She’s gone.

[Mik]

Queen Elizabeth dead at 96.

[Mik]

I have a strangely emotional response. She’s been probably the one constant all my life.

[George K]

RIP, Your Majesty.

What a run she had.

In this photo from April 1945, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) stands with her ambulance. Her Royal Highness served in the British Army’s Auxiliary Territorial Service driving ambulances in WWII.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in She’s gone.:

I have a strangely emotional response. She’s been probably the one constant all my life.

Yeah, I'm exactly the same way.

[Renauda]

Duty bound and thoroughly devoted to service until the very end. May Elizabeth R rest in peace.

The end of an era.

Long live King Charles III.

[Aqua Letifer]

I happen to be wearing a union jack t-shirt today.

RIP QEII.

[Mik]

@Renauda said in She’s gone.:

Duty bound and thoroughly devoted to service until the very end. May Elizabeth R rest in peace.

The end of an era.

Long live King Charles III.

A very apt description. I wonder if we will ever see the likes of her.

I was reading somewhere that he is unlikely to keep Charles since the predecessors were pretty bad.

[jon-nyc]

@Renauda said in She’s gone.:

Duty bound and thoroughly devoted to service until the very end. May Elizabeth R rest in peace.

The end of an era.

Long live King Charles III.

You think that's the name he''ll take? He can choose any.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc

True. However I suspect he will reign as Charles.

[jon-nyc]

He should pick Andrew, just to troll everybody.

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in She’s gone.:

@Mik said in She’s gone.:

I have a strangely emotional response. She’s been probably the one constant all my life.

(Phibbs) Yeah, I'm exactly the same way.

Me, too.

My initial reaction: (First, a deleted expletive), but after that: Oh no, oh no, oh NO.

So much has happened to tilt the world I know, but this . . . this is going to take some getting used to.

And special condolences to Phibbs and Renauda.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc

Until the announcement, let’s just leave it at:

God Save the King!

[George K]

What will Camilla's title/role be?

[jon-nyc]

Queen Escort Consort?

[Renauda]

@George-K

Queen Consort.

[George K]

@Renauda said in She’s gone.:

Queen Consort.

That's what Mrs. George said. Why not just "Queen," because Charles divorced Diana?

[Mik]

@George-K they are already referring to her with that title. If memory serves it was negotiated when they married.

[jon-nyc]

BBC banner is now black.

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in She’s gone.:

Why not just "Queen," because Charles divorced Diana?

I am reeeaally gonna louse this up, but it has something to do with the King's first wife is the one and only Queen because in times past, her virginity was assured (so a bastard from somebody else conceived before the royal wedding didn't wind up in the succession). That is believed not to be applicable to any other woman the King takes up with. So no other woman can be Queen.

Or something.

[Friday]

She has been a constant for many people, not just in the UK. I have nothing but great admiration and respect for her. I'm actually kind of teary.

RIP Elizabeth II.