Royal Family gathers at Balmoral amid concerns for Queen's health

[Jimbuna]

The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, a statement from Buckingham Palace says.

Her doctors are concerned for her health, but say the 96-year-old monarch "remains comfortable"

All of the Queen's four children and Prince William are now in Scotland to be with her - Prince Harry is on his way.

Well-wishers are gathering at the gates of Balmoral, as well as outside Buckingham Palace, in London.

New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss says "the whole country will be deeply concerned by the news"

The Archbishop of Canterbury says he is sending prayers and the first ministers of Scotland and Wales say the Queen is in their thoughts.
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My thoughts and prayers are with Her Majesty the Queen.

[mapuc]

(Never have I been more happy to see my thread being erased)

I pray for your Queen Elizabeth may she get well soon.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

She has just died Markus.

GOD BLESS THE QUEEN

[mapuc]

Oh my condolences to you my friend for the lost.

I hope Prince Harry got there in time.

Markus

[Skybird]

Discipline and sense of duty of a standard that command utmost respect. An outstanding reign in history.

Bon Voyage.

Strange. I feel sad. Maybe because she was an icon of the timeframe I lived in so far. An unshakable pole of calm in a most volatile era is no more.



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[ET2SN]

My utmost respect and condolences.

[Jimbuna]

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[August]

She has just died Markus.

GOD BLESS THE QUEEN


Condolences.



I believe it's now "God Save the King"?

[Dargo]

Condolences. The Queen is dead, long live the King!

[Aktungbby]

Buckingham Palace has just announced that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. My sincerest condolences to all of our Britannic :subsim: members. She was a tremendous monarch who lived up to her coronation oath as few others have done.https://www.history.com/.image/ar_1:1%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_aut o:good%2Cw_1200/MTY4MzI2MDQ1OTYxODIzNTA5/queen-elizabeth-ii-gettyimages-904669426.jpg https://www.reuters.com/resizer/uk9S95jz5ybd0PkZyLql5RgrsD8=/960x0/filters:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/JCNBOIUCHNOP5F2EIMS3VJPS5A.jpg<Includingl having welcomed the new PM, Liz Truss, at Balmoral Castle 2 days ago-her last official act.

[Commander Wallace]

deepest sympathies to the U.K and rest in peace.

[Commander Wallace]

:agree: Condolences to our English cousins.

[Onkel Neal]

My sincere sympathies.

[mapuc]

Couldn't have put it better myself Aktungbby

My sincerely condolences to the British People.

May your coming King Charles III be good King

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Condolences.



I believe it's now "God Save the King"?

King Charles III

[Rockstar]

Couldn't have put it better myself Aktungbby

My sincerely condolences to the British People.

May your coming King Charles III be good King

Markus

I’ll second that.

[AVGWarhawk]

Truly an end of an era. She was a remarkable woman living in remarkable times navigating a country that went through much. She has and always will have my utmost respect. Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth.

[August]

King Charles III


I thought he was going to change his name to George when he got the crown? Has to wait until the coronation?

[Platapus]

Sad, but not unexpected news.



I had a bad feeling reading the morning reports on her health.

[Kapitan]

The Queen is dead Long live the King

RIP your majesty

[Eichhörnchen]

Shocked, even though it must have been anticipated - just as it was with my own mother who shared the same birthday and just a year older than HRH

[u crank]

Rest in Peace your Majesty.

Long live the King.

[Eisenwurst]

Sadly it comes to all of us.

In a volatile and "interesting times" world she was the rock of tradition. Ruling monarch of the British Commonwealth for our entire lives. She carried out her duties with dignity and grace, often in the face of vicious Press campaigns against her Family.

All the flags are at half mast down here.

Her chapter in History is closed, and she is now at rest with her predecessors.

The Queen is Dead, Long Live The King.

[em2nought]

Best of the lot of them. RIP to the Queen and the WW2 generation along with her. Profound sadness over what is lost, maybe forever. :salute:

[em2nought]

Truly an end of an era. She was a remarkable woman living in remarkable times navigating a country that went through much. She has and always will have my utmost respect. Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth.

Truly! :salute:

[Otto Harkaman]

:salute:

[THE_MASK]

We need a lot more Queen Elizatheth II in this world and a lot less Putins .

[Sean C]

This is very sad news, indeed. She was truly one of a kind.

My condolences to our friends across the pond.

May god rest the soul of Queen Elizabeth II.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

I offer my most profound and deepest sympathies to the people of the United Kingdom and the nations of the Commonweath on the lost of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II. As an American this is about as shocking and tragic to you as the loss of Lincoln, FDR and JFK where to us. When I had heard this morning on the news that most of the royal family was headed to Balmoral Castle to be by Her side I thought that the worst was coming but hoped for the best, sadly my thought was more correct then my hope was. It will be I think for some a difficult time to morn the loss of such a figure as HRH considering how many different generations of people have known and loved her.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbaSIxyhpgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQejPhI0ikU

[Eisenwurst]

Just came back from St Andrew's Cathedral here in Sydney. Special Service for Her Late Majesty The Queen......it was PACKED. At least 1000 people from all walks of life and cultures/races.

A very moving Service....the Archbishop broke down and cried. The main Services in the near future look to be standing room only.

The new Royal Anthem was sung, after all these years it's now "God Save The King".

Lot of affection for The Late Queen Elizabeth being manifested probably around the whole British Commonwealth.

[Catfish]

Yesterday's tv evening in Germany was all about the Queen, all other broadcasts suspended. She has been present for so long and somehow indirectly accompanied a lot of people, her reign almost became self-evident. Some events planned in Hannover, due to its past with the personal union of
Great Britain and the Kingdom of Hannover, with King George 5th being the last king until 1866.
She was always correct, never a gaffe, but her private personality, individuality and freedom had to subdue to the public role.
As printed in most papers here it is indeed the end of an era.
Rest in Peace.

[Skybird]

Lot of affection for The Late Queen Elizabeth being manifested probably around the whole British Commonwealth.
And not just there, but outside in the rest of the world, too. Maybe not as intensely shown everwhwere, but the admiration and sympathy for her was general, and reaching far beyond the UK and the Commonwealth.

[Commander Wallace]

I'm wondering if I heard this right. Was Queen Elizabeth a mechanic in World War 2 ? If true, I thought that was extraordinary. Maybe our English cousins or someone else in Subsim knows the answer to that.


Then again, when all of Europe was falling like dominoes in WW2, Great Britain was the lone hold out and a beacon of freedom. Hence, this wouldn't surprise me at all. The quintessential English stiff upper lip.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Sad news indeed as it seemed she was always ever-present.

Condolences to our friends across the pond.

[Skybird]

I'm wondering if I heard this right. Was Queen Elizabeth a mechanic in World War 2 ?
She indeed was a car mechanic. Even better, the was a hot shot with racing. Yesterday I red this - historically true - story, from Achse des Guten.

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She lived to the age of 96; she was a trained car mechanic; she paid taxes only since 1992; all the dolphins, whales, sturgeons and swans in British waters belonged to her; she wrote her first e-mail from a military base in 1976; in her lifetime she sent out over fifty thousand Christmas cards; throughout her life she had never worn a single pair of jeans; and for seventy years she was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as of fourteen other sovereign states known as Commonwealth Realms, including their territories and dependent areas. Now she has died.

Queen Elizabeth II is dead. Much will be written about her in the days ahead. I would like to highlight one story in particular:

Queen Elizabeth II loved cars. She was the only woman in all of Great Britain allowed to drive without a license or license plate. In 1998, the then crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Saʿud, met Elizabeth II at Balmoral in Scotland.

In Saudi Arabia at the time, all women were prohibited from driving. Until 2018, women were not allowed to drive cars in Saudi Arabia. Religious customs were cited as reasons for the driving ban. They were forbidden to drive, for example, because they would have had to uncover their faces to drive and would also have left their homes "more often than necessary." Moreover, in the event of possible accidents, women would have come into contact with men to whom they were neither related nor married, which was undesirable. In 2013, Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan even stated that driving a car would permanently damage women's ovaries. You have to know all this to understand what a grandiose coup the queen pulled off in 1998.

In 1998, the then crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Saʿud, met Elizabeth II at Balmoral in Scotland. At the time, the queen did not miss the opportunity to personally drive the crown prince through the streets of the kingdom - what means driving, she raced through the streets with the completely terrified crown prince. Of the meeting, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles reports:

"The royal Land Rovers were driven up to the front of the palace. The crown prince climbed into the front seat of the Land Rover, as instructed. His interpreter took a seat behind him. To his surprise, the queen got into the driver's seat, turned the ignition key and drove off. Abdullah was not used to being driven by a woman, let alone a queen. His nervousness increased as the queen, who had driven during her time in the army, accelerated the Land Rover, driving through the narrow Scottish roads, talking all the while. Through his interpreter, the crown prince pleaded with the queen to slow down and focus on the road."

May the Queen now be doing her rounds in heaven. The Queen is dead.

Long live the King!

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Beside this anecdote, I learned two other things on TV yesterday. Having had 14 male and 3 female prime ministers, the first such man was Churchill himself, and he was anything but enthusiastic about her becoming Queen, wondering publicly: "But she is just a child!" . When they once met during a private audience, she nevertheless completely surprised him with her well prepared in-depth knowledge and questions on some urgent message from India or HongKong or any place there, some important news that even he, the prime minister, so far had not been reached by. Sh then asked him a about it, and gave her analysis of that situation, which perplexed him, and obviously her thoughts were such that the man changed his atittude completely and from then on the two were said to have become "friends".

And during the Rhodesia "crisis", to call it that, at some conference where international diplomats and leaders from Rhodesia met with the British, and the British prime minister's position was that it was a crown colony, which collided with the claim of black leaders to no longer accept that status and the ruling of the white, it is rumoured that behind the stage it was not the government but the Queen herself who ran the ultra-quietest of diplomatical efforts and was the driving force behind that this crisis solved peacefully and Rhodesia became Simbabwe, without violence or bloodshed with British soldiers involved.

Probably nobody else of our time has seen and met so many political actors and leaders from across the globe, than her.

[Commander Wallace]

^ Thank you Sky. :) I figured that someone here in Subsim would know the answer to that question.

[Skybird]

The mourning is for the present. But it is stories like these that will live over the time.

[mapuc]

(if this is not the right time to mention it then feel free to remove this comment)

Some minutes ago I suddenly came to remember the Opening ceremony of the Olympic in London 2012
Where we saw this scene with the Queen and Mr Craig.
You saw them entering a helicopter and later you could see them parachuting over the Stadium-Well it was a stand-in for the Queen.

It was a fun thing in this opening ceremony

Markus

[Aktungbby]

She indeed was a car mechanic. Even better, the was a hot shot with racing. Yesterday I red this - historically true - story, from Achse des Guten.
She lived to the age of 96; she was a trained car mechanic; she paid taxes only since 1992; U R referring to No. 230873, Second Subaltern of the Auxiliary TransportService No. 1, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor:Kaleun_Salute: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/lead%20image%20-%20KB%20M-4.jpg But when referring to QE 2, opening Parliament, her Irish State Coach was the official ride-of-choice! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Her_Majesty_The_Queen_%284114902028%29.jpg/1280px-Her_Majesty_The_Queen_%284114902028%29.jpg

[les green01]

rip just heard about it this morning

[Platapus]

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/lead%20image%20-%20KB%20M-4.jpg


With all due and sincere respect, she was quite fetching in that uniform.

[Platapus]

We need a lot more Queen Elizatheth II in this world and a lot less Putins .


Concur


She was one of the good ones :salute:

[mapuc]

There's another major change in UK.

A majority have on every Christmas eve/day seen or heard their Queen's Christmas speech.
A Majority of the UK citizens hasn't seen or heard others than the Queen's Christmas speech.

Now King Charles III has to mantle this task.

Markus

[Platapus]

He has some impressive shoes to fill.


The best of luck to him

[Jimbuna]

Threads merged.

[Aktungbby]

Charles can never replace her you know....for merging and editing in the posts. I was going to suggest a thread-merge myself. I had not noticed your previous thread and when my wife informed me the Queen had passed, I immediately posted my condolences. My Canadian mom was a great fan of the queen and I and my siblings grew up on Mom's cinnamon-sprinkled toast. The cinnamon was reverently kept on the table for decades in a ceramic jar with the Queen's coronation profile on it. Poor Charles III is "...only to be king till he turns 80"...not exactly a vote of confidence from his mom imho!!? She still rules from the crypt!https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/01/State-Opening-of-Parliament.jpg?w=720 No "firm" ever had a better CEO!:yeah: :oops:

[mapuc]

A question to Jim.

Now that your Queen Elizabeth is no more-What about your money with her portrait on ? Can you still use them and if so for how long ?

I read in an article that every single coins and banknotes had to be changed-It didn't say anything about approval of using these-Until the new coins and banknotes has been released.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

...for merging and editing in the posts. I was going to suggest a thread-merge myself.

Not a problem, it's crazy having two identical threads.

[Jimbuna]

A question to Jim.

Now that your Queen Elizabeth is no more-What about your money with her portrait on ? Can you still use them and if so for how long ?

I read in an article that every single coins and banknotes had to be changed-It didn't say anything about approval of using these-Until the new coins and banknotes has been released.

Markus

Not aware of any decision having been taken yet....far too early to say but my 'money' would be that they are kept and new coins possibly with Charles on them will be phased in as and when any newly minted coins etc. would be needed in any case.

[mapuc]

Not aware of any decision having been taken yet....far too early to say but my 'money' would be that they are kept and new coins possibly with Charles on them will be phased in as and when any newly minted coins etc. would be needed in any case.

Thank you Jim

After I had read your answer I thought-Hey why not seek info in English and found this BBC-article

The Royal Mint won't say how or when it will start issuing coins with King Charles III's head on them, but it's likely that the Queen's coins will remain in circulation for many years, and that the process to replace them will be a gradual one.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59596996

Markus

[Jimbuna]

A short time ago it was announced that the Queen’s funeral will be held on Monday 19 September.

She will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four days beforehand, and mourners will be able to pay their respects.

The funeral service will be held in Westminster Abbey and she will be laid to rest in Windsor.

Tomorrow, the Queen’s coffin will be taken from Balmoral to Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Her daughter, Princess Anne will accompany it when it is flown to London.

[Platapus]

A question to Jim.

Now that your Queen Elizabeth is no more-What about your money with her portrait on ? Can you still use them and if so for how long ?

I read in an article that every single coins and banknotes had to be changed-It didn't say anything about approval of using these-Until the new coins and banknotes has been released.

Markus


Yes, not only will the money have to be replaced but also things like Passports which also have the image of the sovereign. This will take several years and the "old" stuff will be good for several more years.


I am sure that collectors are already amassing stuff.

[Skybird]

Charles III. did well for a start. He found exactly the right words and set exactly the right tone. Having been prepared for this since 70 years, he maybe will show his critics that they underestimated him.

Reasons for a successful continuation of Royalty the UK there would be enough in these times, where a whole range of centrifugal forces threaten to rip the united kingdom apart. Royalty in the UK add tremendous identification power and a sense of belonging together, to a degree and in a way that you hardly see anywhere else ion tis manner, and certainly not in this way and fashion, its all so typically British.

And it is here where the merit and relevance of Elizabeth II. is to be sought, found and defined. She served this function in such an outstanding, flawless manner that I think it is justified to promote her reign in the history books to a second Elizabethian era - as long as one makes not the mistake to compare her directly to Elizabeth I, who was an absolutistic monarch in an absolutistic era, and had very different political and military options of power that defined her reign within a very different and incomparable context, therefore. Elizabeth II.' reign for 70 years fixed coordinates in time that remained unmovable and steady, this way providing a sense of stability, continuity and a basis that people dared to build their future confidence on.

If Charles III. manages to halt the slow but steady decline in popularity of the constitutional monarchy especially amongst the young despite obviously not being his mother, he probably would have acchieved somethign worth to be described as the fulfillment of his reign, because with 73 years he already was old when the gained the thrown, and so his reign will not last as long as that of his mother, and her shadows weighs heavy. It will be up to William, I think, to really redefine the long lasting future of it all. Until then it will be up to Charles to help preventing the UK from blowing apart at several directions simultaneously.

Seen this way, his reign and the way he brings it to life and interprets it, will be extremely important and relevant for the UK's future due to the integrating and identity-creating power of a monarchy that either functions and is seen as working for the people - or not. Its all symbolic - but symbols nevertheless can build up great power of influencing people. Thats where their magic comes from - or not wen the symbol is badly chosen and misinterpreted. The great temptation Charles maybe has to withstand to is to opportunistically initiate too dramatic changes, opportunistically obeying perceived public expectations to trivialise the role of Royalty and "modernising" or even deleting its ritualised pomp. This pomp is old, it has tradition, and right because of that it tells itshistory and story - and that is what gives it all its integrating power that forms a united identity. Take it away, and you have a profane layman stageplay only that impresses nobody and soon will be forgotten. There are other monarchies in Europe, still, but lets be honest - who cares for them that much? Only the British monarchy radiates an attractiveness that goes beyond the native population of the UK and the Commonwealth. Compared to all the many other follies states waste money on, the costs for this show are peanuts - but the gains and benefits for the UK can be be immense.

Obviously written with great sympathies and subjectivity. :03:

[Jimbuna]

GOD SAVE THE KING

[Aktungbby]

There are other monarchies in Europe, still, but lets be honest - who cares for them that much? Still missing ol' Wilhelm II R U!:O:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Wilhelm_II._1905.jpeg:k_confused:

[Catfish]

How can you joke about this ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIH9ix8zgM

My ancestors' name was "von Bellin" (near Fehrbellin), but grandpa decided to change the name :wah:
:O:

[Skybird]

How can you joke about this ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIH9ix8zgM

My ancestors' name was "von Bellin" (near Fehrbellin), but grandpa decided to change the name :wah:
:O:
Ah, so they build the subway station in Berlin, Fehrbelliner Platz...? :)

[ET2SN]

How can you joke about this ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIH9ix8zgM

My ancestors' name was "von Bellin" (near Fehrbellin), but grandpa decided to change the name :wah:
:O:

So, you're saying you could have been somebody.. :hmmm:



:Kaleun_Goofy::Kaleun_Smile::Kaleun_Wink:

[Catfish]

Ah, so they build the subway station in Berlin, Fehrbelliner Platz...? :)
May be :haha: Bellin is not even a village or city, it is a region afaik; only village there is "Fehrbellin" which comes from "Fähre" ("ferry" of Bellin). There is also "von Battenberg" and "Calenberg-Grubenhagen-Goettingen", where Battenberg became "Mountbatten", in England.
So, you're saying you could have been somebody.. :hmmm:
:Kaleun_Goofy::Kaleun_Smile::Kaleun_Wink:
:D It seems my grandfather despised this nobility nonsense, on the other hand a "von..." does not necessarily mean a title, it maybe just a name hinting of where a person comes from, geographically.
Could be worse, imagine being called a "de Pfeffel" (of german Suebia) :03:

Let England love its monarchy, i'm quite happy this nonsense has stopped here :O:

[ET2SN]

:D It seems my grandfather despised this nobility nonsense, on the other hand a "von..." does not necessarily mean a title, it maybe just a name hinting of where a person comes from, geographically.
Could be worse, imagine being called a "de Pfeffel" (of german Suebia) :03:

:O:

My family name was "Americanized" by a bored clerk on Ellis Island.

It was most likely "Zemen" but there's also a chance it could have been

https://1000logos.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Siemens-Logo-history.png

which "tracks" because I used to be a whiz with programable ladder logic. :O:

[mapuc]

According to some Danish newspaper King Charles III did not make a good gestus.

There's a video clip which have made many people..not angry mostly disappointed I must say.

In the video clip you can see how King Charles III is moving his right hand and make a face to one of his helper(not the correct word)

May he be loved by the British people.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The Daily Fail at its usual best, making a mountain out of a molehill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhV2082VhPA

[MGR1]

Just after 4pm (UK time) and the BBC commentary team following the Queen's funerary cortege have only just twigged that it won't be reaching Edinburgh any time soon (it's now just south of Perth).:doh:

It takes roughly 4 hours by road at approx 60 mph to get to Edinburgh from Aberdeen. The cortege isn't travelling at 60. Assuming they'd only take 6 hrs to get to Edinburgh from Balmoral was a bit naive.:hmmm:

Mike.

[Jimbuna]

The Queen’s coffin has arrived in Edinburgh, where thousands of people are waiting at the city's Royal Mile.

The funeral cortege has been making a six-hour journey from Balmoral Castle, with the Palace of Holyroodhouse the final destination.

Silent onlookers threw floral tributes in the path of the coffin along the route.

The coffin will be flown to London on Tuesday, and the Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall from Wednesday.

The Queen’s funeral will be held in Westminster Abbey on Monday 19 September - it will be a bank holiday.

[Aktungbby]

The Daily Fail at its usual best, making a mountain out of a molehill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhV2082VhPAI wonder if he scribbelled "Chas. Rex"? It doesn't look like he scribed a "III"...:hmmm:

[MGR1]

Ultimately it took nearly 7 hours to travel from Balmoral to Holyrood Palace. Evidently they put the pedal down once they got past Perth.:hmmm:

Better crowd turn out than I was expecting, which is good.:up: Unfortunately the drone couldn't follow the cortege through Aberdeen because it would have crossed the flightpath for Dyce Airport. If anyone was wondering why the drone stopped and drifted north, that's the reason.

I've already seen people on Twitter complaining about a lack of Union flags being waved by the crowd. Apart from a hardcore, most people up here feel no need to wave a bit of bunting around just to show their patriotism.

Mike.

[Jimbuna]

I wonder if he scribbelled "Chas. Rex"? It doesn't look like he scribed a "III"...:hmmm:

Tis the 'Daily Fail' which says it all for me.

[mapuc]

(An off topic comment but still within the Royalist)

In a Danish article it was said that the British people didn't knew who our Danish Queen was-The reporter showed them a picture to the people on the street In London.

The Reporter said to them that she is now the longest sitting Queen still alive-50 Years on the throne and fully fresh with some back problems.

The Article also told me that some Queens are more known than others..
Back to discussing the New King Charles III

(End of and off topic comment...)

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Well I've got to say after going through some of the news coverage that Scotland, a country many would argue have a growing number of people routing for independence, they are certainly doing Her Majesty proud.

[Jimbuna]

The Queen's coffin has been taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral where a service is being held.

King Charles III, along with his brothers and sister, led the procession along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

A service of remembrance is being held before mourners are allowed to go in to pay their respects.

Earlier, King Charles made his first address as monarch to MPs and peers in Parliament and promised "selfless duty"

A national minute's silence will be held on Sunday at 8pm - the night before the Queen's funeral in Westminster Abbey.

[Aktungbby]

Buckingham Palace has just announced that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. My sincerest condolences to all of our Britannic :subsim: members. She was a tremendous monarch who lived up to her coronation oath as few others have done.https://www.reuters.com/resizer/uk9S95jz5ybd0PkZyLql5RgrsD8=/960x0/filters:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/JCNBOIUCHNOP5F2EIMS3VJPS5A.jpg<Includingl having welcomed the new PM, Liz Truss, at Balmoral Castle 2 days ago-her last official act.

Well I've got to say after going through some of the news coverage that Scotland, a country many would argue have a growing number of people routing for independence, they are certainly doing Her Majesty proud.Well natch'; :D she was wearin' a kilt for her last official act Mon!:yeah: I'm watching the service on CNN at St Giles as I post. Westminister Cathedral will be stepping up to the mark!

[mapuc]

Good the other spectators toke care of him.

This is not the time to criticize anyone from the Royal family

A single protestor hurls abuse at the procession.

He is quickly dealt with.

The crowds drown out his shouting with chants of ‘God Save The King’

https://twitter.com/RoyalCentral/status/1569322879447191555

Edit
Looks like he has been charged

The man was pulled out of the queue by two bystanders and was later arrested and charged.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62889396
End edit

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Obituary: Queen Elizabeth II

https://i.postimg.cc/0ycXg0C4/xhsqO1C.jpg (https://postimg.cc/21L7hvMd)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61605149

[Aktungbby]

https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/danzcolorplus9932.jpg I wonder if he scribbelled "Chas. Rex"? It doesn't look like he scribed a "III"... I wasn't far off the mark: apparently his royal cypher is C III R and he's already wearing it on his tie: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SEI_124543128-9d2c-e1662879156992.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=307%2C209 For my money, he(Charles Philip Arthur George) should have gone with his second name...better to be a Philip I... than a # III anything:o and he looks damn good with a 1:https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/hbz-royal-kisses-1985-gettyimages-52101057-1539802683.jpg as with the other long term Prince of Wales, Victoria's son, Albert Edward , who surprsingly became quite a competent King Edward VII for 9 years, I've no doubt Charles will do as well or better...till he turns 80 in five short years; and abdicates per mom's instructions.... :arrgh!: https://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxe_coburg_gotha.htm

[mapuc]

Now I may step on someones toe.

It's not what title a king may have, it's how he is towards the ordinary citizens

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Coronation oaths, platinum jubilees, miserable kids, and Corgi enhanced horsin' aroundhttps://horseyhooves.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Queen-of-England-horse-riding.jpg.webp...at age 94!!!:yeah: aside; Anyone who can enjoy their job for 70 years is truly unique...no imho about it!https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA11N266.img?w=768&h=431&m=6&x=320&y=153&s=227&d=227 https://horseyhooves.com/queen-horse-riding/Though she is never photographed wearing a helmet, a biographer says she has always been the “epitome of caution and common sense” while riding.
It is anticipated as the Queen will ride as long as she is able to. She has said that she loves riding because it allows her to be “just another human being.”

[Jimbuna]

North Korea has been invited to the late Queen’s funeral, government officials have confirmed.

Pyongyang’s ambassador will receive an invitation, as will the envoys of Iran and Nicaragua, The Telegraph understands.

Every country the United Kingdom has diplomatic relations with has been invited to the state funeral, with the exceptions of Russia, Belarus and Myanmar.

Britain and North Korea established diplomatic relations in 2000 after 60 years without embassies.

Ambassadorial level invitations, issued instead of to a head of state, can reflect diplomatic tensions.

Both Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programmes have been a source of tension with the UK and the wider west.

Even had the invitation been extended to Kim Jong-un, the reclusive leader of the hermit kingdom rarely travels.

No invitation has been extended to Afghanistan after the Taliban took the country over last year.

Russia has not been invited because of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, while Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup.

Venezuela and Syria have not been invited because Britain does not have full diplomatic relations with those countries.

[Skybird]

Some history. The Germans in British royalty. :)

https://beta.dw.com/en/how-german-are-the-british-royals/a-63128994

[mapuc]

^ This made me remember the Documentary serie- Royal Cousins at war.

Markus

[Catfish]

Some history. The Germans in British royalty. [...] :)

The merry wives of Windsor Saxe-Coburg Gotha :03:

[Eisenwurst]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GtG08EwrE

Last Sunday.

History in the making. Once in a lifetime experience.....they should've lobbed a few shells at the Town Hall and gotten rid of the woke city council :)

We got free public transport for the day, and people took advantage of it, there must've been a couple of hundred thousand people just down the road at Circular Quay.

[Platapus]

The Daily Fail at its usual best, making a mountain out of a molehill.






I can understand how he feels. Who ever was in charge of this ceremony messed up. That table is way too small for such a ceremony. The principal should never have to move stuff or work around stuff in order to sign official documents like this. The only things that should ever be moved are the documents itself.



You never place the principal in a situation where anything has to be moved awkwardly. That's why you have someone practice before hand.



Come on aids, this is day one stuff. :nope:


I have only run ceremonies for high ranking military and DoD civilians and even I know this stuff.



What? Was the the only table they had????

[mapuc]

It's only a comet one of billions out there.

Quite a few accounts throughout the real Middle Ages show fireballs in the sky being taken as signs, with events often retrospectively being assigned to the bad omen. Let's take a look at some other "unlucky" British monarchs and see what may be in store for King Charles III.

https://iflscience.com/comets-and-kings-when-fireballs-blazing-through-the-sky-were-taken-as-a-bad-sign-65340

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I can understand how he feels. Who ever was in charge of this ceremony messed up. That table is way too small for such a ceremony. The principal should never have to move stuff or work around stuff in order to sign official documents like this. The only things that should ever be moved are the documents itself.



You never place the principal in a situation where anything has to be moved awkwardly. That's why you have someone practice before hand.



Come on aids, this is day one stuff. :nope:


I have only run ceremonies for high ranking military and DoD civilians and even I know this stuff.



What? Was the the only table they had????

Precisely :yep:

[Jimbuna]

Flags on British government buildings around the world are flying at full-mast once again, as the period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II draws to a close.

The Queen was buried in a private ceremony in Windsor on Monday evening, following a state funeral in London and military procession to Windsor Castle.

But the Royal Family will continue to observe another week of mourning.

Senior royals are not expected to carry out any public duties during this time.

Flags at royal residences will remain at half-mast until 08:00 BST on 27 September - the day after their mourning period ends.

Buckingham Palace has said royal household staff, representatives of the household on official duties and troops committed to ceremonial duties will also observe the extended mourning.

[Skybird]

I admit I had a lumb in my throat on Monday.

That lonely pipebag player in the cathedral walking slowly away and fading, went to the heart.

Britian has buried not just a queen, but also its past. Elizabeth probably knew that, with the funeral details being planned by her personally and altered late in her life, originally the event was planned to be much smaller. She knew that it was not just the end of her life and rule, but a farewell of the people to the British memory of a glorious past. She created the opportuntity to do that and to realise that - her last service for the nation and its people. It should not be underestimated, or ridiculed as "expensive". Monday saw the funeral of more than just a queen.

In interview on the streets, many British made references to personal losses of theirs due to Covid, i think this made the royal funeral also an opportunity to collectively mourn over the past two years and it losses in so many families. The Queen as a placeholder, so to speak.

The kingdom now is under immense pressure, and a united future is anything but certain. The forseeable future for the British nation and its economy is gloomy, like for so many other European nations as well.

As a symbol and projection screen, Elizabeth II. was not just one queen amongst others. She was the queen. And that everbyody, no matter his mindset and attitude, could effortlessly project on her whatever he expected Royalty to be about, shows what a magnificent, outstanding job she did, melting featurelessly with her role, allowing room for every interpretation while not giving away any detail of herself. This was the fundament for her magical effect: to create and emanate integrating power, and uniting people in one shared sense of identity, to a degree that she was respected even by people who politically oppose the political London.

Good luck, King Charles III. You'll need it. The size of the tasks ahead, must be intimidating.

[Jimbuna]

^ Very well put Sky....it would be easy to argue you were British :03:

[Skybird]

^ Very well put Sky....it would be easy to argue you were British :03:
Thanks. I just hold strong sympathies for GB, (hopefully) without transfiguring it. :03:

[Aktungbby]

The pagentry and meticulous choreography, at the slow march, of the long-planned funeral from St Giles to Westminster Abbey thence to St Georges Chapel was amazing! Even the long Queue of mourners itself became a spectacular attraction; but the real heavy lifters of the show were the 8 ruggedly handsome Grenadier Guards assigned to hoist the 317 Kg (700 Lb!!) English oak leadlined coffin, purchased 30 years beforehand...onto their shoulders, and not drop it. They were clearly up to the task and put their backs into it! ! https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA11ZQGi.img?w=768&h=564&m=6&x=385&y=222&s=447&d=105 https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA124Mzf.img?w=768&h=512&m=6 These lads were faultless; such a difficult duy carried out impeccably. The task of lifting the coffin up the steep stairs of the 450-year-old chapel was nerve-wracking for everyone watching at home, but their performance earned the praise of the nation. https://www.forces.net/sites/default/files/styles/full_size_gallery_image/public/The%20coffin%20of%20Her%20Majesty%20Queen%20Elizab eth%20II%2C%20is%20seen%20here%20entering%20St%20G eorge%20VI%20Chapel%20at%20Windsor%20Castle%201909 22%20CREDIT%20MOD%20%282%29.jpg?itok=FT4jh69c
Admirers across Britain declared: ‘They have done our nation and Her Majesty proud.’:Kaleun_Salute: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/calls-for-hero-pallbearers-who-carried-queen-s-coffin-to-be-given-mbes/ar-AA124P0g?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=83352907ced34e87a56ea5ea5e80f3ae

[mapuc]

I watched most of the funeral-Not that I'm especially royal-I did it because she had an impact on the people around the globe.

I'm thinking on Jim and the rest of my UK friends-In their entire life they have heard Queen Elizabeth in the Christmas speech-Now it's a new male voice they have to hear.

Every UK citizens under the age 70 had her as their Queen.

Markus

[August]

It's handy that His and Her in English both start with an H. HRM goes both ways you might say. :)

[Otto Harkaman]

As King Charles sells off the Queen's race horses. her love of the races continues here in Kentucky.

Statement from Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin:

“Keeneland joins the world in mourning the loss today of Queen Elizabeth II, a beloved leader with exceptional integrity and an unmatched horsewoman. Queen Elizabeth’s lifelong love for horses and her passion for racing left an indelible legacy on the sport around the world and at Keeneland.

“The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) will be even more special this fall as we honor her memory and celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

“Keeneland extends its deepest condolences to her family and her Country.” https://www.keeneland.com/sites/default/files/QEII%20JEB-4WWS84_0.jpg

Gina Romantica Wins the 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana
https://youtu.be/fkO8wA8taPU