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9 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

the whole principle of this site is not a pleasure to behold. Yet you're here ? 


I’m here because there are some laughs to be had here. Thanks for another one :D

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2 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

a picture I've been trying to find for a while is the one of the Queen Mother at Margret's funeral. Did she appears at her daughter's funeral ? What is the last appearance of Queen Mother ?

Just to try answering your question:

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The Queen Mother had missed regular engagements and traditional church services, but in spite of her deteriorating health, she travelled to Windsor for her daughter’s funeral.

 

In order to avoid the press, she arrived at the chapel in a people carrier with blacked-out windows. 

The Queen Mother did not want to be seen or photographed in her wheelchair.

 

Lady Anne Glenconner, Margaret’s childhood friend and one of Queen Elizabeth II’s Maid of Honours at her coronation in 1953, recalled seeing the matriarch during the service.

 

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7 minutes ago, ThereWillBeDeaths7 said:

Thanks a lot ! A really sad story. Losing a child is probably the worst thing that could happen to you. The fact that she did go the funeral despite her health condition is admirable. I was only 4 yo at that time but it must have been quite a shock to see Margret dying before the Queen's Mother

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12 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Thanks a lot ! A really sad story. Losing a child is probably the worst thing that could happen to you. The fact that she did go the funeral despite her health condition is admirable. I was only 4 yo at that time but it must have been quite a shock to see Margret dying before the Queen's Mother

It was breaking news rolling on the TV screen during an episode of Smackdown and at first I thought it meant one of the older princesses not the Queen's sister.

 

Also at the time the papers explained they'd been requested not to take photos of the Queen Mum at the funeral and most of them had concurred out of respect. She was known to be in very frail health and was insanely popular. 

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22 minutes ago, msc said:

She was known to be ...... insanely popular. 

 

That's because she was canny enough not to say anything, just smile benevolently and wave. 

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21 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

That's because she was canny enough not to say anything, just smile benevolently and wave. 

Indeed. Plus the war stuff and her positively encouraging all those stories of her drinking. 

 

But in general her popularity was some of the strongest I've ever known. Made the pope and most of her descendants look like Liz Truss in comparison!

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On 31/05/2023 at 23:56, Windsor said:

Do posthumous photos count? Both Queen Victoria and Edward VII were photographed on their deathbed. 

 

Incidentally, the last photo of the Queen Mother. Attending her daughter's funeral on 15th February 2002. She died less than a month later on the 9th April 2002 and is clearly the most famous centenary who has ever lived...

 

 

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The photo of the Queen Mother at Princess Margaret’s Funeral.

 

this is why you shouldn’t block quality members like me

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L'ultima foto di Berlusconi. Il ghiacciolo con Fascina a Milano 2 e i bambini

 

Silvio's last photo, less than three days before his death. Unrecognizable.

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8 minutes ago, drol said:

L'ultima foto di Berlusconi. Il ghiacciolo con Fascina a Milano 2 e i bambini

 

Silvio's last photo, less than three days before his death. Unrecognizable.

 

@drol, you beat me to it. Literally came on to post this. Don't think we'd have given him long if we'd seen this in advance. Fitting that he was having a drink in a bar in the development that launched his property empire.

 

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On 14/06/2023 at 11:37, drol said:

L'ultima foto di Berlusconi. Il ghiacciolo con Fascina a Milano 2 e i bambini

 

Silvio's last photo, less than three days before his death. Unrecognizable.

Holy shit. Death warmed up

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Last photograph of Oscar Wilde alive and the last photo of him dead.

 

 

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48 minutes ago, Slackhurst Broadcasting said:

Marcel Proust dead.

 

 

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Ah well, at least he had his memories.

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On 15/03/2023 at 10:49, Lafaucheuse said:

here is James Dean the day he crashed his porsch. This is the car in this picture.

 

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If James Dean had not been in that car accident or any car accident, does anyone think he would have made old bones (like Marlon Brando and Paul Newman), or would he have died young anyway of a natural death (like Elvis Presley and Montgomery Clift)?

 

I reckon Dean would have died in 2010, aged 79.

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Evel Knievel at home, 3 days before he died, with some guy who makes shoes.

 

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Greta Garbo six days before she died.

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Richard Nixon:

 

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17 hours ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

 

:clivedunn:.

Apologies. I didn't see that.

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Bit of an obscure one, but American actor Lewis Stone (1879 – 1953) dying of a heart attack while receiving police assistance.

Found in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon.

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Have we had Thatcher yet? If not, here's her last photo from summer 2012. 

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And here's Harold Wilson, 15th June 1994 (11 months before his death from Alzheimers and colon cancer).

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This was Thatcher's actual last photo from autumn 2012:UXI4YUVC4RHFFPY7OSZXTI2RO4.jpg

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