queen elizabeth II

unlike rasputin they buried her alive, it's a king arthur thing

C.S. Lewis Square will be open from 3.30pm today for reflection and the laying of floral tributes on the passing of HM.

Flowers can be laid below the statue of Aslan in the square. pic.twitter.com/zCcxfjm3Gl

— Cllr Anthony Flynn (@AntoFlynnser) September 9, 2022

7 Decades, 15 Prime Ministers. 1 Queen.

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II

Thank you 💕💕#queenelizabeth pic.twitter.com/EOhlMDbWbi

— Morleys UK (@MorleysChicken) September 9, 2022

well it is a book about the vanquishing of a despotic queen who ruled over a land of eternal winter xpost

Sounds about right.

Then again, no more weather.

We are saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with her family and all those affected by this news.

As a mark of respect during this time of national mourning we will only be posting daily forecasts and warnings.

— Met Office (@metoffice) September 9, 2022

grrr! the BBC better have suspended the shipping forecast as well

I wonder if some of the cancellations are to do with the fact that Queenie's coffin is due to process by train down to London, thus buggering up people's chances of getting to whatever events they might've been trying to get to?

― trishyb, Friday, September 9, 2022 2:05 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Seems they're flying her down now, possibly because they don't want royalist buffoons coating the tracks with dead flowers which will take days to clean up.

"William, 40, has now become the Duke of Cornwall and is likely to become Prince of Wales. It was reported early in 2022 that William, who is a patron of homelessness charities Centrepoint and the Passage, is interested in using parts of the Duchy’s huge landed estates to house the homeless."

Sure, sure..

Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh - or sumthin' - so there's a lot of police about and a friend of mine overheard someone in the Royal Mile commenting on it, "It's no' as if anyone's gonnae kill her - she's deid".

police deployed to stop her escaping

lol

I read someone posting about the history of corpse-jacking once, but this wasn't about the corpses of monarchs getting kidnapped - it was about attempts to steal the corpses of saints whilst they are in transit.

Eva Peron got corpse-napped

Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh

Now I'm resident in Edinburgh I'm thinking of popping up to report back to youse all, maybe around 4am since it seems to be 24 (23?) hours and there might be less of a queue at that time. Probably not.

eva peron got corpsenapped by matt #2, stay alert ppl!

pic.twitter.com/UZyV8LkEfN

— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) September 8, 2022

Oh my god, that

It's not as good as Poundland's tribute, sorry.

Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh

Edinburgh hotel prices this weekend have gone ballistic.

Uju's tweet is a work of art, twitter deleted it!

POV: you’re 19, going into 6-figure debt at Carnegie Mellon, getting lectured by this professor on “Blackness in multilingualism.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t rejoice when a 96yo woman dies?” you say. Uju frowns, gives you an F. You register to vote & cast a ballot for @DrOz this Nov. pic.twitter.com/jNchvkyWIq

— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) September 8, 2022

From all at johnlydon dot com

Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II.

Send her victorious.

From all at https://t.co/vK2Du0ZzDS pic.twitter.com/kq4M6WfeML

— John Lydon Official (@lydonofficial) September 9, 2022

“Pray for both families” lol https://t.co/PWx7uyqXmH

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 9, 2022

where you at, kirstie alley?

A solemn Tony Cascarino is broadcasting on Talksport. Who better to cover this historic event.

Cascarino said: "I had a Chinese delivered just moments after the announcement. It felt wrong and very disrespectful to eat it, so as a mark of respect I threw it in the bin."

— Sean (@shornKOOMINS) September 9, 2022

that fizzles feeling

it's what she wd have wanted

Crypto reacts to Queen Elizabeth's death

September 8, 2022https://t.co/iHdKV3m4HV pic.twitter.com/JNjVONXVIr

— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) September 9, 2022

‘1 minute rest in silence’ i am finished pic.twitter.com/eNPI5CHyml

— michael ✨ (@mjrgrs) September 9, 2022

The stoppages in Edinburgh do seem pretty aligned to getting her on the train - but "Further closures will be installed"

These are the main road closures in place today for events to mark the death of Her Majesty the Queen.

Further closures will be installed over the coming days, we will provide updates in due course.#edintravel pic.twitter.com/kuhG5cMCIm

— Edinburgh Travel News (@edintravel) September 9, 2022

It's a good thing she held out to the end of the Festival.

I just had a headline pop up on my phone asking what will happen to her four dogs.

I don't agree with everything he did, but Mao is someone I've learned a lot from. My thoughts are with his family today. https://t.co/2mAsfuxNgc

— Don Hughes (@getfiscal) September 9, 2022

getfiscal

A lot going on here in Tucker Carlson’s paean for the “humane” British Empire, but one through line with the rest of his thinking is that self-rule is more or less unimportant. pic.twitter.com/TeSqSJ0Ccm

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 9, 2022

xp Disrespectful with Olivia Newton-John barely in the ground.

lmao was hoping someone leapt on that

Rest in Peace 🖤 Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022 pic.twitter.com/eou217S8SZ

— PLAYMOBIL (@playmobil) September 8, 2022

Isn't that Tucker Carlson quote more than somewhat anti-American?

idk american anti-britishness always seems kind of perfunctory to me like this half-hearted historical reenactment that only bubbles up occasionally for entertainment or opportunism

I assume carlson defends the confederacy too and would happily trade the US for an even more violent explicitly racist white ethnostate

Mention of Rhodesia a dog bullhorn for white supremacists

I haven't seen much in the way of U.S. anti-Britishness since the end of "the troubles" in Northern Ireland.

lol there's a ton of routine american internet anti-britishness, sections of this very website used to crackle with it

I guess? Maybe I just don't frequent those parts of the internet where it is prevalent. At any rate, I do remember it being much more pronounced when Ireland served as a focal point.

Americans criticising the UK is only annoying when the criticism isn't accurate. We demand absolutely devastating criticism of this terrible country.

pic.twitter.com/mAO7XqfqZK

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) September 8, 2022

Always seemed to me that Americans are far more obsessed with UK royalty than the Brits, our former colonial masters

Meghan Markle is the sun around which our entire universe circles

american anti-britishness has no bite to it was the point, neither does british anti-americanism while we're at it, it's all very tame and safe

When Family Guy or w/e have an episode in the UK it's all "you guys are all plummy and effeminate and use funny words and have bad teeth and food!!!" and yeah, it would be just fantastic if those were the normal criticisms you could make about this cursed place.

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