Don't want to acknowledge (accept) that the queen is dead

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My brain is just telling me no no no. It's just too much of a change for me to handle. I can't bring myself to read the news. I'm sure lots of people are feeling like this but just wanted to let it out here since I haven't managed to speak about it to anyone in real life...I just don't want to. It feels awful. I'm not even sure how it's even possible for me to feel this way since I've never met her...

I feel like this too OP. My Facebook feed has been filled with posts about her over the last day and every time I read ones like “the queen has died” “the queens death “the queen’s passing” I just feel so weird reading it. It literally feels surreal reading and saying the queen is dead.

it is because she has been in that position for so long and she is the only monarch a whole lot of people, including myself, have ever known.

im feeling very sad too. I really liked her and had a lot of respect for the queen, but I never expected to feel so sad about her death.

I like Charles and I feel he will do a good job as king, but nobody compares to our Queenie. She was one in a million.

I don’t think we ever appreciated her as much as we should have. She was just amazing.

Also, I think a lot of us are shocked because, although, she was clearly ill, she was only pictured meeting Liz Truss on Tuesday and then 3 days later she’s dead. It just feels strange.

You would have thought she was eternal, like as though she’d always be there and now she has just gone. It really is weird but it was coming unfortunately.

I do wish we could have had another few years with her at least, but I think after Philip’s death last year, she was ready to be with him again.

Can't get my head round it. Surely she is still sat there in Balmoral. Just stop all this king nonsense.

I feel the same. It is shock. How can this be?
I worry for the future without her representing us.
God bless our Queen.

Switch off the telly and SM for a bit. Your brain is probably feeling bombarded.

Try to focus on calming yourself down and NOT thinking about it for a bit.

I think it is hard to imagine her as gone, her image will be with us for a long time to come. I was thinking today, watching Charles speech, and his words on his family - William and Catherine in particular, that the Queen did not have any grown children to share the responsibility with when she became Queen, and she lost her father at too young an age. She was not brought up knowing that she would be Queen either. She was amazing wasn't she? She did all proud and she went in her way and on her terms, in the place she loved.

I actually wish she had abdicated and enjoyed her final years in peace if I am honest, I think I thought she didn't because she was trying to spare Charles the responsibility, but seeing him today makes me wonder if he has been up to the job for a while?

But yes, she has been a constant through my life, one I took for granted. It will take time to sink in.

It's very hard to get your head around.

I suggest watching Charles' speech. It makes it real in a gentle way and he delivered it in such a way that your brain can kind of adjust to him being king.

I've been sat in the corner, bottom lip out, arms folded, scowling that I don't want a King, thank you, since the news broke. Fingers in ears, lalalalala...

But his address yesterday moved me and my scowl isn't as scowly now.

The Queen was just a beautiful soul and I miss her even though I never met her. I still can't believe she's gone.

Absolute overdramatic idiocy.

She was 96. Hardly shock-horror.

Just get a grip and carry on with your lives.

There’s always one 🙄

Aw, I wish I was friends with you, such empathy

Her body has died. Everything that she ever said or did stands for ever. I think there is often, perhaps always, that funny sense of floating unreality when someone dies.

As you're clearly someone who held the Queen in high regard OP, can you flip the script ignore the haters and think how lucky we have been to have the Queen at the helm of our ship, that steady hand of continuity, commitment and stability, for our whole lives.

Her work is now done, right up to 2 days before her final breathe, and she probably hung around an extra few months to get through her Jubilee, the passing of Prime Ministers and then was able to drift away with such quiet dignity as was her entire life. But she has left such a legacy as a role model of what it means to be a successful woman, mother, wife and Queen.

After a while, can it become a celebration for you - we've lived alongside Queen Elizabeth in a time of unique history (amongst the turmoil!).

This clearly isn't the thread for you, so as the Queen's daughter Princess Anne once famously said

"Naff orf"

My six year old was very confused why everyone was looking so sad, so I explained the Queen dying is a bit like when the dinosaurs got squished by a big rock, Terence our Bichon Frisé going to sleep at the vets after choking on a chocolate brazil nut, or what happened to Jolene the school hamster when you fed it that conker. She looked happier. :(

Would she have mailed herself a telegram if she made it to the ton? Or would that be Charles or the Archbishop of Cant? Curious.