Her Majesty

[cromwell]

I think that she knew that she was dying and went to Balmoral to spend her last days there; maybe for duty, maybe just because it was her favourite place.

[miasmum]

We’ve been wondering if she had something like Lymphoma which Tims dad had as her decline has been similar

[Suff]

I think that she knew that she was dying and went to Balmoral to spend her last days there; maybe for duty, maybe just because it was her favourite place.

Think back. When did the Queen ever do anything that caused a whole load of fuss and bother just because she was more comfortable/happy with where she was?

She knew that dying in Scotland would be a reminder to both the people and governments that she was the Monarch under two crowns, not one.

In this way ordinary people in Scotland were not shut out of her funeral and gave them a chance to say goodbye on their own terms in their own land.

This was minutely planned long before she died. In it we see the hand of the consummate politician everyone who knew her understood her to be.

[Workingman]

Proof = nil

The Queen is dead. She was a wonderful Queen and did her duties to the nth, and did her people, all of us, Monarchists and Republicans, proud.

But can we please stop it with all the myths and legends?

She had no choice but to meet and greet some despicable heads of state, Xi and Putin, for example, but that was her job.

The Queen usually visited Balmoral in summer from mid July to Ocotober, this year was no differerent. It was her honeymoon home. She fell ill while there, so much so that she could not return to London, and there she died. It was not planned in any sort of detail, never mind 'minutely', it just happened.

God bless her.

[Kaz]

5.1 billion viewers worldwide watched the funeral today, according to the BBC. 63% of the world's population. Absolutely incredible!

[TheOstrich]

It was very, very moving, a truly historic event.

Nobody can do such pomp and ceremony better than the Brits.

[JanB]

Nobody can do such pomp and ceremony better than the Brits.

Absolutely, we do pomp so well.

[saundra]

It's brilliant to see all the pomp and ceremony of the armed forces at there very best

[Suff]

It was even better to see Biden in the 14th row of the Abbey seating. Behind the Poles, on the same row as the Chinese.

Last time there was a similar death in role for a major country was JFK. The attendance here was double that. Lots of place for pomp and circumstance I think.

[JoM]

It was the corgis that got us.
We were all half watching at that point - me, John, Tom, Joe and Amanda - and as soon as the corgis appeared on screen we all went “Ohhhhh”.

First thing Joe said to me yesterday morning when he got up was the he couldn’t stop thinking about the corgis