gordondaviesmoustache
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Always enjoy your irreverent input to these threads, SR x
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Queen Elizabeth II
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The coverage for me has been very interesting. A lot of stuff I didn't know about way royalty works and this whole new king protocol etc. All I have known is QE2 in charge. This proclamation etc is all brand new to me and am sure plenty others. As for personal sadness not really but do believe she will be a huge miss and an even bigger pair of shoes to fill for Charles.
Slightly less respect but still!101 & 103 for me ;-)
citizen_maine
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Isn't 'vast minority' an oxymoron? :-)I live in Ramsbottom, which is a relatively traditional area. Tory MP. Went heavy on the jubilee etc. I was expecting there, if anywhere, would feel sombre and show signs of real grieving. Literally nothing has changed. Everyone acting normal. No bunting, no pics of the queen. Shops open. Staff, old and young, wittering away as friendly as ever, acting normal. The country absolutely isn't in mourning. Some are, Im sure, but for the vast majority life is identical. Not spoke to a single person yet who's brought it up in conversation since Thursday. In truth, the press is acting how they feel they're expected to act and projecting that onto the wider public, when in truth they're expressing the feelings of the vast minority.
gordondaviesmoustache
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Looking back, I think she must have known she wasn’t long for this world.
I think she’d decided she wanted to spend her last days at the place that made her happiest.
I think she’d decided she wanted to spend her last days at the place that made her happiest.
Alan Harper's Tash
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Hadn‘t she spent every August up there? She was definitely there in 1997.Looking back, I think she must have known she wasn’t long for this world.
I think she’d decided she wanted to spend her last days at the place that made her happiest.
gordondaviesmoustache
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Err….Hadn‘t she spent every August up there? She was definitely there in 1997.
Alan Harper's Tash
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You ok?Err….
gordondaviesmoustache
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Yes thanks, although after spending most of the day on here, I have a ‘to do list’ for tomorrow that makes me want to cry.You ok?
Alan Harper's Tash
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You could add looking up where the Queen spent most of her summers to that list, should you wish and have time. ;-)Yes thanks, although after spending most of the day on here, I have a ‘to do list’ for tomorrow that makes me want to cry.
Hope your to do list pile shortens quicker than you imagined.