[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The Declaration was directed towards an unelected Monarch who still had significant authority over his country. The modern monarchy doesn't have that, and really doesn't "rule" anyone. They are basically employed by the country as a whole to maintain tradition and unify its people. Nobody with any sense would blame the Queen for whatever ills the country commits.

I do agree that adulation of royalty is just as distasteful, and very similar to, the adulation of celebrities in general. I thought the general weepiness from some over the death of Prince's Diana was eye rolling in the extreme.

However, all that can be true, and it is still possible to have enormous respect for this particular woman. She had a very specific job to do, and she did it extraordinarily well for a very long life. That job greatly limited her freedom to act as other people do, but she accepted that responsibility and performed those duties without ever embarrassing herself or her country. The obvious flip side of that are Harry and his wife, who want all the privileges and status of being royals without having to make the necessary sacrifices in terms of freedom to act how they might wish in a given moment.

So while I don't feel any personal sense of loss or emotional connection, I can still feel respect and sadness at the death of a great woman.

[Nifster]

Well said

[telescope115]

but she accepted that responsibility and performed those duties without ever embarrassing herself or her country.

Unlike our “Fearless Leader”.🙄