Palace requests mourners to stop leaving stuff like marmalade sandwiches

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So the palace has now told people to stop leaving marmalade sarnies and such...

Those who thought it was ok the first time still think it's ok? Or now the palace acknowledges how ‘unsustainable’ it is change your opinion?

FWIW. It was idiotic the first time and still is.

I like that idea, leave jars of marmalade that can be donated.

Some of these responses are quite superior. Lots of people love the Royal Family + get a kick from attending such events. Their feelings don't make them lesser beings and they may even be in the majority.

I'm not sure how much marmalade foodbanks actually need.

People are weird. I work in central London and walked past a few areas today where people had left flowers. It looked awful - piles of wilting flowers in cellophane wrapping with the flower food sachet still attached. All tossed on the floor and lying sideways so you can’t actually see the flowers. It’s not how I’d like to be remembered after I’m dead, that’s for sure.

If people insist on flowers for remembrance (of someone they didn’t know…) wouldn’t it be nicer and a lot more pleasant for them to simply put some flowers in a vase at home and then have them to look at and reflect on for a week or so?

Agreed. Plastic waste and money waste. Donate it to charity. People have to think why? Why am I doing that? It’s utterly bizarre.

I remember my parents having the Golden Shred with the bits in that looked like worms, or the Roses' Lime stuff. Tried both once and never again.

I think about things all the time and I rarely waste money for the same reasons I rarely donate to charity. I don't buy flowers very often but if I wanted to I would. I wouldn't dream of dictating your spending choices. Why do you feel entitled to question those of others?

I wouldn't eat any amber coloured liquid left in jars at the side of the road.

How stupid! Do people think Prince Harry is going to eat their silly marmalade sandwich? Or maybe it's for Kate. Or Camilla.

P.S. They should gather up all the flowers and give them to hospitals and rest homes.

*How stupid! Do people think Prince Harry is going to eat their silly marmalade sandwich? Or maybe it's for Kate. Or Camilla.

P.S. They should gather up all the flowers and give them to hospitals and rest homes.*

Is it chilly up there in the Superior seats ?

PPS flowers are often not allowed in hospitals!

PPPS do you think nurses and staff have time to find endless vases for these flowers?

PPPS Who is this "they" that should be collecting all these flowers are driving round London etc distributing them?

Some people are even more stupid than those leaving the sandwiches.....

Maybe it’s not blind admiration. Maybe they just like having a monarchy, like the history and pomp and ceremony that go with it.
I agree with the sandwiches encouraging vermin but how people grieve and whether or not they decide to buy flowers is up to them. I would happily give to a food bank but for a funeral, I’d want to buy flowers. Two separate issues. You need to step down from that high horse.

Oh thank you SO much for telling me where the flowers come from - it clarifies my point but I’ll stick with the coffee ta.

I do believe the world has finally gone mad 🤦🏻‍♀️

@EscapeRoomToTheSun fantastic idea.

I'm genuinely curious about the Remuneration angle here? Who do you think should get remuneration? How would one go about working out who would get the money? And how much? Just can't get my head around the logistics of it.

I hope this new awareness of plastic waste will apply to everyday life, particularly to graveyards. There is always so much litter around graveyards - plastic wrapping and the fake flowers that have been blown around. No team of "royal gardeners" to clean up all that rubbish.

limitedperiodonly I’m not dictating what people spend their money on. I’m asking them to think about the reality of what they’re doing. And especially not to come into London and spread landfill trash all over it. It’s insanity. It’s littering. It’s wrong. We have such issues with pigeons, rats and foxes. Why you’d think it’s ok to leave plastic wrapped sandwiches and teddies and cellophane is beyond me. I’m pretty sure most of these people aren't genuinely upset, it’s a weird media circus of Death Tourists. Anyway, each to their own, I just think it’s a strange frenzy of peer pressure induced false grief.

The first one was sweet. But they will attract rats etc.
RF should have encouraged people to donate to a named charity in lieu of flowers. The Queen was patron of loads, though, so how do you choose which one?

@Lulusays you dictated to people when you said "donate to charity" and presumably meant: "and don't ;leave flowers". Or is it okay with you if people leave flowers as long as they donate to charity? And which charities would be okay with you?

I'd rather people didn't leave litter, especially since it's right near my home. But people who come to this part of London leave litter. I'm always sweeping it out of my front garden. The good thing is that is very efficiently cleared up in the rest of the borough.

The litter generated by this is as nothing to the amount I pay Westminster Council through my taxes to clean up the litter generated by tourists to this borough at all other times.

I know you didn';t say it but I'm patiently waiting for two handwringers about rats to reply to me because I said it wasn't a problem because it is in a small area and will all be gone first thing Tuesday morning.

If I'm not bothered why are you and they?

I’m pretty sure most of these people aren't genuinely upset, it’s a weird media circus of Death Tourists. Anyway, each to their own, I just think it’s a strange frenzy of peer pressure induced false grief.

It's not just about being sad. It's also about paying your respects, honouring someone and being part of something, including history.

You might not like the tradition of laying flowers but slaying all those 100, 1000s of people as Death Tourists is so weirdly arrogant.

Lots of people agree with my opinion that it’s gratuitous, unnecessary and wasteful. You just happen to have a different opinion. I don’t literally mean they should donate to charity, I mean really, just please do anything other than buy utter shite to leave in the streets. So yes, I guess actually you’re absolutely right, I am rather dictating that they shouldn’t buy and leave crap as rubbish in the streets. It might well be cleaned up by Tuesday, but to where?? Landfill is where, to rot into the water table. I just really think it is totally unnecessary and I wish someone in a position of power had had the nouse and foresight to incentivise people towards a more productive outpouring into something positive and productive. The Queen and much of The Firm are deeply tied to numerous good causes. It’s a lost opportunity and a shame. But happy to respect your opinion that people can spunk their cash on what they want, just a shame it has ramifications for others.

Watching the crowds file past the Lying in State of The Queen in Scotland I was impressed by seeing that no one had their phone out taking pictures. Then I heard that the public had been asked not to, also asked not to flower throw. They didn’t. So the people laying flowers good easily have been instructed to not leave food items, soft toys or flower wrapping. Just Flowers. Yes, it’s wasteful but also is an act that is part of the grieving process. But definitely, no plastic. Easy to ask, easy to comply with.

Love it, well said 👍🏼….are we allowed freedom of speech now or do we still have to be “respectful” to ppl who think we are parasites and would never read our opinion anyway!

Why are Londoners expected to put up with this - essentially people coming in to central London and leaving flowers, marmalade or whatever shite they feel like because ‘it’s for the queen” or because they want to ‘be part of history” in some minuscule way. Not to mention the burden this places on London’s transport, policing, etc

I’m going to remember this thread and bring it up next time someone from Cornwall, Norfolk or similar complains about the hordes of Londoners coming to their part of the country on holiday and leaving their rubbish.