The Queen…

I suspect she died a few hours ago, and they will release the news when they feel it is appropriate.

I ( sort of) remember the coronation. I was 5. . I ran in a race in the street and there was a party in the hall as it rained. I got a littke silver spoon.
A long time ago.
Yes Iam, not many had a tv then, we certainly didnt.

I don't why but it's hard to comprehend isn't it and so very very sad.

Definitely very sad.
I've been dreading (and no I'm not being overly dramatic) this news.
It reminds me of the emotions and fall out in my own family.
Makes me shudder at the ramifications for her family members in the near future.
I sincerely hope there arnt any.

She didn't HAVE to meet up with Boris and Liz Truss on Tuesday, apparently she insisted. I fear that this will have been her last duty as today doesn't sound good at all. I remember when George V1th died in 1952, I was 9 and we all cried. I think I shall certainly be crying again. As Annie says, the nation is being prepared.

Very sad, I am watching the news, I think she has been a amazing monarch.

I too have only known the Queen as the monarch. I still believe that since Prince Phillip has gone she has not been the same.

Got goosebumps when I turned the TV on earlier.
Very sad news to hear she's unwell

Jaberwok. I was just short of my ninth birthday and I remember going out of school at break time and someone pointing to the flag on the local church which was going down to half mast. None of us knew what it meant, but straight away we were called in and told what had happened

silverlining48, I was also 5 at my coronation street party, will never forget it and remember wandering away and some kind person took me back to my street. An amazing woman, an amazing monarch and a wonderful smile.

Am I reading too much into the fact that they have brought Huw Edwards in for the lunchtime news and that he is wearing a black tie? Also other commentators seem to be wearing black. I fear we are facing sad times ahead.

She became Queen when I was 4 and I saw her when she visited New Zealand. We were each given a silver coin (a crown) and a union jack to wave.
I saw her and the duke in their open topped car. I still think of her like that. She was very pretty.
She's a year younger than my DMiL who is still bright and chatty.
Are her children really rushing to her bedside? I thought they always liked to go the Scotland at the end of the midge season?

I'm not a royalist but I feel sad for the Queen and her family and appreciate that this is a sad time for many.

I think she has gone

Granaretto- the queen stated at balmoral. Her children and William and Harry gathering, as families do when medics advice that

The fact that the BBC hasn’t broken away from their coverage makes me feel there will soon be an announcement.

I suspect she died a few hours ago, and they will release the news when they feel it is appropriate

I understand where you are coming from, but perhaps it is different when the actual monarch dies?

Charles will become King immediately his mother dies, and I would have thought it had to be announced then?

As a personal observation, I think that if the very last image we have of our great Queen, it is so appropriate, shaking the hand of her new, 15th! Prime Minister on Tuesday.

Looking tiny, frail, elderly, but with her radiant smile, her walking stick and her trusty handbag.

God bless our gracious Queen!

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Grandyma

Am I reading too much into the fact that they have brought Huw Edwards in for the lunchtime news and that he is wearing a black tie? Also other commentators seem to be wearing black. I fear we are facing sad times ahead.

I haven't seen his tie. Just views of the gates at Balmoral.
Was watching ITV earlier and Robert Peston was wearing an awful tie. He looked like he had got dressed in the dark.

This is no false alarm is it. If she does die today we will have ten days of mourning followed by the state funeral.

NotAGran55

I think she has gone

That would mean they're lying to us.
Surely they (the media) wouldn't do that?

Such a sad time. The Queen has personified duty and service in her long reign.

Your last two sentences said it all for me Calendargirl

I remember being so upset when King George VI died, and will be even more upset when our Queen dies.
It's the end of an era and she has been a hugely successful monarch and loved and respected all round the world.
My hope is that she will rally and have a few more years with us, but it sounds unlikely.

snowberryZ

NotAGran55

I think she has gone

That would mean they're lying to us.
Surely they (the media) wouldn't do that?

Don’t know if you are right or not, but remember Meghan’s baby? It was announced she was “in labour” some hours after Archie was born!

Calendargirl

^I suspect she died a few hours ago, and they will release the news when they feel it is appropriate^

I understand where you are coming from, but perhaps it is different when the actual monarch dies?

Charles will become King immediately his mother dies, and I would have thought it had to be announced then?

As a personal observation, I think that if the very last image we have of our great Queen, it is so appropriate, shaking the hand of her new, 15th! Prime Minister on Tuesday.

Looking tiny, frail, elderly, but with her radiant smile, her walking stick and her trusty handbag.

God bless our gracious Queen!

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Yes. Her wonderful smile is an appropriate last image.

Dutiful to the end.

And of course, Edward VII’s demise was accelerated to “catch the evening editions of the newspapers” !
That has to be regicide or treason at least!

Seriously though, Charles would now be king and there are various protocols regarding the proclamation of his accession.

Yes, good post calendar girl