Queen Elizabeth II

[Octavian]

Two positives can’t make a negative.
Yeah! Right!

Our monarch and parliament can check one another with power.

It’s why we’re the only major European nation to never have a dictator.

 

[cleavers]

It’s spawned a nation of angry bitter folk gobshites.

 

[crazyg]

I seem to remember that, at the time of the Apollo X1 moon flight, there was an article in the Ashton Reporter claiming that "Buzz" Aldrin's ancestors were from Bardsley, between Ashton and Oldham.

 

[Marlo]

I was four when George V1 died and his daughter became queen so she is effectively the only monarch I have known. This is very little on which to base a broad statement of royalism or monarchism. All I can say is that I have been fortunate to have lived for seventy years under the best example of a monarch. It has been very easy to be a royalist under this queen. I fear it will be nowhere near as easy in the years to come.

I think you are spot on. I am by no means a royalist but she was a giant in English history, the first and only royal to go from the black and white photographs, radio, through to TV and the Internet. All done with very few mistakes or indiscretions, that takes a huge amount of skill in statecraft. The proof of that pudding is how much the rest of her family struggled with the scrutiny and discipline required for the role. She will be an impossible act to follow.

Sad, but also like a great performer leaving the stage, what a life. To get to 96 with your faculties intact, to see your kids and grandkids grow up and even meet your great grandkids. A rock solid marriage and husband who was beside you the whole way except for the last short leg. From Churchill to Thatcher to Blair, she seen them come and seen them go. Added to that you had the adoration across the board of the whole country long before she passed

You only get to go around this life once, she couldn't have done it much better. Personally, I hope the coming days are more of a celebration than a mourning, she did more in one lifetime than most will do in a hundred.

 

[crazyg]

Sweet.

The new anthem?

Beat me to it.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Shit hits fan....

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

If he is King Charles - Charles is not a lucky name for UK monarchs - I recall reading some years ago that he would use Phillip as his monicker - however so long has passed its hard to see how that would work given how we have all known him as Charles all our ( and his ) lives

I think Charles II was pretty lucky!

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Shit hits fan....

Talksport taking the moral high ground is funny.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I suspect many in Ukraine (and russia) would argue otherwise.

That's the problem with "electing" a head of state, they can do what they want and changethings so they can do what they want.

You’ve honestly lost me here.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Shit hits fan....

This coming from the bloke who pleaded guilty to racially abusing the police officer who arrested him for drink driving,

What an absolute knob.