good ol queeny is probably having a laugh with philip right now saying look what happens now, good luck to my family with out me guiding them. up to everyone else now to step up and think william and harry will hopefully start talking a bit more now
Queen Elizabeth II has passed away - keep posts civil and respectful
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there is always time when william becomes king i guess
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Is there any reason it shouldn't be?
The country is 85% white. Only 3.5% of the population are black for example.
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Now that is how to change a head of state. Something that in many parts of the world takes a year or more.
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I was half expecting him to throw those ink wells at somebody. He was really annoyed with them getting in his way.
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Public holiday will happen on the day of the funeral. Expected to be the 19th.
They did make a point of zooming in on the non-whites at his speech yesterday.
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All I have seen this last few days on various sites, and social media is "are we getting a bank holiday", "why no football", etc etc. I get not every one is is invested in this as the next person but, damn, chill out its a week and a bit of all things Queen. Once that's over, have a cuppa and carry on. It's not like its disrupted your life and will never be able to recover from it, is it.
I have had my tears, thoughts about my grandparents, and my wifes grandparents (both sets have all passed and were quite into the Royal family), talked about it all to my kids. Now I am carrying on as normal. We will all watch the funeral and King Charles coronation and all the pomp that comes with it, we were not around first time so it will be a big event.
I have had my tears, thoughts about my grandparents, and my wifes grandparents (both sets have all passed and were quite into the Royal family), talked about it all to my kids. Now I am carrying on as normal. We will all watch the funeral and King Charles coronation and all the pomp that comes with it, we were not around first time so it will be a big event.
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LOL,
If I was directing this at anyone's reply I'd have replied/quoted them..
I saw a couple of videos of some of the absolute trash on Twitter this morning about the Queen and her death and how they are trying to patch that in to their progressive ideological narrative, and the second half of my post was about that, I even mentioned how Social Media amplifies it etc..
(The first half was just about I don't see a problem closing the forum for 24 hours and suggesting it doesn't sound very healthy to be that concerned about it..)
WIth the way you've taken such offense you might want to look in the mirror..
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Bank Holiday - not a Public Holiday - not the same thing - no obligation for employers to let staff have it off, I don't expect mine will (well my client anyway)
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What I want to know is what's happening with the Stone of Scone? The queen sat upon it on her coronation, but it was moved to Edinburgh in 1996, and with devolution and the quest for Scottish independence I'm wondering if the plan will be to leave it up in Scotland to keep the peace.
I can't find any recent news about this though.
I can't find any recent news about this though.
Man of Honour
I've seen a few bits up here suggesting it'll be used for the coronation but thats likely to be a while away so probably not top of the agenda currently.
Its actually due to be moved from Edinburgh to Perth as part of the redevelopment of Perth City Hall
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Scone of stone, clearly.
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I don’t think its daft to have a focal point for the nation.
That's fine, we're all allowed different opinions. I appreciate that some really like it and everything that goes with it and that's fine by me. I just personally think it's daft putting a random family on a pedestal.
I'm not here to criticise anyone who likes them
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It is one of our USP to use modern jargon and i expect many countries are envious of having a head of state that most people enjoy or is so inoffensive to most that we don't have coup or revolutions. She does not govern just acts as an extra layer of advice based on hundreds of years of history and recently the Queens own long experience.
We could end up with a callow youth like Blair /jk. Or someone else that 60% of the country despise or are indifferent to, why bother? And have to do it every four years or so.
They are not particularly random but I agree that to maintain a direct line from Alfred the great or Ethelread or **** (supposed to be a king of Danish descent with unfortunate letters in his name) has been a bit tortuous and is probably not factual.
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I mean i do see where your coming from but i just like having their presence if that makes sense?
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Hadn’t realised there was a difference.
It just comes down to me not really caring about them. I only ever really think of them when they're in the news for getting away with things we couldn't dream of as subjects.
I'd much rather the system where we vote people in on the lies they tell us rather than just accept a family is supposedly divine just because they managed to come out of the right vagina. At least when we vote someone in we are able to know we put ourselves into that position rather than just accepting someone gets it through birth right.
To me, the death of the Queen, or any royal, is just the death of someone who would've been loved by their own family. I find the death of any loved one sad but only because I can empathise how the loved ones left behind must be feeling. I don't necessarily feel the need to mourn because a stranger has died. Though conversely if someone, who I wont name through fear of jinxing (I imagine we all know who I mean), was to pass away I'd be in bits but that would be because I feel an impact of his life's work.
I wouldn't be calling for a French styled revolution but I am of the opinion their time is up. Not everyone shares that opinion but in a world of things being black or white I suppose I am a republican and not a royalist.
That being said, I feel like I have to keep clarifying I am not happy she has passed away. If we are going to have a figurehead I've always liked we have a Queen. It just sounds better. It's only been a day or so and I already hate the term King or that there will never be a Queen in my daughters lifetime.