What will you do to mark the late Queen's 100th?

[molanasulfi]

On 21st April 2026, it will be what would have been the late HMTQ's 100th birthday.

Even though she passed away nearly four years ago, I know some people still miss her.

So, will you be commemorating the day or remember your late sovereign in any way on that day? Maybe a minute or two of silence or watching some royal documentaries or attending a church service of remembrance since I've heard some churches will be doing so?

Or, have you decided not to?

I shall spend some time contemplating why some adults refuse to give up their childhood delight for kings and queens and princes when the reality of them is appalling. That will probably take a couple of seconds. I will then spend another brief moment wondering how diabolical their behaviour has to get for those fans to see the reality and grow up.

I wouldn’t even acknowledge or celebrate it if she was alive so no i definitely won’t now that she’s actually dead and won’t actually be having a birthday.

Nothing whatsoever.

Bog all, pet.

Zero

Celebrating dead people’s birthday shouldn’t be a thing. Let the dead rest in peace. Move on.

Posting "Happy heavenly birthday, our Liz" on Facebook, obvs.

Nothing.

She's dead, so she is no longer our head of state, and as I had no personal relationship with her either, the 100th anniversary of her birth bears no significance to me at all. It's irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.

Or, have you decided not to?

I haven't decided to do/not do anything - it's just not on my radar!

Nothing. I'm a huge lover of tradition, pomp, circumstance, military and royal ceremonies.

But QE is dead. She doesn't have a birthday today.

I also don't do performative "happy heavenly birthday" for deceased relatives on Facebook. I don't see the point or how it benefits anyone.

I miss the laugh emoji

Erm, what?

Or, have you decided not to?

I have decided not to. I thought long and hard about it, I considered hosting a street party. But then I remembered that I don't actually give a shit.

Mate, dead people don't have birthdays.

Absolute lol at this thread. I can't decide whether the OP is from America or from Mars.

Edit: Or perhaps from the seventeenth century.

We're having a street party. Obviously we have to hit the right, sombre tone, given that she's dead. So the bunting will be in the colours of half mourning and the scones will have cream, but no jam. It's what she would have wanted.

Apparently demand for black balloons has been so high that if you haven't pre-ordered you are fucked, basically. So many people's big day ruined.

Er, what is the Government doing? Are they going to mark the occasion, and declare the day a Bank Holiday? How about issuing everybody with a solid gold coin, to mark the occasion as well. I could get behind that, no problem.

Nothing. Apart from get irritated If accidentally watched some of the hushed-voiced sycophantic gushing on tv.
I will also think about how she decided to change the law so that Charles didn’t have to pay inheritance tax on his inheritance

I can’t believe anyone thinks these people are decent people.

King Charles's or his son won’t change this massive benefit even though they pretend to care for ‘their subjects’

Nothing. I wouldn’t celebrate a dead person’s birthday.

Nothing, but I will be having 2 minutes silence for Henry VIII's 535th birthday in June (he'd be 535 if he'd lived which is an amazing age isnt it?!)

A much better question. (Though no, apart from reading her.)

Nothing. Though I was very much a fan of the late Queen. I just don’t see the point in marking birthdays when a person is dead as in oh so and so would have been a 100 today. I do think of my deceased loved ones on what would have been their birthday but only by way of thinking of them as they were when they died. Their Birthdays all stopped then and they never got older.

We will go for just a small meal out and make a toast. Just immediate family

Or from the Phone It In desk of Royal News Werkly.