@tsarstepan,
Very sad, she lived a long life and was greatly admired. She has been the Queen my entire life.........it's hard to imagine anyone taking her place.
@glitterbag,
Her death was likely a relief to her. It was hard not to admire her. I doubt there's anyone in her family with as much dignity as she had. Hard act to follow.
She was one of the few people still alive who had been in the same room as both Churchill and Roosevelt.
The word was out when Liz Truss was handed a note in the Commons.
It was the first time her health had interrupted parliamentary proceedings.
I doubt there will be little else on the telly for the next few days.
She is the only monarch most people have known.
“I lived long enough to know that things never remain quite the same for very long.”
Queen Elizabeth
RIP
Watching the BBC New Coverage in the hours prior to the announcement was surreal.
Per protocols, the news anchors wore black (as expected when a royal member dies) but they were very cautious in not saying the Queen has died until Buckingham Palace officially made the announcement.
The anchor on BBC News even said doctors can no longer help her.
One constant has been the warmth that her prime ministers have spoken about their weekly meetings with the Queen.
It was a chance for an informal chat, and Liz knew a great deal. She became queen when Churchill was prime minister and she lived through a lot and spoke to 15 different prime ministers.
Although Liz Truss doesn't really count. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that learning Truss was pm finally finished her off.
Harry Truman was president when she ascended the throne.
I admired her. I was somewhere around nine when her father died.
Her unflinching embrace of her duty and love of country was inspiring. One of a kind. She ruled with finesse and good old traditional grit, something lacked in most people nowadays.
Her level of service, commitment, duty, and grace may never be seen again.
Though I was too young to remember at aged 2 or 3 years, I recall viewing all of the grainy newsreel footage of her coronation. I recall just how important she was as a beacon of hope to post-war UK in its return to normalcy.
May she finally Rest In Peace. This marks the end of an era for the UK. She was one of a kind in her devotion and love of her country.
BBC 1 & 2 ITV, Channels 4 and 5, are all showing nothing else.
These are the four oldest terrestrial channels.
Channel 5 came along with Satellite, but for most of the 1970s we only had three channels, Channel 4 came in the early 80s.
Basically, these are channels 1-5 on the guide.
RIP
Prince, er. . . King Charles, the III after Charles II whose father, Charles I, was beheaded after the English Civil War, and a commonwealth was established for a short time under Oliver Cromwell. The movie about it was pretty good.
It's gonna take a while to get used to saying King Charles.
@InfraBlue,
King Charles is a champion of nature history, and I look forward to
his efforts at conservation and reversing climate change.
@coluber2001,
Doesn't he have to go through a coronation first?
@Mame,
Mame wrote:
Doesn't he have to go through a coronation first?
Eh, mere formalities.
I can just imagine the formalities they'll hold.
It’s not easy to shepherd an antiquated, classist money-draining family through seven decades of scandals, economic disarray, pandemics, etc.
I don’t respect the idea of royalty, so when I was asking myself why her death bothered me, I guessed it was partly because she didn’t ask for the role that circumstance foisted on her—and she provided everyone with a small degree of stability.
Presidents came and went—society upended frequently—but, she was always there, seeming unflappable, in good humor, not saying anything that made me nervous.
Her views may have pissed me off. I don’t know. She kept them to herself.
All the things she did that gave comfort—or better yet, all the things she didn’t do that gave comfort—will be missed by me.
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