to have reached peak Queen appreciation?

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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.

I wouldn't say the royals bother me over much, but I hate the sycophantic stuff the papers and TV come out with. I think the Daily Mail and the BBC are the worst offenders. It's not the Queens fault, but I am sick of the fawning, sentimental articles.

I've nothing against the Queen; she has done her duty to the best of her ability. When she dies I would like a grown up informed debate and (I live in hope) a referendum on the future of the monarchy.

Yes I agree the queen has done her duty, but she's massively rewarded for it. I wonder if it's more a case of hanging onto the monarchy at all costs rather than any duty to the country. I am certain she cares very little for her subjects , but much more for herself. I somehow don't think she'll lose any sleep over the vast hardships so many face, the harsh austerity measures, bedroom tax, food banks, sanctions, zero hours contracts, homelessness......the list goes on.

The only time we saw her show any emotion was when the royal yacht Brittania was taken off them. She has to do her duty otherwise the monarchy would cease to be, buts its for her sake not ours.

I've never liked Anne. All that "she doesn't suffer fools gladly" nonsense

Yes, that normally just means that someone is bloody rude. Easier for her to get away with when most people probably don't feel they can answer back and put her in her place.

I'm sure she's a perfectly nice old lady but jeez I'm bored of all the hushed tone fawning. Then again I'm the person who booked a spur of the moment ferry to France the night before Willian's wedding, woke the kids up and said, "pack a bag we are leaving the country" to get away from all the Royal hype.

Yes- Just FED UP.
If any of you is watching BBC Queen at 90, you can understand why some of us feel this is just too much.
All the glitter, the jewellery with the grandsons appreciating the 'wonder' of it all, rubbing it in our faces and then I look around me and see poverty, and all the misery that engulfs some people who happen to have been born less priviledged. Just sick of it- what is the bloody point?!!!
Someone please tell me.

I watched that programme the other night about them. Her sons and grandsons bleating on about what a marvel she is and they don't know how she does it. . They aren't in the real world, haven't a clue about hardships or anything. The queen is of a generation who struggled through some very hard times, (my dear mother included). Not for them their own private medical care and top doctors tending to every little ailment like the queen has. No servants tending to every need, no struggling to pay the bills and wondering how they'll pay the gas and electric bills, nor how they're going to buy warm clothes for the kids and manage to put food on the table.

Do the queens kids and grandkids not realise the massive irony when they boast about the queens stamina and good health. Good genes will come into it partly, but it's obvious that someone who has lived a privileged and cosseted life is going to fare far better in old age than others who didn't have the same lifestyle. It's women like my mum and loads like her I admire, I certainly don't admire the queen.

Love the irony of the Duke of Edinburgh asking members of a community centre who they “sponge off”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/prince-philip-90-of-the-duke-of-edinburghs-most-excruciating-gaffes-and-jokes-10395716.html

eaglesreach and to your mother and mine and countless others, I curtsey xx

Maybe we'll have that referendum when Jeremy Corbyn becomes PM