Her Majesty

[JoM]

Gosh.

We popped out tonight to a bar and the Spanish were full of condolences for us and full of praise for a beautiful Queen.

I felt very touched.

We were at Old Trafford last night and the Real Sociedad supporters were beautifully respectful during the minute’s silence, you could’ve heard a pin drop.

Every electronic billboard we passed on the way home - through Manchester, Stoke on Trent and Stafford - carried a tribute rather than the usual advertising. It was very touching to see.

Not the best picture as it was taken through the car windscreen, plus it’s sideways, the clarity was much better IRL.

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[jenniren]

I remember watching the coronation on our rather posh 9in bakelite tv. We were the only house in our road with a tv so my mother invited the neighbours in to watch. I remember we were told to be very quiet, we had jam sandwiches for lunch. Of course they show footage in colour these days, back then it was black and white. I was 7yrs 2mths old and have never forgotten it. Very emotional today, I know it's silly but it seemed like she would always be with us, feel so very sad.

[Kaz]

It is, Jen. Terribly sad xxx

[saundra]

I also remember the coronation I was10 we where the only ones in the street who had a tv can't remember much about it and it went on for hours then as we lived in married quarter near Reading
We where in London and one day and suddenly some one grabbed my arm and there in front of use was the royal car with the Queen and royal children in Ann and Charles after the Queen had been to Canada so many memories came to my todayxx

[Kaz]

What a lovely memory, Saundra I never saw the Queen, but my mum and sister were in the crowd when she opened a local shopping centre in Staines. They said what struck them was how small she was, and that her complexion was beautiful.

D met Princess Anne through her work with Macmillan - D was the first Macmillan nurse in Gloucester and helped to set it up here - and said the same about Anne's complexion, much prettier than her photographs.

[TheOstrich]

I only had a fleeting glimpse of the Queen once, back in the 1970's she visited West Bromwich where I was working at the time and we were allowed out to see the motorcade pass.
The thing I remember most about it was that a WMPTE double-decker bus, driven by a very stolid-looking Sikh in a dark blue turban, had somehow managed to insert itself into the procession!

My S, however, as a high-up official in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, has been to more than a few Buckingham Palace garden parties in her time, and has rubbed shoulders with most of the Royals there ....

[Kaz]

That's a great memory Ossie

[Kaz]

D was very friendly with one of the Queen's chaplains, she called him Bishop Robin, but he was Robin Woods, the Bishop of Worcester, formerly Dean of Windsor. Again, this was through Macmillan. She and Mick's dad went to dinner with them a few times. His wife Henrietta kept a flock of sheep, and was teaching herself to spin, with the intention of spinning the Bishop a suit She asked D to go to spinning classes with her, but D was a busy nurse with three boys at home so didn't have time.

The Bishop was a close friend of Prince Philip, and was actually involved in helping to decide where our new King should be educated. He was featured in that show, The Crown.

[Kaz]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_W ... _and_death

[TheOstrich]

I remember that name, Kaz, and I see that he was involved with the DofE scheme, so I guess my S would almost certainly have met him at some time.

Six degrees of separation and all that ....