To cry re HM the Queen?

[Wife2b]

I’ve shed a tear privately this evening after feeling sadness most of the day following the news regarding her majesty.

Part of me feels ridiculous, I didn’t know her personally but the sadness is real.

Did you have a little cry? I feel silly

[Sparklingbrook]

@Teacupsandtoast

@Sparklingbrook Please accept my sincerest apologies for offending your sensibilities with my phrasing 🙄

Apology accepted. 😁

[Starfishswimmer]

@lollipoprainbow he looked so broken
and it seemed to be the queen was the one trying to keep him in the family
and will anyone else do that now

[Starfishswimmer]

Even Christmas won’t be the same

[Starfishswimmer]

Guess Charles will do a Christmas Day speech ?

[Stichintime]

Not one tear has been shed here. Only interested from a social history perspective, attitude of the media, whats going to happen in the next 2 werks etc. I know a lot if people will be sad but hate the 'God bless the Queen' attitude when people in such a wealthy nation have to use food banks etc.

[TooBigForMyBoots]

I didn't but I probably will have a wee cry before it's all over.

[ShhDoNotTell]

Bloody hell, people are weird. We don’t have a tears quota or something. We can be sad at someone’s life ending and then go and cry when someone else dies. Or be sad and also care about feeding people.

What’s with this weird one-upmanship?

[ReadtheReviews]

Empathy is only imagination, having a lack of it is simply that.
Anyway, yes, OP, did cry. She didn't have to be as good at her job as she was. Yes, she was born into a powerful and privileged position but people in power who aren't born into it are people who chase power because they want it. There's a selflessness to being given a role for life and fulfilling it well that is not replicated by someone clawing their way to the top.

[PutinIsAWarCriminal]

I'm did very much like our Queen, and do keep tearing up tonight. She was a remarkable woman who did a lot of work for our country. I always say I'm not a royalist, but deep down that's probably a big lie.

[AllFadestoBlack]

I'm definitely not a royalist but I did feel upset. After a strange few years due to Covid and in these unsettled and uncertain times, the Queen was a constant. Personally, for me it's another big change that makes me feel uneasy.

[Cheeselog]

@Stichintime

Not one tear has been shed here. Only interested from a social history perspective, attitude of the media, whats going to happen in the next 2 werks etc. I know a lot if people will be sad but hate the 'God bless the Queen' attitude when people in such a wealthy nation have to use food banks etc.

The fact that people have to use food banks is not the fault of the Queen (who was patron of over 600 charities) but the Tory government and its policies.

[Unicorn2022]

I did shed a tear today. It's just another part of life as we know it changing. I'm not particularly a royalist but have wonderful memories of the jubilee parties when I was a child, listening to her speech on Christmas Day every year with the family, watching royal events on TV, all in happier times when my parents, grandparents and siblings were alive.

It sounds daft but the Queen was a living shared link to my missed family members and I am very sad she has died. I thought she was fantastic.

[notnownorma]

@ShhDoNotTell

Bloody hell, people are weird. We don’t have a tears quota or something. We can be sad at someone’s life ending and then go and cry when someone else dies. Or be sad and also care about feeding people.

What’s with this weird one-upmanship?

You don't understand. Unless you don't care about her death in the least, hate everything she stood for and think the monarchy must be abolished, you are a right wing shill who probably whips peasants for fun. Get with the Good and Moral Person Programme...

[Fifiesta]

I don’t find it odd that people feel sad at the death of the Queen.
Obviously few of us ‘knew’ her, but we did know what she personally represented.
In her case it was, duty, steadfastness, and a connected concern for the ordinary people of the country - even though, we obviously all live lives vastly different to her own.
Compare and contrast to the traits that we could have had in our monarch. Picture someone totally absorbed in their own life, with no empathy for others, nor the ability to keep calm and carry on.
Nobody is perfect, but the efforts that Queen made to do her very best, were very inspirational and will be missed.

[notnownorma]

And no, I didn't cry because I didn't know her personally. But I am fed up with all the performative republicans who honestly come across as pretty cuntish in the circs.

[NippyWoowoo]

Well you posted on AIBU, so I'll say YABU from my perspective. But everyone is different.

I didn't shed a tear.

[Phrenologistsfinger]

Why on earth would I cry? Genuinely don’t get it. A little sombre pause due to the historical end if an era but cry? Really? I cry at loads if things but not a 96 year old whom I have never met passing !

[JaceLancs]

Welled up slightly - but that’s as much about remembering my own losses as mourning the Queen
I am sure her nearest and dearest will be crying for their loss in the same way

[Blankscreen]

I agree no tears here over an old lady I don't know.

I had a moment to pause and think back to my childhood and of the queen, Maggie Thatcher and my Nan. All powerful women in their own way, all of whom have died.

She was 96. It's not a tragedy.

[Pallisers]

Compare and contrast to the traits that we could have had in our monarch.

That is a fair point. If you have a hereditary monarchy you are definitely at the whims of the personality of whoever is up next. Think of Edward VIII. If you have that system I suppose you do have to be grateful when you get someone with a sense of duty.

[EndTheMonacyNow]

I really don't understand it. I understand it's very sad for people who know her and I completely understand that when someone dies even if you don't know them it can bring up a lot of emotions. I also think sadness can be a bit catching so if everyone you are seeing in the TV are sad and mournful then it's going to make you sad too.

I cry at some of the medical documentaries that I watch. Some are brilliantly filmed and follow the stories of people who go on to die. Id challenge anyone not to cry if you are watching someone being told they have terminal cancer.

It's a historic moment but i wont mourn the Queen. She was an amazing woman. She never seemed to say anything wrong and she did a lot more 'work' than many others in the Royal family. I just can't feels particularly sorry for someone who I don't know and who lived such a long life and seemed to have died fairly quickly and peacefully.

Think of all the people in care homes who died over Covid having not been able to see their families and, I imagine, being extremely scared.

[TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz]

I’ve cried a lot. I love her and think she’s a remarkable woman but I’m not someone who cries when people die…so I’m quite surprised at myself, to be honest!

It’s really hard to explain.

[Sarahzb]

I'm not a royalist but yes, I've been tearing up.
It's the continuity at this time when everything seems to be so grim too.
Also her work ethic. Blimey. What a woman!
And the marmelade sammich was v funny

[Sarahzb]

But I'm a weed

[Booklover3]

I cried a bit in private when I heard and I do well up when I think about it. I don’t know why as I’m not a royalist. I’m not over thinking it. It’s okay to feel sad. She seemed like quite a remarkable and determined person.