AIBU to ask by the power of Mumsnet can (some of) our DC do something to help celebrate the Queens Birthday?

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If we're all back to school from home next week, it'd make a great pride of the nation activity, red white and blue pictures with a happy birthday theme then all upload with a #HappyBirthdayQueen on the 21st.

I think shes an amazing women who has dedicated her life to our country. My own three DC have enjoyed the various red white and blue themed activities we've seen over the years in their various schools so might enjoy a purposeful activity and looking at those produced by others on the 21st.

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No public holiday for it? I thought there would have been there
But to be fair, us Aussies will make a public holiday of anything if we can.

Even her own family won’t be celebrating her birthday. As soon as lockdown was announced they bogged off to different mansions - Charles couldn’t get far enough away - he took off to Balmoral, taking his Covid with him.

Seriously - some folk must turn their clocks back to the Middle Ages and turn into serfs!

Yes - in Canada they celebrate Queen Victoria’s day 😂.
Meanwhile back in the UK - they are trying to remove some of the few bank holidays we get.

I think when the Queen passes, the RF will dramatically scale down. The Queen knows this, she's a smart woman. I doubt she would want fawning on her birthday under the circumstances.

Thanks to the op and many pp esp @joystir59 for a great laugh. This thread has been a real tonic. Can you do another OP?

@squeekums nope, no public holiday! I'd be much better disposed to it if we did.

Seriously though, this might be the opportunity after the Virus to seriously campaign for a republic. I found the pictures of William and Kate social distancing in their huge country estate pretty irritating and out of touch. They clearly have staff as they couldn't just be chatting on a zoom call without supervising 3 small children. Its ridiculous.

And how many staff are serving Charles and Camilla and the Queen and Phillip in their palaces in non-essential work? Time to get rid of the lot of them. Or let Elizabeth and Philip die and then disband the rest of them. They contribute nothing in a post covid world and know nothing of the suffering endured by many.

When the royal family donate some of their vast wealth to the coronavirus effort, or make any of their many home available to the homeless, I might think you have a point in celebrating this elderly lady's birthday, but until then you are on own with this I think.

PatricksRum very true.

I have enjoyed this thread.

I feel a bit sorry for the OP, actually. The 'power of Mumsnet' is summoned and given quite often... but not for her, not for this. It was just misguided perhaps?

I think everybody's losing their minds at the moment.

Under no circumstances will I or any of my family be celebrating the billionaire monarch who asked the government for money from the state poverty fund to heat her palaces. The monarchy should only exist once every other family in the UK can afford to heat and eat.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe but the power of mumsnet is meant to be for good, not to send cards to an old person who isn't having to worry if they can heat the house, get food and medicine or if the hospital will try and save them if they get sick.

I'd rather encourage my DC to celebrate someone who has achieved something measurably significant for this country. The Windsors are not quantifiable either in monetary terms or those of productivity: their exemption from the FOI Act - the only citizens in a country of 66m - has seen to that. I celebrate democracy and meritocracy, not heredity and mediocrity.

I know, MrsRobinsonsHandprints, that's the thing - OP thought it was doing good - for the Queenie and for the children of Mumsnet looking for things to do. Seriously misguided and awesome in clench-inducing cringing, but she meant well (I believe).

But, she's had her arse Royally toasted and handed back to her and I expect she's a bit embarrassed now, having fled.

That 'Power of Mumsnet' thing makes me want to vomit anyway, wherever I see it!

I wonder if the staff at the various palaces have been tested so that they are safe to continue working for the RF ?

Why are you talking about? No just no.

I'm still waiting for the OP to answer my question on page two asking her (the OP) to explain in what way the queen has dedicated her life to this country.

Someone wrote the exact same words on a previous thread about the queen (don't know if it was the same poster) and I asked the same question there, also didn't get an answer.