Posted on 03/16/2017 9:12:29 PM PDT by naturalman1975
She is venerated around the world. She has outlasted 12 US presidents. She stands for stability and order. But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end. That’s why the palace has a plan.
In the plans that exist for the death of the Queen – and there are many versions, held by Buckingham Palace, the government and the BBC – most envisage that she will die after a short illness. Her family and doctors will be there. When the Queen Mother passed away on the afternoon of Easter Saturday, in 2002, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, she had time to telephone friends to say goodbye, and to give away some of her horses. In these last hours, the Queen’s senior doctor, a gastroenterologist named Professor Huw Thomas, will be in charge. He will look after his patient, control access to her room and consider what information should be made public. The bond between sovereign and subjects is a strange and mostly unknowable thing. A nation’s life becomes a person’s, and then the string must break.
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Long overdue for the inbred monarchy to die out. Queen Elizabeth, as regards the UK, has stood by and watched her kingdom die. Now in her last days she gets to watch the Islamic hordes overrun her once great country. What a shame.
Plan to read this later. Very interesting.
Hey Queenie, don't spend any time in The Netherlands!
Close your eyes there an the Docs will give you the blue syringe. Charles might even volunteer to hold you down.
Because you always post interesting articles, I will read this though it be from ‘The Guardian’.
bkmk
I understand - but it is very well research despite it being from The Grauniad.
I’m with Robert Smith ( edited ) of The Cure ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIf723e2fM
What kind of name is Huw Thomas? Did the article mean to say Hew Thomas?
He is certainly more verbose than I remember!
As the article itself points out, King George V was euthanized by his doctor. It’s not even a secret. The rules seem to be different in such cases. It only hastened his death by a few hours, but for those who believe in the absolute sanctity of life it is still quite chilling. Especially given the reason was primarily to ensure the news would appear in the quality morning newspapers, rather than the evening tabloids.
It’s Welsh - and it is Huw.
The BBC always meets their deadline.
But her kingdom is in turmoil …If only she had not signed that Abortion Act or Marriage Equality Act among other bad laws. It’s a leftist canard to claim that exercising her royal prerogative in defense of the kingdom against Satanic leftism in acts of Parliament would result in a revolt against the monarchy.
Thank you! I love this stuff, bookmarked.
Have to wonder why they’re printing this now, do they know something we don’t ?
The Queen is nearly 91 - but to the best of my knowledge, her health is good for that age, and there’s no current special concerns. The author would have likely been working on this story for at least a year, given the access he would have needed to the people interviewed.
One really weird thought I’ve had would be the cost for simple things. For instance having to change everything emblazoned with the Crown would have to be changed from “ER” (Elizabeth Regina) to “CR” (Charles Rex). Stationery, mailboxes, phone booths, civilian and military uniform items, seals, identification, official documents, etc. How much would that cost?
CC
It’s done gradually as they need replacing, not instantly in most cases. So most of the costs are simply normal routine ones.
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