Blatant Bandwagoning

[Canary42]

Queen Elizabeth “knew she wasn’t going to come back” from the Balmoral home where she died peacefully aged 96, Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent Katie Nicholl has claimed.

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/queen-elizabeth-knew-she-wasn-190000648.html

[youngmafbog]

You will get a lot of this.

People seem to think they know more than the Queen did herself.

They need to shut up.

[roopower]

Quite often older or ailing people know when their time is coming and that could have been the case with the queen.

[jno]

what the headline says is not quite what the story says

"I actually think there’s a bit of her that knew she wasn’t going to come back"

That sounds plausible enough.

[naomi24]

//what the headline says is not quite what the story says //

I agree.

[Ken4155]

3rd para; Katie said, "(The Queen) knew she wasn't going to come back (to Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace).
Only later does she quantify that by saying; "I actually think that there' a bit of her that knew........)

[jno]

I read it the other way round, Ken. What she said in full is reported at the end of the story but some editor at BANG Video (whoever they are) has filleted the quote and put the good bits at the start. This is normal enough practice as long as you don't get it out of context, which is what I suspect happened here. The captions to the video suggest the same.

That said, I haven't seen or heard the original BBC interview, so I could be wrong; but I'm not planning to spend any time looking for it.

[jno]

just to add - that opening sentence clearly has been adjusted, with the addition of the bits in brackets (which ought to be square brackets, imho). But I think the removal of "a bit of her" has changed the meaning of the full quote.

[Peter Pedant]

It is possible
Old People do say - this is the place where I will die
and then 'let go'

I have to say both the Queen and her late father ( King Emperor) looked pretty terrible just before they went

[pimplyteen]

9.40 It's called speculation without it how would the wheels of AB work. Some speculation over the last few days seemed to assume that Meghan would not be attending, and some on here even bet on it.