Posted on 09/09/2022 6:09:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Just after 6.30pm Buckingham Palace announced:
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
That is how swiftly the transition happens: The Queen is dead; long live the King. So the man and woman who arrived at a Scottish castle as Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will depart just hours later as "the King and the Queen Consort".
Just forty-eight hours ago, the Queen was pictured with her newest prime minister, having invited her to form "a government in my name". At the top of yesterday's show, I suggested that the postponement of the Privy Council at which her new ministers would have been sworn in was a serious and disturbing development. As it turned out, Her Majesty did not live long enough to swear in those privy counselors, and the government will now be conducted in somebody else's name.
Here is The Queen just a few weeks ago, earlier this summer:
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The Sun King
Its amazing how reporters dont fact check nowadays
Is the monarchy anything to do with the unrivaled record of the Britannic inheritance? Working for the Free French in London during the war, Simone Weil found herself pondering why, among the European powers, only England had maintained 'a centuries-old tradition of liberty'. She was struck by the paradox of the Westminster system — that ultimate power is vested in one who cannot wield it in any practical sense.
Except that, by the mere fact of her existence, she diminishes the politicians.
Any diminishment of politicians is a good thing.
Steyn puts it well.
The whole article is well worth the read.
I was just telling a youngster how Elizabeth made a short film at the age of 17 doing military vehicle maintenance during World War II looking so badass and patriotic for her people. That showed a woman so gifted in a role so constricting without escape stuck with ever demeaning progeny while still defining dignity despite their shamefulness; always defining the best of Great Britain. Liz, we must hook up and do shots in the afterlife so I can hear your stories.
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The lady she is receiving is Margaret Beazley, Governor of New South Wales and thus the Queen's vicereine in Sydney. I mean no disrespect to Her Australian Excellency, when I say that, were I to live till ninety-six, I'm not sure I'd wish to be spending my days discoursing on the ins and outs of public affairs in New South Wales on which subject I'd be expected to be up to speed in all its various nuances.
But that's the job: It's not "glamorous" like Meghan being photographed with Oprah, but it's what the Queen did, right until the end. Yesterday, she sent a message to her Canadian subjects following a mass murder in Saskatchewan, a part of Her Majesty's Dominions I doubt the Duchess of Sussex could pronounce or find on a map. But the Queen did it, day in, day out until, well after sundown, the last "red box" was read. She did it for seven decades through her twenties, thirties, fifties, eighties, and into her mid-nineties. She was a public figure – a "working Royal", in that somewhat crass phrase – for even longer, for the best part of ninety years. Three-quarters of a century ago, upon the occasion of her twenty-first birthday in 1947, Princess Elizabeth addressed "all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live" from Cape Town:
She was born to lead and she did it well.....she refined her God given talents over the years and there will never be another one like her.....
God rest her soul.
A magnificent woman.
I fear there will not be anyone like her again, female OR male.
She belongs to the ages.
I’m not a big fan of royalty. But your post makes a lot of sense.
Yes, I'm pointing out the punk peeing in the rightful President's office.
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As usual we can count on Mr. Stein to encapsulate the historic essence of Her Majesty while we were privileged to enjoy her reign. Vivat Regina! Damn right!
Has ANY cause of death been released???
She went so quickly-—heart failure???
I have not seen anything official, but I saw a clip of Lady Colin Campbell on GBNews and she asserts that the Queen had some form of bone cancer, and that those close to the Queen had known about it for some months. If true, that makes the cruel actions of Halfwit and MeGain against his family this year all the worse, but they did the same to his grandfather Philip when he was dying and continue their cruel indifference to her ailing father. Truly vile monsters.
Had Edward VIII not abdicated and lived until 1972 as he did, Her Maj would probably have become Queen then, and still would have reigned 50 years.
“maintaining dignity for their nations...”
I suggest that Donald Trump could take a lesson from Elizabeth II. Part of the president’s job is to be Head of State as she was. No nasty tweets from her or personal insults or name calling for people she disliked. No kicking appointees out the door and ridiculing them in the press after they’d been fired. No childish, churlish behavior manifested every day. No constant reference to herself and her accomplishments.
The Queen constantly exemplified tact, dignity, maturity, and an attitude of humble service to her nation. That’s why she had the love and admiration of her people until the day she died. Trump is incapable of such rectitude and humility. Which is why his approval rating never was greater than the low forties.
I voted for him twice but I consider that he failed in a major aspect of his job—representing the American people as Head of State. He often was an embarrassment in that role.
Steyn captured my main sentiment: with her the 20th century came to an end at last. When she was born Lenin was only two years dead and Hitler was an ex-convict. It seems like another world in retrospect because it was.
True but had Trump had that level of class he would not have touched on so many of we deplorable level people with his message. While I and you can read may break down complicated concepts Trump has a talent for simplifying them enough for the average folks to understand and get motivated over. Hence this total war against him from the Leftists. He smells of their doom.
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