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Longest Reign

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ElephantsChild · 03/09/2015 18:41

On September 9th, the Queen is set to overtake Victoria's record and become our longest reigning monarch. She's been around an awful long time. Has she got a nickname? - I can't think of one.
If you think of Good Queen Bess or Richard the Lionheart or William the Conqueror or the wisest fool in Christendom, they all had their moniker. Even her mother (the QueenMumGodBlessHer) had one.

Has she got a nickname?

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EdithWeston · 03/09/2015 19:38

Brenda?

KanyeWestPresidentForLife · 03/09/2015 19:51

Stavros calls her cabbage or sausage.

Her Dad didn't have a nickname, or his brother, or his Grandfather (unless you count 'dirty Bertie' as a proper nickname. Neither did Victoria and the only Hanovarian nicknames were 'Sailor King' and 'Farmer King'. I reckon it takes a good 400 years for a nickname to stick.

AuntieStella · 03/09/2015 21:07

Only a week to go.

I just can't imagine a different monarch. Just trying to work out how old you'd have to be to remember life under the previous. Well into your 70s, I guess.

EdithWeston · 04/09/2015 23:56

Looks like there'll be lots of coverage in the weekend papers.

She's 89, and has slowed to some 400 engagements last year.

madamginger · 05/09/2015 00:04

It's my sons 5th birthday on the 9th.
Pity we aren't getting an extra bank holiday Sad

AGnu · 05/09/2015 00:10

Longevity Liz?

YonicScrewdriver · 05/09/2015 00:38

Charlie Blocker?

Behooven · 05/09/2015 00:46

Isn't this another thread? Are you trolling op?

EdithWeston · 05/09/2015 09:27

This appears to be OP's only post. And this thread was started a day or so before the one in AIBU, at around the time that the BBC did the 'soft' news story about the commemorative coin. And it's in the appropriate topic. (My trolldar must be very off, because I really don't see it).

It's a shame about the Bank Holiday, but I suppose they wouldn't want to tempt fate by announcing too far in advance, and wouldn't want to cause the disruption of short notice.

AuntieStella · 06/09/2015 09:18

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34112486 is an article comparing the reigns of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in numbers.

I was struck by the population growth - it doubled in Victorian Britain. Which is rather more than the rise of a third during this reign. Was the surge then down to sanitation?

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ElephantsChild · 06/09/2015 09:29

I'm not a troll, I'm an elephant! Why am I being accused of trolling - did the thread in AIBU turn nasty? surely not

I like Longevity Liz.Grin

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AuntieStella · 06/09/2015 09:33

'Long Liz' is the nn for Elizabeth Stride, one of Jack the Ripper's victims.

OK, perhaps not the first to leap to mind, but all over t'Internet.

StitchingMoss · 06/09/2015 09:35

Trolling???? Why on earth is this trolling?

Would win the award for most boring troll thread ever!

HarrietVane99 · 06/09/2015 09:53

I was struck by the population growth - it doubled in Victorian Britain. Which is rather more than the rise of a third during this reign. Was the surge then down to sanitation?

It was a continuation of a trend that had begun well before that, caused by several factors.

The statement in the BBC article that eight of Victoria's children 'sat on thrones across Europe' is totally wrong - no idea where that came from. Not good, BBC. What happened to basic fact checking?

AuntieStella · 06/09/2015 10:02

Perhaps they counted consorts as throned? Or does that still give the wrong number?

I've just seen a trailer for the BBC TV coverage. Looks like there will be a lot?

HMQ said she didn't want a fuss made. Are there any commemorative events, or just business as usual?

HarrietVane99 · 06/09/2015 10:25

Still wrong, Stella. Can't be bothered to look them all up, but of her four sons, the eldest became Edward VII. The others were dukes of Edinburgh, Connaught and Albany. Eldest daughter Vicky was Empress of Prussia (mother of the Kaiser), the others married minor German princes and one, IIRC, married into the British aristocracy.

Victoria was unusual for the time in having nine children who all lived to adulthood, although some of them died young. And she was an enthusiastic early user of anaesthesia in childbirth.

Would have been awkward to have a Bank Hol so near the beginning of the new school year, I should think.

EdithWeston · 06/09/2015 10:47

Queen Charlotte had 15 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood. That's quite a family!

AuntieStella · 07/09/2015 13:49

Two days to go.

'Soft' news stories popping up everywhere. A choirboy from her Coronation is now a Privy Councillor, and says that the meetings are all held standing up, and HMQ is still doing them like that even now.

EdithWeston · 08/09/2015 06:55

Different 'soft' news item this morning - about what be doing on the actual day of the anniversary. They'll visit Edinburgh, Midlothian and Tweedbank for the Scottish Borders Railway opening celebrations. Normal, not commemorative day.

BrandNewAndImproved · 08/09/2015 07:14

Edith I love Queen charlotte, she did loads for girls education and women in general. I also like that she insisted her girls have the same education as the boys.

AuntieStella · 08/09/2015 19:57

I really liked this BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34179704 which has a chart showing all the world leaders she's outlasted.

AuntieStella · 08/09/2015 19:59

Next longest seems to be Fidel Castro (1959 onwards).

EdithWeston · 08/09/2015 22:50

I do hope she gets a good night's sleep!

Not that there was anything special in their diary, it seems. Too much like tempting fate?

HarrietVane99 · 08/09/2015 22:55

I've read that HM doesn't like to celebrate the date of her accession because it's also the day her father died. I suppose this comes under the same heading, as it's counting from the date of her accession.

EdithWeston · 09/09/2015 06:37

Yes, I can see why it's mixed emotions about the accession.

I thought it might just be more straight 'tempting fate' not to arrange anything in advance for this.

But it's a historic moment, in its way.