The Queen.

Yes, what’s poor old Edward done ?

He’s done very well after making a bit of an arse of himself as a young man

I really don’t get the ‘loose cannon’ thing?
What’s she likely to do?
The mind boggles…

On the dog breed aspect, maybe they were sold a pup. (see what I did there? ).

I recently met a man with a most beautiful young dog. I asked him if it was a cocker spaniel and he said ‘Sort of.’ He’d been sold the young puppy as a ruby Cavalier King Charles. As she grew, she became more and more cocker spaniel-like.

They queried it with the breeder and it seems there may have been an ‘incident’ with the CKC mum who had escaped during her season and gone off to play with other dogs. ? ? Anyway, they were still very happy with their gorgeous little dog, though I hope they got a refund! ?

The Queen is doing her duty by being the Queen untill her last breath. It's not as if she hasn't said so many times.

Less than a month since she had Covid , does everyone recover fully in three weeks ?

Her "duties' aren't much - a telephone call or a signature on a bit of paper someone shoves at you is about it. But if her duties are meeting heads of state, hosting banquets, attending church services, opening hospitals, then yes, she is becoming increasingly incapable of doing these and someone else has to take over. So its all a bit of a smokescreen saying she is fulfilling all her duties, she is so marvellous etc when in reality those around her are doing most of it.

She's mid 90's, still working several visits (or maybe less now), it's not surprising she is looking frail. During the last few months of my mum's life, she lost a lot of weight due to being bed-ridden and it was like she almost shrank to nothing. Don't forget, they tell us that HMTQ isn't as mobile as she was and I feel she was unable to mourn her husband which must take a huge toll on someone who is in the public eye a lot and has to smile and do small-talk. We'll probably know a lot more on the date of Prince Philip's memorial. I feel she will go downhill after her Jubilee this summer.

It would be interesting to know what Heads of State do in other countries. Not Heads of Government, Heads of State.

Just so we know what we're missing, you know?

(e.g. - leading your country in a war against fascism, that kind of thing.)

The Queen doesn't actually have to do anything - she just has to stay alive and she remains queen. She's been very good at that I suppose.

It'll depend on the constitutions/traditions/job descriptions/hierarchies/personalities in those countries. What works in one country or at one time may not operate successfully elswhere or in a different era.

The Queen has been very good at it in the past - nearly 300 engagements a year.
That's why people are missing her visible attendance now. A victim of her own success.

There is a lovely picture of the Queen on my BBC news feed. Sorry don't know how to transfer it to here.

I think she has osteoporosis of the spine - and all the other things previous posters mention. The family are doing the right thing and filling in as and when. While she can still do the paperwork, it will help her morale.

This is the picture

I’ve just returned from visiting my mother. I took her a couple of things that she asked for, plus a birthday card to my sister for her to write. She wanted to send a cheque to sister for her birthday, we had to destroy one cheque because she got muddled and filled it in incorrectly, and I then wrote a new one and mum signed it. She wrote ‘happy birthday’ in the card but forgot to write ‘from mum.’ I’m saying this just to show how the greater majority of 94/95 year olds are. Mother was in bed again, she frequently doesn’t get up. The Queen is a lucky woman to be as good as she is, but we should not be taken in by official pronouncements that she’s fulfilling her duties. She’s not, she’s signing some papers and meeting some people via zoom. She met the Canadian Prime Minister in person last week at Windsor Castle. She should have been at the Commonwealth service today. I watched some of it with mother in her room. Nonetheless the Queen is much better than my mother.

Thank you for the flowers Fanny. Much appreciated. Being the one person who an old lady relies on isn’t easy, but now she’s in a home it’s easier than when we did all her washing, shopping etc when she lived in the sheltered apartment.

volver

I suggested that on another thread and was told I was ungrateful and asking too much of her.

Yes but that’s YOU !!

I’m sorry you have a difficult time with your mother, Maddyone.

I don’t agree that’s how most people in their mid-90’s are, though. Not the ones I’ve known, anyway and certainly not in my family.

Most 95 year olds would be sitting with their feet up but she is still working. Yes actually working. She has a full Red Box of Government Papers to go through each morning with her Private Secretary, 300 engagements a year, weekly PM discussions, and even mundane things like viewing and agreeing the menu plans 3 days ahead! If a very physically active lady like herself isn’t able to walk her beloved dogs anymore, a task she personally enjoyed and didn’t often delegate to others, and has occasionally of late been seen using a stick, then indeed she must be fairly frail as she’d hate to show it!
As for retirement, absolutely no chance because she’d view it as having failed in her sworn duty, so she’d never consider it! That’s absolutely not saying that she won’t delegate more and more visits and tasks to younger Royals, as she should but she’d never retire/abdicate. Unfortunately I don’t see her living to 100 like her Mother and won’t be surprised if she’s not gone in the next year or two sadly. Our Country will be poorer for her passing.

Dempie55

I think she is perhaps becoming more frail mentally. She is 95, and, despite people saying that she is still sharp as a tack, I doubt this is true. I fear she may be a bit of a loose cannon in public.

No really I’m no royalist but that is ridiculous !! She’s nothing like a loose cannon.

No, I don’t think the Queen is a loose cannon either.

It would be good though, wouldn't it?

Oh no, not that f***ing man Johnson again!

Anniebach

GSM you don’t get it sorry, the aged must be hidden away, some don’t ’do tolerance, understanding’ here now

Where has anyone said that !???

Sparklefizz

^That's what we've agreed is a good way to run the country.^

But volver, she doesn't "run the country".

And that’s not what Volver meant

I don't know the basis of your opinion that 'the greater majority' of people of the Queen's age are like your mother Maddy. I quite understand if that belief gives you some comfort and I sympathise with you, but I certainly don't equate what we see of the Queen with your own experience. I have only one friend the same age as the Queen and she's amazingly sharp. We have seen the Queen recently and there is nothing to suggest that she is anything other than in full possession of her mental faculties.

Good post CatterySlave1.

Here’s a HOS …..
For you Volver
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKHGp1XPv48&fbclid=IwAR3x7FLAXYJLAhf-h5s4jWEehHSI8p2v5paRde6ndfF-xWbCZ2uISQ8XC2s