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.

This

Mine too-in the local 'news' paper. are you in Worcestershire? I'll be at the pub, so very worried I'll be unable to join in. Grin
No Yorkshire, folk are daft everywhere 😄

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That happened to a relative of mine but in their case it was Elephant's
Breaking point came one year after one of her daughter's asked what she wanted for Christmas .

She responded with "Anything. Anything but bloody Elephants!"

"inspired" ?????????

How on earth is it inspired. Bloody stupid idea.

Just think it’s hilariously scurrilous to leave a tribute of BROWN BREAD

I agree.

I'm also confused as to why one would even think to lay a teddy for an elderly woman. She wasn't particularly into teddies, and she wasn't a child.

It's mawkish sentimentality, and a huge waste of money that could have gone to causes that were close to her heart.

Its absolutely barmy! Thank god she didn't do a sketch with a pepperami. I wish the Palace had announced a donation line or fund people could donate to which would provide a number of new hospitals or hospices in her memory. Instead, we have rotting sandwiches and mulched flowers.

well, flowers .

I agree; same with soft toys, balloons and other environmentally unfriendly claptrap. Not to mention the plastic on the flowers.

The first day of shock, perhaps understandable; now nearly a week later it's just attention-grabby to be prancing about with a supermarket bouquet or jar of jam. If people want to express condolences, write a letter to Buckingham Palace and put it in the post box.

LOL, or a sausage roll or chicken wing.

The first day of shock, perhaps understandable;

It was only 70 years.

Same. I feel no need to leave flowers but I am grieving in my own way. Of course it's not the same as losing a family member or a friend but the queen did not feel like a total stranger. She has been in the news all of my life so her death at 96 reminds me I am growing old. She also reminds me somewhat of my Mum who died young but was born around the time the queen was.

It was the same when Diana died. In the end, the princes told everyone enough was enough. I know many people are sad about the Queen dying, but the amount of waste is absolutely obscene and the endless Paddington associations are baffling to my mind. That was one tiny thing that she did once.

Obviously people want to pay their respects, but there are better ways to do it. Donating to one of the Queen's charities or a food bank would be perfect. Or just lighting a candle at home. Or finding peace in a quiet church. Whatever floats your boat, without the waste, expense and environmental impact.

Yes, it's sad, but it's also life. The Queen was a very old lady. I hope this nonsense doesn't go on and on and on.

Brava!

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I'm not mourning Elizabeth but I'd rather see people making their own rituals - marmalade and all - than have it all directed from above. Surely the cost and labour is a drop in the ocean compared with the no more intrinsically rational official ceremonial and ritual? They want us to mourn after all.

I don't understand the need to leave items. What to people think will happen to the teddy bear they have left, to the balloons, to the candles and other things?

Twee in the extreme. But this is the cap doffers finest moment.

I'm not a royalist and don't personally quite understand the grief, but I do understand that many people are feeling it deeply and want an outlet for the feelings. I think for a lot of people, leaving some kind of tribute, offers an active means of expressing those feelings.

I just wish the palace had thought to direct people a little better. Royalists argue that the RF do loads for charity. Surely there were some close to her heart that she would have liked to see benefit from such a collectively emotional moment? I understand the argument that you can't tell people what to do with their money, but you can find a way to give people a way to use it to honour someone's wishes.

I wish the Royal family would come out and say thank you for the flowers etc but it would be lovely if donations could be made to charities instead.

The only ones who benefit are florists.
or go and put flowers on your grandparents graves.

This!!!

Does anyone do anything quietly anymore?!?!

Could it be that the optics of getting at least as large a pile as Princess Diana might be important here?

Did the Egyptians not, do the same with items in the tombs etc, for the afterlife ?

Just seen the Guardian article about all of this and wondered what the MN response would be…..

I’ve honestly started to think that collective madness is becoming a real thing….

I had the tiniest taste of this sort of thing when my DP died - he was (in his own self-deprecating words ) a bit of a “Z list celebrity” in our town in the “alternative” scene due to his niche profession and forays into the music scene and live performance.

I am still pretty 😳about his funeral and the hoopla I had to navigate for that, with the endless cries of “but people should be able to grieve in their own way” - it became a case of resistance is futile…..

Bizarrely, despite professing to be a bit of an anarchist, he showed some interesting Royalist sentiments when Philip went which left me a bit bemused as we’d been together 11 years and he’d been quite the rebel right up to his unexpected demise at 52….

I’m permanently bemused by it all now - I’ve put up a low key respectful post on my business page about the Queen and feel a bit of a pang at her passing - end of an era and all that, and she was ultimately a fellow human ….

However, Paddington? Marmalade sarnies? It’s a tiny bit facepalm as far as I’m concerned…. and yes, wasteful and potentially hazardous. We’re an odd bunch of creatures these days….

Although there is a dark part of my soul hoping for a large floral Paddington tribute on the coffin, because I’m evil like that….. 😈

I like to think of her zipping off to her life beyond on a jet pack with Daniel Craig.