Posted on 04/09/2013 11:46:21 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The Queen and Prince Philip broke with tradition yesterday by agreeing to attend the funeral of Baroness Thatcher.
At a top-level Government meeting to discuss plans for next Wednesday’s farewell to the Iron Lady, Palace officials said the monarch would join mourners at St Paul’s Cathedral.
The Queen’s decision to cast protocol aside delighted Lady Thatcher’s friends and allies who had expressed disappointment that she was not to be honoured with a full state funeral.
The Mail yesterday highlighted the groundswell of opinion that as Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister, Lady Thatcher deserved in death the highest honour the state can bestow, and invited readers to join a petition – which thousands did.
However, yesterday’s news from Buckingham Palace is regarded as such an extraordinary gesture that it effectively elevates her funeral to a state occasion.
The only other time a reigning monarch has attended the final farewell of a Prime Minister was in 1965, when the Queen joined the congregation for the funeral of Winston Churchill, the only premier in more than a century to be given full state honours.
Traditionally, the monarch does not attend the funerals of ‘commoners’, however celebrated.
The Queen did not go to the funerals of Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath or James Callaghan, all of whom served as Prime Minister during her reign.
A Palace source said: ‘The Queen regularly sends representatives to funerals, whether it is senior members of the household or senior members of the Royal Family. The fact that she has decided to go herself is significant.’
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Three cheers for the Queen!
Wonderful news.
Long live the Queen.
Very good.
God save the queen!
Lefties begin burning her pictures.... 3. 2. 1..
What a significant, classy, and righteous thing to do! G-d save the Queen.
Ditto!
God save the Queen! :-)
I tried to post to you the other day, but I forgot your numbers.
I want to express my condolences to you on the death of Mrs. Thatcher. She was a great lady and this world is poorer for her death.
Thank goodness. This is a well deserved slap in the face to the hate filled liberals in the press.
This is great news.
Lady Thatcher saved the Crown and Country, more than anyone since Sir Winston Churchill. The Queen had best show her gratitude, at the least. She deserves no extra credit for doing what is right, as a begotten Royal.
Yes she does. Good for the Queen!
How’s your Head of State doing?
I have always admired the Queen since I learned about her service in WWII. Her Grandsons do her proud in following her example.
I’m a great admirer of the Monarchy, save for the idiot Charles and horse face.
God bless Queen Elizabeth for making this exception.
I’m sure she greatly admired Baroness Lady Thatcher and that they were good friends.
I don’t have a Head of State. Thanks for asking.
For years, every now and then I have seen movies of the Queen and her sister, as young women, doing various jobs ‘in the service.’
Aways thought they were pretty, and plucky young women.
It appeared they had a common touch, with just enough royal protocol, I’m sure.
They must have caught the eye of many soldiers, boosting their morale.
I feel I have to say it... as a friend of the Prince of Wales, I really don’t think he is an idiot. The way he is portrayed in the press really doesn’t show people the type of man he is, and a large part of the reason the press portrays him that way is because he is, overwhelmingly, a conservative on most issues, and the press always seem to like to parody a conservative.
He is, in my view, misguided on a few issues - mainly his environmentalism, but I have to say he’s spent far more time studying those issues than most people I know and his positions are honestly held and sincere, not based on political ideology. Unfortunately, because during the long years of Labor government, and even now to an extent, as it was one of the only issues he agreed with the government on, and as, constitutionally, he is very limited in his ability to speak publically on any issue unless he agrees with Her Majesty’s Government, he’s wound up making a great many more environmentalist speeches than he probably would have under normal circumstances. Most of his beliefs on most issues would fit in fairly well here. That’s part of the reasons we are friends (although as he is my future King, I would treat him with respect regardless - it’s the way I’ve been raised, and in a constitutional monarchy, that is conservatism).
What guides him more than anything else - as it does his mother and his sons (and every member of the family I know of) - is duty to his country and to the Commonwealth. His entire life is devoted to doing his duty as he has been lead to see it.
As for the Duchess of Cornwall, she is a lovely woman. She and the Prince of Wales were put into an awful situation by their sense of duty (as were the Princess of Wales, and Brigadier Parker Bowles) - they were put under immense pressure to put aside marriage to the people they wanted to and that lead to all sorts of problems.
Her Majesty obviously admired Lady Thatcher. From what I here, they did develop a friendship, but more than that, the Queen admires anybody who treats the welfare of their country and works for that with the utmost respect, which is why she has been able to work well with people from various sides of politics, as long as she believes their intent is to do what they believe is best for Britain. This was obviously true of Baroness Thatcher, to an extraordinary extent.
This is good news, but the Obamas. I hope not.
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