HM The Queen

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Spot on!

It made me well up - no idea why I'm not like that!

I said to my DH before speech: Queen addresses the nation. Things are bad.
But now I feel , in weird way, better, she cheered me up.
We meet again. Powerful stuff.

Made me teary as well. I wish we could see an end to this.

First time I’ve watched any of her speeches as an adult. I admit I was hoping that with all their money she’d be announcing how the RF will be actually, you know, helping. A good speech, but fundamentally meaningless.

I cried. I think she's wonderful.

I love the Queen

She did look so sad.

We'll meet again raised a wry smile here, poignant.

@daisypond the Queen is very religious so I found ‘we will meet again’ appropriate, i.e. in this life or the next.

I thought it was a calm, measured message. Zero politics or anything that will date when the guidelines change. All heart.

There’s another post slating her, I saw the title to post HM the queen, and thought, that’s where I need to be.

I loved it, every word.

I’ve just come out of a newborn sleep deprived haze where I spent my days cluster feeding on the couch and binge watching The Crown. I watched it so much I feel like she’s a mate

Love her and loved the speech. I was sobbing at the reference to 1940, although possibly still hormonal.

Great speech by The Queen - love her.

I'm not a royalist but I thought she hit the right note. I was also struck by how well she looked.

It was very moving - a very good speech

Very good speech, it hit exactly the right tone.

I love The Queen.

Honestly? Platitudes. Empty words.

I wasn’t that fussed about watching it but just watched it online and it was quite moving, not what I expected.

Loved it and thought it was perfectly understated and spot on. We are a resilient people and we will come through this. Thank goodness we’re not having to send our kids away to total strangers to be safe we just need to stick to the rules to have the best chance. She has seen so much in her lifetime and she always makes me feel proud.

I think the 1940 bit was quite poignant because she talked about Margaret, her sister who she was obviously very close to & must miss very much. It made me cry! She was awesome!

I know it’s not very fashionable on here to like her but I loved that.

I thought she was excellent. It made me well up too. It’s so fashionable on here to loathe the royal family and any sort of patriotism is deemed akin to racism.

It was very moving especially when she mentioned making her first speech with her sister in 1940.

Wonderful speech. Just what I needed after a hard day. Bit of leadership with hope.

I think they timed it well and probably knew the PM may be hospitalised. Meant they could release the news and we wouldn’t freak out that no one was in charge

I found it really moving, had a few tears too.