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 had someone on my feed who wishes Jesus a happy birthday on Facebook every Christmas day. Weird thing is she's not even religious, but the last time (before I unfriended her) was "Happy 2016th Birthday Jesus, you were a good guy, hope Ur partying hard up there".

Don’t be silly.

Elizabeth got away with it for years, oh wasn't she marvellous, such a sense of duty, so much wisdom etc. Luckily for her she departed this planet whilst the UK population in general still saw her through rose-tinted glasses.

But turns out she was not the loveable grandma, sharing sandwiches with Paddington etc, that people were queuing up to pay their respects to just a few years ago. No indeed, a true picture of her character has gradually emerged and it's not very pretty.

So no, I won't be thinking about her on what would have been her 100th, like most of the population I imagine. Possibly excepting a few deluded die-hard royalists.

David Attenborough will be 100 on 8th May - I might raise a glass to that

Yes and she has matching tea towels too

Birthday celebrations are for when people are alive. When dead, they cease to have birthdays. Would you not mark the passing on the anniversary instead, which seems more appropriate because deceased people do have death anniversaries vs birthdays.

Good point well-made - I will wait until 2072.

Nowt unless the government want to give us a free bank holiday?

Nothing, it's not her 100th birthday because she is dead. If she was not dead I wouldn't be thinking about it either.

I'm a huge Royalist, and always have been, and I love the Royals (most of them!) and I hadn't even thought about this. Why would I be celebrating this? Queen Elizabeth II isn't 100 in April.. She died in September 2022 aged 96.

I don't think you're going to get many people who are celebrating Queen Elizabeth II being 100 (in April.) Because she isn't. She died 3 and a half years ago!

Oh come on not one of them including Diana was innocent or behaved imperfectly. First and foremost a mother that wouldn’t have allowed her son to marry a divorcee due to duty. She knew where Charles heart lay and yet she allowed the marriage of him and Diana.

What are you doing @molanasulfi since you're asking? You have gone very quiet

She's dead. Been that way a few years now. Why would anyone do anything?

Well the Royals are busy quietly throwing her under the bus for forcing them to like AMW when they all hated him and wanted to stop him shagging trafficked women and inviting Paedos to dinner with them, which apparently even though they were grown adults they could do absolutely nothing about. So I doubt anyone will say or do a thing! ( Apart from Andrew and Fergie)

I loved Princess Diana and felt sorry for her, as she knew Charles secretly loved Camilla. But there were no winners there. Charles was told to marry Diana, he was not allowed to marry Camilla, and all 3 of them were losers in this.

I think Diana was happy in the end, and was flourishing and at her peak when she tragically died in that car crash. And Charles and Camilla are happy now (and have been for some years.)

It's time to let the past go, and stop going on about Charles and Camilla and calling Camilla a dreadful women, and other demeaning names. I mean, blaming the 'other woman' for everything would be funny if it wasn't so daft and ludicrous!

Diana has been gone nearly 30 years, and Charles and Camilla have been married over 20 years. Time to move on, and stop raking up the past!

I recently saw "Cowmilla", which really made me lol.

What, why? Where did you see this, and why is it LOL-worthy?

It sounds really juvenile...

Saw it in The Sun did you?

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Quite… very weird to even consider this.

This isn’t a thing. You stop counting after people die.

lol

I didn't give a shit about the Queen's birthday when she was alive, so I'm not going to start celebrating it now she's dead.

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This thread is so reminiscent of the Facebook posts that say 'happy heavenly birthday nan. 137 today!' 😀😆

I don't know how I'll be celebrating the occasion. But I know that she would have been celebrating by sending herself a card.

Wiv the angles?