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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  8 September 2022     20:04378452
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  rip
  
  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/her-majesty-the-queen-has-died-273258/
• Jan Higgins

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  8 September 2022     20:15378453
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  Regardless of how some feel about the Monarchy, the Queen was a well respected lady and she held the country together in bad times.
  
  If I had known her as an ordinary person I felt I would have liked her as a friend.
  
  R.I.P.
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• Button

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  8 September 2022     21:29378455
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  (Not my real name.)
• Button

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  10 September 2022     15:00378466
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  I thought I'd post the following because I think it's a delightful little anecdote about HMQ from one of the best-delivered speeches I've heard from an MP (Mrs May):
  
  "Her Majesty loved the countryside. She was down to earth and a woman of common sense. I remember one picnic at Balmoral that was taking place in one of the bothies on the estate. The hampers came from the castle, and we all mucked in to put the food and drink out on the table. I picked up some cheese, put it on a plate and was transferring it to the table. The cheese fell on the floor.
  
  I had a split-second decision to make...
  
  I picked up the cheese, put it on a plate and put the plate on the table.
  
  I turned round to see that my every move had been watched very carefully by Her Majesty the Queen.
  
  I looked at her, she looked at me... and she just smiled.
  
  And the cheese remained on the table."
  
  https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-09-09/debates/7E1BA553-600D-41B4-BAB9-849A02B254C3/details (12.47pm)
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• Chris

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  12 September 2022     09:51378500
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  I've moved the discussion about DDC's proclamation to it's own thread, so this one can return to the original topic.
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• Karlos

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  15 September 2022     11:30378529
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  Just about on topic - all bin collections are being moved back a day next week
• Jan Higgins

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  20 September 2022     09:20378549
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  I should think that the immediate Royal Family badly need this extra week away from the public eye after what must have been a very stressful as well as tiring time for them.
  
  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/national/royal-family-observing-week-of-mourning-for-the-queen-after-emotional-funeral-69065/?fbclid=IwAR28AUstirfPpjcbgcbktmZhABilQCSOURjPhfvLNOIWZGQr-k2awVaMxe4
  
  As an aside I found the BBC's coverage since the announcement of the death of our much respected Queen to be rather boring, repetitive and almost self indulgent.
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• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
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  20 September 2022     09:28378550
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  Jan
  As a non royalist i have to agree .
  
  Like football it dominated the channels .
  
  The problem these days is, because you may not be a royalist , that you are disrespectful which often isn't the case , it's often just a different point of view that a lot of royalists don't accept alternative opinions
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• Guest 3925

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  20 September 2022     16:29378551
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  As a Royalist, I found the coverage from the national broadcaster, just perfect and respectable for a Monarch that has done more to bring the world together over the last 70 years than ANY politician.
  
  But then I'm not ashamed to say that I loved the Queen, I love the monarchy and it would be a sad day if the anti-royals got their wish.
  
  I don't care what others think (although you are entitled to your opinion, before I get shot down in flames!) as I was amongst friends when I queued for 10 hours, until 2.15am, on Sunday morning to pay my respects to one of the most awesome women that have ever lived.
  
  I think there will always be detractors and supporters, although I'm bias I admit
  
  I do feel sorry for the Royals as their grief has had to be in public and HD (and even Ultra HD) TV has made it even worse as you see absolutely everything. I feel sorry for Anne the most, she has stayed by her mother's side the entire time and she looked destroyed as time went on, certainly not how she looked when I met her last year.
  
  May the Queen be looked after in whatever awaits us after we go, and God save the King.
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• Reginald Barrington

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  20 September 2022     19:10378553
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  Whether pro or anti monarchy (I'm pro, especially our Queen [she was my boss after all])! I think the way our Armed Forces can put on a show and how the Household Division can dress for it, cannot but impress even the most reluctant onlooker.
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  20 September 2022     19:46378554
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  all repeat and rewind
• Jan Higgins

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  21 September 2022     08:07378555
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   Reginald Barrington wrote:

  Whether pro or anti monarchy (I'm pro, especially our Queen [she was my boss after all])! I think the way our Armed Forces can put on a show and how the Household Division can dress for it, cannot but impress even the most reluctant onlooker.

  
  
  The military certainly know how to portray themselves when in the public eye on any state occasion, such precision and such control. Sorry I am going to shout this they were wonderful as were the police along all those many routes from Scotland to London to Windsor, WELL DONE to them all.
  
  The thought we might end up with our national figurehead being someone like Trump or even Boris scares the hell out of me.
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• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  22 September 2022     11:31378557
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  Yes certainly can do state occasions.Splendid to watch.i enjoyed the part from Windsor as I lived close by for nine years.The pub I used is still there .