All Too Much For Her

[Canary42]

Her Majesty will miss the Service. It must all be very exhausting for her, I hope they allow her plenty of R&R.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61676668


Rest and Recuperation

[Thisoldbird]

I thought she looked exhausted last evening when she came out to light the tree.

I wish she would step down now and let others take over. Not that I want Charles to take over. He is becoming a bumbling old man. Another debate altogether..

[douglas9401]

I suppose we could give them all a rest by abolishing the whole thing.

[naomi24]

It’s a shame she can’t manage to get to the service but unlike the rest of us she can’t decide to go home if she’s had enough - or even to skip to the loo in the middle of her engagements. She has to maintain her public face and her dignity constantly - no mean feat.

[William51]

I fear that her health is slowly failing. It is good that the celebrations are going on.

[jno]

when they held the flotilla in the last jubilee, she was standing upright on her flagship the whole way in the rain. I did think she could have been offered a chair to sit on. Monarchs are allowed thrones, after all.

[Peter Pedant]

Punters didnt know whether to look serious or smile

Jubilee ! - so smile damn you !

God you proddies had some doctrinal and liturgical difficulty in all this. ( what dey den I hear you ask) . Well kick off with the empty communion table in the centre of the cathedral.

Altars out ( Romish ) -communion tables in - shift to centre of the church is a Laudian ( who he den?) reform around 1640.
Empty - because it is not a service, nor communion.

So what was the service - dont you lot forbid, processions, litanies as works of the devil?
Did anyone spot the beginnings of a litany - pray for us repeated ad lib?

And praying for someone
dont you lot forbid intercessionary prayer?

and the Latin - vivat ! vivat Regina!
only bit of latin in any anglican service - shouted by the scholars of westminster at a coronation service

here they were - rather cute in Red - amongst the choristers of St Pauls,the only thing was they werent - - choristers so didnt know the words to the tunes....

oh lardy dah - it was alright on the night

[mushroom25]

// abolishing the whole thing. //

that's years away. at this time, no party with a credible chance of being elected is campaigning on a republican ticket - even the SNP's independence pitch doesn't suggest Scotland should have a president. once a republican party is in power, it then has to be decided what the head of state should be; should they be a ceremonial figurehead with no real power - or a president (like the US) with executive decision-making ability? only then can the constitution be rewritten.

[TantP]

There is no reason why she could not have attended the service in a wheelchair. The reason she did not was she has memories of her own mother , HRH The Queen Mother, attending a function outside Buckingham Palace in a wheelchair, and swore she would never take to a chair. Pity as many people would have liked to see her there, I think.

Personally, I don't think she will last much longer. She has got the Jubilee over and have a feeling she is now ready to join Prince Philip, wherever he may be.

[tomus42]

She obviously won't do anything now unless she can stand and walk. Wheelchair, zimmer frame and motability scooter are not good looks for a monarch.

Charles will represent her more and more now.

[Peter Pedant]

I regret to report that old exhausted people do set milestones to reach - and then fade away soon after...

[Deskdiary]

My wife and I were in London yesterday (not for the celebrations - we were seeing Shalamar in concert at the Palladium - bit embarrassing but we love them!) and the atmosphere was phenomenal.

We were sitting outside a pub in Soho and it was a fantastic party atmosphere, and the thing that really brought it home to me how much she is loved are the people who were celebrating - all ages and lots of different nationalities. We were talking to a family of Americans who came over specifically, and were decked out in Union flags.

She’s a fantastic ambassador for this country, so it’s sad that she can’t join in as much as I’m sure she’d like to.

[bednobs]

I do find it utterly astonishing that people on here know so much intimate detail about the Ryal family. What they think, why they do various things, and their movements

[Peter Pedant]

indeed it shows concentration far above normal for an ABer on the important things in life...

long live the old dear