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What will happen when the Queen dies???

639 replies

GizmoBasil · 15/04/2021 14:59

Just pondering after Phillips death.

My view is the country will lose a lot of it's stability for a period of time, and I say that as a closeted Republican. She's all anyone alive has really ever known. It will be quite a time of massive change that's for certain.

The national anthem, money, names like HMRC - Will these all change overnight??

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Lockdownbear · 15/04/2021 15:56

@Apileofballyhoo

Interesting that the Duke of Edinburgh title is hereditary - are the Duke of York and Sussex titles the same?
I think they are, bit like Duke of Kent, inherited it from his Dad hence his brother is Prince Michael of Kent.

But they might only pass to a son. But I'm not 100% sure, I read something about Dukedoms being handed back to the Crown when they have no one to pass them on to.

Maireas · 15/04/2021 15:58

@Apileofballyhoo

Interesting that the Duke of Edinburgh title is hereditary - are the Duke of York and Sussex titles the same?
Yes, one day Archie will be the Duke of Sussex (if he chooses).
prh47bridge · 15/04/2021 15:59

@PicsInRed

Also I suppose we definitively find out if Archie becomes Prince Archie once he's grandchild to the reigning monarch.
Letters patent of 1917 remain in force meaning that Archie would become a prince unless the new monarch agreed otherwise.
JaneJeffer · 15/04/2021 16:00

MN will be full of people complaining that Charles is not the king of England.

duvetdreaming · 15/04/2021 16:00

The national anthem will change,stamps will change.

All fun things will close and there will be nothing on TV for a bit, maybe until the funeral has happened. Music on radio stations will be subject to restrictions. I can't imagine Freddy Mercury belting out 'Who wants to live for ever' or 'Another one bites the dust' on any radio station who wants to keep their licence.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 15/04/2021 16:00

Always known when the queen dies it will be a big thing. However since seeing how big Philip's death has become. I am really wondering what the queens will be like now too. Never thought Philip's would be this quite this big.

The mechanism of tradition in the monarchy will make the queen's death go smoothly in a organised way. The media on the other hand will probably be bonkers for a month. Running every story they have ever told about the queen over again in a rewritten form. The general public will be a mixed bag but she is much more liked than Philip. So most people will show respect initially at least. After a couple of weeks some will get the hump.

Maireas · 15/04/2021 16:02

I read that the tv schedule is altered for one day for the death of the consort or heir to the throne, two days for the monarch.
We're supposed to get a day off next year for HM's platinum jubilee.

IEat · 15/04/2021 16:02

Anything Her will be changed to His
Money will be changed , no doubt royal mint have money with Charles on already

Chloemol · 15/04/2021 16:03

Nothing changes other than Charles becomes king and anything that is current her majesties becomes his majesties and we sing god save the king send him victorious rather than Queen a s her

All interchangeable

Maireas · 15/04/2021 16:04

The money won't need to be changed immediately, as pp have said, just gradually brought into circulation. Barristers will be KC.

2bazookas · 15/04/2021 16:04

@GizmoBasil

Just pondering after Phillips death.

My view is the country will lose a lot of it's stability for a period of time, and I say that as a closeted Republican. She's all anyone alive has really ever known. It will be quite a time of massive change that's for certain.

The national anthem, money, names like HMRC - Will these all change overnight??

Nonsense. The whole point of Monarchy is that the instant one dies, the next in line instantly fills the vacancy; and everyone knows in advance exactly who it's going to be. And their pronoun.

We've already had 73 years to get used to Charles, so when he becomes King he's not about to spring any massive surprises, let alone changes . Even if British Monarchs had that kind of power, which they don't.

murbblurb · 15/04/2021 16:07

I would have thought that we are a very different country from 1952. But despite being asked not to do so, lots of us still leave heaps of wasteful flowers to rot in piles as tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh.

Well, at least it supports the florists.

I am sad for a very old lady who has lost her partner of seven decades; although if Private Eye are to be believed, they weren't actually that close for the last one until covid forced them to share the same (large) house. Who knows?

TheFourOhFour · 15/04/2021 16:08

@PicsInRed

Wording changes immediately, new money and infrastructure is cycled in as and when new stock is needed. Official mourning will be significant, I wouldn't expect as much opposition as seen to PP's mourning. There will be enormous pomp and ceremony around the funeral, proclamation of King, investiture of PW as new Prince of Wales (Kate becoming new Princess of Wales) and eventual coronation of (probably) King George VII.

Prince Edward will become Duke of Edinburgh (and Sophie presumably now Duchess of Edinburgh), as the title reverts to the Crown.

Some people will go absoutely mad when the Queen dies. As a republican I shall keep my head down for a while and wait it out quietly in an ideological bunker.

This.

Were I still living in the UK when it happens, I would schedule walk-in things that are open but where getting an appointment is usually a faff, or you’re waiting. The day of the Queen Mother’s funeral I saw both my GP and my dentist.

Doris86 · 15/04/2021 16:08

There will be a lot of protests from people saying that William instead of Charles should be the next King.

Then someone will have to remind them that the whole point of a Monarchy is that you can’t choose. If you want to choice you need a republic.

ajandjjmum · 15/04/2021 16:09

@IEat

Anything Her will be changed to His Money will be changed , no doubt royal mint have money with Charles on already
I wouldn't have thought so, as they wouldn't have known what year to mint on it - unless you know something I don't! Grin
LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour · 15/04/2021 16:11

I don't think anyone's said this yet on this thread - it's her 95th birthday next week.

GrownUpBeans · 15/04/2021 16:12

For me it will be the end of an era and time for a republic.

ajandjjmum · 15/04/2021 16:12

She was three weeks older than my Mum. Sad Not going to be a very happy birthday for her this year.

DarlingWithoutYou · 15/04/2021 16:12

Love people coming on here to say they don't care. Bore off.

LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour · 15/04/2021 16:12

@viques

It will be my third monarch. Honestly, all this chopping and changing. A person doesn’t know if they are coming or going..... Grin

I will know to hang on to my model coronation coach this time, and not throw the box away.

Eh? How old are you exactly?! Confused
Doris86 · 15/04/2021 16:16

@Maireas

The money won't need to be changed immediately, as pp have said, just gradually brought into circulation. Barristers will be KC.
Exactly, any new coins minted will have Charles on them, but all the QE2 ones won’t suddenly be taken out of circulation.

Shilling coins (worth 5p) and Two Shilling coins (worth 10p) with a variety of former monarchs on remained legal tender until about 1990. I remember spending them in the 1980s.

Gingernaut · 15/04/2021 16:16

Radio 1 will sound like a Last Night of the Proms concert, the TV stations will be wall to wall 'dead Queen', the pundits will be giving the odds about Charles making way for William, everything will stop and we'll have the funeral to end all funerals before the Coronation.

Devlesko · 15/04/2021 16:17

A few days off work, Charles will be coronated, and they all move up a position.
Lot's of tv programmes about queenie, and very little else for about a fortnight.

Rukaya · 15/04/2021 16:19

Whether or not you like the queen/monarchy, one thing you can say is the the queen has provided an unruffled stability over decades

You can say it, I wouldn't agree. What stability has she brought? She just....exists. She doesn't actually do anything. (and don't start on about all the "works" she does, shaking hands and opening things is not of any real use to most of us).

It will be my third monarch. Honestly, all this chopping and changing. A person doesn’t know if they are coming or going.....

You must be over 85 years old.....

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 15/04/2021 16:22

Hardly. The Queen ascended the throne in 1952 on the death of her father, so @viques need only be 69 this year to have been alive in the reign of King George VI.