Mods- Move if considered inappropriate for this thread, but the staff of Clarence House, who have served Prince Charles for, in some cases, decades, have received letters notifying them that they could now be made redundant. https://labourheartlands.com/claren...twPSe3mudwoibmIeCZq6mvJSecNyNZEjtlL8Iv6Iu8Tns
Royalty and loyalty?.. Well, it rhymes... Trouble is that's all it does. Did we expect anything better of the so called elite? Flying elephants etc..
So, the federal government of Canada announced that Monday would be a federal holiday in honour of the passing of the Queen, which means that employees of the government receive it as a holiday, and the provinces could choose to do the same. The smallest province, Prince Edward Island, quickly announced it as a full holiday. And then every other province...just didn't. Here, it's a holiday for public employees but not private businesses. In other provinces, it's an official 'day of mourning' but not a holiday. In Quebec, which has a less than fond view of British monarchs, it's just another day. Federalism is fun!
Ralph's got his eye on an honorary award for that bit of fawning. Lord Hasenhuttl of the High Press. or maybe Sir Ralph of the Royal House of Rabbit.
Yes exactly, I rather ****ed up my joke there thinking it was chicken rather than rabbit . I've changed it .
Can someone tell me who sanctioned this period of grief? Was it the Queen's personal wish to have this? Was it the Royal Family's wish to have this inflated period of mourning? As we can see it has put a trememdous strain on policing, health service workers and those in the fire service, Was this Elizabeth's wish or would she have preferred a simple burial in the grounds on Balmoral? A part of my mind thinks she was buried there, and the coffin now on display for people to pay their resepcts is merely symbolic.
She certainly wasn't buried at Balmoral - she will be buried next to her late husband in St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle. That would have been her wish as well.
And the answer to the first question. Would she have wanted this prolonged period of mourning that is costing time and money? If she was a modern monarch, \I think not!!
No idea whether she would have wanted it personally but she would have understood that's what happens when a monarch dies.
It has been suggested that the box in Westminster Hall is empty, and she's in a fridge somewhere. I wonder, would people still queue for miles, to see an empty box?
Well they queued for miles to get into Primark the morning after lockdown closed so anything is possible...
The first half of your sentence works, the second part doesn't! And I thought you were the cynical one Archers? For me,I have to question the sanity of dragging a dead body 600 miles from the place of death to its burial place. And it's a question, but if you think I am crazy for questioning such as strange thought, so be it!
I respect the sincerity of people's response to the death of their monarch, even if I don't share what the media tells me is the national mood. Half of me thinks this nation has, once again, taken leave of it's senses; the other half thinks it's appropriate to acknowledge the passing of one era, and the beginning of another. But on the other hand; enough, already. Get her - respectfully - in the ground, and off the front pages of every single newspaper.
