Her Majesty, the Queen RIP

Looks that way

 

A sad day if it’s the case

 

The news is disquieting. I hope she recovers and even makes her century, but the combination of a great age, the loss of Philip, and the accumulated stresses of her position might just be too much. With all the family being summoned, it does not look good.

For me, and I suppose, most of us here, she's been the only monarch we've known. She really grew into the position, and took her duties seriously indeed. Mum and Aunt recall how worried she always looked in the early years. They had just graduated as SRNs the previous year, and in 1953 were working at Batley and Staincliffe (Dewsbury) hospitals. They recall all the hoopla, the decorated wards, the coronation on TV... everything and everybody stopped for a while.

She's been a model monarch, and overseen an almost incredible amount of change, socially, politically, technologically, and more. We've been fortunate to have her. I do think Charles will do well, but I hope he gets his chance later rather than sooner.

RCB

 

Well put

 

I swore my Oath of Allegiance as a 16 year old in 1981 prior to joining the Army. It still holds true with me to this day. I appreciate that it is no longer fashionable to support the Monarchy as strongly as it was in days gone by but I am and will remain a supporter.
Fight hard Your Majesty.

 

The fact that all her children and most of her grandchildren are travelling, or are already, to Scotland really does say it all.

BBC have already moved to rolling news on BBC so they must just think it is a matter of time

 

I think you are right on this. With all the family heading to Balmoral and the very rare announcement about her health it does sound that way.

 

Buckingham Palace has just announced that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2nd has passed away.
RIP your Majesty.

 

And she has passed away

RIP

 

She gone down quickly since her hubby passed.

R.I.P

 

RIP your majesty

 

Rest in Peace Your Majesty.
Long live the King.

 

She served the country well for 70 years. May she rest in peace.

 

Rest in Peace Your Majesty.

 

Rest in Peace your Majesty.

 

"I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice," she said during her first televised Christmas address in 1957. "But I can do something else: I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations." ...

"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong," she said.

And so she did. RIP.

RCB

Excuse me, but there seems to be some grit in my eyes...

 

Here... borrow mine

 

When you've been as close to someone as the Queen and Phillip were, married 73 years and both well into their 90s when one passes I believe the one left has difficulty with every day life and maybe gives up, shes had a wonderful life and had all her chairs at home as they say till the end.
"Elizabeth II’s job as queen was imposed on her by an ancient constitution that required no qualification other than that she exist.
Having been appointed, and whatever her private thoughts, she performed her role over an extraordinarily long reign in near-faultless manner, leaving scant ammunition for personal attack from the fiercest opponents of hereditary principle" a life long vocation Rest in Peace Your Majesty.