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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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Kanada cilla choo said:
I can trust Liz Truss to be stupid
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She's not all daft. When asked about the possibility of a second Scottish referendum, she said Nicola Sturgeon is an attention white and the best thing to do is to ignore her. Lol! Also she hates the BBC so I hope she puts the screws on them by either cutting their budget or forcing them to make more wholesome content.
 
Kanada cilla choo said:
I can trust Liz Truss to be stupid, atleast, Rishi I feel is an unironic Sophist and will 100% do the exact opposite of what he says once ue gets power in an attempt to appeal to Labour while presenting this to Tories as a slow march they can only stop by voting for him.

Ultimately, I think the Tories are fucked in 2024, its gonna be an interesting year no matter what.
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Sad for her death and what she meant for the UK, this is truly the last remenance of the glory days of old.
 
Holy shit I haven't been on this website for a bit of a time. But yeah, RIP Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, I hope King Charles the 3rd can do a good job for his country.
 
I was particularly moved by this part of Charles' speech to Parliament:

The great bell of Big Ben, it's bongs one of the most powerful symbols of our nation throughout the world, and housed within the Elizabeth Tower, also named for my mother’s Diamond Jubilee, will mark the passage of the late Queen’s progress from Buckingham Palace to this parliament on Wednesday. In a way, if you think anout it, Big Ben is inside my mother, bonging away. If only dear Papa was alive to see this symbol of Britain.
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Crex Crex said:
Now that Charles is King, the danish dynasty technically rules England, Norway and Denmark as Prince Phillip was from the Greek royal family, which in turn was a branch of Denmark's. Cnut the Great would be proud.
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Something is rotten in the State of Denmark Britain. May all the remaining monarcies die out and be replaced with Hillary Clintons.
 
Florence said:
Wait, so colonization’s bad, but decolonization’s just as bad? You can’t reason with these people, can you?
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To be fair decolonization was actually awful, if Africa Addio is to be believed. Not like Elizabeth could have made it better though, unless she somehow got the Burgers to prop up the British Empire and pulled the right strings to make someone like Enoch Powell PM with a cooperative parliament.
 
Never thought i would live to see it happen but it was a long time coming. Tiocfaidh ár lá.
 
bonging away.
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That's what we do. Drink tea with a stiff upper lip, chew mutton with our three remaining teeth, and spend our lives bonging away.

Waves small flag that was made in China.
 
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