Would you be sad if the Queen died?

[icantchoosejustone]

I've just been reading the thread about Prince Phillip going into hospital and a poster said they wouldn't be sad if the Queen passed, as she doesn't actually know who we are.

I'm not a royalist by any means and I don't know how I'd feel if the news broke that she died.

How would you feel?

Really @raininSummer??

Your employer will dictate to you that you lose leave entitlement for a bank holiday? which is it? leave or a bank holiday!?

I don't think I'd be sad she's not young and she's lived a long comfortable life, I'd be concerned about Charles becoming king though

I just want to say this, the Queen sits on a throne worth 25M. In a hat worth 3.6M from a collection stolen that was originally worth 3.6B. She then has the audacity to give a speech about austerity to families plunged further and further in to poverty. She is no queen of mine.

May she be forgiven in death for the choices she made. What kind of queen sits on a throne while children are dying in this county and sits back. Brainwashed right from the beginning you are taught that the Queen is above you and the royals are beyond anything. That's why the world loses its shit when something happens to one of them.
No reprocussions for them especially not the pedo Prince. I won't feel sad when she dies. Just as she has felt nothing for the majority of us.

Employers can include bank holidays in leave allowances, AnFiadh, so if they do that for additional bank holidays you may not have a choice when you can take those days.

Definitely sad. She’s been a constant for many generations .
I actually think there will be a huge void when she does.
She’s calm and steadfast.

AnFiadhRuaRua

If the poster is part time (say 0.5fte) then they will only receive half of the stat bank holidays. If their place of work is closed on bank holiday then they only get 4 of these as paid bank holidays. The remaining 4 (or more) need to be covered by the employees holiday entitlement.

Sad? Fuck no. What's to be sad about? Woman lives a privileged life and dies when she is old 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes

Yes. I'd be sad. I like her

I don't think we will even get the day off work- the monarchy is not a big part of British life any more.

@girlygirl98

Yes. I'd be sad. I like her

How long have you known her?

I will be very unsettled & sad when HMQ passes, but then I'll feel the same way when Sir David Attenborough leaves this mortal coil.
Both of them have always been there (all my life, most of my DParents, a huge chunk of DGrandparents & some of DGreat Grandparents lives)
They've been a constant in a world of uncertainty & change. (Like Queen Victoria was in her lifetime)
I know it will happen sooner rather than later but the thought of the Queen & David Attenborough dying is to me akin to waking up & finding out that Big Ben/Mount Everest/The Statue of Liberty/The Eiffel Tower etc has collapsed & no more.
David & the Queen feel like the grand parents of the whole Earth,

Btw I don't envy the Queens life. I wouldn't want it for myself or any of my kin. She may have tons of money but she hasn't much freedom.
If anything HMQ should envy our lives.

Sad in the sense that it's the end of an era as she's been on the throne my whole life. The fact she is old means it'll be more expected and knowing she's had a long life makes it less sad in some ways. It'll be sadness in the nostalgic sense rather than in a personal sense.

I like history so I will likely be interested in the pomp and ceremony around her funeral and the new coronation etc.

The Queen gave herself a 13% pay rise.

I will not be sad when she pops her clogs.

Anfiad..... Yes all bank holidays have to be taken out of my legal minimum annual leave allowance. The last one, jubilee was it?, lost me a day if my choice for a forced day when the world and her wife were off too.

I'll spare a thought for her family but no, I won't be sad.
I'm not in favour of the monarchy as an institution, I bear no ill will to any of them but the system is not one I support nor would I mourn it's demise.

@TracyBeakerSoYeah

I will be very unsettled & sad when HMQ passes, but then I'll feel the same way when Sir David Attenborough leaves this mortal coil.

Oh wow. Sir David is an incredible man for many many reasons. Not sure how you can compare or liken him to the Queen

David & the Queen feel like the grand parents of the whole Earth,

Deluded much.

I don’t think I’d feel anything really.

I wouldn't feel sad, she has lived a good long life ,it is for her family to be upset not me.

I would be a bit sad. She's the only monarch I've known (my granny lived through six reigns and actually met Queen Victoria!).

Also she and Philip are similar ages to my parents, who are long gone, and my mum was a big fan of Her Maj so whenever I see the Queen I think of my mum.

The rest of them I'm not really bothered by and I suspect the monarchy may end after Charles and Camilla.

I think a lot of people will be sad when the Queen passes because of what and who she represents. The Greatest Generation are about to walk offstage forever, and personally I shed a little tear every time the “the last veteran of such and such battle” is said to have died on the news.

Obviously the Queen is not a war veteran, but I do believe she’s served her country in her own way all the days of her life. I suspect that it will be our grandchildren’s generation that really appreciates her when documents are made public and the historians get to work.

No.

If I was sad, it would only be because Charles would now be King.j

I don't think I would be sad because she is old and has lived a good life, but I would definitely feel affected. Like many other Americans, I have admiration and respect for her. I am another person who remembers watching her coronation on television as a small child. It sparked a lifelong interest in British history and culture.