Passing of Queen Elizabeth
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That smile and that sense of humour - photo-bombing athletes at the Commonwealth Games.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
That smile and that sense of humour - photo-bombing athletes at the Commonwealth Games.
What a nice surprise when they look back to check the photo!
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I frequent a UK based football forum and I was surprised to read a few quite uncharitable posts from people regarding the postponement of EPL games, and regarding the late Queen herself. Quite at odds from the example she always seemed to strive to set. I'd be interested if you could anyone who had a bad word to say about her after an actual one on one meet
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@canefan said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
I frequent a UK based football forum and I was surprised to read a few quite uncharitable posts from people regarding the postponement of EPL games, and regarding the late Queen herself. Quite at odds from the example she always seemed to strive to set. I'd be interested if you could anyone who had a bad word to say about her after an actual one on one meet
I’m of the belief that death is celebrated not mourned
Play
And enjoy it
And celebrate
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I'm with you Mike. The old question "what do you think she would have wanted" seems pertinent. I just can't imagine she'd have wanted people to sit around mourning for 10 days and not enjoying life
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@MiketheSnow said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@canefan said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
I frequent a UK based football forum and I was surprised to read a few quite uncharitable posts from people regarding the postponement of EPL games, and regarding the late Queen herself. Quite at odds from the example she always seemed to strive to set. I'd be interested if you could anyone who had a bad word to say about her after an actual one on one meet
I’m of the belief that death is celebrated not mourned
Play
And enjoy it
And celebrate
I'm fine either way. But the decision has been made and I certainly wouldn't be carrying on the way some have. I agree she wouldn't want everything to stop. But it is what it is
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They don't make them like her anymore. She dedicated her life to making things better for everyone else. Sure she was fabulously wealthy and I'm sure she enjoyed some of the finer things in life. But you'd never know from what we saw, the epitome of old money. All accounts suggest beyond her sense of duty she was pretty down to earth, smart and funny. While her whole world was going to hell she exuded the keep calm and carry on sentiment. Charles has massive shoes to fill
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@voodoo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
I'm with you Mike. The old question "what do you think she would have wanted" seems pertinent. I just can't imagine she'd have wanted people to sit around mourning for 10 days and not enjoying life
The Palace have said they do not expect postponements. But soccer matches in the UK are a big drain on Police resources, which are required for official Royal events. In addition the EPL etc are going not off what the Palace are saying but what the majority feeling they get from their public. So yeah play on, but not if you can't get Police or the majority of your supporters think you shouldn't. Its quite complex to negiatiate for sporting bodies
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@Machpants said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@voodoo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
I'm with you Mike. The old question "what do you think she would have wanted" seems pertinent. I just can't imagine she'd have wanted people to sit around mourning for 10 days and not enjoying life
The Palace have said they do not expect postponements. But soccer matches in the UK are a big drain on Police resources, which are required for official Royal events. In addition the EPL etc are going not off what the Palace are saying but what the majority feeling they get from their public. So yeah play on, but not if you can't get Police or the majority of your supporters think you shouldn't. Its quite complex to negiatiate for sporting bodies
Fair play. I was talking more generally than EPL (eg Victoria here suspending parliament for the 10 days!), but can see its definitely complex in that light.
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Watching the funera cortege travel through Aberdeen, what a beautiful part of the world, where there was even a tractor guard of honor as the cortege passed by - from one farmer to another - no wonder she loved it up there!
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@Jailbreak7 said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Watching the funera cortege travel through Aberdeen, what a beautiful part of the world, where there was even a tractor guard of honor as the cortege passed by - from one farmer to another - no wonder she loved it up there!
Not sure that those words have ever been uttered before.
Perhaps 'Aberdeenshire' fits.
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@MiketheSnow said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Tim said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
I like her even more
When Prince Charles (as was) asked Peter Cook to supper in six months' time he received the reply that Cook was dreadfully sorry, but he was watching television that night.
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The Daily Telegraph's Matt is a brilliant cartoonist and was hugely liked by the Queen - he was occasionally asked for the originals by Buckingham Palace apparently. Here's why.
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Another great story
However, this didn’t stop here from making a spectacular and subtle political statement when Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah visited her Balmoral estate in 1998.
Women weren’t allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia at the time, so when the Queen offered Abdullah a tour of the estate, he was somewhat surprised when she climbed into the driver’s seat. According to former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, who both the Queen and Abdullah later separately related the tale to, Abdullah was not used to being driven by a woman, let alone a queen.
“His nervousness only increased as the Queen, an Army driver in wartime, accelerated the Land Rover along the narrow Scottish estate roads, talking all the time,” Cowper-Coles wrote in his autobiography. “Through his interpreter, the Crown Prince implored the Queen to slow down and concentrate on the road ahead."
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Despite myself I've started watching the funeral.
It's kind of fascinating. John Major etc ...
But I do grump at "The Queen has dealt with 15 Prime Ministers" bullshit.
She's been the Queen of the Commonwealth for 70 years. Been a heck of a lot of PMs across all our countries in those 70 years.
