Queen Elizabeth II DEAD

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Sadly, we won't get government rebranding since everything just says HM, rather than Her Majesty's :(

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She was an amazing Queen. Classy and elegant with a sharp sense of humour. I loved her in Calendar Girls as well.

As someone still clinging desperately onto my 20s, I don't really remember when the people's princess Lady Di was taken from us, so this national outpouring of grief is a bit like getting to relive that. I've been trying my hardest to look bitterly depressed all morning.
 
VoR said:
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Pleased to see that we’ve always had cordial relations with Sweden.
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Fun fact: the longest unbroken peace treaty we have is with Portugal. I think it goes back to the 1400s.
 
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Genuinely saddened, I don't have particularly strong feelings about the monarchy but have a well ingrained respect for her, always thought her speeches were very well put, and hats off to her working right to the very end just as she said she would. She may have been born into it but you can't really say she didn't do her best to earn it. RIP

All very surreal, it seems a lot of people feel this way but I had this irrational almost-belief that she'd live forever somehow. She's been such a constant in a world that is starting to change and destabilise and this really hammers it home that nothing lasts forever. What particularly distresses me is the way I feel the same way about my parents, I mean, I do know really that they won't be around forever but this is a grim reminder that no, not even the Queen will live forever and well, they don't have that many years left. The irrational not-quite-belief (hard to describe) of like, the world's first immortal people or something, took a fair old blow.

Glad to see Moopy is by and large wholesome with views about it, it's naturally a time when some (especially on Twitter) are being as ghoulish about it as you'd expect, celebrating, playing the victim when people ask them to just give it a rest and have some respect for a moment etc.

Where was I, I was sat on my bed watching my BF's Twitch stream and the notification from BBC News popped up. As always it was truncated and just said something like "Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's reigning monarch for 70 years..." and I thought "oh yeah it's one of those headlines where you think oh shit, then you tap on it and it just says they've made some comment" and almost didn't tap on it but given the family had all been returning... yeah opened it and "no way.."
Went downstairs to see my parents watching the TV, they'd just started announcing it and playing the national anthem. Goosebumps. Stayed on my feet for it (not normally my sort of thing), though meanwhile the stream was still playing on my phone and he was completely unaware (I typed it in chat but Twitch lags plus in the middle of a game etc) and just started playing Caramelldansen at the same time as the anthem was playing on the tv :D

The guy on the news must be absolutely wanting to crawl into a hole after the number of times he accidentally said "His majesty the Queen" when referring to Charles, he just kept doing it and saying "sorry, uh, I mean his majesty the Queen" and you're like BRUH

Apparently the newsreaders had black ties on all afternoon so yeah they knew.

I'm not a believer in anything supernatural but sometimes it's hard not to when things like those rainbows happen. Same happened when my grandma passed away.
 
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Genuinely saddened, I don't have particularly strong feelings about the monarchy but have a well ingrained respect for her, always thought her speeches were very well put, and hats off to her working right to the very end just as she said she would. She may have been born into it but you can't really say she didn't do her best to earn it. RIP

All very surreal, it seems a lot of people feel this way but I had this irrational almost-belief that she'd live forever somehow. She's been such a constant in a world that is starting to change and destabilise and this really hammers it home that nothing lasts forever. What particularly distresses me is the way I feel the same way about my parents, I mean, I do know really that they won't be around forever but this is a grim reminder that no, not even the Queen will live forever and well, they don't have that many years left. The irrational not-quite-belief (hard to describe) of like, the world's first immortal people or something, took a fair old blow.

Glad to see Moopy is by and large wholesome with views about it, it's naturally a time when some (especially on Twitter) are being as ghoulish about it as you'd expect, celebrating, playing the victim when people ask them to just give it a rest and have some respect for a moment etc.

Where was I, I was sat on my bed watching my BF's Twitch stream and the notification from BBC News popped up. As always it was truncated and just said something like "Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's reigning monarch for 70 years..." and I thought "oh yeah it's one of those headlines where you think oh shit, then you tap on it and it just says they've made some comment" and almost didn't tap on it but given the family had all been returning... yeah opened it and "no way.."
Went downstairs to see my parents watching the TV, they'd just started announcing it and playing the national anthem. Goosebumps. Stayed on my feet for it (not normally my sort of thing), though meanwhile the stream was still playing on my phone and he was completely unaware (I typed it in chat but Twitch lags plus in the middle of a game etc) and just started playing Caramelldansen at the same time as the anthem was playing on the tv :D

The guy on the news must be absolutely wanting to crawl into a hole after the number of times he accidentally said "His majesty the Queen" when referring to Charles, he just kept doing it and saying "sorry, uh, I mean his majesty the Queen" and you're like BRUH

Apparently the newsreaders had black ties on all afternoon so yeah they knew.

I'm not a believer in anything supernatural but sometimes it's hard not to when things like those rainbows happen. Same happened when my grandma passed away.
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This is somewhat similar to how I've been feeling but I'm probably a bit more indifferent/anti monarchist.

Also felt very much the same about my parents and this loss (of the Queen) of something constant in my life.
 
dmlaw said:
I'd imagine we invaded the Ottoman Empire at some point and so anything which was part of it gets counted.
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Thought it's either that or the troops sent to fight along the Axis invasion, but either way these were to aid and assist locals, not an invasion and basically a reason to love not to dislike.
 
I remember a sense of being unsettled when Pope John Paul II died. He was the only Pope I'd known in terms of being aware of what a Pope was - and I'm not Catholic, and he didn't pervade British culture in the way Elizabeth II did.

I echo what others have said about somehow feeling that even though we all knew her death was coming, it would actually never happen, that she was somehow exempt.

It reminds me a little of a conversation I can remember having with my mother about death and heaven when I was 6/7 or so, after my paternal grandmother died. I couldn't comprehend the fact that everybody died - I remember saying to my mum 'what, even Uncle Doug and Auntie Sylvia?' who were rabid Christians.
 
Starmer's speech in the House of Commons is far better than Liz's (who just recycled yesterday's one) but I guess that is to be expected.
 
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