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Queen Elizabeth II has died

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Post by dijit »

saberience wrote: post #71

It's weird, I've never considered myself a "royalist" but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don't quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing "God save the Queen" etc, and this news made me suddenly feel very old, very nostalgic, with the sense that all…

It's understandable, she's been a constant vague presence for a lot of British people.

It feels like a minor part of our personal history died. I definitely feel saddened, even if I don't have a connection with royalty.

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Post by nosianu »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #77
paxys wrote: post #41

> In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: "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." Hearing "The King" in this context will take a long time getting used to.

Yes. Interestingly, though, she was only the 3rd Queen in British history (Edit: Oops, ok, 6th actually. Edit 2: ok the point is that there have been many more kings than queens!). But since her reign was so long there are few people alive who can remember a king on the throne.

Queen Victoria also reigned for a very long time - 63 years, seven months and two days.

A list, British Kings & Queens - by Length of Reign: https://britroyals.com/reigned.asp

These two women take the two top spots.

By the way, in the otherwise completely unremarkable hobby-writer webnovel "Monroe" (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35398/monroe) the queen was a - very popular - side character. After the introduction of "magic" in our universe she got her youth back and started killing monsters using armor and huge sword used by her ancestors hundreds of years earlier, in a sword and magic and levels fantasy universe. The author kept writing chapters about this initially not very important side character after it turned out a lot of readers found the Queen returning to youth and becoming a sword fighting and magic throwing monster killer at least as if not more appealing than following the story's actual main character.

Sample chapter where she appears (look for "queen", it's down the middle of this chapter): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35398/monroe/chapter/84715...

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Post by pontifier »

Makes me wonder what sorts of things will be triggered by this event. I bet security services are on high alert, and for some reason I'm a little worried about getting on my flight in a couple hours.

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Post by Accacin »

12ian34 wrote: post #86

It's good that she was able to go with her family by her side in a place she loved. There will be lots of mourning in the UK. I'm anti-monarchy but she's clearly left quite the legacy, and people that have met her have only great things to say about her manner and attitude.

I'm also anti-monarchy, but if we had to have one, I'm glad it was her :) I've never met or didn't know her, but she came across as a good person and it's odd to know that she's gone.

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Post by artwr »

kortex wrote: post #59
schroeding wrote: post #17

:( It's mind-boggling to me to think about how long 70 years of reign actually is. How many world leaders she has seen come and go. How much the world changed since then.

She reigned for about 1/3rd of the time America has existed. Incredible.

Closer to a fourth, but still impressive.
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