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The royal family

The queen spent a night in hospital this week,

169 replies

MrsLargeEmbodied · 22/10/2021 07:54

stoic lady

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Roussette · 26/10/2021 18:21

As I said on the other thread about this... I do think 5 members of the RF attending was a bit over saturation.
Huge ask for her to go at her age so just as well.

forfucksakenett · 26/10/2021 18:31

It's a huge deal that she's not attending. I think that she's heading for almost complete retirement if I'm being honest. She's looking very frail and she's done enough.

CagneyNYPD1 · 26/10/2021 19:08

@forfucksakenett

It's a huge deal that she's not attending. I think that she's heading for almost complete retirement if I'm being honest. She's looking very frail and she's done enough.
I agree, her non attendance is significant. The loss of Prince Philip will have been devastating for her. But the stress that Prince Andrew has brought to her door will be the tipping point, in my opinion.

HM should be allowed to withdraw from all duties with immediate effect, if that is what is best for her.

Viviennemary · 26/10/2021 19:14

I think its the right decision. She should have started scaling back years ago IMHO. Then it wouldn't have been such a oh no what's up with the Queen.

Roussette · 26/10/2021 19:15

I agree.

smilesy · 26/10/2021 19:30

I think the fact that she has not done a great deal over the past year and a half or so and has then started to try and go full throttle has been too much, and this has taken her by surprise. When you are in your 90’s, a year or even a few months makes a difference to what you can undertake.

JayAlfredPrufrock · 26/10/2021 19:33

Poor Queenie

IHateCoronavirus · 26/10/2021 19:35

She’s had a tough year, bless her. Time to rest and let the others take on the lead.

BrilloPaddy · 26/10/2021 19:49

I think she's earned the right to spend her days in her dressing gown, with the dogs on her lap and racing on the TV.

The media speculation is horrible. She deserves better from her subjects.

Roussette · 26/10/2021 20:03

She deserves better from her subjects

Grin

Is that what we are... her subjects Shock Shock

Well... you are on here commenting about her after all

AlexaShutUp · 26/10/2021 20:10

Poor woman. I'm a republican but I do have respect for her as an individual. She is very dedicated and works very hard for a woman of her age. It must be awful to have your health under so much public scrutiny!

forfucksakenett · 26/10/2021 20:33

Yes totally. I'm not sure how much she cares or even knows about the scrutiny but it would help diminish some of that if she took a major step back.

Gilmorehill · 26/10/2021 22:45

@forfucksakenett

It's a huge deal that she's not attending. I think that she's heading for almost complete retirement if I'm being honest. She's looking very frail and she's done enough.
Bless her. I hope she’s ok. She’ll be missed
Viviennemary · 26/10/2021 22:49

I'm sure I read years ago we are no longer subjects. I googled it. Apparently we ceased being subjects in 1983. So you can breathe a sigh of relief Roussette.Grin

MagpieMary · 26/10/2021 22:51

@smilesy

I think the fact that she has not done a great deal over the past year and a half or so and has then started to try and go full throttle has been too much, and this has taken her by surprise. When you are in your 90’s, a year or even a few months makes a difference to what you can undertake.
I agree with this. Also she’s had a major bereavement and all the fuss with Andrew. Not to mention all the rest of the shenanigans...
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Roussette · 26/10/2021 22:55

Phew Vivienne I really don't feel comfortable being a subject AT ALL!

Suddenlyfamily5 · 26/10/2021 23:00

Bless her, I hope she makes a full and speedy recovery.

frasersmummy · 26/10/2021 23:13

I think the fact she was in hospital and back home before the press was informed and her two cancelled engagements speaks volumes

I think she may well be coming towards the end of her life

Puzzledandpissedoff · 26/10/2021 23:22

I think she may well be coming towards the end of her life

At 95 I expect that's pretty realistic ...?

As for the ridiculous speculation in the media - well, soon enough they won't need to do it any more

Minniem2020 · 26/10/2021 23:23

If anyone has earned the right to put her feet up at the age of 95 then The Queen most definitely has.I wish her a speedy recovery

Skiptheheartsandflowers · 26/10/2021 23:34

She's looking very frail

I'd been thinking the complete opposite. When she's been filmed at engagements lately, she has genuinely seemed quite animated, cheerful (especially given her bereavement) and in good shape for someone her age. Even the use of a stick doesn't seem terrible for someone so elderly.

There is clearly more going on medically, it now seems (unless as pp have said, it's from having returned to doing too much too quickly). I can't see how it helps to make that public though. It shouldn't be a shock to anyone that a 95 year old isn't in the best of health. Details would only serve to start a kind of morbid symptom watch where the papers were effectively counting down to her death. Bit like Jade Goody when it became known how badly her terminal illness was now affecting her. I don't think Jade deserved that level of commentary on her final decline, and I don't think the Queen does either.

The Regency stuff seems way off the mark. The Queen has always been clear she will serve in her role until death. Charles can take up responsibilities without any formal declaration of a Regency, as he already has with some things. I hope the first we hear of anything more specific is that one day it will be announced that the Queen has died peacefully surrounded by loved ones and dogs. Till then, she's in her nineties and as far as I'm concerned she can take as much time off as she wants.

On a side note, I was really impressed by how lively David Attenborough was on the news earlier. He's 95 too and he can get up from a chair without grunting and groaning, which I find increasingly challenging even though I've got a number of decades on him.

MrsLargeEmbodied · 27/10/2021 06:28

and covid is of course still around.
i think of course she may have slowed down due to the past couple of years of covid, and being 95!
she is well used to online now so it seems very sensible.

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upinaballoon · 27/10/2021 08:20

....and she's compromising on the Cop 26 by sending a pre-recorded message (I think pre-recorded) and talked to the Chancellor by phone yesterday and did an audience on line. Johnny Dymond gave what I thought was a measured report this morning, on radio. He pointed out that she will want to be fit for Remembrance Day. She usually goes to the service in the Royal Albert Hall and then watches from a window the next day when Charles lays her wreath for her. I will watch with interest to see if she does those regular things, which don't involve travelling far from home.

MagpieMary · 28/10/2021 23:27

I can’t understand why Charles is not doing all the engagements which involve travel now. The Queen should only be meeting the PM and attending to her red box, and attending Trooping if the Colour etc. She’s realistically not up to doing more than that anymore. I expect she she believes she’s up to it though.