Cannot get over the queen was working two days ago…

[sendwineandastraw]

I’m not a royalist by any means but I do feel sad with the queens passing, she seemed a lovely old lady and like many has been a constant all throughout my life…

But OMG I cannot get over than literally 48 hours ago she was still doing duties and standing shaking Liz’s hand looking though frail, smiley and every bit the part, just how?!

She really was incredible.

Thats the way I want to go, active until the end and then just switch off what could be better, dad went that way, albeit younger, mum only had a week in hospital.
So I hope it’s in my genes to go quickly.

A friend's grandmother had her hair done, went to the chiropodist, had lunch out with a friend, bought the evening paper, went home, made a cup of tea, sat down with it and the paper, and died. I hope I go like that.

She had her 70 jubilee celebrations , saw in a new PM and then it was ' job done ' and then to then die in the beautiful surroundings of Balmoral.
A class act, duty up to the end.

Her hand was black, possibly from a cannula, so I suspect she steeled herself for that meeting, and it probably really took it out of her.

We were discussing back along whether she was going to step down and retire so she can take it easy before she dies.

But her serving her country right until the end speaks volumes about the type of women she was and why so many people around the world have been saddened to hear about her death.

My husband went to work as usual one Monday morning, drove to the depot to get his work for the day and died in his vehicle outside. He was relatively young and it was such a shock. Over a year later I have to pinch myself, I still feel intense grief.
I know I will be slated for this but i find it hard to understand how people can feel the same grief for a person they do not know or love personally
i am not a royalist but respected the queen for her hard work and serving the country with dignity and integrity. She will be missed by the nation and I can ‘grieve’ for the loss of the queen in a way that is different to the loss of a loved one.

I'm sorry for your loss, @vickibee .

I don't think people are grieving in the same way. They are grieving, though. In addition to sadness about her passing, which is historical and personal as we all have memories of her, people revisit other griefs. We are all visiting memories of other people we have lost, perhaps comparing and contrasting with those more personal losses, triggered by the memories being shared everywhere.

This happens. People die if strokes / heart attacks a couple of hours after being fine.

Young and healthy but paid a pittance no doubt. Prepared to pay them the Queen’s salary to work when unwell up until the age of 96?!

I was happy and relieved when I saw the photo of her on Tuesday. She looked her age and frail but well. Yesterday was a shock and while we all know she was 96 and couldn’t live forever, I’m still sad.

She was dead before that.

It takes hours to notify the order of VIPs (so her family who werent there can have time and travel for the hand over, to notify parliment, the commonwealth leaders and allied leaders etc...) of the queens death before going public.

The breaking new announcement that she was unwell would have come after her death as a first warning to those in the know to start the chain and to prep the public for the upcoming bad news but we where bottom of the list to be told that news.

I also doubt she died in her sleep, she died in the afternoon according to all reports so unless she was having a cat nap but I cant imagine her as the type to sleep midday.

She was probably asleep most of the time right at the end. You don't tend to adhere to night and day when you're in your final hours.

She was 96 and very ill, if course she was having naps in the day.

It's been on all the main channels not just the BBC
Perhaps check you facts before posting
And have some respect

Amazing woman. Inspirational. I'm heartbroken that she's gone and I don't know why. I guess even though I knew she had to be on her way out soon, I am struggling to conceive of a world without the Queen as the Head of State. It's like England has died. Which makes no sense at all.

All those who are saying - she waited to get rid of Boris are spectacularly missing the point about who she was. She has seen 15 PMs come and go. Some great. Some awful. She would not have seen one PM as significant in the scheme of things.

I think she hung on for her jubilee, and possibly now to see the new PM in, not because it was BJ or LT but because the country was in a state of flux and not settled with no leader. new Pm, leadership in place, she can go. (regardless of who the PM was)

But I think it is highly likely that she had a stroke or similar etc. Hence the scrambling of family to her bedside and her going so quickly. They were not expecting her to go this week.

No just Charles, Camilla and Anne were there.

Her other children and William arrived after she'd died.

Parliament pays tribute .Very moving tribute from the Speaker.

Why would they? It’s going to be televised world wide anyway.

But not only that - I doubt even H & M would be so crass (or be given even the tiniest opportunity to do so by the family).

I can't quite believe how upset I am about the death of the Queen. I'm not even a fan of the Royal family but I've shed tears today. Maybe because it's the end of an era, and I always find endings and change painful. I'm mourning a woman who was steadfast & constant in a world that is constantly shaking us up. We've lost that constancy and I don't think we'll ever see it again.

Was that someone coming off with a Red Dispatch box that we’ve associated with the Queen for so long.

I know. And I just wanted to acknowledge your grief.

@sendwineandastraw

better get used to the idea… there won’t be such a thing as retirement within a generation, and it will be that way for many of us

I think many of us have been surprised at how sad we feel about the Queen's death. She was a dutiful person who took her responsibilities very seriously. I would not have wanted that life for all the privileges that came with it.

I also think that the events of the last couple of years, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the cost of living and environmental worries have all built up in us bit by bit and the Queen's death has been an outlet for everything somehow