She’s gone.
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wrote on 9 Sept 2022, 19:58 last edited by
I just heard the funniest exchange ever. I mean I know it was part of the job, but just the same, Her Majesty was very witty.
"I've always kept a diary. Well not a diary exactly—certainly not like Queen Victoria's—but every day I do write, and—"
"But it is in your own hand? Because I think that's terribly important."
"Well there's no other way I know how to write, John, of course it was in my own hand!"Just excellent.
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I’m real sad. I had much respect for Queen Elizabeth II.
I’ll be watching the news this week, the funeral too.I’m not fond of Charles.
Flags are half mast in many small towns in Central Alberta. Schools, stores, private homes, everywhere. On pump jacks, pad sites, petrochemical plants, all that.. I wonder if RCMP are wearing black arm bands?
Kinda odd, but the upside down freedom flag crowd seem to have taken down their flags for now. None today from where I’m at.
I’m hoping Canada will get a new National Holiday. QEII was special imo.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2022, 01:07 last edited by
"I think it's safe to say she's the only person in history to meet Marilyn Monroe, the Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, and Miley Cyrus."
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wrote on 10 Sept 2022, 02:59 last edited by
From the former colonies:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvm7ad/elizabeth-ii-colonisation-kohinoor-india-pakistan
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wrote on 10 Sept 2022, 04:44 last edited by
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As he's named 'Charles Philip Arthur George', I'm a little disappointed that he didn't go with the name 'Arthur'. There'd be a big debate whether he should be Arthur I, or Arthur II.
wrote on 10 Sept 2022, 10:11 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in She’s gone.:
As he's named 'Charles Philip Arthur George', I'm a little disappointed that he didn't go with the name 'Arthur'. There'd be a big debate whether he should be Arthur I, or Arthur II.
I reckon HerM had some illness other than old age & infirmity, probably diagnosed last year when she went to hospital for a couple of days. Didn't seem to be a cancer death so I'm guessing organ failure at her age. It'll come out eventually, along with Philip's philanderings, her initial rejection of Camilla as unacceptible which led to the whole Diana thing, and other bits of muck swept under the red carpet, if any of it is true. Public love that stuff.
For me, She was an amazing person over the decades, tolerant and phlegmatic, serene in an ever more volatile world. Never even met her yet was tearing up like my own mother had died when Huw Edwards annouced it.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2022, 12:10 last edited by
It's been three days, and the world still feels weird and alternate-universey.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2022, 14:27 last edited by
@Catseye3 said in She’s gone.:
It's been three days, and the world still feels weird and alternate-universey.
My feelings about her death have not changed in the past three days, either.
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wrote on 11 Sept 2022, 02:18 last edited by
From Parade: Queen Elizabeth II's Funeral Date, Location, and Burial Information
Get all the details on Queen Elizabeth II's funeral."Because Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral in Scotland, she will lie in state at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh before her funeral service at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. On Sept. 13, her coffin will be flown back to London, where a state funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey prior to her committal at St. George's Chapel in Windsor."
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wrote on 11 Sept 2022, 02:26 last edited by
They're burying her on my birthday
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 17:29 last edited by
Queen Elizabeth II's official cause of death released
Queen Elizabeth II died from old age, according to the monarch's death certificate
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-iis-official-cause-death-released
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 17:51 last edited by
Talk about anti-climactic.
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 18:30 last edited by
According to my late father, his parents, born born and raised in England, would refer to the sudden passing of elderly people that “they died from shortness of breath”.
Seems that Elizabeth II did just that.
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 19:12 last edited by
In the end, everybody dies of a cardiac arrest.
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 20:03 last edited by
Animals with multiple hearts
https://wildlifeinformer.com/animals-with-multiple-hearts/
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards.
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 20:52 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Sept 2022, 22:11 last edited by Catseye3
Are those the Crown Jewels she's wearing, I wonder?
Nah, never mind. What else would they be?