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Gone. A shame. Can we celebrate her life without making it about future Monarchs (or not) for now?
Sad news ☹️
There you have it
Well done Madge. Stand down, duty over.
RIP Your Maj.
There’ll be some happy bastids on here now.
Feeling far more sad than I thought I would.
RIP Liz 😢
And shes gone...
At least she saw the buffoon out the door before she went 😉
This all feels very surreal.
bit annoyed; behind Huw in the newsroom as he announced it formally, two staffers were filming him on their mobiles.
Strangely emotional
RIP your Madge
Awww bugger 🙁
There’ll be some happy bastids on here now.
Let hope they at least have the decency to keep their thoughts to themselves
I still remember the little street party I attended as a kid for the Silver Jubilee.
Sad news, it's weird to think that most of the population have never known any other monarch, we've mostly never seen this in our lifetimes.
RIP Lizzy. x
I feel amazingly upset. I think as someone else said, she’s been the queen for as long as I’ve been alive, it’s an odd confusing feeling.
RIP QEII.
Long live the King 👑?
RIP. Its very odd, not a royalist, but I really do feel strangely emotional. End of an ara
I still remember the little street party I attended as a kid for the Silver Jubilee.
Me too, I’m sad,it’s gonna be weird her not being around.
RIP Your Maj.
There’ll be some happy bastids on here now.
Not happy, just indifferent.
Duty done. RIP.
All stamps and money now obsolete
A sad day, the country will be very different without her.
All stamps and money now obsolete
i just said that to my daughter, she believed me for a moment. But then we thought..... I guess there are many things like that which will need changing. Postboxes for example....
Surprisingly dusty in our house at the moment....
RIP
RIP. Its very odd, not a royalist, but I really do feel strangely emotional. End of an era
This^^
It is a strange feeling. RIP Liz
Agree very odd feeling.
RIP.
Hope her family were with her when she died.
All external noise stopped where I am when the news was broadcast and it's still absolutely silent.
All stamps and money now obsolete
Stevextc is going to be even more annoyed.
This is so sad. As others have said, I remember the street party for the Silver Jubilee. My thoughts are with her Children & Family
RIP - nice to have had her as a backdrop to our lives.
Yes it’s quite quiet out there
It is sad imo but because it represents the end of an era, from now on things will look and sound a bit different - postage stamps will look different, news bulletins will be mentioning someone different. It will seem strange because it will be different.
Although I am strongly supportive of a society were the people hold political and economic power I have never felt any animosity towards QE2. She did the job which she was born into, and pressurised into doing, well imo. The UK could easily have had a worse monarch, and her dedication was unquestionable. RIP
I'm a bit sad.
I'm 70.
She's been doing her job before I was born.
configuration - that's a charmless and ignorant post for a new member; or are you a returnee with another new name?
Rip
I am not an ardent royalist, nor a staunch republican (as in someone who does not want a monarchy as opposed to GOP) however Lizzy was unique in her ability to transcend all of that and demand respect as a person outside of her role as Head of State in the UK. She also kept up with such massive changes across the years and did so with grace and ease. yes a little sad and the end of an era for sure...
It’s like the nations Nan has died
A sad day, not a surprise of course but I'm caught off guard by how affected I am by the news. RIP.
Long live the King 👑?
Indeed.
HRH King Charles and the Queen Consort.
It’s like the nations Nan has died
This
No royalist, but she did her job well and was probably the last of her kind. There's not much "British" stuff I respect but she's definitely one that deserved it
Rip Lizzie. A constant now gone.
