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Post by UConnChapette on Sept 8, 2022 12:33:40 GMT -5
God Speed, Your Majesty. I have long admired your grace, dignity, courage and “stiff upper lip” through so many difficult times and family scandals.
May you Rest In Peace.
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Post by knightsbridgeaz on Sept 8, 2022 23:00:30 GMT -5
I just remembered that my father saw her in person. I don't know if it was "coming" or "going", but his Bomb Group went to England by sea, and they had an option of returning by flight or on the Queen Mary (I think it was), and he chose to come home by water. In any case, the then Princess Elizabeth either greeted them on arrival or thanked them on departure.
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Post by meyers7 on Sept 9, 2022 12:28:55 GMT -5
She's been the Queen my entire life.
King Charles III, gonna take a bit for that to sound right.
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Post by chicagogg on Sept 9, 2022 12:47:31 GMT -5
My parents bought our first tv set so we could watch her coronation. Truly the end of an era. So sad.
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QEII
Sept 9, 2022 15:53:20 GMT -5
Post by swash on Sept 9, 2022 15:53:20 GMT -5
She's been the Queen my entire life. King Charles III, gonna take a bit for that to sound right. maybe even longer than his reign
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Sept 11, 2022 9:20:11 GMT -5
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Post by semper on Sept 11, 2022 9:20:11 GMT -5
Be sure you watch the guards take off their hats for the hip hip hooray. You can't make this stuff up...
Check it out at minute 6.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2022 10:55:29 GMT -5
Be sure you watch the guards take off their hats for the hip hip hooray. You can't make this stuff up... Check it out at minute 6. I wanna see the Monty Python and Benny Hill versions........
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Sept 11, 2022 15:51:04 GMT -5
Post by chicagogg on Sept 11, 2022 15:51:04 GMT -5
Love ya, Ken...but not amused by the above quote.It's a little too soon, imho.
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Post by semper on Sept 12, 2022 8:21:03 GMT -5
Ah well. One of the great things about EII was the sense of humor she sometimes displayed. Did you see the James Bond video?
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Sept 12, 2022 13:48:27 GMT -5
Post by huskyharper on Sept 12, 2022 13:48:27 GMT -5
Ah well. One of the great things about EII was the sense of humor she sometimes displayed. Did you see the James Bond video? That was brilliant. She even had one of her corgis in it. Quite sweet.
She really was one in a billion, the world was lucky to have her, especially for such a long reign. She provided an anchor and a touchstone for us commoners to look toward these last 70 (+) years.
I added the (+) sign, because even as a child during WWII, she was a public figure of courage and optomism (sp?) to the commonwealth.
Still glad we threw off the monarchy in 1776, though.
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Post by semper on Sept 12, 2022 18:27:16 GMT -5
Yeah, it's funny. I want the Brits to have a monarchy and I love it over there. But man I don't want us to have one.
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