Yes TF. Rock Around the World or something like that plus maybe one or two others.
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The RIP thread
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Yeah that's it. Just read....that *smile* cancer again. RIP Basia.
Nuh that was a red-head chick on Ch 2, while this one was on SBS. All around 80s and 90s.
I'm no Monarchist but it's a strange feeling the Queen dying (even at the grand old age of 96).
Elizabeth II has been Queen since well before I was born. I've know no different. Most won't have.
She's been the rock of the Royal Family. Always carried herself with great dignity publicly.
RIP Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. Vale.
The UK is now at a very uncertain time.
New Prime Minister & now a new King in a couple of days.
Yes the Republic talk will now inevitably grow stronger.
Elizabeth II has been Queen since well before I was born. I've know no different. Most won't have.
She's been the rock of the Royal Family. Always carried herself with great dignity publicly.
RIP Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. Vale.
The UK is now at a very uncertain time.
New Prime Minister & now a new King in a couple of days.
Yes the Republic talk will now inevitably grow stronger.
Queen Elizabeth played a significant role in Australian life for sure and there will be many Australians who will mourn her death deeply.
I’m a Republican so I see it as the death of a monarch and a significant event.
As Tiger supporters we should remember we are 0-1 with her in the crowd so she was not a good luck charm!
I’m a Republican so I see it as the death of a monarch and a significant event.
As Tiger supporters we should remember we are 0-1 with her in the crowd so she was not a good luck charm!
Like ToO Queen Elizabeth II has been this constant. You know she would die soon, but now she has there’s this feeling of unreality about it.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Well put.
I was musing that this morning that my father, who is 91, is for the first time in his life older than the reigning monarch.
New King is already in place, the second QEII passed KCIII was on the throne. Coronation is just a bit of bread and circuses. Feels weird to say "King", it has always been Queen.
I figure Willie now becomes Prince of Wales and Chuck will relinquish that title, another coronation like Chuck had in the early 70s?
DS
I was 3 when she was crowned but I don't remember it, only news footage that we've all seen.
My dear old Nan was born the year before QEII. Still going at 97 (despite bad doses of polio and hydatids throughout her life), has outlived the Queen. She only went into a nursing home (800m walk from my house) in the past 12 months. We are very close. I think for my grandmother, with so few of her contemporaries still alive. The Queen was an anchor to a past world she understood and felt more at ease in. Particularly being another woman born into the same times. That calming anchor has gone now. I think that's more where people's sense of grief and loss comes from, not so much the loss of QEII the person. One doesn't need to be a monarchist to feel that.
And my grandmother very much has always been in that same matriarchic role in the context of our extended family. Stoic, stable, calming, dignified that we draw so much comfort and inspiration from.
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Totally agree Oldie. I'm not a follower but always had respect and interest in the Royals.
As you said, she's been the rock of their large family and lived a great tenure of 70 years as a Queen.
It does feel strange now with the world leaders having to turn to King Charles III. There will be no more queens in our lifetime now that William and his son George are next in line.
One thing they need to update is that Camilla becomes Queen 'Consort' which is quite sexist.
