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Featured on Sep 8, 2022 by Null: Queen Elizabeth has died.
www.bbc.co.uk

The Queen back at Windsor after hospital stay

She is "in good spirits" after a one-night stay for preliminary medical checks, Buckingham Palace says.
www.bbc.co.uk

The Queen spent Wednesday night in hospital for preliminary medical checks and is now back at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace has said.
The 95-year-old monarch returned from hospital at lunchtime on Thursday and is "in good spirits", the palace added.
The Queen was said to be "disappointed" after cancelling a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
She was given medical advice to rest for a few days, after a busy schedule of public engagements.
In a statement on Thursday night, Buckingham Palace said: "Following medical advice to rest for a few days, the Queen attended hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some preliminary investigations, returning to Windsor Castle at lunchtime today, and remains in good spirits."
The Queen was seen by specialists at the private King Edward VII's Hospital in central London, about 19 miles (32km) from Windsor. Her admittance is understood not to be related to coronavirus.
The overnight stay was said to be for practical reasons and the Queen was back at her desk undertaking light duties on Thursday afternoon.
The King Edward VII's is a private hospital in London's Marylebone used by senior royals, including the Queen's husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who received treatment there earlier this year.
It has been a busy period of official engagements for the Queen.
She was pictured hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
An official record of the Queen's diary showed at least 15 other formal events during October.
On Wednesday, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said the monarch had "reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days".
He said the Queen was "disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland" - which would have involved an overnight stay.
She is expected to lead a royal delegation to the Glasgow COP26 climate change summit in two weeks' time.
Earlier this week, the Queen declined a magazine's award of Oldie of the Year, saying "you are only as old as you feel".
She "politely but firmly" turned down the award, but sent the Oldie magazine a message with her "warmest best wishes".
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Just a preliminary thread for now, but it's worth keeping an eye on, pretty sure this was how it started with Philip...
 
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I don't even like the anglosphere and this is just fucking sad. Think of it, most culture relating to figureheads of the English Speaking world, for 70 years, is centered around this woman. Everything on the internet relating to Britain has become outdated after September 8th. The last major political connection to the 20th and 21st centuries is now gone.

Yes we can clown on Brits all the time, but genuinely, this was a loss for the civilized world (of course not apparent to third worlders on twitter, who fail to realize the rammifications this has for their own countries).


Basically RIP. 🇺🇲🇬🇧
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Vesperus said:
I suspect that has something to do with the Hair-Sniffer in Chief throwing your GDP at the dancing Jewish faggot in Ukraine to pass on his druggie son.

I think even @JosephStalin poured one out for Gorbachev and he hates Russia with a burning passion.

Don't let us/them define you.
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Which makes that theoretical take all the weirder, because Putin and most Russians hate Gorbachev. Honoring him would be by definition anti-Putin.

Also I don't buy any of the theories that QE II checked out due to any feelings or fears she had over Liz Truss or the energy crisis. The thing about being 96 and Queen for 70 years of the time is that she saw far worse, and wouldn't be phased. She had always seen the UK pull out of any situation and eventually get better.

Losing someone with that perspective that can counsel the PM--any current PM, regardless of party--is the biggest loss to Bongers. King Charles won't have that quality and will more likely want to put his own 2 pence in.
 
Vesperus said:
Her coronation was watched by two million people on half a million working TVs.

Her funeral will be the same.
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My grandma tells me stories about her watching the Kings funeral when she was a kid. They brought everyone into the gymnasium and the entire school watched it on the only TV in the school. I have a feeling it will be like that but with entire classrooms rather than a single tiny TV.
 
dry roasted said:
"Badass," seriously? She did fuck all, her service was a whopping three months of hanging around a training facility next door to Windsor Castle where she was escorted home every night to her bed in the palace. And then spent the next 75 years funding her lifestyle by picking the pockets of men who spent years of their lives actually fighting the war, the families of those that died, the women who worked in the farms and the factories or were up to their elbows in blood as nurses. It was propaganda, a photo op stunt and people like you are still patting her on the head for it.
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You forgot to mention that during her reign angloland went from being 99% white to having it’s top 5 cities pop wise be majority niggeried, anglo gvt protecting literal gangs of muslim child rapists that have and probably still are ruining the lives of countless average anglos, and that in the year of her death there were more minority kids in anglo school than anglo ones.
 
nym said:
Yeah, she wasn't exactly head of state in the modern sense, but for someone whose family was in the most prominent spotlight so long, the fact that her life went so unmarred I think has a lot to do with her own moral character.
I dunno, I don't have any skin in the game but it seems like the queen was almost certainly pretty dang OK in the world leader elite sense, contrasted to the rest.
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I believe she was of good personal moral character. And fulfilled the basic duties as a woman of that age.

Wildly unfit as Queen, though. Being a good person does not make one a good ruler. this is like rule #1. And she personally ceded a lot of her personal power to become a symbolic figurehead.
To be fair again, The Tsar's of Russia were all being hacked to death and shit around her time, so makes sense.


Fully against conflict or confrontation of all sorts (political, physical, argumentative, etc all) again, a notorious woman-type personality trait. The staunch 'go along to get along'er'
Under her reign the Empire fell. the 'you could have prevented this' meme is very real in Queen Elizabeth. The entire path of Britain could've been different if she just stuck her beak in.


She had a voice. She had power. Prestige. She could pull rank. She could still check cabinet and government, create inference, use that voice to speak on the universal problems her country faces.
In an apolitical objective way. Anyone saying her role is merely symbolic are unfamiliar with Britain's laws and legal system, and it's because she never got involved or utilized her power
that they believe her to be purely Figurehead status and relegated.

Engage in an honest appraisal. I'm sure she would've been a good Grandmother. As a Monarch aka pretend representative of her people? No lol.

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AnOminous said:
One hopes that buffoon succeeding to the throne discredits it enough that they finally do away with the monarchy bullshit, which no longer really even serves a symbolic purpose when the symbol is that donkey-eared gurning shitlord Chuck.
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I liked her but now would be a good time to do that, especially with him.

Either way, it's going to be weird for me as I've grown up with her face on my currentcy, etc.
 
RabiesTheRedneck said:
Yes we can clown on Brits all the time, but genuinely, this was a loss for the civilized world (of course not apparent to third worlders on twitter, who fail to realize the rammifications this has for their own countries).]
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> No you dumb third worlders, you have to be thankful for the empire
Are you fucking serious? You have to be thankful to some exploitive empire which sucked off its colonies dry? Have you forgotten your own history?

The amount of retards who are drooling over "tha empire" in this thread when their whole history is breaking away from it is peak idiocy
 
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What is the twitterverse saying? Anything from troon-squad?
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It's basically been one massive circlejerk of people shitting on her to get tens of thousands of updoots. Lots of memes (some are pretty great, many just seem like the seething Wojack that wears the smiling mask.) General grievance posting from third worlders (what else is new though) and lots of people who you just know have no history knowledge pre-2016 acting like amateur historians (see: just saying "colonialism" a bunch.) Like every other major event, it's mostly an atmosphere of a sporting event.
 
GumballFapper said:
Are you fucking serious? You have to be thankful to some exploitive empire which sucked off its colonies dry? Have you forgotten your own history?

The amount of retards who are drooling over "tha empire" in this thread when their whole history is breaking away from it is peak idiocy
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stop equating the British Empire to the rest of them nigger. We are not the same.

Genuinely and conclusively. Go read some basic history.
 
Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0 said:
Which makes that theoretical take all the weirder, because Putin and most Russians hate Gorbachev. Honoring him would be by definition anti-Putin.

Also I don't buy any of the theories that QE II checked out due to any feelings or fears she had over Liz Truss or the energy crisis. The thing about being 96 and Queen for 70 years of the time is that she saw far worse, and wouldn't be phased. She had always seen the UK pull out of any situation and eventually get better.

Losing someone with that perspective that can counsel the PM--any current PM, regardless of party--is the biggest loss to Bongers. King Charles won't have that quality and will more likely want to put his own 2 pence in.
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People are seriously trying to pretend her death had significant timing and she wasn't just an extremely old lady? lmfao
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they're mostly bitching about her being a colonizer despite this woman overseeing the most peaceful dissolution of an empire in world history.
The French got into 2 separate wars (and dragged the USA into one of them) throwing a tantrum about the end of their empire, yet half of Africa and the entirety of India broke free without any violence.
 
Radola Gajda said:
RIP I can't believe she is dead
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Being American my knowledge of The Queen of England consisted of this cutaway gag from The Critic. Even when Princess Diana died I didn't bother to connect the dots to even know the basic knowledge that Diana was Elizabeth's daughter in law.

So to sum it up my understanding of The Queen was that she was a rich old lady with a grand ceremonial title and I thought she was going to die possibly. That it finally happened nearly 30 years after this Critic joke feels cathartic to me.
 
Gin-san said:
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Founding Fathers rolling in their graves right now.
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I’d agree, but I remember when Elizabeth II personally ordered that the US national anthem be played at the changing of the guard at Buckingham on September 13, 2001. This act broke more than 200 years of standing tradition.

I think we can consider this repaying the favor.

 
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