Why is the Queen so quiet?

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I wish she would say something, even a ten minute video urging the nation to pull together and do what we need to do in these challenging times.

I imagine it would be a boost for older people stuck at home, I know my MIL would appreciate it. She loves the Queen.

Because she’s very old and vulnerable so will be keeping well isolated, ditto Phillip, and she’s had a shit few months already so she’s probably utterly exhausted.

What possible difference could it make to anything if she addresses the nation? Do you honestly think that people who are behaving like greedy selfish twats or getting hysterically anxious are going to suddenly have an epiphany of English stiff upper lip and reasonableness just because the Queen has been on the telly?

LOL flamingo spot on.

Because she will be surrounding herself with as few members of staff as possible. She won't want camera men/film crews going in. She is a 93 year old woman, give her a break, she is having a hard enough time as it is.

Thinking logically for a moment, having a crew of cameramen, sound guys, a director etc all trooping through the home of a couple in their 90’s really isn’t a good idea.

This is not how TV and video is produced anymore. There will be a studio in Buckingham Palace and one in Windsor already in place with remote-control functionality. Just like any other modern TV studio where the cameras and lights are all controlled remotely from a control room, which might be adjacent to the studio but could equally be 100 yards away in a truck or 100 miles away in a completely different location.

Shes probably sat on her throne of 1000 3-ply toilet rolls feeling sorry for all the peasants getting ill. There's no need to be nasty. When she was a young woman she trained as a mechanic and military truck driver in WWII, her family stayed in London throughout the blitz to give moral support to all the people who couldn't leave.

She's in her 90s, if she wants to avoid people to protect herself and her even older, even frailer husband then leave her alone.

I don't like the monarchy, think it's a waste of money but I think it is pretty low with all that is going on to attack a woman in her 90s who has always done what she sees as her duty.

Why is she quiet? Because she's not suffering at all. A spoilt pampered woman who has never done a proper day's work in her life. She cannot empathize with us because she has no empathy.

Oh, the irony of comments like this!

How nasty and unempathetic must you be to write something like this?

So much for the fantasy that we're all pulling together and will somehow come out of this crisis better and kinder. So many people are showing themselves to be disgusting

"Italianmoma1983

Prince Phillip has passed away"
You may well be right, he will do at some point in presumably the next year or two, but how do you state it as bald fact in this way?

I was touched when I heard she was moving to a remote (and more easily defensible castle.) Obviously out of concern that she might be contagious and pass it onto her subjects.

I understand she has plans though to open the place to the 1000s of homeless people currently suffering with no help at all... oh wait. No she isn't. Her contribution is waving. from a safe distance.

@Dreamprincess while I absolutely do not wish her maj any harm, I'll save my sympathy for the elderly and isolated who cannot afford to buy 3 months' worth of food even if they could get their hands on it. And if they do become dangerously ill, face being denied the ventilator they need in favour of a younger patient.

Strangely I seem to find I have enough sympathy for anyone who needs it.

PieceOfMaria

Because she’s very old and vulnerable so will be keeping well isolated, ditto Phillip, and she’s had a shit few months already so she’s probably utterly exhausted.

What possible difference could it make to anything if she addresses the nation? Do you honestly think that people who are behaving like greedy selfish twats or getting hysterically anxious are going to suddenly have an epiphany of English stiff upper lip and reasonableness just because the Queen has been on the telly?

So what is the point of her then?

She can't/won't say her case on political issues such as Brexit.
Now addressing the nation in a time of crisis would make no difference.

And somebody mentioning upthread that the poor thing has lost her "Great Grandchild"...

Goddsake!
Lots of people's relatives emigrate without even having the benefit of capital letters.

A few words from the world's most pampered woman would be utterly tone-deaf, imo. This is not wartime. The world - and the public opinion of the royal family - is very different from the one that prevailed then.

If the queen or any other member of the family wanted to help, they could offer something practical. Funding a new emergency hospital. Offering a palace or two to be repurposed as a hospital.

While people are scrapping over loo roll and tins of beans, and parents weep about feeding their kids, a few kindly words from a multi-billionaire in a castle about 'pulling together' might not have quite the desired effect.

She’s not permitted to speak on Brexit, other than in the most general terms. She must be apolitical and neutral.

So really no point to her then.

Thanks, 1forsorrow.

I'm anti-monarchy, but completely get where you are coming from.

@Waspnest me too. I just don't think the Queen really needs my sympathy. I think she's doing just fine without it.

So why even mention it?

She is far from pampered

I don't mind the queen, but are you actually serious??????

I think she's had enough this year. Andrew, Meghan & Harry, poor Beatrice can't get a wedding for love nor money.

I suspect she's hiding under the blankets. I don't blame her. I don't need to see a broadcast. It's not Christmas.

This is not wartime

And still people in the UK haven't grasped what is coming their way. The UK is perhaps two weeks behind Europe in terms of the spread of the virus (or at least the reported spread) and yet already has far more deaths per million from Corona than countries such as Austria and Germany that have been in lockdown for up to two weeks.

www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/10/italian-doctor-says-coronavirus-outbreak-like-war-situation/

I'm in lockdown in Europe. Governments across the continent have put in place emergency measures and mobilised the forces and reservists. People have not gone into panic or meltdown, but the vast majority have realised just how serious the situation is and are behaving accordingly.

QuimJongUn

Well you summed me up perfectly, elderly, poor and living on my own: but you can keep your sympathy and shove it where the sun don't shine.

If you think I would want to live at the expense of a younger person with more responsibilities and possibly a young family and long future, you are in cloud cuckoo land.

I have had a fantastic life and want younger people to have the same. This sort of rationing has been going on all my life time and I have benefited from it in the past.

She probably has her own ventilator / ICU in the palace as well as a panic button to the nearest hospital, and enough tests to regularly test herself and her staff. This is not your usual older woman isolating - if push came to shove the NHS would probably try to save her at the expense of someone younger

Phillip isn't dead. I have my sources.

And still people in the UK haven't grasped what is coming their way Couldn't agree more.

so really no point to her then

Well whether there is, or isn’t a point to her is a matter of opinion, but either way the ‘point’ of a monarchy is not a political one.