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?

Fuck all.

Well I’m 45 on the same day so 😂

I am going out for a celebratory birthday meal that evening, but for someone living, certainly not for someone who protected a sexual predator.

I probably wont do anything.

I was a little affected when she died. But as pp have said, shes gone, long live the king

Waiting for William to be king - i hope he will be a decent one. I liked seeing him join Greg on that comic relief tandem thing

I don’t do anything to commemorate anyone’s birthday when they are dead. I would think about them on their birthday, people who I actually knew I mean, but I wouldn’t think about how old they would have been if they hadn’t died or think about them more if they had reached the age of 100.

Everyone would be 100 if they hadn’t died.

I thought I was weird that people queued for twelve hours or more for the coffin; and incidentally, someone I knew had something confiscated by security. And what was it?

Hand sanitizer! The stuff which her majesty’s chief clown had been ordering us to use in infantilising three-word slogans.

Nothing. Fuck all.
whatever.

Not sure. Maybe have a wank? Or clean the bathroom

Why would you celebrate the 100th birthday of someone who didn't live to be 100.

What an odd question!

Now that would be worth celebrating. The Royals are an embarrassment. A bunch of ugly, vulgar, snorting, arrogant gargoyles.

I would happily mark the anniversary of Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Donne, Milton, Isaac Newton, Boswell/Dr Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Dickens, Ruskin, Walter Pater, George Eliot, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, George Orwell, Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf etc. It’s people like that who make me proud to be British. DNA was discovered in Cambridge in the 1950s. Why don’t we celebrate the anniversary of that? Even P. G. Wodehouse and David Bowie and the Beatles and Monty Python make me prouder to be British than the Royals.

One of the (many) things I admire about the French is the way they celebrate their culture, especially their high culture. The one thing we have in this island is our incredible literary and scientific history. If you were to list the ten most important thinkers who ever lived, three of them would be British (Shakespeare, Newton and Darwin). We ought to celebrate it more. It’s really the only thing we have. Take away Shakespeare and Austen and the Brontes, and so on, and we’re an irrelevance.

Camilla isn't a loser. Camilla is known to have persuaded Charles to marry Diana, to produce an heir. She then befriended her to keep her close. Camilla at 33 should have known better. Diana was 19. Camilla is a manipulator who has done nothing her entire life but hang around Charles. She isn't a queen. She's a disgusting excuse for a woman.

Most people don’t give a damn.

Bluntly, a lot of queens through history have been ‘disgusting excuses for women’. As have kings. I mean, it just means your family manoeuvred or fought their way to the top, either recently or some time ago. It’s no guarantee of particular wisdom, intelligence, goodness etc.

I imagine Camilla is an entirely ordinary woman of her class and background. Horsy childhood, town house and country house, lots of help, poorly-educated, no qualifications because she was always going to have a Season and marry early after a few little secretarial jobs. Which she did — married suitably, had two children, wasn’t faithful, with a philandering husband in a way that again, was completely unremarkable for their class and time, eventually divorced and remarried.

The only reason this is in any way remarkable is because one of her affair partners and the man she remarried is now king.

I mean, the previous queen differed only in being in the line of succession and hence being removed earlier from the horsy, ordinary life she was clearly destined for by her background and nature, so no chance to play around and bedhop on country house weekends and at race meetings.

I wonder if this is the same poster who posted about how "devastated" the nation would be when Prince Charles would be.

Unsurprisingly, I won't be doing anything. I didn't celebrate what would have been my adored grandmother's 100th birthday so I certainly won't be doing it for some woman I had no connection to.

Glad someone else had the same initial thought as me. I think you must be my spirit animal or some such shit 😄