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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
In fact, the last time I was in the UK, I posted a letter in a George VI pillar box.
As always, this was very interesting. Thank you for posting it.
Regards,
Given that her mother lived to 100, the possibility exists that we may have her for 9 more years.
In any case, it will be something to behold.
(A question comes to mind: With the I dressing number of Muslims in Britain, what would the reaction be if they disrupted the funeral? Would the Brita finally react to the point of doing something about these invadets?)
Freakin bad spelling... “I dressing”=increasing
“ Brita “=Brita
“ invadets”=invaders
Freaky Charles converted to Islam 20yrs ago, and now London is in Dar whatever, the house of peace, in islam with a muslim mayor.
That’s how long ago Saudi Arabia’s roots set in for good.. they thought.
There really aren’t that many Muslims in the UK - some areas have a lot certainly and the number is increasing, but they are still quite a small minority.
And it’s very unlikely they’d cause any such disruption. The majority are not militant in any way, and just want to live their lives as their own lives. Yes, there is a minority who do cause problems, but it is only a fairly small minority - and if they decided to cause some sort of problem over this, yes, it is likely there would be a bad reaction to that. And most of them would know that.
I am a personal friend of the Prince of Wales. He is not a Muslim. He is a devout Christian who quite commonly makes speeches that get very little publicity about the oppression of Christians in the Middle East. One of the few public figures actually speaking up about such things.
How do Chuck and the mayor get along?
Khan was involved with one of the Prince’s charities at one point, so they would have had some contact then, but I doubt they’ve had more than half a dozen conversations in total. I’m sure the Prince treats him politely and with respect, as he does most people in public life. The Prince doesn’t generally meet with current politicians very often, because it raises the potential for perceived (or actual, I suppose) constitutional conflicts.
Wow! Thank you for posting this. What a gem of an article. I’ve been watching Crown (which is somewhat based on her life.) And nearly all of us watched The King’s Speech—which was about her father. So I feel like I have a bit of context for the gravity of it all and what her passing truly means. What a lady! What a queen she has been. Fascinating to read about the administrative and societal dance, management, business end, as well as pomp and circumstance that are already in place and that will run like a well oiled machine (mostly! ;) when the times does sadly come. But PLEASE Queen Elizabeth! I DOOO wish there was a way to pass over poor deluded and embarrassing Charles. :(
Well THAT is very good news. But I must say. I am no friend of his when it comes to his environmental activism and (I think) delusion about global warming. On the brighter side however. I think it is wonderful you are a personal friend of his. His sons are wonderful men and his daughter-in-law and grand children very, very sweet and lovely.
I read this again. I am deeply happy to hear Charles is making these VERY IMPORTANT speeches about the oppression of the Christians in the Middle East. Very impressed to hear that. Thank you for letting us know.
I’m a friend of the Prince of Wales. Please understand he is nothing like the caricature of him that appears in the media. The mainstream media rather dislikes him because he is (except on environmental issues) rather conservative and because many of them worshipped Diana, Princess of Wales. I’ve said it many times - if he was allowed to, he’d fit in quite well on Freerepublic. He’s a patriot, utterly dedicated to his country, and a devout Christian (albeit one trapped within the Church of England), who believes in personal freedoms, and service to one’s society.
I have enjoyed ‘The Crown’ myself - obviously some liberties have been taken with the truth, and a lot is speculation of things not publically seen, but I’ve found it remarkably absorbing.
For myself, I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. Their church communities link us straight back to the early Church, as I was reminded by hearing Aramaic, Our Lord's own language, spoken and sung a few hours ago.
Yet, today, the Middle East and North Africa has the lowest concentration of Christians in the world – just four per cent of the population and it is clear that the Christian population of the Middle East has dropped dramatically over the last century and is falling still further.
This has an effect on all of us, although, of course, primarily on those Christians who can no longer continue to live in the Middle East: we all lose something immensely and irreplaceably precious when such a rich tradition dating back two thousand years begins to disappear. It is, therefore, especially delightful to see such a rich panoply of church life here to-day, including the Antiochian, Greek, Coptic, Syrian, and Armenian Orthodox Churches, the Melkite, Maronite, Syrian Catholic, Chaldean, and Roman Catholic Churches, as well as the Church of the East, and Churches established, dare I say it, somewhat more recently, including the Anglican Church!
In saying all this about the difficulties facing the Christian churches in the Middle East I am, of course, conscious that they are not the only faith community in this region suffering at the moment, nor is the Middle East the only part of the world in which Christians are suffering, but, given the particularly acute circumstances faced by the church communities in the Middle East to-day, I felt it worthwhile to draw attention to their current plight.
Whole speech can be found at https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/media/speeches/speech-the-prince-of-wales-advent-reception-christians-the-middle-east
Unfortunately these speeches don't tend to be given much publicity. But if he says anything about climate change (which he does believe is real - on environmental issues, he does lean left), it gets reported over and over again.
Thank you for posting this. I appreciate your information.
Thank you so much for sharing this. It is very reassuring. So glad too to hear I’ve a FreeRepublic friend of ‘The Crown.’ Upon the last available episode, I immediately absorbed myself on every documentary and article I could get my hands on about the royal family history as well as the individuals themselves. Of course I’m a huge fan of much of English Literature from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien (his son and grandson live here in Santa Barbara), Dickens, The Brontë sisters, Austen, Elliot, even poor Woolf, and of course Shakespeare, Doyle, Carroll, Kipling, Byron, Lawrence . . . lol. There seems to be no end! Just by reading Austen as a young lady, I behaved from that point forward as a woman who’d been to finishing school! :D
Beautifully stated and deeply important point. Thank you for sharing this! He clearly has a rich understanding of this important issue and a global view as well. Which even many Christians lack in this day and age.
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He is also a meddling leftist dog turd.
My mother was born in 1924. When she passed I felt that sense of loss of my last personal link to another time in history. The Greatest Generation. The Queen’s passing will be felt with profound sadness all over I would expect.
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