Passing of Queen Elizabeth
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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.
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@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Quite stirring watching all four of her kids marching behind her with the pipes.
Hope that make it all the way. They're all in their 70s ...
It's not far from the hall to the Abbey is it? Will they walk the carriage to the hearse as well?
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@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Quite stirring watching all four of her kids marching behind her with the pipes.
Hope that make it all the way. They're all in their 70s ...
Anne & Charles look really fit for their age, but there's a lot of walking today - from the Abbey to Admiralty Arch and in Windsor. Just hope they don't have to do the Long Walk - that's 3 miles....
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Quite stirring watching all four of her kids marching behind her with the pipes.
Hope that make it all the way. They're all in their 70s ...
Anne & Charles look really fit for their age, but there's a lot of walking today - from the Abbey to Admiralty Arch and in Windsor. Just hope they don't have to do the Long Walk - that's 3 miles....
Anne will breeze it. Charles will get lost, Edward will be given a piggy back by Sophie and Andrew will be stopping off at Pizza Express - or at least that's what he will claim.
Oh and it is the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner as destination. Admiralty Arch is off Trafalgar Square, though they will pass it. Sad to know that the latter has been sold off to to Waldorf Astoria to make into a bloody hotel.
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@Catogrande said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Quite stirring watching all four of her kids marching behind her with the pipes.
Hope that make it all the way. They're all in their 70s ...
Anne & Charles look really fit for their age, but there's a lot of walking today - from the Abbey to Admiralty Arch and in Windsor. Just hope they don't have to do the Long Walk - that's 3 miles....
Anne will breeze it. Charles will get lost, Edward will be given a piggy back by Sophie and Andrew will be stopping off at Pizza Express - or at least that's what he will claim.
Oh and it is the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner as destination. Admiralty Arch is off Trafalgar Square, though they will pass it. Sad to know that the latter has been sold off to to Waldorf Astoria to make into a bloody hotel.
Would upvote but that second paragraph is kinda unintelligible.
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@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Catogrande said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Quite stirring watching all four of her kids marching behind her with the pipes.
Hope that make it all the way. They're all in their 70s ...
Anne & Charles look really fit for their age, but there's a lot of walking today - from the Abbey to Admiralty Arch and in Windsor. Just hope they don't have to do the Long Walk - that's 3 miles....
Anne will breeze it. Charles will get lost, Edward will be given a piggy back by Sophie and Andrew will be stopping off at Pizza Express - or at least that's what he will claim.
Oh and it is the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner as destination. Admiralty Arch is off Trafalgar Square, though they will pass it. Sad to know that the latter has been sold off to to Waldorf Astoria to make into a bloody hotel.
Would upvote but that second paragraph is kinda unintelligible.
I used Admiralty Arch and not Wellington Arch as destination.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Catogrande said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@booboo said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Quite stirring watching all four of her kids marching behind her with the pipes.
Hope that make it all the way. They're all in their 70s ...
Anne & Charles look really fit for their age, but there's a lot of walking today - from the Abbey to Admiralty Arch and in Windsor. Just hope they don't have to do the Long Walk - that's 3 miles....
Anne will breeze it. Charles will get lost, Edward will be given a piggy back by Sophie and Andrew will be stopping off at Pizza Express - or at least that's what he will claim.
Oh and it is the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner as destination. Admiralty Arch is off Trafalgar Square, though they will pass it. Sad to know that the latter has been sold off to to Waldorf Astoria to make into a bloody hotel.
Would upvote but that second paragraph is kinda unintelligible.
I used Admiralty Arch and not Wellington Arch as destination.
And my point stands ...
