Her Majesty

[Kaz]

Amazing eh? Definitely that six degrees thing

[JoM]

That’s very interesting Kaz!

I remember when she came to Walsall in the Silver Jubilee year, it was my 8th birthday that day and my mom and I went on the bus with her friend and her son and waited to see her. I remember feeling very grown up because I was wearing my new gold earrings that my Grandad had bought me.
Prince Charles, as he was then, had visited our town a month or so earlier and we were all taken from school to sit on a bank on the road into town to wave flags as his car went past.

John took part in a 24 hour mountain biking event at Gatcombe Park one year, they assumed that the park had just been rented for the duration but Princess Anne had actually been out helping to build the course. One of John’s friends won a prize which she presented.

[saundra]

When we lived in Cardiff the Queen was on a round Britain tour on Britannia and my friend and I plus kids sat on the pavement all day opposite the castle to see them go past twice
The royal yatch? Was at penarth jo

[Kaz]

Ah, lovely memories there Jo

Not too surprised about P Anne building the course, my friend Jaqui's nephew is her gamekeeper, and she's very hands on and down to earth. She interviewed him herself for the position, and halfway through got up and went to the kitchen to make them a cup of coffee When he took the job, she showed him the keeper's cottage herself, and asked him what he'd like in the way of redecoration. Zara and Mike made friends with them, and they socialised, their daughter Mia has had their daughter over for sleepovers. No snobbery there whatsover!

[Kaz]

When we lived in Cardiff the Queen was on a round Britain tour on Britannia and my friend and I plus kids sat on the pavement all day opposite the castle to see them go past twice

Aww lovely! I really wish I had seen her.

[saundra]

What made it even better they where in open carriages with the horse guards
If all photos in albums
My late uncle was in the army and he used to help the royal family load cases into army truck's for there holiday in Scotland and made the royal children help such memories we all have so far nteresting

[Kaz]

I love that!

[Workingman]

Sorry to be a party pooper. I know it will not be popular.

The old Queen is dead. She did a brilliant job, but do we need endless loops of her life and the parades of talking head raconteurs on every terrestrial and news channel saying the same old things all hours of the day, over and over, every hour of the day?

It is extremely maudlin and unnecessary.

[TheOstrich]

I agree, it is extremely maudlin and unnecessary, but it's really a different issue, WM.

I believe a lot of folk, from what I read and hear, whilst respecting the Queen's years of selfless service and honouring her memory, are simply turning off the TV and turning away from the mainstream media because both have gone into this complete and unnecessary overdrive. I know we are - we're not going to wallow in it, the remote is firmly off.

The media, I suspect, are judging it wrong. They think it's a replay of the Diana moment. No, it's not - people will quietly celebrate a life well lived and they will do so without the hysteria.

Yes, we will now have 10 days of pomp, ceremony and protocol, and that's absolutely right in context, but we will all move on after that.

[Ally]

Well said Ossie.