We're being prepared aren't we? Message about the Queen being under medical supervision

[SpringCalling]

It feels like we're being slowly prepared for her passing away. I feel unexpectedly tearful.

That would be awesome
Don't any of these sad bastards have families or work to do? I can understand to an extent standing around like melons for the jubilee or royal weddings but so they can say oh I was outside buck palace for someone's death says a lot about someone's mentality

My sort of lady, in control to the end and choosing her moment. My mum also died of cancer, it was clear the end was near and the nurse said they'd make me up a bed so I could sleep there. I popped back to her house to grab a few bits, tooth brush etc, and when I got back she'd gone. Twenty years on it still makes me a bit tearful to think of it. She could be infuriating, blunt to the point of rudeness but it leaves a gap you can't fill.

Apologies, but I don't know much about medical protocol. I wonder why they haven't taken (airlifted) the queen to hospital in Aberdeen? Of course they will have medical staff and basic equipment at Balmoral but it won't be anywhere as well-equipped as an actual hospital. I thought that the precautionary measure for such high-profile royals and heads of state was to get them to hospital asap to be on the safe side. Given the palace statement it seems HM's condition is very serious and it would make sense for her to be under observation in hospital instead of at home.

With Catherine and Meghan in Windsor, maybe the women could now take matters in their own hands and pop over to each other's cottage for some🍷to move on from their fall out.

I should think so.

Most elderly people want to pass away at home. I certainly would.

I am seeing stuff on Twitter appear here exactly the same word for word and a photobomb picture appearing on a foreign news site. This really brings out the female equivalents of Walter Mitty.

Have a day off.

Depends if it's an expected death or if she died in her sleep etc why should she go to hospital

Did her father's Dr send him off swiftly with some morphine and heroin when it was clearly the end so he'd have a swift death?

That was her grandfather George V so his deathwas timed to be announced in the Times and not some vulgar tabloid.

I'm sure it'll not be long before a mumsnetter has a mysterious someone who works in a key building tells us that they've been told to lower their flag.

A lot of people choose to die at home, in peace and in private

@HelenaRavenclaw because she's beyond medical help or probably dead I would have thought.

@ancientgran
Thank you and yes, I totally get what you're saying.

I'm no royalist by any stretch but I think the Queen going puts into focus and stirs memories of losing loved ones

I just walked past The Bank of England and there were men on the roof next to the flag pole. We’ve heard she has already passed.

Oh here it is lol

The protocol of who goes where has already been worked out. Everything has been planned ahead to a tiny degree.

It was called the “ Brompton cocktail “ after the Brompton hospital and was kind of phased out in the 80s. Pain killer plus eases respiratory distress.

Aye. I was on Op Forth Bridge too.

Because shes 96 and extreme measures wouldn't be possible even though she is the Queen, she will be made comfortable and pain-free, which can be done at home.

Given the palace statement it seems HM's condition is very serious and it would make sense for her to be under observation in hospital instead of at home

If she's end of life they won't take her into hospital. She will have doctors around her at home to make her comfortable.
I lost two family members last week to cancer - both were on end of life care. There was no question of them being taken into hospital at the last moment. They both wanted to die at home and that's what happened.

I don't know why I've got BBC News on. I only need to sit on these threads and wait for all those people with 'media contacts' and flagpole spotters to give me an update.

Yes. My DF stayed at home till it became impossible. He didn't want to go to 'the slaughter house' as he described the local cottage hospital. (It's actually a lovely caring place)

Well according to them she's died 1793738 times over the past 20 years

That is what I thought. So the fact that they haven't rushed her to hospital means the doctors think that hospital treatment won't help her at this stage -- it's too late. That means they must be really sure that she is not going to make it. :(