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Has the Queen died?

editor said:
Turned on the TV and was astonished to see the massive crowds in Edinburgh watching the coffin go by.
Mental.
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I was initially thinking on the same lines during the first few days of the current madness, But it’s worth keeping in mind that for every one of those thousands of people seen in the news crying outside a Royal residence, queuing for many hours for some condolence event, or being interviewed on TV telling us how much they love Brenda, there are a hundred times as many of us who don’t feel like that at all, let alone feeling like wanting to pay our respects by attending some place.

I normally recoil at the term ‘silent majority’, being a right wing staple of the likes of the Daily Mail, but if there was ever a fitting scenario for that expression, this is it.
 
stavros said:
Nicholas Witchell on the BBC:

"They [the corgis] know nothing of her status."
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I thought dogs were very hierarchical by nature? It's likely they knew precisely where their mistress fitted in the grand scheme of status, especially when compared to the other people they saw interacting with her.
 
T & P said:
I was initially thinking on the same lines during the first few days of the current madness, But it’s worth keeping in mind that for every one of those thousands of people seen in the news crying outside a Royal residence, queuing for many hours for some condolence event, or being interviewed on TV telling us how much they love Brenda, there are a hundred times as many of us who don’t feel like that at all, let alone feeling like wanting to pay our respects by attending some place.

I normally recoil at the term ‘silent majority’, being a right wing staple of the likes of the Daily Mail, but if there was ever a fitting scenario for that expression, this is it.
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Yes. They reckon 32,000 people queued up to walk past the coffin, which is a pretty bonkers number. But the population of the greater Edinburgh area is 900,000-odd. So that's 868,000 people that reasonably could have, but didn't.
 
Wilf said:
Was she married twice? ;)
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A few months before his marriage, Philip abandoned his princely titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten ( ... )
Soon after Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, Lord Mountbatten observed that because it was the standard practice for the wife in a marriage to adopt her husband's surname, the House of Mountbatten now reigned. When Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, heard of this comment, she informed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and he later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor. This she did on 9 April 1952, officially declaring it her "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that My descendants, other than female descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor."[8] Philip privately complained, "I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."
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House of Windsor - Wikipedia
 
weepiper said:
Yes. They reckon 32,000 people queued up to walk past the coffin, which is a pretty bonkers number. But the population of the greater Edinburgh area is 900,000-odd. So that's 868,000 people that reasonably could have, but didn't.
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But out of that 32000 how many were tourists and out of towner's
 
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