queen elizabeth II

they're no longer single filing the queue, the estimate from above isn't going to be correct anymore

Two football teams who played the weekend after the Queen died are being investigated and will be "dealt with in the strongest possible terms" https://t.co/i4lFrLOTIC

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 14, 2022

https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.LAL.0386540.7055475/453651.jpg

A firing squad would obviously be more practical though.

Every Brit in the UK (children included) should be obligated to watch the Queens funeral as it will forever be a huge part of British history and further education! As sad as Queen Elizabeth II passing is, it has really united the people which I thought was an impossible task 👏🏼 https://t.co/hn7w1exPYy

— Ant Middleton (@antmiddleton) September 14, 2022

I'm going in

I did not expect the Wikipedia entry for the royal corgis to become this horrifying pic.twitter.com/81ZwOdvS6g

— Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) September 14, 2022

I wonder how many other people are finding this whole situation is stoking a furious unforgiving revolutionary rage inside them

This was really interesting. If only we could have these conversations here.

Un-Whitewashing: Every once in a while, someone unexpectedly describes succinctly & cogently, in an unexpected place, the historical legacy of the relation between between the British monarchy, colonialism, white supremacy & racial slavery. And it just takes your breath away. https://t.co/YHX1MauiDy

— Blues and Abstract Truth (@barnor_hesse) September 14, 2022

I wonder how many other people are finding this whole situation is stoking a furious unforgiving revolutionary rage inside them

But of course. I'm consoling my self with the thought that these fuckers are riding for a fall and the whole thing's going to blow up on their faces - I think it's more likely than ever that the UK is going to cease to exist relatively soon.

I think a lot of countries will get out of the common wealth first. The anti-colonial critiques have been great to see.

It's made this hell carnival a lot more palatable. That and Charles, who clearly can't hack it.

counterpoint:

Moved, honestly, to tears, watching hundreds and hundreds of Londoners queuing for hours, filing by and paying respect to the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall.
Quite a few crying.
Livestream herehttps://t.co/MSNYSaEvMk pic.twitter.com/XxS0NaJDJs

— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) September 15, 2022

"Londoners". Aye, right.

Looks well worth the 30-hour wait

"your all londoners now"
— the austro-hungarian empire

dynastic rulers always were good at putting aside petty differences like religion or decades-long wars if their own legitimacy were being called into question. solidarity!

i mean the habsburgs literally started the first world war so "always good at" arrives a bit freighted with caveats here

true! i meant to say that my impression is that kings and queens have more in common with each other than with their own subjects regardless of what conflicts those subjects are notionally fighting each other for and they'd get into bed with each other in an instant - sometimes literally - if it meant not having to relinquish even 1% of the privileges they'd amassed

More in common as in they are actually related to each other usually.

... in Europe certainly.

They're mostly above mere nationality... or German, one of the two.

the two main reasons why the pundits of like 1913 were saying there wouldn't be a war were "our royals are all related and our markets favour integration and stability!"

however this wasn't quite correct

personally, I'd find something more fulfilling and less morbid to do than queueing for over 30 hours for a hurried viewing of the queen's box. I mean anything else would be better for your mental health ... bus spotting, making giant ice statues of Hitler, reading every Rothman's football yearbook from '89-99 etc etc

Been there done that... Rothman's Yearbook that is

Do they still do Rothman’s? I think a leaky shed roof finally finished off my late ‘70s editions :(

xp yep, I'm not sure when they finished but my brother has a huge collection of them. And in the pre-internet days they were invaluable for looking up season's from the past and re-living them.

I would mourn *their* passing. I’d probably queue for up to five minutes for a gander at the 1984-85 edition.

now i'm wondering where my grandad's cigarette card albums are

they were informative! without them i wd not know abt ancient lights or the hand of glory

I learned so much about geography and how to recognize nationalities by their names from those Rothman's books. So, yes, I can recognize a Swiss German surname from a German surname from an Austrian surname.

they were such an abrupt mixture: like "superstitions of the world" (interesting!) then you turn the page and it was "the ships of the white star line in 1935" (less so!)

true! i meant to say that my impression is that kings and queens have more in common with each other than with their own subjects regardless of what conflicts those subjects are notionally fighting each other for and they'd get into bed with each other in an instant - sometimes literally - if it meant not having to relinquish even 1% of the privileges they'd amassed

i have a bunch of PG Tips card books that my nan collected the cards for when i was little. just to tie thinks up nicely they include Play Better Soccer, introduced by Don Revie

lol no who are those dudes

xpost

those two shd have done a "parent trap"-style escapade during ww1

nicky boy and george v, the other cuz wilhelm ii was even more of an embarrassing tool than nicky lol

He can take all those medals and throw them in the bin.

Then there's this guy.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/1f/08/c51f08dd5e2483b6ca9d735a57f89808.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Kaiser_Wilhelm_II_of_Germany_-_1902%28cropped%29.jpg

Wilhelm II had this stache and when I was studying this guy for leaving cert history, my friend drew him on successive pages of my history book with the moustache curving higher on every page flipbook style - so whenever I hear his name I mentally think (like it’s a sub header): Kaiser Wilhem: Onward and Upward

Even by inbred German princeling standards - which all of them are - Wilhelm was outstandingly boorish and thick.

No less a source than Tatler reports that the Kaiser was considered embarrassing by his own family

On his annual trip to see his British relatives, Wilhelm was reportedly loud and aggressive, with his sense of humour leaving much to be desired. Meanwhile from the other side, it has been speculated that his British relatives mocked his attire, which was not right for the summer-casual aesthetic at Cowes, with its boat shoes and striped blazers.

The kaiser and the future king tried constantly to one-up each other with bigger, faster, flashier boats, with the German nephew desperate to impress his English uncle, who of course was known for his great fleet of naval ships.

In 1896, the kaiser had the biggest yacht yet built, the 121-ft long Meteor II, which he pitted against Edward's Britannia. After it won, the future king retired from racing at Cowes.


In 2008, reports emerged via the descendant of a bystander that the future king had punched his nephew, after he laughed at him for losing in a race. As Henry Brasted, son of local yachting specialist William Brasted, told the Daily Gazette: 'Kaiser Bill jeered King Teddy about the result, where straight away King Teddy hit him in the mouth, knocked him down, then stormed into the club.

yeah I remember reading about george v on a state visit to germany, and some german politicians were cringing at his behaviour and privately saying to the members of the british delegation "wish our inbred mofo was as smooth operator as yours is"

and the Ls keep coming

https://twitter.com/i/events/1570067556697784320

damn, that Psalm 139 rendition got me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm3iJKHpH4

oh, it's a modern composition too: On 14 September 2022, he conducted his choral setting of Psalm 139 (1-18, 23-end) for the reception of the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall.[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Donnell_(organist)

England rn pic.twitter.com/siYYsmKbL1

— Cameron Williams (@MrCamW) September 15, 2022

“Come and watch the Queen’s funeral at our sex club” pic.twitter.com/KrmP81UrMJ

— GrieveWatch (@GrieveWatch) September 15, 2022

Lol

Interesting how the monarchy is comparatively FAR more disruptive than unions on strike https://t.co/VZyt0cWC7H

— Laurie “Abolish Golf” Charles (@thestuffofmemes) September 14, 2022

Looking forward to those vox pops with stranded travellers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcuvrGEWYAAl66E?format=jpg&name=medium

lol, this is actually real.

Our dead Queen had no charisma 🤝 Kieth

we have always been at war with vibrancy