I never suggested anyone had to love the monarchy, and I don't doubt plenty of people have strong views about it. It's still a big news story whatever way.
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'She is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves."
(First two verses of "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, gender altered)
Seventy years of tireless public service and unfailingly putting duty before all else.
"If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
Not being a monarchist, and very disapproving of some of the royal family’s personal pastimes, I was surprised at how upset I am. It’s the end of an era, I suppose. Somehow it seemed, against all the odds, that the Queen would always be there, and now suddenly she is not. I was two when the coronation took place. I have a vague recollection of being told that my parents had bought a television to watch the ceremony, but I don’t know how they could have afforded it.
It's a very weird feeling. My late father,and oldest daughter,(who am sure won't mind me saying) is called Zara,and has the same surname, I leave to your imagination, what my first name is::: that's pure coincidence,she is 52 tomorrow,named long before the royal one. Was just going to say they both met the queen. Said daughter at The Horse of the year Show, one of my other nicknames,apart from the one on here,is the Princess!!
Exactly @Ergates, I'm not too bothered one way or another about the monarchy but it is the end of an era, and very few people alive today would remember any different.
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Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'She is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
I was two when the coronation took place. I have a vague recollection of being told that my parents had bought a television to watch the ceremony, but I don’t know how they could have afforded it.
Much more important things are happening to ordinary folk.
We're discussing the death of the Queen here, not the past times of her family. Just her death and the end of an era. Quite simply.