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to have reached peak Queen appreciation?

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BrexitentialCrisis · 21/04/2016 11:45

We've had:

Jubilee
Longest Reign
Now 90thbirthday

It's not like I don't think she's done a great job being head of state for so long. It's just that I feel we've spent a long time fawning over her achievements and her life while there are lots of other 90 year olds who haven't lived such a privileged innings who also deserve to be cherished and celebrated.
I guess I'm just feeling a bit emotional today as I'm off for a cuppa with my granny at the care home. Some of the inmates residents there never seem to have many visitors and it's really sad.

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KidLorneRoll · 21/04/2016 12:55

It's amazing how long you can live when you live in complete privilege, don't have to do anything more stressful than wave at people and eat dinner, and don't have to worry about things like waiting months to see doctors.

Truly amazing.

Sooner we are shot of them the better.

acasualobserver · 21/04/2016 12:55

I first got bored with Brenda & Co during the Silver Jubilee. Nothing's happened since then to change my feelings.

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BrexitentialCrisis · 21/04/2016 13:21

wave at people and eat dinner
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Yes
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I often look at the queen and think how amazing it must be to get to meet such interesting people, go to all sorts of parties where everyone is really excited to see you, often listen to kids singing (always love that) and be surrounded by such amazing art. It's hardly work in the common understanding of it, is it? Id love to be the queen, I honestly would. Still doesn't change that I am 'over' it though.

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UptownFunk00 · 21/04/2016 13:22

I came on expecting a bit of Another One Bites The Dust.

molyholy · 21/04/2016 13:31

privilege doesn't count for everything though, it didn't help Princess Margaret

Confused

Yes, I quite agree. I was discussing this very subject with HRH Princess Margaret at her council flat after she had just visited the foodbank.

oldlaundbooth · 21/04/2016 13:39

Of course she's doing well for her age.

She has all the best doctors in the bloody available 24/7. She has never wanted for anything. Ever.

She wasn't getting up at 5am and walking 5 miles to the mill and back at 14 years old was she?

I have no time for her whatsoever.

I'm sure there are 100's of 90 year old women who have achieved and given far more than she ever has.

oldlaundbooth · 21/04/2016 13:43

Why hasn't there been a revolt in the UK yet?

Why?

The gap between the them and us is incredible. And why? Birthright?

Wake up people.

We are back to Lord and serfdom.

vienna1981 · 21/04/2016 13:45

I've just seen the BBC News coverage of the Queen's birthday. More or less as sycophantic as I had expected. Nicholas Witchell especially.

I wonder if HM has become immune to the aroma of fresh flowers and the smell of new paint, Windolene, Flash...

SeaMagic · 21/04/2016 13:46

Yes Brexitential Crisis [Love your name by the way!]

I have often thought how the Royals must believe on some level that they are truly great wits and raconteurs as everyone around them hangs on to every little word they say and treats their articulations as being of great value or highly entertaining or both.

I was reminded of this watching a news report where the Queen was visiting Battersea Dog's Home. An employee asked 'Would you like to take one of dogs home with you Ma'am' and the Queen replied 'I think I might have enough corgis already' and everyone fell about laughing with looks of pure delight as if she had just made the most brilliant, side splitting witticism ever. The Queen took it all in her stride but I thought this must be what she believes life is all about. That you get chauffeured about to these events and everyone acts like you are the second coming and never ignores you or is rude to you EVER.

What this must do to your sense of self is an interesting study for any psychologists, armchair or otherwise, out there.

PollyPurple · 21/04/2016 13:55

MolyHoly, I was responding to Eagle's paragraph, regarding Princess Margaret.

I think the queen living such a long and healthy life is down to the excellent health care, personal physicians attending to every need, a life free of money worries etc.

Of course it's a huge positive having great healthcare and no money worries but it's not always a given that it will help you live to a ripe old age.

A4Document · 21/04/2016 14:03

Don't forget her second birthday in June

She's 90, not 2 Grin

Clandestino · 21/04/2016 14:06

Of course it's a huge positive having great healthcare and no money worries but it's not always a given that it will help you live to a ripe old age.

Not always but really highly probable. The Queen doesn't have to take care of any business. She doesn't have shareholders asking about the profit of the company, doesn't have to make any decisions except for looking cool and distinguished.
She experienced some tragedies in her life, just like all other people but overall she didn't have the worry and stress of a working Mum, who needs to budget, take care of her children, commute as most do, worry about school and employment.
Political decisions have been taken off her hands too so basically she can do the nice Granny thing and be "the voice of experience".
Regular health check-ups with all experts on hand. The ability to live a very healthy outdoorsy life with no worries about where the money to breed and train horses and keep the grounds of the parks she walks in will come from.
All those things contribute to the fact that she is in perfect health. And the good German genes too, to be honest. Unlike English aristocracy, the royal family always had influx of fresh blood which helped to avoid extreme inbreeding which is so common in the highest circles due to limited availability of non-related aristocrats.

araiba · 21/04/2016 14:10

i'm pretty sure she has a birthday every year

t4gnut · 21/04/2016 14:14

All this fuss over a bunch of parasites - lets find a nice high cliff to push them off.

A4Document · 21/04/2016 14:15
Uncoping · 21/04/2016 14:19

I'm with t4gnut.

centigrade451 · 21/04/2016 14:21

YABU - I think it is wonderful to celebrate the Queen. We should be proud of her.

Not many 90 year olds are still working. If you think about it, she has never retired. I can't think of anything more tiresome/boring than what the Queen does and she does it with such grace.

The world will be a sadder place when she goes - so while she is still around we should celebrate her.

You can lambaste me as much as you want!

NotQuitePerfect · 21/04/2016 14:23

YANBU. Made me think more about how ridiculous the whole monarchy bollocks is. Woman that has lived a charmed life living in mutliple homes totalling billions of pounds gets to 90 years old while the country over which she reigns has millions of people having to use food banks. I know that isn't her fault but it has whiffs of Marcos about it to me.

YES YES YES to the above.

NotQuitePerfect · 21/04/2016 14:26

Yes, enough.
Please
Pay your taxes
Pay proper death duties
Pay land taxes that reflect the massive ownership of great tracts of the UK
Declare all your landholdings and investments here and abroad
Stop having weekly meetings with the PM which is unacceptable soft access/influence in a supposed democracy
Pay for your own security
Hand over some of those houses to the nation for national benefit
(Keep a couple for the tourists)
Put that extraordinary art collection into National Galleries
(That art was acquired by or for the Nation and it belongs where we can see it for free in my opinion)
Stop Prince Andrew representing anything other than himself and stop asking us to subsidise him ever again in any way
Stop projecting Wills and Kate as some kind of New Dawn, it is so patronising.

And this too.

Catmuffin · 21/04/2016 14:29

Having the finest foods prepared for her every day has probably helped her longevity too.

PollyPurple · 21/04/2016 14:31

I wouldn't swap her charmed life though, one which has forever been in the spotlight.

araiba · 21/04/2016 14:34

2nd longest serving monarch in the world

long live the queen

BennyTheBall · 21/04/2016 14:41

I don't know anyone who would go and wave a flag at the Queen. Really - old, young, British, whatever. I can honestly say not one person I know would be arsed.

Who are these people that turn up in the Union Jack outfits and wave plastic flags?

Our boss tried to get us all to wear something in tribute today - she did and her PA was probably forced to - but the rest (about 100 of us) 'forgot' Smile

MrsDeVere · 21/04/2016 14:43

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Gottagetmoving · 21/04/2016 14:47

Lots of sentimental, nostalgic, patriotic crap.
I have nothing against the Queen personally,.she seems nice, she is good at what she has to do.
We don't need a monarchy. Its out-dated and ridiculous.