Posted on 09/17/2022 5:36:00 AM PDT by McGruff
When word came that Queen Elizabeth II was close to her death, media organizations around the world sprang to life, dispatching reporters to a royal castle in Scotland and breaking out coverage plans decades in the making.
At age 96, the queen’s passing was hardly a surprise. Still, the British royal succession is a media event on steroids that will culminate in Monday’s live coverage of funeral services from Westminster Abbey.
“It’s something I’ve always sort of dreaded and anticipated and worried about,” said Deb Thompson, assistant London bureau chief for CBS News in the United States, recalling nights spent obsessing over the details.
So far, it’s all gone smoothly and she pronounces herself awed by the spectacle.
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“a media event on steroids”
is about right. I check in once a day to see if they’ve buried the poor woman yet.
I could not care less about that flailing and failing empire. I'm stuck in the middle of my own imploding country.
When the smoke clears, I'm not sure if I need to be able to speak messycan, chink or raghead.
Who cares about that monarchy?
Speaking of the UK and its enemedia...
Anyone else notice the concerted effort over the last 48 hours to present story after story about how with-it, alert, “somewhat perky”, and on the job the queen was her last days.
I just find the timing as well as the concentration of stories to be...interesting.
And now I’m wondering about that delay in getting the new PoW and his fellow passengers off the ground in time to see his granny before she died.
If Deep States have an interest, so should we.
And clearly Deep States have a use for the British monarchy.
> “Who cares about that monarchy?”
Yes, English monarchy should be a museum piece, except it’s also head of Church as well as State. It’s ensconced seemingly permanent.
So, understand your sentiment but .....
Bigger picture:
1. Natural ally
2. Bedrock English Common Law
3. Brexit trend
Let’s support our like-minded Brits. They’re important to overcoming not just what you accurately describe as our own implosion, but theirs as well, because the enemy camp is found in Beijing and Davos, the Brits can help us bring down both.
I’m all in...just love all the ritual, pomp and ceremony.
R.I.P. to the Queen.
I think Megan treated it like a Hollywood stage never grasping the close relationship of the Brits to their royals and the pomp and rituals. There's a reason why it's planned and so prepared - it has to be.
It's remarkable to watch - including the que and those passing by the Queens casket. You can genuinely see the peoples affection for the Royals. Thousands upon thousands of them standing for hours upon hours to simply say goodbye to their Queen. Remarkable affection for a leader indeed.
I agree with you; our media here is just using it as a diversion from very real domestic problems. They report on the death as though it matters, though of course they have to put their spin on it (letting blactivists and such take potshots at who they perceive as a racist old white colonizer).
Head of a church nobody goes to anymore. CofE is now less than 1% of the British population. Which might actually make it less than the extended royal family. So that can go away without anybody actually noticing.
As for English Common Law, it can change.
And the royals were against Brexit.
The monarchy is a waste and should end. Now that the likable queen has been replaced with a king nobody likes I expect it’s going to lose a lot of popularity. I do support like minded Brits, the Republicans.
Charles has never been one for learned thought.
Good luck.
Thank you
Charles will never gain the popularity of the Queen...the Brits will tolerate him waiting for William and Kate to take over.
I understand but attacking English monarchy is waste of time and counterproductive to having the US and British Commonwealth in solidarity against Beijing and Davos.
Bigger picture.
No it isn’t. A speaking the truth is NEVER an attack. It’s the truth. and B there’s no damage in letting the probably growing percentage of the British population that’s tired of the royals know they have support.
The truth is BIGGEST picture. And the truth is they should have made it a real revolution and dumped the royals in 1707. But it’s never too late get rid of smelly baggage.
I figure the Brits have a mechanism for ending the monarchy. Their government is not my business
Certainly you wouldn’t see that kind of affection for Biden if he passed away
The snarky comments are very disheartening.
Actually they really don’t. Part of the problem. They’re so addicted to their past they don’t think about the future. One of the big wailings after Elizabeth died was because she was “the last link to WWII”, like you really want to be linked to WWII. Basically imagine England as being just like baseball only more so.
Actually we probably would. Biden’s got about the same approval rating as the royals. It doesn’t take a lot of people to make a lot of noise.
Depends. I think the change over was a great time for them to stop and think and ask if they really wanted to keep this crap going. Which is probably why the coronation happened so quick. Don’t give em time to think, just get it done.
She was all lots of people have ever known. It’s amazing to see the mourners lined up for miles to view her casket..
The working royals seem very at ease meeting crowds of the public all over the place. It was amusing to see a woman try to give Charles a regular pen in Wales. She was worried that he might have to fight it out with one last leaky fountain pen at the signing ceremony in Cardiff.
ALL reports I have seen clearly state that the Queen planned the ceremonies//funeral herself-—Down to the last detail.
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