To think these plans for the Queen's death are a bit OTT?

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I won't link it unless asked as it's a DM article [thblush]

But included in the plans apparently is ten days of national mourning - and radio stations have a list on standby of "sad, respectful" songs to play during this time?

I quite like the Queen but if I put the radio on I expect pop music not sad depressing stuff

AIBU?

I want wall to wall Freddie Mercury interspersed with the occasional Sex Pistols ditty - that'd be my fitting tribute.

The world won’t stop. We’ll probably get one day off for the funeral unless it’s at the weekend. The stock market will close for a day, there will be no comedy on relatively somber music on the radio.

Life will continue pretty much as normal really.

When the Queen Mother died, her coffin was guarded by 4 soldiers 24 hours a day and the public could file past to pay their respects. The night before her funeral it was guarded by her 4 grandsons

I believe it was called "the vigil of the princes" and the tradition started when they did it at George V's lying in state ... presumably someone thought it presented a nice image and decided to continue it?

I genuinely wonder if The Queen has had any input on her funeral. You know, like normal people, even though she's hardly normal

I would imagine the funeral woul ensure an extra bank holiday.
I will be sad. Shes been a workhorse. Yes she has a comfortable life but shes a marvellous rep for the Uk.

Im sad my kids wont be ruled by a queen in their lifetime again.

I find the whole idea of mourning a stranger a bit odd. I also find it odd that we still have a "queen".

I’d love to pop back and see proper Victorian mourning. Yards of black bombazine and crepe and complicated etiquette.

10 days of mourning means that nothing will be shown on TV (terrestrial, satellite and cable-) other than documentaries about HM, docudramas, reruns of The Crown and Huw Bloody Edwards giving a blow by blow speculation about the funeral and who will attend. Kay Birley will present hours of programmes about Royal Fashion Funeral Etiquette and we'll all wonder whether it will rain on the hoardes who have camped out in Horseguards Parade for a week waiting to catch a glimpse of the horse drawn hearse whilst refusing to go to the loo in case they lose their coveted spot.

I can remember one shilling and 2 shilling coins being used as 5ps and 10ps and I was born after decimalisation. Some of them still had the Queen's father on despite him dying in 1952 and decimalisation happening in 1971

Yes me too.

Our coinage is so bland now.

I can remember one shilling and 2 shilling coins being used as 5ps and 10ps and I was born after decimalisation. Some of them still had the Queen's father on despite him dying in 1952 and decimalisation happening in 1971.

Yes they were used until 1990 (5p) and 1993 (10p) as they had been replaced by the new smaller five and ten pence coins

I don't have experience with Royalty dying so wasn't sure what ten days mourning meant

God, that makes me feel old. I just had to look up when the Queen Mum died, as I was sure it was only 5 or 6 years ago, but it was 2002.

It was on every news bulletin for bloody days, footage of people queuing up to pay their respects while she lay in state or to sign books of condolence, then nothing but the funeral on telly. On the plus side, a lot of people learned a new word. Until then, I'd only come across "catafalque" from doing cryptic crosswords.

I can't remember if it was her funeral or Diana's when all the shops & pubs were shut. I had to take the dog for a long walk to get away from it. Thankfully we now have Netflix & iPlayer for distraction for us republicans.

Vanilla Thank fuck for Netflix and Showbox..

10 days of mourning means that nothing will be shown on TV (terrestrial, satellite and cable-) other than documentaries about HM, docudramas, reruns of The Crown and Huw Bloody Edwards giving a blow by blow speculation about the funeral and who will attend.

I can cope with that. As long as we don’t have another episode of Essex hairdressers sobbing in Kensington gardens and people banging in as if they knew the deceased personally.

I don't think much will change after the first couple of days. People will be shocked, whether anyone likes it or not. The majority of the population have never known another monarch and can't imagine anything different. She deserves a lot of respect for the fantastic duty she has shown to this country and I hope she will go on for a few more years.

Her Maj ain't going nowhere anytime soon. She looks FANTASTIC for a woman of her years. Own teeth, great hair, good skin, can walk up and down steps, doesn't need any walking aids and working away.

Great genes I suppose.

But then again the Establishment has to have preps for her demise. I wonder how she feels about that. Being her, I'd say she understands it has to be done for protocol and so on, but doesn't really care.

Not a royalist either, but you really would have to admire the woman's tenacity.

I remember her mother had a hip op at about 99, and someone went to help her down the steps and she shoo'd them away. Great spirit in these gals! Must be the gin and it.

She just has a really bad case of RBF as she's got older.

She always did.l bish. It’s just that thing your mouth does as you age adds a Les Dawson aspect to it

I reckon she's trying to outlive Charles.

She is the head of state. Whatever level of advance planning their will be a huge amount of work to be done to manage a

RBF ha ha. Bet it's directed at her husband. The truth will out when he passes I reckon.

Everyone has a RBF at some time or another. She can do this because she is so above everyone else. But in fairness, having lived so long I reckon she is used to the young ones now.

I don't think 10 days mourning is a long time. It will be on a lot of people's minds between the death and the funeral anyway.

When the King of Thailand died there was a year of national mourning before the official funeral and there were loads of rules about what you had to wear, do, not do in that time. Even Thai people in England had flags hanging outside their houses in remembrance.

Lots of people will want to mourn. Lots won't be interested too though!

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Got it in one. IMV!

state funeral.

This will be a an international event, all major world leaders will attend or be represented. The Commonwealth will be out in force. It will be a state occasion on a scale that few have witnessed or will witness again.

I'm not a particular fan of the monarchy, and like it or not, she isnt just a little old granny. Her death will have a huge impact, particuarly, when people realise that they are going to get Charles and Camilla, followed by an extremely reluctant William and Catherine.

Huw Bloody Edwards giving a blow by blow speculation about the funeral and who will attend

Skipping past the first word, I read that as Prince Edward doing the TV speculation!! Then again he was pretty keen on his media career, so god knows what he might come up with

I reckon she's trying to outlive Charles

Yes please, ma'am

London Bridge has fallen is the code word ?
Why do they need a code word (especially one that appears to be well known by everyone, so hardly a code word more a euphemism)
Why not just say 'the Queen/Philip is dead' - the news is likely to come out fairly quickly anyway.