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Post by greysfang on Sept 15, 2022 10:30:26 GMT
The old thread got too long, continue the festivities here.
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Post by Sarzy on Sept 15, 2022 11:04:20 GMT
Awestruck mourners have revealed how they were moved by the sight of the Queen's coffin, with people weeping, praying and saluting as the first wave of the public enters Westminster Hall after queuing for up to 48 hours. Well-wishers have shared cheery camaraderie, egg sandwiches and biscuits during their wait, as people queued through the night to pay their final respects to the late monarch inside the Palace of Westminster. In a line that stretched for nearly three miles, people made their way along the bank of London's River Thames, as hymns played across the Southbank, with many joining in song. By 10.30am today, the queue was around 3.2 miles long and stretched to Tower Bridge, as officials expect some 400,000 people to view the coffin over the coming days. It was at 2.6 miles as of 8am this morning. This morning, more than 1.3 million people logged on to watch the queue-tracker for the line. The largely black-clad crowd were solemn and pensive as they flowed into the ancient hall where chandeliers and spotlights illuminated the scene beneath the medieval timber roof. As hundreds of ordinary people of all ages filed past the coffin of the long-reigning monarch, many wiped their eyes with tissues. Some bowed, some curtsied and some simply took a moment to look at the extraordinary scene. Former prime minister Theresa May and her husband Philip were among those paying their respects to the Queen at Westminster Hall. Rosalind Devlin, 59, a Navy wren, said: ‘It was one of the greatest moments of my life, we’re all ex-forces so to be able to pay our last respects to the Queen was a privilege. ‘It was exhausting but ultimately very rewarding. It was well worth waiting eight hours for.’ Yesterday the first people in the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state ate pizza brought by the Archbishop of York after camping overnight and waiting hours to be granted access to Westminster Hall, where the fallen monarch will remain until 6.30am on Monday.   www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11214325/Queens-lying-state-watch-live-queue-tracker.htmlPrince Harry is marking his 38th birthday today as he continues to mourn the death of his grandmother, the Queen, one week ago. The Duke of Sussex, who is now based in his $14 million mansion in California having stepped back from royal duty last year, is currently in the UK after what was supposed to be a whistlestop tour of Europe. Instead of returning to the US for his birthday to reunite with his children, Archie and Lilibet, he and Meghan Markle are currently in the UK, where they have been mourning the death of the Queen. Yesterday, the Duke seemed overcome with emotion as he honoured The Queen for her moving lying in state service inside Westminster Hall. While it is currently not known how the Duke and Duchess will spend his big day, it appears unlikely he will spend it will his family - with Kate and William due to travel to Norfolk to view floral tributes to the Queen, and the King spending the day in Gloucestershire. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11214905/Prince-Harry-spends-birthday-mourning-Queen.html   www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11215273/Sophie-embraces-wisher-Edward-meet-crowds-Manchester.html |
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Post by brookie on Sept 15, 2022 13:11:21 GMT
It strikes me as strikingly tone-deaf of Charles to perpetuate this nonsense by giving Andrew special permission but not Harry. He's not getting off to a good start, is he? Maybe it was the Queen's deathbed request. Whatever it is - it's not a good look. (from lindsaywhit in the closed thread).
The Royal Family is like Donald Trump. They need to make sure they get their revenge on people who have crossed them or pissed them off. This is just another example of them exerting their "power". Harry's lucky he got out. I would have done the same thing.
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Post by sputnik on Sept 15, 2022 14:31:11 GMT
someone sent me a tweet yesterday that's basically an aerial map of the queue to see the queen lie in state and basically went across a good chunk of the city. insanity.  |
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Post by no1novice on Sept 15, 2022 14:55:01 GMT
They said on the radio at about 6am that it was 4 miles & that people towards the end would likely wait 12 hours.
Re Andy - I've heard that he is only allowed to wear his uniform for *one* of these events & he should be back in a suit for the rest.
Trust me the Navy will be wanting him out of that uniform ASAP, even before Epstein he was never popular.
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Post by brookie on Sept 15, 2022 15:12:45 GMT
Andy should be behind bars for all of it.
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Post by Sarzy on Sept 15, 2022 15:26:55 GMT
someone sent me a tweet yesterday that's basically an aerial map of the queue to see the queen lie in state and basically went across a good chunk of the city. insanity. View Attachment Was it this one? Made me laugh. I agree it is a bit crazy though. |
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Post by cornflakegrl on Sept 15, 2022 16:15:21 GMT
So Andrew was in a morning coat for the procession as well as Harry. I don't see it as punitive. It makes no sense to me but it is what it is. Or maybe I'm just tiring of the idea that Harry and Meghan are perpetual victims, even when they aren't complaining!
Regarding Kate's RBF (end of the last thread): I read gossip that Harry and Meghan planned a walkabout by themselves . William got wind of it, intervened and the foursome then spent 45 minutes negotiating a walkabout together. I assume (if any of that is true) that William thought the optics would be better for all four to do it together. I also assume that Kate and probably William too weren't too pleased at what sounds like a bit of grandstanding on the part of Harry and Meghan.
PS: Allegedly a US reporter leaked the story claiming they had been notified by Meghan/Harry about their plans to do a walkabout upon arrival.
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Post by chaz on Sept 15, 2022 17:39:52 GMT
Andy should be behind bars for all of it. People aren't usually jailed for sex with a 17 year old tho. He's a "sick old man" to quote the heckler, but not a predator. |
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Post by chaz on Sept 15, 2022 17:42:21 GMT
"The Royal Family is like Donald Trump" 🙄
Oh sheesh.
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Post by Sarzy on Sept 15, 2022 18:19:31 GMT
Andy should be behind bars for all of it. People aren't usually jailed for sex with a 17 year old tho. He's a "sick old man" to quote the heckler, but not a predator. They are (or should be) if they rape them/take part in abusing sex trafficking victims though. Virginia says she was forced to have sex with him. |
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Post by mrsfawlty on Sept 15, 2022 18:24:44 GMT
People aren't usually jailed for sex with a 17 year old tho. He's a "sick old man" to quote the heckler, but not a predator. They are if they rape them/take part in abusing sex trafficking victims though. Virginia says she was forced to have sex with him. Thanks Sarzy, you saved me having to type out the same response.x |
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Post by mel on Sept 15, 2022 19:02:09 GMT
So Andrew was in a morning coat for the procession as well as Harry. I don't see it as punitive. It makes no sense to me but it is what it is. Or maybe I'm just tiring of the idea that Harry and Meghan are perpetual victims, even when they aren't complaining! Regarding Kate's RBF (end of the last thread): I read gossip that Harry and Meghan planned a walkabout by themselves . William got wind of it, intervened and the foursome then spent 45 minutes negotiating a walkabout together. I assume (if any of that is true) that William thought the optics would be better for all four to do it together. I also assume that Kate and probably William too weren't too pleased at what sounds like a bit of grandstanding on the part of Harry and Meghan. PS: Allegedly a US reporter leaked the story claiming they had been notified by Meghan/Harry about their plans to do a walkabout upon arrival. I don't think Harry even cared about the uniform. The tabloids unsurprisingly we're the ones making a story out of it and American reporters were commenting on it. I just think it was a missed opportunity by Charles, who seems to be trying to improve the optics with regard to Harry/Meghan but not really a big deal. Who knows what happened regarding the walkabout. First the story was that Charles told William to ask Harry and William. Then there were stories saying William intervened because Harry and Meghan were planning a walkabout and also stories saying it was all William's idea and he was magnanimous enough to invite the Sussexes. |
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Post by no1novice on Sept 15, 2022 19:29:31 GMT
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Post by sputnik on Sept 15, 2022 19:56:36 GMT
ROYALS SEPT. 14, 2022 King Charles’s Reign of Fussiness Has Begun
By Claire Lampen  The new queen, King Charles III. Photo: Alastair Grant/WPA Pool/Getty Images Last Thursday, the perennially young Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96, meaning that per the unbending rules of British succession, “her eldest son, Charles” — as Kenyan news station NTV reported at the time — “automatically becomes queen.” Though he has only been in the job a couple of days, already I am feeling not so sure about this new queen. While there are valid criticisms to be made of his mother — that she was the figurehead of a colonialist empire who never apologized for the crimes committed in her name, for example — Charles has applied his own special flare to the job. It is a flare for being a big, fussy baby and a jerk to his staff; not very queenly material if you ask me. Initially, various outlets predicted that his reign might bring welcome shake-ups to the British monarchy: an escalated emphasis on the climate crisis, maybe, or a culling of the working royal herd, or a desire to execute protocol (his coronation, for example) in a less expensive fashion. But then there is his reputation as a persnickety snob with highly specific daily demands, and some things — like the fact that this monarch won’t be paying inheritance tax on the enormous personal fortune he now receives from his mother — never change. Rudeness exhibit A: Saturday’s accession ceremony, which saw our freshly confirmed replacement queen sign various official orders in front of the cameras. The photo op furnished acutely off-putting footage of His Maj trussed up in tails and hissing at palace aides who failed to move a pen tray off his table with due haste. A decidedly unflattering look, and as the New York Post — a typically pro-royal publication — pointed out, this was only the first of two pen-based “tantrums” Charles would have in three days. On Tuesday, he reportedly “stormed out” of a signing ceremony in Northern Ireland after a pen leaked ink on him. Bratty, but then there is Rudeness exhibit B, the exhibit that really sealed the deal for me personally: the Guardian’s report that the king’s top aide, Sir Clive Alderton, notified as many as 100 of Charles’s Clarence House employees of impending layoffs during a memorial service for the queen. “Everybody is absolutely livid, including private secretaries and the senior team,” one source told the Guardian. “All the staff have been working late every night since Thursday, to be met with this. People were visibly shaken by it.” Presumably Charles’s staffing needs will change somewhat when he moves to Buckingham Palace, but many of his employees apparently thought they would be going with him. Maybe you are saying that it’s unrealistic to expect the royal household to avoid turnover at this time, but the royal household is also notorious for grossly underpaying its staff and for a chronic inability to approach sensitive situations — the loss of a long-held job requiring a niche set of skills at a keenly stressful moment, in this case — with anything like sensitivity. On the one hand, this is a man rumored to have been racist about a baby, who purportedly exercised mundane cruelty toward his ex-wife, Princess Diana. On the other, he apparently has the capacity to be sweet — suggesting to his current wife, Camilla, that he would settle for being a tampon if it meant he got to live inside her knickers — and polite, shaking a limb of every tree he plants like he would shake a human’s hand. Why can’t our spaniel king show the people who work for him the same courtesy he shows to plants, at a minimum? Inquiring royal correspondents want to know. www.thecut.com/2022/09/king-charles-kicks-off-reign-with-rudeness-toward-staff.html |
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