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52 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Didn't realise Crem worked for The Express....   

 

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When Yes Prime Minister did its well known sketch about who reads what Newspaper, the Daily Express was not one of them, but a common joke I saw among fans was that Daily Express readers want to resurrect Diana so that she can run the country.

 

 

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So far The Queen has announced Camila should be Queen which was one of the main questions about Charles future reign. We've also had a ton of articles about the future of the monarchy and the inevitable end of the Queens reign quite a lot recently... 

 

Do you reckon the press know something and are slowly getting the "public ready" whilst the Queen has shored up the Queen Camila thing since it seemed obvious Charles would have gone ahead and made Camila Queen anyway and now he can say "My darling mother wanted it...." 

 

Is something in the air and the death knell starts to ring....or like the post 17 years ago predicting her demise was due soon am i just over analysing things...

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No.  In the UK the wife of the King is always styled as Queen.  Any departure from that would have been breaking with tradition.

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10 minutes ago, Toast said:

No.  In the UK the wife of the King is always styled as Queen.  Any departure from that would have been breaking with tradition.

 

It was always hinted in the press at the time of her marriage that she wouldnt neccessary be Queen. She would be the first partner of a monarch who had been divorced afterall. 

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11 hours ago, LovelyVincent said:

 

It was always hinted in the press at the time of her marriage that she wouldnt neccessary be Queen. She would be the first partner of a monarch who had been divorced afterall. 

 

There was never any substance to that.  It was just pandering to Diana fans.

 

And the fact that she and Charles have both been divorced is irrelevant.   It's nothing new anyway:  historically they just called divorce by a different word.  One example is Eleanor of Aquitaine, who had been married to Louis VII of France before marrying Henry II.  Her first marriage was "annulled" despite producing two legitimate children.

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21 hours ago, LovelyVincent said:

So far The Queen has announced Camila should be Queen which was one of the main questions about Charles future reign. We've also had a ton of articles about the future of the monarchy and the inevitable end of the Queens reign quite a lot recently... 

 

Do you reckon the press know something and are slowly getting the "public ready" whilst the Queen has shored up the Queen Camila thing since it seemed obvious Charles would have gone ahead and made Camila Queen anyway and now he can say "My darling mother wanted it...." 

 

Is something in the air and the death knell starts to ring....or like the post 17 years ago predicting her demise was due soon am i just over analysing things...


It’s a case of preparing for change in the next 5 years after 70 years of a constant.

 

We are being prepared for her death, but not imminently.  

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On 11/02/2022 at 00:23, LovelyVincent said:

So far The Queen has announced Camila should be Queen which was one of the main questions about Charles future reign. We've also had a ton of articles about the future of the monarchy and the inevitable end of the Queens reign quite a lot recently... 

 

Do you reckon the press know something and are slowly getting the "public ready" whilst the Queen has shored up the Queen Camila thing since it seemed obvious Charles would have gone ahead and made Camila Queen anyway and now he can say "My darling mother wanted it...." 

 

Is something in the air and the death knell starts to ring....or like the post 17 years ago predicting her demise was due soon am i just over analysing things...

 

I agree. Not only do there seem to be more royal news stories, they seem to be taking precedent over any Corona, Boris or even Prince Andrew stories.

Is it a preparation for the Queen's (rapid or slow) decline, or a media blast to distract talks of a certain someone's impending court date which could distract from the jubilee?

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I think some people need to realise that not everything is a conspiracy.

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22 minutes ago, Joe Hudson said:

so were back to  the palace not be totally straight with on the quuens health.

 

 

It’s a private matter.

 

It only becomes a matter of state if she’s dead.

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Everyone needs to calm their tits.

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16 hours ago, openviews said:

'As you can see, I can't move': The Queen, 95, admits her frailty for the first time - but still manages a smile as latest royal dramas engulfing both Charles and Andrew threaten to overshadow her Jubilee year

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10519389/The-Queen-95-gets-work-Windsor-Castle.html


Next step, admitting her terminal pancreatic cancer.

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Queen test positive for COVID and has mild cold like symptoms according to Buckingham Palace.

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Might be awkward for Boris declaring victory over Covid tomorrow while the Queen is Ill.

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Well that debunks the theory that they'd keep quiet the Queen testing positive for covid unless it got serious maybe.

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With all her engagements some of which were Face to Face post lockdowns I’d say she’s dodged a bullet to avoid it until now. 
 

Mild symptoms even in a 96 year old won’t be nice but she’ll have the best care going. So she’ll recover. 

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Just now, Brad252 said:

Well that debunks the theory that they'd keep quiet the Queen testing positive for covid unless it got serious maybe.


Yes and no.
 

The perfect way for the Palace to handle it is to only announce that she’s tested positive days after she actually took the test. That way they know her case will remain mild so disclosing her status isn’t a big deal. If she was really ill with it, they’d withhold information, right up until the point she needed hospitalisation. Then they’d be forced to make a statement. We didn’t know about any of Philip’s illnesses until he actually needed hospitalised.

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3 minutes ago, Philheybrookbay1 said:

With all her engagements some of which were Face to Face post lockdowns I’d say she’s dodged a bullet to avoid it until now. 
 

Mild symptoms even in a 96 year old won’t be nice but she’ll have the best care going. So she’ll recover. 

She probably won't die of this, but it's certainly not impossible that it will get worse and she'll deteriorate. Not to mention potential damage of "recovering" with lasting effects - what doesn't kill you certainly doesn't make you stronger when you're knocking on 100.

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10 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Might be awkward for Boris declaring victory over Covid tomorrow while the Queen is Ill.


So it’s absolutely fine that people have Covid in their hundreds of thousands, but if it’s the Queen it’s serious right?

 

Fuck that.

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5 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Yes and no.
 

The perfect way for the Palace to handle it is to only announce that she’s tested positive days after she actually took the test. That way they know her case will remain mild so disclosing her status isn’t a big deal. If she was really ill with it, they’d withhold information, right up until the point she needed hospitalisation. Then they’d be forced to make a statement. We didn’t know about any of Philip’s illnesses until he actually needed hospitalised.

And the only way for us to know which is the current situ is when she dies of terminal pancreatic cancer complicated by Covid.  

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6 minutes ago, TQR said:


So it’s absolutely fine that people have Covid in their hundreds of thousands, but if it’s the Queen it’s serious right?

 

Fuck that.

Yes if that logic applied we'd have all been locked down to stop spreading the shits when the Queen had that many years ago (but at least the toilet roll hoarding would have been explained).

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Prince Andrew checking the funds have cleared into his account nervously 

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9 minutes ago, TQR said:


So it’s absolutely fine that people have Covid in their hundreds of thousands, but if it’s the Queen it’s serious right?

 

Fuck that.

In the eyes of the tabloid media and tory party base it would be an absolutely terrible look for Boris. As silly as it is, the sentimentalised figurehead having her suffering "ignored" is the kind of thing that sticks in the average voter's mind more than literally the entire country being locked down or ill.

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