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?

Last week my 7 yo DD confidently informed me that her mate at school had told her when the Queen died they were going to blow up Big Ben. We’ll be disappointed with anything less now.

It is more likely to be Prince Philip who will go first but there will still be a huge state funeral and protocol with poor queen will have to sit through in the public eye.

Feck sake all those attending will be wearing black so we can't have a rant about their choices of outfit. Boo.

Anyway the woman is still very much with us. Let us have some decorum. The planning is for others to do.

The Thai people mourned their (utterly beloved by every Thai person I've ever met) king for a year when he died. We went to the Royal Palace in Bangkok during that time, there were thousands upon thousands of people visiting to pay their respects from all over the country, arriving in vast cavalcades of coaches. All dressed in black, all deeply respectful and quiet. I've never seen anything like it. All the roads were closed, vast traffic projects, temporary bridges, all to facilitate the paying of respects.
10 days seems positively indifferent by comparison!

I recently went on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament and one of the things discussed was the state funeral and coronation plans. The 10 days of official morning are the days she will lie in state in Westminster Hall and as others have said allows time for the final arrangements to be made. They are now running through the procedures weekly.

Someone questioned this and the reply was she is over 90 and whatever you might like to say about the royals they are not stupid.

There is an expectation that life in general will go on as normal but official state activity will be subdued. Some major events may be postponed if they coincided and moving them was possible.

We should get a bank holiday for the state funeral and definately for the coronation.

I guess their absolute nightmare right now would be England getting to world cup final at the same time!!

It's an interesting one, because we haven't had a reigning monarch die in most people's lifetime.
I think it's an official "court" mourning, so some national knees-up events will be cancelled, and we will see official dignitaries and her family showing appropriate restraint and respect for a period of time.
I don't think normal everyday life will change much for the rest of us.

gamingwidow I'd like that

Expect she'll have a mahoosive funeral paid for by our taxes... moan... moan.Sorry but not a royalist. I'll get my coat....

Of course there's a whole protocol in place for when the queen dies. In the same way that famous people's obituaries are written long before they die.

They can't suddenly start thinking about it once she's dead, it's not something that can be done on the hoof, so to speak.

Doesn't mean anything though. She's had an easy life, had the best of everything and been cared for medically on a scale few people have. She could live for years yet.

The 10 days of mourning is just an official and media thing. It doesn't mean no one is allowed to smile for 10 days and we all have to walk through the streets wailing and rending our clothes.

No wish to sound heartless, but I live miles from London, I don't know the queen or any member of the royal family, so with the best will in the world it's not going to have a massive impact on me.

Of course, it'll be incredibly sad for her family and will mean a huge change for the country, but she's had a bloody good life.

When Diana died the radio stations played weird music all day. It was very, very odd. Tv too. It felt very apocalyptical, it will be much worse when the Queen dies. I like our Queen, I'll be sad to see her go.

Most of the world leaders will come. I imagine it takes time to plan especially now they have to make sure Trump doesn't know it is happening.

Will Camilla, Meghan and Kate have to wear veils?

They would have to organise at short notice a massive funeral, bigger even than Diana’s so I imagine it’s just a case of all other business is off, in terms of governance

It would then be followed by Prince Charles’ Coronation as King and then Prince Williams investiture as The Prince of Wales so more bonus bank holidays to come

10 days off work . Sorry to burst peoples bubbles. That’s hilarious. There would be riots in the street for food. Shops pillaged. It’s simply not happening.

May I respectfully suggest creating a playlist for when the sad day does arrive (hopefully not for many more years). "To Build a Home" by The Cinematic Orchestra as sung by Patrick Watson is one possibility. The Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin" is also very moving. Both songs have an appropriate elegiac tone.

Maybe we will get at least one day off for the funeral?

The Code for when her father died was :

Hyde Park Corner

I don’t see why that should change

They kept the cameras off the family during Diana’s funeral so if the boys cried they cried unobserved. I imagine they’d do the same for the Queen at Philips funeral or vice versa

I remember watching the boys walk behind her coffin. The amount of people taking photos was disgusting. It will be the same with The Queen, phones out snapping away. It's disrespectful.

It's strange to me that this is something that is openly discussed. Obviously news outlets will have something prepared but it's odd to talk about it beforehand. It seems weirdly disrespectful, like people are just waiting for her to die.

They have funeral plans for all the Royals, always have done.

The code for the Queen Mother’s was Tay Bridge. I was working at the Cabinet Office when she died and it was a unit there that coordinated it all. I volunteered to work it and did the day that the coffin was moved to lie in state on the top of a press stand on the corner by Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster, got some great photos. And I was up at Wellington Arch the day of the funeral, marshalling the press again, and freezing cold, a very nice policeman let me wear his coat.

They would have to organise at short notice a massive funeral, bigger even than Diana’s so I imagine it’s just a case of all other business is off, in terms of governance

Diana’s funeral was a knock off of the Queen Mother’s. She rather stole her thunder, and when QM did die nobody even got a day off, which was very unusual for a Queen’s funeral.

One thing I can guarantee is a lot of bad news will get buried on those days.

Maybe we all need code words for our own...

Kismett, interestingly for a long time it was treason punishable by execution to discuss the death of a monarch even in general terms.

It was one of the things Anne Boleyn was accused of

@LeahJack

Oh that's true, ten days of crazy politicians to ruin amok? T

The world may end after all!

When her father died, everything stopped according to my mum.
It was only essential workers, everyone else was off.
To be fair though hardly any women worked then so they just carried on looking after their kids, cooking, cleaning and of course mending.
This continued until after the funeral apparently.

It would have been Diana's Birthday today, the same day as mine.
I always wanted to be like her when younger, especially seeing her 21st Birthday bash, it was amazing, compared to my 16th trying not to get id in the local pub
I learned to be happy with what I've got after she was murdered had the accident.