Has the Queen died?

[TopCat]

I doubt we will see much more of her.

 

[JimW]

The thread definitely needs more textual diversity.

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ETA Though back translating that turns out I've diversified more than intended

 

[platinumsage]

Has anyone done any research to determine the average time from rumours of a great leader’s demise first gaining currency to the actual time of their death? There must be quite a bit of data what with Hitler, all the commies etc. I remember when people were saying Yeltsin was dead due to an apparently fake photograph of him sat in an office while on holiday, but it turned out all the remote offices in the Soviet Union of that type were furnished identically so the photo was genuine.

 

[danny la rouge]

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ETA Though back translating that turns out I've diversified more than intended

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[not a trot]

I really don't think that's true. I don't see how they could cover it up for so long. I do think she's really ill though.

96 actually.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Tree mound ess.

 

[hippogriff]

I don't

 

[muscovyduck]

this thread is beginning to read like a tumblr shitpost

 

[Ax^]

needs more yellow

 

[Steel Icarus]

I don't do Twitter but someone in my office has said Twitter claims a factory in China has received a huge order for Union flags with Liz's face on and 1926-2022.

Not bad considering she rocked up at Royal Windsor horse show half an hour ago

 

[T & P]

I think she has been gone for a week or 2, it's so close to the woefully patriotic jubilee celebrations that they are keeping quite as so much has been invested in it.

But I know nothing.

Well, I really wouldn't want it to interfere with the Wagatha Christie trial, so such delay would suit me fine.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I don't do Twitter but someone in my office has said Twitter claims a factory in China has received a huge order for Union flags with Liz's face on and 1926-2022.

I can't imagine a more credible source.

 

[T & P]

I don't do Twitter but someone in my office has said Twitter claims a factory in China has received a huge order for Union flags with Liz's face on and 1926-2022.

Not bad considering she rocked up at Royal Windsor horse show half an hour ago

She looks like she's tripping balls as well. Have they given her a funny pill or two for the outing?

Queen attends Royal Windsor Horse Show

The monarch is pictured smiling as she arrives, days after missing the State Opening of Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

I don't do Twitter but someone in my office has said Twitter claims a factory in China has received a huge order for Union flags with Liz's face on and 1926-2022.

Not bad considering she rocked up at Royal Windsor horse show half an hour ago

Over 6 months to go; worth the risk for the chance to mop up the market quickly?

 

[ska invita]

I don't do Twitter but someone in my office has said Twitter claims a factory in China has received a huge order for Union flags with Liz's face on and 1926-2022.

Not bad considering she rocked up at Royal Windsor horse show half an hour ago

Jubilee ones would say that

 

[andysays]

She looks like she's tripping balls as well. Have they given her a funny pill or two for the outing?

Queen attends Royal Windsor Horse Show

The monarch is pictured smiling as she arrives, days after missing the State Opening of Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

So she pulls a sickie for the State Opening of Parliament, then goes on a jolly a few days later.

I hope someone will be reviewing her benefits...

 

[MrCurry]

It does start to look like she’s less incapacitated, more on strike. Did all this absence from official duties stuff start when the apple of her eye Andy was besmirched by the commoners? Maybe she’s somewhat more on his side than the public knows and she‘s simply had enough of doing her bit.

 

[elbows]

It does start to look like she’s less incapacitated, more on strike. Did all this absence from official duties stuff start when the apple of her eye Andy was besmirched by the commoners? Maybe she’s somewhat more on his side than the public knows and she‘s simply had enough of doing her bit.

Well we already know that he is in some senses 'her favourite son' and that a point was made of having him walk her down the aisle at Philips service some months back.

But frankly too many different things happened within a fairly short space of time for me to be able to guess the full realities, motivations and causes of her non-participation in various duties.

eg I could make a case that she couldnt endure the tedium of various events once Philip was no longer around to make jokes. Or that once she was told not to drink alcohol, she wasnt up for bothering with the dull shit any more.

But I could also take the mobility issues stuff at face value, or a combination of things, eg her presence at the horse thing was not shocking given that she clearly loves the horse-related stuff, and unlike the state opening of parliament she didnt have to read a speech or get out of the car.

 

[BristolEcho]

I don't have any sympathy for her, but it must also be pretty exhausting and surreal having your potential death under such huge scrutiny. It's something lots of people feel very differently about and can be a hard place for people especially when they have just lost someone too.

 

[not a trot]

I don't have any sympathy for her, but it must also be pretty exhausting and surreal having your potential death under such huge scrutiny. It's something lots of people feel very differently about and can be a hard place for people especially when they have just lost someone too.

I can just picture her sitting listening to the Royal pundits on the telly, shouting, 'one should shut ones fucking gob'.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't have any sympathy for her, but it must also be pretty exhausting and surreal having your potential death under such huge scrutiny. It's something lots of people feel very differently about and can be a hard place for people especially when they have just lost someone too.

i think i could take it in my stride as i sat in one of my more palatial homes with an army of minions and servants to cater for my every whim

 

[klang]

She looks like she's tripping balls as well. Have they given her a funny pill or two for the outing?

Queen attends Royal Windsor Horse Show

The monarch is pictured smiling as she arrives, days after missing the State Opening of Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

she's just going through a serious Roger Daltrey fan-phase.

 

[Pickman's model]

she's just going through a serious Roger Daltrey fan-phase.

is that zoe lyons she's talking to?

 

[klang]

is that zoe lyons she's talking to?

a psyche-era Townshend fan.

 

[Duncan2]

I see this thread was started several years ago.Wonder if Brenda isn't going to confound us all by living to be 110?She looks sort of chipper in this new photo.

 

[billy_bob]

is that zoe lyons she's talking to?

That person isn't actually there - she's hallucinating.

 

[steveseagull]

Do we definitely know that was not old footage photos? Do we definitely know that is actually her?
I am no expert in the ageing process but she looks about ten years younger than last time we saw her

 

[MickiQ]

Do we definitely know that was not old footage photos? Do we definitely know that is actually her?
I am no expert in the ageing process but she looks about ten years younger than last time we saw her

The injections are working then

 

[Pickman's model]

Do we definitely know that was not old footage photos? Do we definitely know that is actually her?
I am no expert in the ageing process but she looks about ten years younger than last time we saw her

She always does when she sheds her skin

 

[BristolEcho]

i think i could take it in my stride as i sat in one of my more palatial homes with an army of minions and servants to cater for my every whim

That does make it easier true. Or maybe it gives you to long to think about it?