R I P HM THE QUEEN rest in peace
An era has come to its end.
Very sad. Please check the bbc website for info.
Very sad news. :(
Tragic news. An amazing loss.
The rainbow over the Palace was a nice phenomenon.
Clearly God welcoming her through the gates at the top of the stairs
Long live the King.
Elizabeth the Great.
I have to add to this thread to say she was a person whom I thought would outlive Charles and myself. A very sad day and may she rest in peace.
The Queen is Dead. God Save the King!
RIP Your Majesty. Thank you for your life of service.
A sad day indeed. I remember watching the coronation in 1953 on TV at a neighbours. The first time I'd watched TV. I was 7 at the time.
In the last 6 months I've lost the two most constant women in my life - my Mother and the Queen, both named Elizabeth. :(
Will Charles keep the royal train ?
Quote from: Mito on September 08, 2022, 08:57:03 PM
A sad day indeed. I remember watching the coronation in 1953 on TV at a neighbours. The first time I'd watched TV. I was 7 at the time.
i can remember the street party outside our house for the coronation. I am a few months older than Charles--same year.
Quote from: joe cassidy on September 08, 2022, 09:13:21 PM
Will Charles keep the royal train ?
The train was being sent to Scotland -perhaps to carry the coffin ?
The Queen was crowned the year I was born, so she's the only monarch I've ever known. My mother would most certainly be in tears today, but as she died in 1990, that's a bit academic, I guess.
RIP Your Majesty
Hi all,
So in my time in uniform my Battalion was on royal duties manning Buckingham Palace, St James Palace but most importantly Windsor Castle. It was at Windsor on the guard boxes and indeed the guards quarters you would see Her Majesty in a more personal manner, but also as daft as it may sound professional manner.
While on duties at Windsor she would have time to herself in the private gardens and it was not be uncommon that should the weather be particularly unfavourable she would retire the guard position for the day, even if she didn't she would always take time to speak to the guard on duty for a short while.
She would also more often than many would realise take time out to visit the guards quarters and spend time chatting to the soldiers manning the castle, and in this much more private setting we all got a more more real feel for the type of person she was she would happily sit down with a mug of tea (seeing the queen with a mug of Yorkshire tea was a strange sight the first time) chat with us all hear our life stories and on more than the odd occasion offer advice even if she would be willing to acknowledge that our lives and back stories were some what different having never lived on a council estate in places like Mansfield.
In private she was a very warm, charismatic and bloody funny woman. But what struck many of us and impressed so many of us was her sense of duty and actually how hard she worked even then (some 16 years ago), beyond her public duties we are all used to seeing her on. She seemed hardly ever stop working there was always people coming and going to have a private meetings with her may that be the ambassadors of countries, our own PM, or various heads of charitable organisations for whom she was the patron of.
Even when there was no meetings planned in she would spend hours in her private study working (which at times was annoying as the guard didn't get to go to bed till she retired for the day).
So while I am by no means a hard and fast royalist, as a person out of the public eye she had a sweet grandmother type aura about her, but also she was a hard worker and only to keenly aware of her responsibilities that her unique position had placed on her.
And for that she does have my deepest affection.
Time to strap in Charley boy your mother has set you a hard act to follow
Cheers
Gareth