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Post by UnseenI on Mar 6, 2020 8:39:24 GMT
Bojo in shorts again
He wears colourful costumes when going out jogging. We have already seen the best outfits, but there are some more that are not bad. With a pirate bandana in 2004: Back-to-front dragon in 2012:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 7, 2020 8:59:01 GMT
Boris plants lavender in London
From 2016: “Boris Johnson proved he isn't afraid of dirty work as he got stuck into a spot of gardening, opening a new public green space in Uxbridge alongside Year 4 schoolchildren... The opening was marked by a ceremony where Boris and Year 4 pupils from Hermitage Primary school in Belmont Road, planted Lavender, Rosemary and Helichrysum along the borders of the newly landscaped garden.” www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/green-fingered-boris-johnson-opens-11239784
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 21, 2020 9:26:30 GMT
It’s a Royal Knockout again
As already mentioned, in 1987 Prince Edward master-minded an embarrassing special episode of It’s a Knockout. It was a PR disaster for the royals at the time. Now it seems harmless compared to what has been revealed in recent years. Princes Andrew and Harry have been knocked out of the game for the monarchy. A cartoon of the time shows Prince Edward and Sarah Ferguson:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 24, 2020 8:08:49 GMT
Where are they all now?
The Queen and Prince Philip are reported to be isolated with a skeleton staff at Windsor Castle and watching TV to pass the time.
Charles and Camilla have left London and are in Birkhall. The Cambridges are in Norfolk.
The Sussexes are said to be in Vancouver.
BoJo is still in London. He is the acting leader of the country now. He may find that power has its price.
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Post by UnseenI on Apr 3, 2020 6:28:22 GMT
The royals haven't exactly made a big contribution to the war against the virus. For me, it makes them seem useless and irrelevant.
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Post by UnseenI on May 31, 2020 8:22:46 GMT
Is there any future for the monarchy now?
The Yorks and the Sussexes are out of the game. Surely no one will accept them as serious candidates now.
That leaves the Cambridges and the Cornwalls; the Wessexes are still around too.
The extra workload and the attention will now be concentrated on them.
According to the DM, the Queen will be paying off the Yorks’ Swiss Chalet debt to avoid the threatened legal action.
On the other hand, the Cambridges are taking legal action against the society magazine Tatler because of a recent article about Kate Middleton. Many of the allegations have been around for years and have appeared in the tabloids. We discussed Kate’s thinness and many other topics on the old CC forum.
Are these good decisions? Are the Cambridges replacing the Sussexes as targets for criticism?
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 12, 2020 8:46:20 GMT
Is the Queen out of the game now? Her support for Prince Andrew is not doing her any favours.
Her public appearances will be very limited for some time. Maybe she will decide to call it a day where most engagements are concerned.
Prince Charles and Camilla - Defender of the Faiths and Defender of the Cakes - will need to be extra careful for health reasons too.
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Post by UnseenI on Jul 21, 2020 7:33:22 GMT
Republic and the royal charity money
When I first heard about the Republic organisation, I thought that they had no need to take any action, they could just sit back and watch the monarchy self-destruct! They have complained to the Charity Commission about the transfer of funds from The Royal Foundation: “Anti-royal campaign group Republic claim The Royal Foundation gave £145,000 as a grant to Sussex Royal and £144,901 to Travalyst - the Prince's eco-tourism scheme... “Republic …have reported Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Sussex Royal charity for 'conflicts of interest, inappropriate use of funds and a lack of independence'… The group alleges that funds have been transferred from one group to another and 'the only rationale for the decision was the personal relationship between two patrons, the Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge'.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8541853/Campaigners-report-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markles-Sussex-Royal-charity.htmlIt may be that the transfers are permissible, but they are not very ethical. This is yet another nail in the coffin...
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 6, 2020 6:22:49 GMT
Spitting Image is coming back in the autumn
Unfortunately, it will be on a subscription service so I won’t be seeing it unless and until it comes to Freeview. Prince Andrew will be one of the stars, and the Sussexes will be featured too. A lot has happened since the programme was last shown - which was 24 years ago - and people have lost even more respect for the monarchy. It will be interesting to see how far the new ‘scandalous scripts’ go: “The new Spitting Image will be global through a uniquely British eye, it will be more outrageous, audacious and salacious than the previous incarnation. 'With scandalous scripts and A-list characters, it will be the people's programme!” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8593595/Spitting-Image-returns-Creators-set-sights-Boris-Johnson-Dominic-Cummings-Prince-Andrew.htmlThis depiction in the old series of Prince Andrew before his marriage is said to have offended the Queen: This is the new Prince Andrew puppet:
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Post by UnseenI on Feb 27, 2021 8:12:53 GMT
Recruit the royals to get people vaccinated
I know that we have to be careful when talking about the virus, but I am wondering whether we can take some recent developments at face value.
Last November, several tabloids reported that public figures and influencers will be offered the chance to promote the testing and the jab as health chiefs feared that people wouldn't get vaccinated.
“The Government's Behavioural Insights Team has recommended the Royal Family are recruited to promote mass coronavirus testing as Operation Moonshot launches huge push to re-open Britain.”
“It has already been suggested the Queen will be tasked with bolstering the public's faith in the jab.”
This may have sounded like clickbait at the time, but they got it right. It took a while, but very recently both Prince Charles and the Queen have spoken publicly in favour of vaccination.
I feel that there is something a bit strange and off-putting about this. I wonder whether it will backfire. I wonder whether their words will have any effect: maybe they are just preaching to the converted. How many more people now see them as increasingly irrelevant?
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 1, 2021 18:51:48 GMT
Family at war?
A former Press Secretary to the Queen says that Prince Philip summoned Prince Charles to his hospital bedside to talk about the future of the royal family. I wonder whether they discussed the recent activities of the Sussexes and what effect they are having on people's ideas about the monarchy. Prince Andrew may also have been mentioned. Could the very recent endorsements of the vaccine by the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William be an attempt to make the royals appear relevant and concerned? Perhaps they were part of an attempt to counteract some 'shocking revelations' that will be made in Oprah's two-hour tell-all interview with the Sussexes next week. This interview may be a damp squib with many of the best bits leaked in advance, or it may contain some bombshells. It may even backfire the way Prince Andrew's interview did. We had better get plenty of popcorn in. Who will be the next monarch? We can eliminate two of the people on this chart right now. Time will tell about the remaining candidates:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 13, 2021 8:27:15 GMT
The Queen's remarks about vaccination
Using the Queen to promote the vaccine is going too far: “The Queen has made a historic intervention in the coronavirus vaccination drive, suggesting it is selfish not to have the jab. In a video call with NHS officials in charge of the rollout, she encouraged those with doubts to 'think about other people rather than themselves'. The 94-year-old monarch said her jab last month 'didn't hurt at all' and had made her 'feel protected'. Likening Covid to a plague, she said it was remarkable how quickly the inoculation programme had been put into action, helping 'so many people'.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9301373/Queen-intervenes-vaccine-rollout-encourage-Britons-jabbed.html I find the suggestion that not having the vaccination is selfish rather offensive. This picture of her at Piccadilly Circus makes me think of Big Brother:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 14, 2021 8:08:38 GMT
The Queen's statement about the Sussexes' allegations
The short statement put out by Buckingham Place reminds me very much of the fobbing-off letters the local council sends in response to complaints. They say that they will investigate, but nothing much ever comes of it. Unlike councils, the Royal Household is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act even though the royals too are living off public money. This crisis has made the anti-monarchy brigade very happy. They have been given some good ammunition on a plate, in both the allegations and the response. If the royals didn't do any due diligence and find all the information about Meghan Markle, it looks very bad. If they knew about the stories that are slowly filtering through into the mainstream media and ignored it all, it looks even worse. It all seems the wrong way round to me: the Queen said too much about the vaccines and not enough about the allegations. Maybe they hope it will die down and be forgotten. Another rather sinister picture:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 16, 2021 18:28:01 GMT
The ever-decreasing popularity of the royals
The results of a YouGov survey taken last October show that once the most senior royals have gone, the Cambridges will be the last men standing. The recent TV interview will have put the Sussexes even lower down the scale than they were then. If these figures are representative of the UK as a whole, the monarchy is in big trouble:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 19, 2021 8:03:42 GMT
Justin Welby and the Queen's funeral
The secret code 'London Bridge is Down' meaning that the Queen has died was revealed in 2017. The likely procedures following the announcement were discussed in many places. Justin Welby was interviewed about this at the time: “The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he hopes he does not have to carry out the Queen's funeral. The Most Rev Justin Welby said it would be an "enormous" public event and "the most extraordinary historic moment". Interviewed by former Labour communications director Alistair Campbell, Mr Welby - who took up his current post in 2012 - was asked whether he loses sleep thinking he might have to preside over the Queen's funeral. "I don't lose sleep and I do hope I don't have to do that," he said. "It's enormous, whoever does it - God willing someone else - because it is an enormous public event... He added: "I don't want to get into details because it is not something I want to talk about, but the Queen is the most extraordinary person, one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met, in every possible way."” www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41460222I wonder what she said to him to make her seem so extraordinary. He will probably have retired from his position when the time comes.
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 21, 2021 7:59:24 GMT
Puppets and pawns
From aletheia in September 2018: “One idea is that they have inserted Meghan Markle in order that she might trigger such a succession crisis that the monarchy is grievously wounded, bringing about the end to this ancient power.“ Recent events show how right you were, about the effects at least! Justin Welby may be a similar case. How did he get to be Archbishop of Canterbury? His position gives him automatic access to the royals, which makes him a person of interest. He has adopted many causes popular with the 'woke' brigade – and the Sussexes. It was his failure to respond to Meghan's claims that there was a private, backyard wedding ceremony that made me look again at some of the old posts. Much of the material is not directly relevant, but his connections to the Iwerne Trust, Holy Trinity Brompton, the Alpha Course, the Vineyard Christian Fellowship and the Toronto Blessing all seem rather sinister. Maybe he is being blackmailed. Will they bring down the monarchy and the Church of England between them? Both Justin Welby and the Queen have announced diversity drives in an attempt to keep up with the times and defuse criticism. We shall see.
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 21, 2021 8:01:55 GMT
Deal or No Deal connection
By coincidence, the two above-mentioned people have a Deal or No Deal connection. Meghan Markle was a briefcase girl on the US show and Justin Welby has been criticised by Noel Edmonds, the presenter of the UK show: From September 2018: “Noel Edmonds called the Archbishop of Canterbury a 'reincarnation of evil' and a 'hypocrite' over his failure to meet alleged victims of bank fraud. Mr Edmonds, 69, criticised Justin Welby for the Church of England investing in Lloyds Banking Group - who the Deal or no Deal presenter is suing for £64million.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6182987/Noel-Edmonds-brands-Archbishop-Canterbury-reincarnation-evil-bank-scandal.html'Reincarnation of evil' is a bit strong! We did mention the Jezebel spirit on the Sussexes thread though.
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 22, 2021 8:08:32 GMT
Sabotage and Satanism
Conspiracy theorists say that Justin Welby and Meghan Markle are agents of destruction who have been appointed to bring down the church and the monarchy. They could be forgiven for thinking so! Let's not forget that the monarch is the head of the Church of England, so royal threads are appropriate for some of the anti-Welby material. Justin Welby spoke out against grammar schools in 2018. This inspired a good article in The Sun: “He’s been lecturing us all about the education system. By the time he’d finished I half thought about converting to Satanism. Couldn’t be any more stupid than this guff... Welby thinks the most important things kids get from school is “diversity” and “being part of a community”. So, there’s error number one. No. It. Isn’t. The most important thing kids get from school is an education. And if the kids are clever, a chance to shine academically...“ www.thesun.co.uk/news/opinion/6087739/archbishop-justin-welbly-is-lecturing-us-all-on-privilege/I have felt something like that reaction myself: Some of the SJW political propaganda has made me want to go out and join the most right-wing organisation I can find! Anyone else who feels like becoming a Satanist may like to use these prayer candles for the evil rituals:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 23, 2021 7:49:31 GMT
Another look at the Sussexes' wedding
May 18th 2018 was the big day. We discussed it in the Royal Façade thread as the Sussex thread had not yet been created. Some of the comments we made are worth repeating in the light of recent developments; they are even more relevant now than they were then. From aletheia : “What I have noted is several instances where tradition has been eschewed; not a surprise given the epoch we have entered or are in the process of entering if one follows astrological trends. I wonder what they are playing at by not doing things the right way; it seems like this is a vain attempt to win back public support for an institution that has been in acute decline these past years.“ My response: “If that is the case then the attempt is indeed vain. It may backfire spectacularly and create even more people who think that the monarchy is past its sell-by date.“ This applies to the Church of England too. Will these two institutions recover or are they mortally wounded? If they do carry on, what form will it be in? Their efforts to move with the times may alienate more people than they attract.
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 23, 2021 7:52:57 GMT
Singing and speeches: whose 'good idea' was this?
I said this about the performances I saw on TV: “I am very disgusted by what I saw today. I like tradition and dignity; I do not like gospel music and American preacher men. If this is what the monarchy has come to, I hope it ends soon.” I remember that listening to Bishop Michael Curry's sermon was so painful that I switched the sound off! Some sources think that Prince Charles was responsible for the non-traditional elements; others say that it was Meghan and Harry who invited Bishop Curry. This American bishop was being endorsed and promoted by Justin Welby and it is said that it was Welby's idea to have him at the wedding. As Welby had that African drumming and dance troupe at his enthronement and he promotes innovation and diversity, I think that he probably was involved in the selection of Bishop Curry. The two good friends:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 24, 2021 18:28:40 GMT
Demolition experts and jobs well done
Some people have done a very good job of discrediting both the church and the monarchy in the eyes of the more conservative and traditional supporters. Jolly good show chaps: And well done you two:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 25, 2021 7:52:23 GMT
Why can't a Welby be more like a man!
I first discovered the – defrocked – 'Rebel Priest' Jules Gomes a few days ago and quoted some of his wise words in the Brexit thread. He is a good find: he writes very witty articles and he has it in for Justin Welby and everything he stands for. A few extracts from something Gomes wrote in 2017: “Why can’t a Welby be more like a man? “In the last few weeks, the Welby phantasmagoria has been thrashing around in the media. This remarkable creature has been putting its foot in its mouth so frequently that its ability to do this with one leg and hobble around on the other is becoming the staple of fable and legend... ...its uncontrollably throbbing tongue, currently detached from the prefrontal cortex of the Welby brain... Observers have it that the Welby is irrational. Its head is full of cotton, hay and rags. It is exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating...” www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rebel-priest-rev-jules-gomes-cant-welby-like-man/That was then; it is even more applicable today. These quotations support what Dr. Gomes says about 'the Welby':
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 25, 2021 18:42:18 GMT
Justin Welby and the demonic reversal
From the Book of Common Prayer: “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done...” This applies to Archbishop Justin Welby. He speaks out about many subjects that are not really his business, but he has not said much about the Sussexes' departure or to clarify the confusion about his christening of Archie and the private wedding. He has not been giving top priority to the problem of the diminishing number of churchgoers either. This inversion, similar to the upside-down crucifixes and dancing anti-clockwise in a circle that you see in black magic films, is typical of the left-hand path. Is he an agent of the forces of darkness?
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The delusional Archbishop Welby
'Delusional' doesn't begin to describe this man when it comes to Meghan Markle: “Church of England leader Justin Welby, who will officiate the service at Windsor Castle, spoke of meeting the bride-to-be at her baptism into the Anglican faith ahead of the wedding. Archbishop Welby insisted he 'cannot begin to imagine why' anyone would object to the marriage. He told Canterbury Christ Church University's Students' Union: 'Her race has nothing to do with anything. Nor does her background, nor does her nationality.'” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5745027/Archbishop-Canterbury-praises-Meghan-Markle-officiates-wedding.htmlSomeone in his position thinks that any old person with any old background should be allowed to marry into the royal family? He has no idea why any one would think her unsuitable? Has he no common sense at all? I think in terms of a job description and person specification: only the best of the people who meet the requirements should be taken on. This applies to both him and Meghan Markle. I would love to know what he thinks of Meghan now, and whether he wishes that he could take back some of the sugary things he said about her. This quotation from The IT Crowd has appeared in other posts but is worth repeating:
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 27, 2021 8:33:14 GMT
One narcissist or two?
Meghan Markle has been called a malignant narcissist in various places over many years. I can see why some people believe it after reading the case for this diagnosis: narcsite.com/2020/01/15/a-very-royal-narcissist-part-11/The other member of the unholy alliance has also been called a narcissist. His enemy the former priest Jules Gomes said this in an article he wrote in 2019: “Narcissists see others as instrumental to the accomplishment of their own goals and hence have very low levels of empathy. Because they are so egoistically self-centred, they devalue communion with others. Apology restores fellowship. It means seeing the victim as an equal. But the low empathy, status-orientation and high exploitativeness of narcissists only serve as impediments to apologising... Anyone who has worked with Welby or Sentamu knows only too well that the two archbishops have all the empathy and pastoral warmth of a fridge freezer. Entitlement, arrogance, bullying, manipulation, using others as disposable pawns and self-aggrandisement have been outstanding personality traits of the archbishops—as so many pulverised by their high-handedness will testify... “ www.julesgomes.com/single-post/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-two-archbishops-who-cannot-say-sorryI am not so sure about some of this this. I can't see much obvious arrogance in Archbishop Welby. He seems fearful, uncomfortable and unhappy, tormented on the inside. Maybe he has imposter syndrome. He has said that he is suffering from depression: “Explaining how his own mental health has affected his behaviour, he said: "You turn inwards on yourself a lot. You become, frankly, narcissistic. And when you have good friends or family who spot it, they can say 'might it not be an idea to talk to someone'. Which I did." “ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52692142Perhaps 'narcissistic' is not the best word to use here; 'self-absorbed' is better.
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 29, 2021 18:23:55 GMT
Justin Welby speaks in tongues!
This sounds very sinister to me: “The Archbishop of Canterbury says he prays in tongues early every morning. Tongues, understood by believers to be a divine language, involves sounds with no easily understood meaning. The Most Rev Justin Welby, who is the leader of the Anglican Church, also says he expects to hear messages and prophecies from God through others. The Archbishop said it wasn't something to make a "song and dance about", saying using tongues was seldom an "ecstatic" experience for him. Tongues are less associated with Anglicanism than with a form of Christianity known as "charismatic" .” www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46945022I have always had a vague idea that speaking in tongues means talking gibberish, howling and shrieking and behaving like someone possessed by an evil spirit! Whose 'good idea' was it to make this man Archbishop of Canterbury?
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Post by UnseenI on Mar 30, 2021 6:51:00 GMT
Justin Welby speaks in tongues all right
At least when it comes to making public statements! “Tongues, understood by believers to be a divine language, involves sounds with no easily understood meaning.” As Newman and Baddiel would say, “That's some of Welby's speeches and pronouncements, that is!” He is the same as the Sussexes when it comes to producing badly constructed, ungrammatical sentences and word salads. He said this about the royal family: “They are born into it and one of the things, with the great privilege of meeting someone of them, that I'm most aware of is their sheer sense of duty and commitment which means they know this is a life sentence.“ fabiosa.com/ctrlnws-rsyml-auchj-pbchj-phakl-meghan-markle-news-archbishop-of-canterbury-defends-duchess/He said this about Angela Merkel: “Transparency. Integrity. Very direct, straightforward, a brilliant linguist, and obviously you can be fooled by these things, of course, but that sense you were meeting the real person, not the one someone wants you to see.“ It is possible to decode his words and get an idea of what he is trying to say, but it doesn't seem worth the effort.
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Post by UnseenI on Apr 10, 2021 7:08:01 GMT
Two of a kind?
The Archbishop of York, who is second in the Church hierarchy, will hold the fort when Justin Welby takes his spiritual renewal break this summer. If, as is possible, Welby decides not to resume his position, it might go to his no. 2. Stephen Cottrell has been in this post since July 2020. Just as Justin Welby has connections to the Alpha Course, Cottrell is involved with Pilgrim Course, which is intended to help the Church grow through the making of new disciples. Justin Welby promotes this course. Cottrell too comes out with badly-expressed comments: ”...the Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell, another author of the course, emphasises its focus on spirituality, rather than doctrine. "Pilgrim does contain doctrine, in fact, in many ways more than other courses, because of its length," he says. "But also it's really spirituality-led; so it is about saying 'let's learn how to pray, how to read the scriptures'. . . and I think that my hunch is that that fits in with our culture. Yes, of course there are some people saying 'is it true?' but I wonder whether there are rather more people saying 'how does it work?'" www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/11-october/features/features/a-new-way-to-be-a-pilgrimThere is something about these two that makes me feel very uncomfortable. 'Cantuar' and 'Ebor':
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Post by UnseenI on Apr 14, 2021 18:20:14 GMT
Will she or won't she?
People have been speculating about what the Queen might do when she reaches her 95th birthday. The day of doom is on April 21st, one week from today. The death of Prince Philip may affect any decision she takes about her future. She might abdicate, in which case Prince Charles would become king; she might officially retire and make him Prince Regent. She might find public life too much and take a back seat; she might find public engagements a good way to pass the time and take her mind off her loss. I guess that she will carry on to the end out of a sense of duty, but anything could happen. His or hers?
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Post by UnseenI on Apr 16, 2021 18:14:06 GMT
Royal funeral: popcorn time?
I guess that many people will watch the show tomorrow afternoon in the hope of seeing some drama involving Princes Andrew and Harry. It is a pity that just because the two black sheep are not permitted to wear uniforms, the other senior royals must wear suits too. Face masks and social distancing will also take something away from the grandeur and solemnity of the occasion. There is also the possibility that Meghan will say or do something to attract attention away from the royals and the event. I wonder whether Justin Welby will make one of his unimpressive speeches. I get the impression that these two are not wild about him:
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