A thread for those who are not royalist

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IF YOU ARE A ROYALIST, DO NOT READ.

I’m getting fed up with all the posts saying we need to show respect blah blah blah.

Well, I don’t care. I won’t be watching the funeral either.

I’ve seen so many memes shared that have made me laugh, but I won’t share them here cos I reckon the thread will get deleted.

So if you aren’t a royalist, come and talk about anything and everything. Share a funny meme. Or something sweet

I’ll start with the sweetest thing I’ve read in whole

Thank you for this thread. I am posting my support because there is no voice for those fundamentally opposed to a hereditary Head of State, a dysfunctional electoral system with the House of Lords etc.
We are a backward looking country, forever harking back to some glorious past.
The focus on this family at normal times is sickening but this has taken it to a whole new level.
The collective time and energy wasted on reporting on these people's lives is a sad reflection on this country.

I too am losing the will to live after all the wall to wall coverage of cars in the rain and so on. Once the trumpeters had been on on Saturday morning I felt I had closure and I really don't understand why it's just going on and on. BTW they shouldn't even be on the throne anyway, it was a 16th century stitch up that led to them being there.

I can't believe that her nearest and dearest wouldn't also want to mourn in private.

Her nearest and dearest have a strong vested interest in perpetuating the spectacle and the mythology.

Im a bit fascinated but I'm growing increasingly fed up of the wall to wall coverage and now can't wait for it to be over. It really looks like it's all from a different era.

I quite like this one...

This.

People honestly don't seem to realise that it was only a few generations ago this family lived in the very real fear of being shot, stabbed, chucked down mineshafts, beheaded, and imprisoned like their close relatives. Anyone who thinks they don't regard self-preservation as paramount is sadly mistaken.

My work have sent an email offering counselling services!

Jesus wept. That's insane. I'm sorry about your colleague btw.

Half the country has gone mad. Unlike a lot of people, I met HMQ socially a number of years ago. I'm sorry she's dead but her age and the fact she had a great life mean I don't in any way think it's tragic. I also have friends who worked for her, one for 25 years. None of them are posting ridiculous memes or poems or sobbing in the streets, although they are sad.

The overkill especially from the BBC has reinforced the opinion I've now had for a few years that it's time for a change. I don't dislike Charles despite his petulance but he needs to be Charles the Last.

It’s nauseating and mundane propaganda, enough, someone please stop it.

My hope is the media will overplay their hand with plenty boring coverage and even the most ardent supporters will begin to wain.

I'm just leaving this here.

The I speak for Scotland thread, was about on a par with the "let's speak to Ukrainian people through xbox live" thread. I think my time with mumsnet is coming to and end. Just cringe.

My people! So so fed up with it all. Dropped some clothes at the (Hospice) Charity shop this morning. They’d decked out the mannequins in the window in black. I nearly put the stuff straight in fabric recycling in protest.

Finding the Center Parcs stuff just surreal but in looking at it so have discovered this twitter account Grievewatch full of the competitive grieving examples. Hilarious.

Stuff like this tribute on a phone box.

Also did you know that the Government Petitions website is closed at the moment. Just in case you wanted to petition to stop all this.

Ann Summers even have a banner on their homepage. I imagine this is the tribute the royal family have been waiting for. 🤔

I get it’s a sad time, someone has died, a family has lost a member. I’ve never got the whole royal family thing. Don’t care about the royals never have. I don’t understand why people not related are crying. I mean I’m nOt a crier but people are acting like she’s 50 and dropped down with a heart attack, she was 96 and lived a full life. I’ll be lucky if I make it past 60.

Just popping over here for some sanity. Hoping for some cat pictures. 🙂

Maybe it's just my social media but despite the blanket propaganda I get the sense that it's all not going as well as they think.
Especially as they haven't had the funeral yet.

Here you go 🥰 my favourite picture of our gorgeous girl, having a great time in her tunnel 😅

I think that state mourning should have involved shutting down live tv and the BBC showing a black screen for twelve days and playing somber music. Mainly to prevent the inane commentary.
All funeral stuff available on streaming for those who want to listen to Huw droning on. Normal scheduling for everything else.
Shut down all Twitter tweets that contain any reference to RF so we can get on with life.
Having said that we recently lost my FIL so I have found it a convenient opportunity to have a good sob without people giving me a second glance. He was a lovely man and had spent the last 2 years bedridden after a catastrophic stroke. Incidentally he served as a grenadier guard so all the bearskins on tv are a bit triggering.

I get the impression that it depends hugely on your social circle.

E.g. not one person I am friends with on FB has shared a dreadful poem about the queen going to heaven with Paddington, or anything like that, yet according to threads on here they are seeing them being posted 'everywhere'.

Totally this… glad I’ve got Monday off though..

I know someone who died at roughly the same time on Thursday as the Queen. It's so hard for her family to endure the mawkish coverage on tv when they are mourning their own mother without the dubious benefit of 24 hour media coverage.

They haven't been able to book her funeral yet, but have nothing but funeral news on tv.

Yes! That thread had me open-mouthed with its condescending Anglo/London-centric view of the UK and RF.

Anyway, good thread, nice to find out there’s a few of us here 😂

👋

I don't have any memes but I'd like to mark my place here.

I was fed up with the fawning sentimentality even before we officially knew she has died. So glad I don’t live in the UK, ridiculous performative grief everywhere and any dissent shot down as “disrespectful”.

Had to snooze so many people on FB and if I see that bear one more time I’ll spit. There’s nothing to mourn if you didn’t know HMQ personally. She had a long and privileged life, and died peacefully with two of her children at her side.

When I first saw that picture the other day I thought it was the little boy from "It" before I remembered he had a yellow coat.
I didn't know about the Queen/Paddington "friendship."

One of my mild royal memes