingham, had broken an injunction to take part in a blockade of the Kingsbury oil terminal near Tamworth in Staffordshire on Wednesday.
But when they appeared at the Queen Elizabeth court in Birmingham and the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Thursday, they refused to comply, standing on chairs, turning their backs to the judge and reading out prepared statements about the scale of the crisis."
Tbf it is partly the political nature of the sovereign that brings about such people, so long as it remains part of the constitution there will be detractors waiting to exploit it for their own ends.
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Matt Smith says Queen Elizabeth II used to watch The Crown on a projector
Prince Harry also once greeted the actor by calling him 'grandad'.
metro.co.uk
Nice
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I feel sorry for the disabled folk, queue has been paused multiple times today due to capacity and they've just shut the queue until midday tomorrow leaving those who were waiting to get allocated in the cold both figuratively and literally
Matt Smith says Queen Elizabeth II used to watch The Crown on a projector
Prince Harry also once greeted the actor by calling him 'grandad'.
Nice
Do they not have editors proof reading articles anymore ? I notice these grammatical errors on BBC a lot also, it passes the spell check but it seems nobody proof reads anymore
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I spot them all the time. Makes me clever think I am
There was quite a bit of TV coverage, wouldn't have been internet streaming days though.
I remember this. Diana's death because I was young and my family were living in Essex then we close to London. I had two trips with my mum , one to lay flowers outside Kensington palace a few days after she died. Then the funeral we watched the car carrying her go by.
Later caught the car again whilst we stood over a motorway bridge as she went to her final resting place onwards to althorp
Im the same age as prince harry, he was born 2 days after me on the same year, so you can imagine I was quite young then.
Going back the media stuff, it's completely different now, they have long live streams, with even more multiple access and independent news channels
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I was I think 14 when Diana died and it was a massive deal in the media even back then (Sky News started in 1989 so 24 hour news was very much a thing) but in a different way I feel. Due to her age and way she died there was a lot more outpouring of emotion and the whole thing was a bit mawkish looking back. Listen to that tripe version of (the great original song!) Candle In The Wind by Elton John to get a feeling of where the nations psyche was at the time.
Millions of people laid flowers at the royal houses. People were throwing flowers on the hearse from the side of the road on the drive to Althorp. We had a day off school for the funeral then as well.
I'll never forget that day when Elton John was playing the piano on her day of the funeral at Westminster Abbey. It brought several tears. As I remember that Sunday waking up early 6am to watch some TV and the news broke about something of Diana but they couldn't confirm yet. I remember so well that shock of something serious had went wrong.
Then seeing that discussion recently of William saying to a member of the public about how it brought the memories of his mother's death. Crazy thinking William was 14 and Harry 12 then.
Are they going to wear the ones each earned in his own right?
The Internet was barely a thing in the UK at the time of Diana's death. It was only used in even a tiny minority of the 'nerds and geeks' back then.
We didn't have the tv media trying to compete with online media. In the 90s we were still set in the ways of decades previous. The technical revolution was in full flow though.
There wasn't the pro and anti-Monarchy theme with Diana because both sides could claim her as their own. She was part of the Monarchy. But also an outsider.
We didn't have the tv media trying to compete with online media. In the 90s we were still set in the ways of decades previous. The technical revolution was in full flow though.
There wasn't the pro and anti-Monarchy theme with Diana because both sides could claim her as their own. She was part of the Monarchy. But also an outsider.
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how does the queue tracker work? Can cameras now count people?
I actually remember that now. Some of the broadcasting cameras were on the overhead walkway bridges as the cars were coming down and past them as they viewed from above. I now remember that long drive from the cameras as the motorways were closed where they were.