So now we know why the Queen died

Philip died in April 2021. Over a year earlier than the first photo you refer to.

Germanshepherdsmum

kiligran

Old age …..and a broken heart. Her Majesty when into deep decline when her darling Philip passed away.

Deep decline? I think that’s overstating it somewhat. She became more frail, as you would expect at her age and having lost her husband of many years, but didn’t go into ‘deep decline’.

If you look at photographs of Her Majesty in May and the photo of her with the Prime Minister there is a huge difference in her appearance. There is barely 4 months between those dates so I don’t think it’s overstating it at all.

I think this thread should be taken down as it is speculative and disrespectful and serves no purpose whatsoever.

icanhandthemback

^It's not the republicans who have no respect, it's you lot.^

Volver, I suspect there are Republicans with the same interest/lack of respect. Equally, if we were a republic and the HoS died in office (or out of it for that matter) there would be the same interest. Come to that, if it were the woman up the road, no doubt the neighbours would wonder too.

Thank you, micmc47. I've read other similar posts from this poster so it may well be just a state of mind!

Lathyrus, my thoughts too.

We republicans are repeatedly told that we have no respect for the RF, that talking about republicanism at a time of national mourning is unacceptable, that there is nobody better than the current monarch to do the job.

But I haven't seen any republicans mulling over if the Queen had bone cancer, or waxing lyrical about how she did her duty to the last day.

The first is disrespectful, whoever we are and whether we are talking about a Queen or the woman up the road. Its none of our business.

The second is based on this spurious idea that we know exactly what she was like and that she was hanging on just for us.

It's what the RF and their press office want you to believe and how they want you to act, and it seems that it's working.

volver Talk in terms like "deep decline" and "broken heart" is not because they are monarchists, it is because they are people who talk like that.

While many are curious out of high regards of the Queen, I don't think we need to know details. I'm happy she didn't linger in bed for weeks or months, the way I watched my MIL die of similar age.

She had been under close medical supervision, and there could have been any number of health failures at that age. Do we really need to know?

I'm sure in time there will be some expose in a daily rag by some servant letting everyone know the details. I'm not interested. RIP Your Majesty.

It's not the republicans who have no respect, it's you lot.

Volver, I suspect there are Republicans with the same interest/lack of respect. Equally, if we were a republic and the HoS died in office (or out of it for that matter) there would be the same interest. Come to that, if it were the woman up the road, no doubt the neighbours would wonder too.

Thank you, micmc47. I've read other similar posts from this poster so it may well be just a state of mind!

Lathyrus, my thoughts too.

Whatever the cause of the Queen's death it is - or should have been- a private matter for her family. 'Shameful that somebody chose to print her death certificate in a national newspaper .

I always suspected it could be fatal.

of course we know what her life was like, she had every human experience and obviously more. She was like most of us a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Im responding to you because of the ‘tis though’ comment. Not nice considering we all have our own perspective tis tis

My mother died at 98 and the cause on the death certificate said “extreme old age”
I feel a bit of a voyeur reading the Queen’s death certificate. I don’t really feel it’s anything to do with anyone outside her family.

volver

Isn't she Maleficient?

Internet genius, for today!

It’s far better than ‘senile decay’ which appears on my great great grandfather’s death certificate. Same thing, more kindly put.

My mum and dad have their death as 'old age'. They were age 93 and 94 when they died. Both were frail and had memory problems but they each just died suddenly. Your body gives up one day no matter what.

Does it really matter? She was 96... Quite obvious really.

??volver

I've not heard of that one....

Isn't she Maleficient?

Someone will suggest Meghan is the Disney Princess at some point, so I'll just get it over and done with

When a piece of machinery packs up and is judged to be irreparable, it's put down to 'wear and tear'. I think that's what got the better of Her Majesty, but 'old age' is a polite way of putting it.

'tis though. ?

This is the point. People think they knew her and can imagine what her life was like. You don't know and you never will. So it's all sentimental speculation and I find it very distasteful to do that to a person who has recently died.

Not sentimental nonsense, she did die of old age and I’m sure she would have lived longer if Philip was still alive.

The late Queen was 96. Her beloved husband had died, but I don’t think they lived in each other’s pockets - she had lots of other family too. She was old and frail. There is no escaping that. It seems she reached the end peacefully. I know a lady in my village who is 96. She walks around the village, using a stick, twice a day. Yet she looks frail and isn’t always sure of what she is saying. If and when she dies it will be because she is old. If we don’t die of an illness, we eventually wear out.

Lucca ?

Oops sorry Volver … great minds etc !!

I’m not being her wingman before anyone starts