That must include 1 maybe 2 bank holidays right? I can’t imagine it being anything over 2. Although in the Middle East/Gulf they usually do 3 public holidays (re: mourning days) when a monarch or head of state dies.
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Treacherous Oates has already turned his back on the UK so should have no say in who or what we decide to crown our next Monarch.
The less said about Penna the better.
Football can't be called off, there schedule is too full. The players will have to play through the tears
We know exactly what will happen, because the "Operation London Bridge" documents were all leaked to The Guardian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge
Truss will be loving it - an early opportunity to look statesmanlike.
His finance minister, "The" something built a chateaux, it even outshone Versales, where the king lived. In the end, Louis clapped him in irons.
Well done - she's 96!
Would be huge if Sainsbury's died
They'll be one for the funeral, Phillip one was on the Friday IIRC.
That sounds suspicious...
No football? Can't she just claw & hold on until late November? It's just around the fecking corner.
Yes that was exact article I read, think it came out in 2017 but couldn't remember.
Might aswell move her back down to London before the rail strikes start up again.....
This isn't the time to make jokes, have some respect for this 96 year old billionaire blue-blood and her creepy racist family.
I think i'm somewhat prepared at this point. Though obviously it means a fraction to me as I'm sure it does to you. The future has been too common, too frequent a topic of conversation for a while and covid too present a danger to not have considered the possibility.
when she does die, it will have the quality of stalin's state funeral, or diana's. what, exactly, are you mourning? or mao's. collective hysteria. and i have nothing against the queen even though the idea of monarchy is insane.
Sounds like she is quite likely unconscious and dieing. Will be a sad moment when she does pass away whatever you think of the Monarchy. She has been one constant throughout our lives (and the lives of our parents and grandparents)
Key bit of operation London Bridge is No bank holiday. Day of mourning 10 days later for funeral - if it falls on a weekend a bank holiday will not be created and if it falls on weekday employers will not be told to let staff have day off.
I doubt it will affect our lives wherever we are. We may get the odd person asking us about it, as if we'd know sfa but people here are kind. When @Penna was on a cruise when Diana died she kept getting Americans come up, grab her arm and ask her how she was, how she felt! Ridiculous but people are just being kind.
We read the British media, we watch BBC - we have it on at present but as a business owner in the UK I suppose we may get some impact when most workers get a day or whatever off while our employees cannot, what might be any implications if any at all. We all saw how the country behaved when Diana died.
We're still British citizens, we're not full time out in Italy, I'm a republican, but also as Penna said she is what we've known all our lives, why shouldn't we take an interest and behave as if we have round doors to our smial?
I'm sure Liz Truss is rubbing her hands in anticipation. Imagine the PR possibilities, she gets to be the stately PM when the UK is at its most patriotic.
Incorrect mate
This shit is going to give Charles a heart attack
Fair dos. Wasn’t having a go or anything but was curious to know.I doubt it will affect our lives wherever we are. We may get the odd person asking us about it, as if we'd know sfa but people here are kind. When @Penna was on a cruise when Diana died she kept getting Americans come up, grab her arm and ask her how she was, how she felt! Ridiculous but people are just being kind.
We read the British media, we watch BBC - we have it on at present but as a business owner in the UK I suppose we may get some impact when most workers get a day or whatever off while our employees cannot, what might be any implications if any at all. We all saw how the country behaved when Diana died.
We're still British citizens, we're not full time out in Italy, I'm a republican, but also as Penna said she is what we've known all our lives, why shouldn't we take an interest and behave as if we have round doors to our smial?
Like I said, other than a couple of days off hopefully I doubt it’ll have any impact on my life.
Might also be because I’m from a BAME background that I’ve always had a more innate indifference / dislike to all things Monarchy.
Yes that was exact article I read, think it came out in 2017 but couldn't remember.
Might aswell move her back down to London before the rail strikes start up again.....
Indeed!
Some of the details of the leaked documents were hilarious, like the fact that there was great concern in Downing Street that it would face a wave of public anger if it cannot lower its flags to half-mast within 10 minutes of the Queen dying because it does not employ a permanent flag officer and therefore was not certain there will always be somebody present who is able to lower the flag.
No, I don't see your post as anything other than chatting, getting the pov.
It was the previous comment that made me smile with a bit of confusion.
Edit. It's something that I think quite a lot of Italians and Europeans in general may take quite an interest in, the Royal Family get a lot of media coverage here, more so before the break up of Diana died because she was seen as attractive and glamorous while the rest are a bit dumpy but a large family who create a few stories.
It will be a sad day when she finally passes.
Christ, who knows, but does sound pretty ominous.
It's even a breaking news banner on USA Today and a big story in the Straits Times here. Thought the mass coverage would be more of a UK thing.
Agree.
Not to be insensitive but given this is a football forum, does the PL get postponed if she dies?
I think its not unreasonable to set aside opinions on monarchy and think of the individual involved for a brief time. There'll be plenty of time to hold weaker examples feet to the fire.
The world have a fascination for the Royal Family.
She’s clearly already dead.
A rundown on what we can all expect, when she dies:
https://www.politico.eu/article/queen-elizabeth-death-plan-britain-operation-london-bridge/
No bank holiday.
https://www.politico.eu/article/queen-elizabeth-death-plan-britain-operation-london-bridge/
No bank holiday.
I believe so but would depend on the timing I'd have thought.
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Yeah, saying that, I remember prince William's wedding was on TV in Sicily, where we assumed we'd avoid all that.
We'll never know.
Betting suspended with me. xD very high.