RIP Queen Elizabeth II

[Bambino]

Queen Elizabeth II has died, Buckingham Palace announces - BBC News

[Cleoriff]

@ComaChameleon 

Anne isn't kept out of anything. Apparently,  so the report goes, she is one of the hardest working Royals. She just can't stand media attention. She has delegated for the Queen on many occasions as well as having her own charities she deals with.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10358109/Princess-Anne-named-hardest-working-royal-2021.h... 

(I know the article is talking about recent times but it has been the same for years.)

I know people were probably at work yesterday but I had the opportunity to watch the very poignant ceremony when the Queen was moved from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.

No-one does pageantry like us. Everything went like clockwork and was beautiful although very sad.

[ComaChameleon]

@Cleoriff 

I heard of she's the hardest working, but isn't the situation now, that she can't be delegated in Charles' name as the others are appointed? So like going back from 100% to 0? Or isn't it the same as "the working royals"?

I actually swapped shifts to see the funeral 🙈

[Cleoriff]

She will probably be delegated more @ComaChameleon 

Before, there was the Queen and all her children (except Andrew!!) to carry out Royal duties. Now there is one less. That's why King Charles has given up his title of Prince Of Wales, and passed that down to Prince William. I expect the funeral tomorrow will be very moving and emotional.

[ComaChameleon]

@Cleoriff 

But Andrew is delegated now, right? It was weird to read that...

It will be, for sure! That's why I changed the shift. 🙈

[Cleoriff]

@ComaChameleon 

Andrew undertakes NO Royal duties now. No-one wants to see him!

He will be allowed to use his uniform for the funeral and that's it.

[ComaChameleon]

@Cleoriff 

See here 

I understood Charles already decided on that thing? 

Sadly he is allowed... I think uniforms are only for people behaving honourful 

[Cleoriff]

@ComaChameleon 

Although, if you read on it says this...

It is thought that King Charles III will remove Prince Andrew, and potentially Prince Harry, as he doesn't live in the UK, and replace them with his siblings Princess Anne and Prince Edward.

That proposal has to go through government though, so won't be a quick job.

I see people are still queuing to see the Queen lying in State before they close the doors.

Apparently the government have to make a decision about when to close the doors of Westminster Hall.

[pgn]

And that wonderful organ that is the British press, or mass media, add their bit of salt to matters proceeding...

[Cleoriff]

The press and media are getting on my wick actually @pgn 

What they don't know, they make up!

This sort of comment: The great grandchildren are standing vigil now and I see the Countess of Wessex is looking very worried. She's obviously concerned that this might be too much for her children' OH DO SHUT UP!! How do you know what she's thinking? There's been a lot of that. Gap filler I call it.

They must love the sound of their own voices!

Then grabbing people as they come out of the Hall and asking them 'how they felt'. Oh let them absorb what they've just seen!!

[pgn]

What passes for journalism today is little less than opinion and some browbeating to get the answer their bosses will let the paper print.

Any decorum, respect for privacy, and, whoa, attempt to discover any actual truth, went out the window a decade ago. 

Meanwhile, I wonder when they'll decide to close the hall to the public? Pretty sure all the dignitaries and hob-nobs are here now, partying the night away in some club at the back end of Mayfair somewhere...