BEARKING: The Queen is poz.

you should post a link. the gurls prefer that.

Just hitting the wires.

She will be fine tho XD

[quote]Just hitting the wires.

who IS you?

I hope she pulls through. God help Charles and Camilla if she dies, because they’ll be seen as responsible.

I think she’ll be ok, but if she isn’t, there’s a 100% chance Charles would step aside so William becomes King.

....

God save the Queen.

They'll do everything to keep her alive which they shouldn't do with a person that age.

[quote]there’s a 100% chance Charles would step aside so William becomes King.

NO! He's been waiting for this his whole life

Now Charles will be responsible for his mother’s death. Well done, Dumbo-ears!

Did she get it from one of the great grand kids? Can we blame Charlotte as part of the bloodbath she’s unleashing on her way to the throne?

Who is this journo named Bearking?

[quote] who IS you?

Insomniac eldergay in California.

If she's vaccinated and boosted, she'll be fine.

Why did they only announce today?

It is not takes 2days to get infected.

OP Dont go all dramatic yet. They take very good care of her. As long as the thing doesn't turn to pneumonia she should be all right for awhile yet.

Oh, Charles, you bad boy, what did you know and when did you know it?

I'm ready to take over as regent. Pass me the nuclear codes.

[quote]BEARKING:

The Queen deserves better than this.

[Quote]God help Charles and Camilla if she dies, because they’ll be seen as responsible.

No I'm quite certain Meghan is responsible.

Charles got the public commitment that Big Liz wants his side piece called Queen, and then took her out.

The DM will try to sidestep blaming Charles by accusing Meghan and Harry of draining the Queen’s will to live.

Circling the drain!!

And why might that be, r18?

R20 Here we come!!!!

If she dies or gets seriously ill, no one will forgive Charles, even if he technically is not the one who gave it to her.

King Charles the Viral

[quote]Why did they only announce today?

With luck, what happened is that they knew several days ago that she had it, and they simply waited to announce it until it was clear she was fine.

R17 Eugenie dear, William is still alive and well.

And your sister is ahead of you on the line.

R18, BEARKING is the hot new meme!

I love "BEARKING" solely because it triggers so many of you bitches

[quote] what happened is that they knew several days ago that she had it

I thought this as well, but didn’t they have her meet in-person with someone just a couple days ago?

Oh jeez, you're right r31.

I have no idea what is going on. This is nuts.

I won't be "BEARKING" -ing and will certainly snicker at those puerile punks who are trying to coin a DL meme.

Try harder, punks!

BEARKING: r33 has stated her boundaries!

R33 probably howls in anger every time someone posts about a death but doesn't use "dead to me."

[quote]I won't be "BEARKING" -ing and will certainly snicker at those puerile punks who are trying to coin a DL meme. Try harder, punks!

Why do you care, stupid idiot!

I think William could end up being a Bear King in a few years, a few pounds. Beard better than head hair.

I think BEARKING will make it

We need some new words

Harry, make our flight arrangements.

We're headed to England for the reading of the will!

She got AIDS by fucking a Bear King?

What is a Bear King? Is that like a title you win at a bear night at a gay bar by showing off your hairy belly and ass while parading around in assless chaps?

Or is it like one of those Midsommar things where some dude from the village wears a bear skin and then gets decapitated when it's hibernation season?

Also, aren't her bones really brittle now? Seems like a good fuck would be a bad idea? Is there some special medical harness that she has to lie in to protect her royal bones?

Does Boniva have a Royal Warrant?

Maybe she's hopped up on Boniva and GHB.

Bear king = Edward VII

She's still going to be carrying out light duties this week? Gurl REST for a second, damn.

I wouldn’t want to rest either if I was at an age where every time I close my eyes might be the last.

Any word on how Prince Charles and Camilla are doing after being infected?

She can’t die before my partner’s cousin gets the royal warrant.

Speedy recovery, Ma'am!

One down, two more to go...

oops, 3, actually...

OT, but am I the only who is left totally cold by the whole "Charlotte is a scheming mastermind" thing? No offence to those who enjoy it, it just does nothing for me.

lol, r11 and r47

the Charlotte as conniving child usurper makes me chuckle.

And speaking of Chuckle, I think he dreads his mother's death. He's used to waiting and he knows Q E II set a standard for popularity he can't match. And he's no spring chicken himself. When most people are retiring from work, he'll be taking on new duties.

In a way, I think he'll have it much harder than Q E II.

It is the CORONA virus, after all.

BEARKING is the new WHET.

The Queen isn’t proving anything by continuing light duties while sick. She should test for a few days…who queens when she’s incapacitated?

CNN should adopt BEARKING

CNN isn't that stupid as the idiot here who's trying to make it happen.

It can take a while for pneumonia to set in. That is what is deadly.

Hi Brian Stelter, R56

I don't suppose there's anybody, anywhere, getting as many good wishes for her recovery as the Queen.

Sorry R56 I meant R55

[quote] I think he dreads his mother's death. He's used to waiting and he knows Q E II set a standard for popularity he can't match. And he's no spring chicken himself. When most people are retiring from work, he'll be taking on new duties.

I agree.

Charles has actually had it very easy.

His mother did all the heavy lifting, for his entire life. Over 70 years!!

Why would he want that to end?

He has all the perks of being first in line for the throne, without any of the responsibility of the reigning monarch.

If anything, he should be working hard to keep his mother healthy.

Besides, it's Charlotte that everyone has to worry about.

Still, R32, certain lifetime bragging rights about "meet, David, he got COVID [italic]from the Queen."[/italic]

I mean obviously you'd have to survive it but if you did, not too shabby.

OP is a silly, tired, old cunt. He posts things that are already posted and spends day and night trying to make bearking a thing.

Her mother died of pneumonia after all

Now, playing Kremlin watcher... why announce on a Sunday? I mean, I guess it's as good as any day but they're historically such foot draggers about health news... this is a big departure. Is there urgency or are they just just-in-casing?

^ That's not a genetic factor, though; her mother was almost 102, and the 'flu and pneumonia are the old woman's friends as well as the old man's.

OP Any relation to Thorin Oakenshield?

Long live the king! Organic shortbread for everybody!

Queen Margarethe of Denmark, a lifelong heavy smoker, got it and cleared it, although she's about a dozen years younger and I guess when you're eighty and ninety every year does count, medically. Still, you know they're giving her whatever medication they can give her. The Times says cases are circulating within Windsor, which could be true or could be the line put out to avoid the "you killed Mama" meme.

The good news is that assuming she recovers, which seems more likely than not, she's about as bulletproof as you can get for the Jubilee.

R49 - It's just that she seemed to show such a lively persona at such a young age. She looked a bit in the mold of her Take No Prisoners Don't Fuck With Me Great Aunt Anne.

If BEARKING makes it to the official "She's DEAD!" thread it will become a new word.

i'm excited

R41 - What a good memory you have, Grandma!

Wassup, bitches?

She’s a well known bug chaser.

The Queen has had nothing but problems since her doctors told her to stop drinking, that is killing her desire to live.

R74 - Oh, look, it's the Vladimir Tiara, only with the emeralds taken out and the pearl lozenges put in!

This stopping drinking thing can't be because of alcohol's internal bodily effects on Q E II.

At her age, what's the point?

I'll bet she's told not to drink because of balance and fear of a tipsy.

Then drink in bed, like the rest of us.

The virus can stay in your body and fuck up your heart and brain and other organs ...

[quote]she's about as bulletproof as you can get for the Jubilee.

Oh, I don't know about that.

This was the first thread, r62.

When she dies we're going to have tons of THIS @ r75, aren't we?

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[quote]Oh, look, it's the Vladimir Tiara, only with the emeralds taken out and the pearl lozenges put in!

Don't address R62 she has needles in her cunt.

R42 She's hardly going to be up a ladder clearing the guttering.

I'm so fucking slow. I just realized BEARKING is a misspelling of BREAKING.

R84 'WHET' is gonna blow your fucking mind!

I thought all the liquor and embalming fluid would kill the covid, I guess I was wrong.

Iorek Byrnison, from the His Dark Materials books, is my favorite Bearking.

[quote]I just realized BEARKING is a misspelling of BREAKING.

It's odd - how did he manage to get the R in such a wrong place - THREE whole digits further along from where it should be.

They seem to be trying to distance the Queen's covid from Charles as much as they can. They sent him out as healthy a few days ago. Very soon. And now they announce she tested positive. I bet she tested positive a few days ago.

One of the two military guys who met with her will take the fall.

R67 - My shortbread is born organic.

[quote] I bet she tested positive a few days ago.

I'll bet she's worse than they're letting on.

Did they become lax on COVID protocols recently?

R84 It did! The first time I saw it on DL, I politely posted that the person was mistaking WHET for WEHT.

^^meant for R85

R88 I'm beginning to suspect it might have been intentional.

R88 As a fellow dyslexic, I’ve learned not to get too hung up about how something came about spelling wise. Especially when typing, because one possibility comes from the brain and another comes from striking the keyboard.

Not Betty Windsor!

Are we going to have typo truthers on DL now?

This makes me happy especially since the Royals were probably responsible for my show getting canned.

Gary’s show got canned? I wondered whatever happened to that thing. His Instagram was funny for a hot minute.

R84, your post did make me laugh if nothing else.

Thank God that that show got cancelled. It was an incredibly creepy premise, IMO.

They showed the queen meeting some ministers or whoever, just the other day, and NO ONE not even she had on masks! Wtf! Are they really trying to kill her? I would think everyone in contact with her should have masks on. What were they thinking?!!!

Oh honey, posting "The Queen is Poz" is way too vague a headline for this site.

Pardon me for not GAF. Betty paid 2 million of Andrew's settlement with Virginia Guiffre. Fuck that coddling old bitch!

[quote]You find it amusing that a 95-year-old great-grandmother has Covid,

Well, r1 is trash, but I also find it a bit telling that the queen of the uk and the leader of this scandal-ridden royal family is referred to by you as a “95-year-old grandmother.”

R105, isn’t that a mutual settlement that the victim agreed to as well? It seems that both sides in this thread are off their meds.

[quote] It seems that both sides in this thread are off their meds.

Oh honey, are you new to DL?

[quote]Well, [R1] is trash, but I also find it a bit telling that the queen of the uk and the leader of this scandal-ridden royal family is referred to by you as a “95-year-old grandmother.”

I'm R1 - all I did was post a link to the news story and now THIS ⤴️

R109/R1, I think he's in the wrong thread. I'm the one who, in the other thread (linked) at R5, wrote,

[quote]You find it amusing that a 95-year-old great-grandmother has Covid, [R1]?

That was in response to R1 in that thread, who had written,

[quote]Cry, Klan Grannies, cry!

Beyond that, I'm not quite sure how it's "telling", as R106 says, that I referred to the Queen's being a 95-year-old great-grandmother. My implicit point - and I think this would be clear to most - was that she is a human being, frail and vulnerable to this illness and also beloved by several generations of her family. Yes, she is a head of state, but she is also a human being.. Again, I'm not sure what's meant to be "telling" about adverting to that fact.

I’ve been here longer than you darl at r108 and there are usually as many wry observers as there are basket-cases in any given thread.

Girls! Girls! You're BOTH insufferable.

R111.

[quote] I'm not quite sure how it's "telling", as [R106] says, that I referred to the Queen's being a 95-year-old great-grandmother. My implicit point - and I think this would be clear to most - was that she is a human being,

Please, spare us. She lives in castles and palaces, has been the subject of countless films and biographies, meets with heads of state, and lives in insane luxury.

Your choice of descriptors is very telling.

R110, I ff everyone who posts that klan granny nonsense.

[quote]there are usually as many wry observers as there are basket-cases in any given thread.

And often, they're one and the same.

Hold on your majesty. I am still assembling my outfit for the Jubilee!

Would the British press really be discussing Camilla becoming Queen Consort in a such a public way if the Queen wasn't on her way out soon?

R118, ahem, HMTQ brought up that very topic herself.

Fuck off R40. You’re pathetically unfunny.

SHE'S DEAD! SHE DIED IN HER SLEEP! JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED

F&F r121 into oblivion

Has the ghost of Louis XIV been accounted for?

I can tell R112 is gay because he used the word 'insufferable.'

R114, I still don't know how it's "telling". Is your point that the KGT is right and that the prospect of her dying is something to be celebrated because she has led a comfortable life? It is a long-established precedent that respect is shown to the dead and, by extension, to those who are near death. That is a custom which has long been observed, though there are exceptions.

[quote]It is a long-established precedent that respect is shown to the dead

Not on DL, it isn't.

R121 - hi sMEGs! No, you are not going to be Queen.

Why start at death?

Just think if you die in some really freaky famous death that gets you in the papers we here on DL will have a great deal of laughter and merriment. Just don't be a Darwin Award winner the most ignominious of them all.

People like R129, crack me up. I actually like an admire Queen Elizabeth II, but she’s not some sacred God for whom mockery is forbidden.

Prior to 9/11, Esquire magazine would publish an annual issue called “The Dubious Honors of 19__.” Some of the best, most scathing comments were reserved for Princess Diana, Mother Theresa, JFK Jr, and Richard Nixon upon their respective deaths. DL itself has a long, storied tradition of making inappropriate comments about tragic events, which is why the World Trade Center came to be known as an insatiable bottom.

Take that faux outrage and shove it up Betty White’s decaying ass.

Her donkey died too?

when having too many servants goes wrong

R126, I enjoy a "MADONNA: SAD LAST DAYS" thread as much as the next DLer but that's not what this is: we are talking about a very frail, fairly blameless old lady who has had prominence thrust upon her rather than seeking it out. I see no reason to celebrate her death or ill-health in a [italic]gratuitous [/italic] manner and if that makes me a boundaries-stating mincing prisspot, so be it.

"Cry, Klan Grannies, cry!" in no way possesses the wit or wisdom that justifies such commentary on DL; it's just plain nasty. Saying that the Queen's "light duties" include fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico - that I find funny. Basically saying "Racist old cunt will die soon haha" does NOT have the DL hallmark of wit or incisive comment.

The loons that invoke klan granny are worthless trash. They persist, but don't count any more here than they do in the real world. Worthless, ugly, unintelligent trash.

[quote]we are talking about a very frail, fairly blameless old lady who has had prominence thrust upon her

and has clung to it with every ounce of strength she can shove into her expertly manicured talons.

[quote] we are talking about a very frail, fairly blameless old lady

Oh, I wouldn't say Senatrice Lindsey Graham was blameless.

[quote] who has had prominence thrust upon her

Oh, that queen. Yeah well, it was mainly Philip who thrusting his prominence upon her.

[quote]"Cry, Klan Grannies, cry!"

There are more and more retarded people on here than ever before - unless it's just one guy.

She won’t necessarily get through this even though she’s boosted. She’s extremely old and Covid has a way of making mischief in ways no medical professional has managed to understand yet.

I have zero sympathy for the old broad, she’s led one of the richest lives imaginable, in a multitude of ways, had her pick of strapping men, the company of brilliant artists and world rulers and good health into her great old age, and lived to see her enemies humbled before her. People on here going into frenzies that anyone dare made an off-color joke about a literal Queen should see themselves out.

Can’t they give her blood infusions from the healthy young great grand kids, why bother to have so many if she not going to get something back from them?

Lady Louise should exist solely for organs, bone marrow, and blood extraction. As long as she lives, so should Her Majesty.

R139 Can you be more specific on the "pick of strapping men" bit?

I thought that lizard people were immune to Covid?

R143, it's presumably just another DLer who thinks that gay men and straight women are alike because they both like men. Because if the average DLer were Queen for a day, the first thing he'd do is line up all the footmen and then position himself - face down, ass up - on the four-poster bed, and then command them all to take turns on him on pain of death. (I include myself in this, lol.)

Straight women don't think like that. True. The Queen is said to have liked sex but straight people's definition of "liking sex" may have been different in the late 40s.

Whoever gave it to her must be found and tried for treason.

Do we know for sure Andrew and Edward are the sons of Philip? Or was it some stable lad she was spending too much time with in the hay. I mean after Anne Philip had done his duty by the country and the Prince Consort could begin carousing again.

If she dies, they will milk more Covid hysteria

I always assumed the Queen would outlive that half-wit son of hers. Not the pervy, child-rapist, the other one who looks deformed.

If today is anything to go by, there really is no dignity in death.

[quote] Can you be more specific on the "pick of strapping men" bit?

Big Liz picked out Phil the Greek as her future husband when she was 13 and he was 18, and spent years fighting with her family about it until they caved and let her have him. The woman has a will of iron for her priorities.

[quote] Big Liz picked out Phil the Greek

Phil may have been born in Greece (Corfu) but he doesn't have a drop of Greek blood in him. Neither did his father or grandfather. Phil the Dane, Phile the Kraut . . . er . . German. Phil the Danish German or German Dane is far more accurate.

Phil spoke Greek and was baptized Greek Orthodox. Apparently in his final years he returned to the Greek Orthodox faith and attended private services. Buried an Anglican though. It's complicated for spouses of heads of churches.

Philip never claimed to have any mastery of Greek and considered himself mostly Scandinavian.

Are all the corgis sending out “Barking News” that their Queen mummy is ill with the Covid?

It’s like a plot line from the very funny show The Windsors

Looking forward to the bitch fight post funeral.

R157 - If you mean Camilla and Kate, both of them are way too savvy for that - especially since the last IPSOS poll revealed that Kate has just surpassed William as the second most popular royal in Britain.

R157. There's a link there for you, Lenny.

R157 - Apologies, I forgot to check on the link.

Oh, Anne and Camilla. I'm surprised at Anne, frankly, and wonder if this is rumour or fact, as no one would have told the press in either household.

Anne is usually very pragmatic..

R159 - Yes, I noted it almost immediately after I posted and did acknowledge that.

And I'm R158, you're R157 - you look like you're talking to yourself.

[Quote]I would imagine the Queen has been prescribed baricitinib, a powerful drug that has shown a highly encouraging ability to disable the potentially tissue-damaging inflammation the virus can cause.

This is the first I've heard of this drug.

That’s because you’re not a member of the Illuminati, R162.

R160, like a huge amount of stuff in the British press, it is probably a made up pile of shite. Being blunt, Anne may have said the public won’t like it when Charles put forward the question which at the time was possibly truer than not. Most people honestly don’t much care. I only care when reading DL.

Anne probably thinks Camilla is a ninny, and they have bad blood between them from fucking the same guy.

I hope it's a wakeup call to the Queen that she needs to hurry up and prevent Meghan's children from becoming princes when the Queen dies. She needs to stop procrastinating on it.

Did we get any updates today!

she's thinner, lost weight.

Sad last days...

Does she still have enough energy to wear the tiara with pride and authority?

Rofl at the Klan Granny at R166.

I'm sure the Queen will heed your advice, and act immediately!

R166 - That horse is in the next county, mate.

If she hasn't done it by now, given the Reaper is standing behind her left shoulder, she isn't going to.

I suspect this is down to several considerations: first, no matter what Harry does, Charles doesn't want his offspring de-royalised, this is ingrained family class loyalty. Second, the Queen knows the screams of racism would rise and figures it's better to let the kids have it, as they're irrelevant, than to arouse the Racist Windsors accusation again. Third, if by some chance the Queen and Charles are fatuously entertaining themselves with dreams of really reincorporating the Sussexes into the family fold, they know they'll have no chance of doing so if she take those titles and HRHs, because Harry will say Fuck You permanently.

Of course, he'll go on saying it, anyway, but they don't seem to care.

Only William would put up a fight here, and William, though increasingly influential, isn't in charge.

Only if the Queen had given up hope entirely of bringing Harry and his kids back in would she have issued those LPs.

I don't say she's at death's door today. But she's bloody close enough to know that anything she feels she needs to do (such as, for instance, row back on the Princess Consort title for Camilla so the public don't go into shock on Coronation Day), she should have already done or do before she hits the sack tonight.

She ain't doing it. Those LPs aren't going out. Archie and Lily are going to be HRHs.

What's an LP, R171?

So Princess Anne will have to curtsy to Queen Camilla? Can you imagine?

I agree, R171, particularly for the race consideration.

The royals know they're in for a rough ride with the British media once the Queen, who is possibly the most admired person in the world, dies. Until now the institution itself has been more or less untouchable, however much individual members may have come in for scorn or unpopularity. Yes, you may think that the Andrew scandal and Charles' honours issue are bad but, compared to what the media will do when the Queen is dead, they're nothing. The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic have as good as said that they are keeping their powder dry while the Queen is alive, and it's no exaggeration to describe outlets like the Guardian, the Observer and (in a covert way) the BBC, as Republic's men in Fleet Street. When Elizabeth dies is when the knives will come out for the monarchy itself.

Allowing the media to celebrate the first HRHs of colour/the first Prince and Princess of colour is a small sop that the Windsors will be quite happy to throw to their enemies in the press. The fact that Merchie and Lilibucks are at least 75% white - probably closer to 85%, realistically, looking at Doria - and the fact that they're irrelevant, as you say, means that no feathers will be ruffled on the other end of the political spectrum. Not necessarily the most savoury consideration but that's how it is.

R172, letters patent.

R174 Nailed it, my son. Our hearts beat as one on this point.

R171

Let the two tossers have the Prince/Princess titles for their spawn. By trying to cash in on these titles via merching (and we all know they will do so), they will make themselves even more despicable than they already do.

Having two California-raised kids (one born there) swanning around using HRH Prince/Princess will be even more absurd than Bea and Eug using it. Maybe Archie and Lillie will have better sense, but I doubt it. The Sussexes already look absurd, though, so it's really a non-issue. The Crown won't let them merch Prince/Princess anything--if the Sussexes try, it will be the Sussex Royal debacle all over again.

I'm betting that they'll be the last two to automatically get HRH Prince/Princess just because they are male-line grandchildren. If the rules don't change under Charles, they definitely will under William.

R177 You're probably right that they'll be the same last of HRHs so far down the line.

My prediction is that Meghan and Harry will proclaim how little this means to them and how they don't plan to use the HRHs.

But the fsct is, that's how they'll be listed on the royal web site.

I hope for the California kids that growing up in the US inoculates them against the absurdity of believing in royal blood, and they end up rebelling against whatever titles they have.

That seems unlikely since they are being reared by two of the most extreme royalists in the western world. It seems likely they will absorb their parens’ belief in their innate superiority and entitlement to privilege.

It's a joke to have the offspring of two people who have left the royal family, swore off their previous royal duties and fled the country to be bestowed the title of prince as a benefit of the Queen dying. If it becomes that meaningless, it's going to hurt the monarchy. Charles needs to have her stop that from happening. The Queen can absorb any negative impact from doing it.

[quote] It's a joke to have the offspring of two people who have left the royal family, swore off their previous royal duties and fled the country to be bestowed the title of prince as a benefit of the Queen dying. If it becomes that meaningless, it's going to hurt the monarchy.

Shut the fuck up, you stupid Klan Granny.

Bottom line? Harry is the grandson of the Queen, and the son of the future King, and the brother to another future King.

If that doesn't qualify him, his spouse, and his children to have royal titles, then NOTHING does.

You ignorant cunt.

R182. That’s right. If Harry and Meghan want to live like 18th century royals it’s racist to stop them.

R182 you are as always a dumb fuckwit.

What's happening with the Queen?

R179, I have no doubt that the children will be brought up to believe that, by having a certain quantum of "blood" or ancestry (however small), they are inherently special because of things that happened to their ancestors long ago. You may not like this sense of predestination but I don't know that the kids' parents disagree.

Maybe emphasis will be put on their royal ancestry as well, I don't know.

Kids will be in rehab in 16 years.

Unfortunately, I fear that will be true.

R182 is AGAIN winning us over with her impeccable reasoning ("klan granny", "cunt" etc) . . .

R179 - That's the most amusing post up. Their father is busily suing the UK government as he tries to get the UK taxpayer to pay for round the clock police protection based on his position in the line of succession - despite the fact that he lives in America, doesn't work for the monarchy and never will again, and three of his four family members are American citizens, and the kids' mother splashes her title around at every possible opportunity.

If there is one thing you can put your life savings on, it's that the Sussexes are going to keep reminding the world Who We Are! And if you think they aren't going to constantly remind their children Who You Are! you are living in Cloud Cuckoo-Land.

Their royalty is all Meghan and Harry have to market themselves with.

When Harry files for American citizenship and voluntarily surrenders all his titles, let me know.

But so far, he's signed his daughter's birth certificate as His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex (despite the fact that neither of those are actually his NAME), and is claiming royal privileges in the UK before his royal blood begins looking too thin to market successfully.

I'd keep my money in pocket if I were you.

It’s been pointed out that Harry wants to keep a UK address, not so that can be close to his grandmother or family, or because of any great love for his country, but because he needs it to remain a Counsellor of State. The Sussexes are trying to hang on to every connection they have left, to maintain the perception they are still actively connected with royalty, since that’s worth more on the market that any extinguished connections.

Anyone supposing Charles is going to revoke the Sussex title, or to start his reign off by issuing LPs depriving the Sussex kids of the HRHs they are entitled to under the current Act of Succession, is also living in Cloud Cuckoo-Land. The Queen isn't going to do it or she'd have done it by now, and Charles isn't going to.

The truth is, their class loyalty is deeper than their loyalty to the Great Unwashed.

And that's the rot in the system. One can make arguments for and against constitutional monarchies (and do remember that Europe alone is home to eight such, not to mention Japan and the Middle East), and this is one of the arguments against.

It should be noted that both Sweden and Denmark, reading the handwriting on the wall of the 21st century, have taken pains to assure their taxpaying public that only those in the direct line of succession will receive state-funded support; that only those will represent the monarchy and the State; and that titles will reflect those positions.

Although the Danish monarchy has not been seeing the restiveness that the Swedish monarchy has, two years ago the Danish Parliament announced that ONLY the heir to the throne and his family could expect to receive the "appenage", or annual state funding. This means that only Crown Prince Frederik is receiving such funding, his younger brother and his family do not, although they continue to work dutifully for the monarchy at a less visible and less frequent level.

It also means that when Frederik's children reach their majority, ONLY his son and heir, Prince Christian, as a future King, will receive that appenage, but Frederik's other three children will have to make their way in the world without it. When the announcement was made by the government, the monarchy stated that, of course, it had never supposed otherwise.

Frederik's younger brother is an HRH. But the younger brother's four children are ONLY HHs, His Highness, Her Highness, but not Royal Highnesses. The younger brother's grandchildren will like have either minor aristocratic or no titles.

That the British monarchy refuses to see why it is now necessary to do this is beyond comprehension.

Andrew is still living in a 31-bedroom Crown Estate property with a divorced wife riding on his coattails. Had the Queen reigned Andrew in15 years ago and the ties to Epstein been cut, the order of succession wouldn't have become such a dicey matter, because removing Harry wouldn't then leave Andrew one place farther up the food chain.

The failure to take action more decisively years earlier, to remove Harry's ducal title because it was based on the assumption that he and his wife would work for the monarchy for the rest of their lives, the failure to reign Andrew in . . .

All these mistakes will slowly accrue until suddenly the cracks widen under their weight.

Charles needs to read the room better than the Queen did; he needs to take a leaf out of Denmark's playbook; he needs to put his responsibility to the public and the monarchy before his personal feelings.

But he won't. On that, I would put my hard-earned.

The best thing that could happen to the monarchy is that Charles should suddenly die of a stroke or something before the Queen does.

William will see to the rest.

She not even dead yet and things are getting messy.

R193 Things have been messy all along. It's just that now those things are front and centre. Those things are like the crabs and algae growing invisibly on the keel of the Ship of State.

Which is suddenly springing leaks.

Will someone generously put a sawed off shot gun in the mouth of R182 and graciously pull the trigger blowing the back of his head off in a million pieces? Thank you ever so kindly for your help.

If it makes Meghan feel better to refer to her children as Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet--and it will--okay, but it won't mean anything to anybody in royal circles. These children are American and will have no real ties or emotional connections to the BRF or the British aristocracy. Hopefully they'll make real friends in California and create stable lives for themselves, but with those parents it will be difficult.

Prince and Princess in this case are meaningless titles and not even merchable under current BRF rules. There won't be photo ops with Grandpa Charles or Uncle William, there won't be balcony appearances or shots of Archie and Lili playing with George, Charlotte, and Louis, and that's what makes you seem royal to the world.

Meghan and Harry would look much better if they eschewed the titles for their kids, but that's unlikely.

Poor Klan Granny at R195.

Don't worry, you old rancid cunt.

You and your bigoted generation will all be dead soon.

But still not soon enough.

R197, I'm sure that St. Meghan, though she would agree with every word of your post, would also have included a #BeKind or something. Otherwise, you're perfectly on-message.

[quote] St. Meghan, though she would agree with every word of your post, would also have included a #BeKind or something. Otherwise, you're perfectly on-message.

Oh, the fucking irony of you posting that, after telling someone to "put a sawed off shot gun in the mouth of R182 and graciously pull the trigger blowing the back of his head off in a million pieces."

But the Klan Grannies are peaceful! They're such wonderful people. Right?

We just hate Meghan and anyone who supports her. But we're perfectly sane.

Pfft. Fucking psychos.

^ That wasn't me. Try again. And I never said that everyone who doesn't like Meghan is peaceful, wonderful or even sane. What I was adverting to was the fact that Meghan fans like you are supporting a woman who has gone on and on about kindness and mental health, etc., while her online supporters are amongst the most vicious and hateful one could possibly encounter.

R199 we are peaceful. But the sheer Christmas like joy of seeing someone like you blown away would fill the heart of every child with gladness. Now go on and spit out your rancid cunt venom wherever you walk you hateful piece of garbage.

Here we go with the cancellations again. The Queen is not well.

R202 This oh she's going on carrying out all her duties is becoming too close to caricature. She's a month or so off 96. It's starting to beg questions about connection to reality rather than reassure. She shouldn't be doing this shit at this age. It's against nature.

She is not going to make it to the age her mother did. Her mother was plump and self-indulgent and didn't have to carry out the duties of a Queen Regnant.

They have to stop this. Ffs, set up a Regency so the woman can stop pretending she's only seventy.

R203 I’ll bet she’s the one who won’t do it. This is who she’s been her entire life. In a way it’s good her job is ceremonial.

If the Queen were not able to work, the government will have a plan in place so that it can continue to function.

She's sick as a dog. Admit it already.

R203, I'm a big fan of the Queen but, on the whole, I agree with you.

R205, the very short list of things for which the Queen is actually needed in her constitutional role, like royal assent and presiding at the Privy council, can be done by Charles. As disconnected as they may seem from the reality of the Queen's frailty and mortality, I am sure that, as you said yourself, arrangements have been made.

Of course, there are lots of other things that the Queen chooses to do - meeting people, reading her despatch boxes even though she can't affect the actual political outcome of the matters discussed therein - but these are not so much constitutional duties as self-imposed "moral" duties. The government can cope perfectly will without her in that regard.

I'm laughing right now because all this reminds me of someone who thought that the Queen was the functioning executive of the United Kingdom: Sarah Palin, who once aspired to be one heartbeat away from the position of US Commander-in-Chief. Frightening!

To be fair to Sarah Palin I remember learning in first grade that England was a democracy and being confused at that time as to what exactly that meant for the queen and shouldn’t someone tell her. I imagine Sarah Palin experienced something similar, she just happened to be over the age of ten and running for Vice President at the time. Awkward

If given a choice of speaking to the Queen about foreign policy or to the PM, most people would prefer speaking to the Queen.

Well, it would be a pretty one-sided conversation, what with the impartiality and constitutional nature of the British monarchy and all that.

"I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

Her Majesty The Queen

Boy, when she said her "whole life", she meant her whole life.

None of my beeswax because I'm an American but, isn't there some way for her subjects to say to her "Thank you, Ma'am. We release you from your declaration and duties. Now, enjoy your Dubonnets and dorgis"?

r211, as the monarch, she’s appointed by God to rule, so the opinion of her subjects doesn’t matter.

If they want her to be here for the Jubilee in June, they need to have her rest from now until then. Charles and William can divide up the duties between them.

Many people work until they die.

It's all they know.

It's all they want to do.

She is one of those people, and if that's what the Queen wants to do, then that's what she will do.

There's no stopping it.

Fortunately Her Majesty has easy access to Invermectin.

I thought it was Inverness.

She should just start again with her one martini a day and say the hell with everything else. I can't imagine anything else she does gives her as much joy.

Perhaps HRH caught it from the Corgis.

“HRH”?

The Queen caught it from Covid CATE.

Pass it on.

[quote]“HRH”?

Her Royal Highness

^ Whoooooosh

It's HM- Her Majesty

Ah, I hope she makes it through the celebration stuff in June and all. I've been feeling a bit sentimental about her lately. I think it dates from her giving her little speech about how we'll all get through COVID and "see our friends again". Meanwhile, back in the States we had Dump denying its existence.

Prop her up. I say, prop her up.

I'm especially sad about how she is now because she had totally *bloomed* after the DoE died. I mean, animated, smiling, running around at the horse races, riding, driving....then out of nowhere it was announced (which I thought odd) that she was going off the sauce.

I remember thinking OH NO! She's been doing fine for 94 plus years just as she was. Do NOT fuck with her pleasures or her schedule, because in my experience that's when it all goes to shit. Well, look at her now, COVID aside. She went downhill a week within that announcement. I'm sure it was well intentioned, but some people you can't put in a virtual hamster ball to protect them, and she is a perfect example. Now, NO tipple, NO riding, NO long walks, NO driving, and it's fucking sad. Fuck Charles or whoever gave this to her, but she was fading well before it. Also, not to sound tacky but HM always had quite the set of tits and to see her diminished frame and disappearing bosom, it's depressing as hell to witness.

[quote]Prop her up. I say, prop her up.

So AbFab.

^*I'm doing my best

Is she still dead?

Keeping her off the sauce was the most stupid advice ever.

Another bow-out with a ridiculous explanation. Obviously the Queen is quite ill.

R231 you’re quoting People magazine? Really?

The decision was based on it probably considered somewhat insensitive to hold a white tie and tiara diplomatic event at Windsor in the same week that the UK’s European neighbour is having the shit kicked out of it by Russia.

Yes, HM is old and yes, she’s been diagnosed with COVID-19, but you Queen’s funeral obsessives need to get a grip and stop reading the tea leaves. Sometimes a delay is just a delay.

The Maul reporting tonight she met the Cambridges and Princess Beatrice at Win dsor yesterday. She's well again.

^ Great news.

[quote] The Maul reporting tonight she met the Cambridges and Princess Beatrice at Win dsor yesterday. She's well again.

Maybe she was saying her goodbyes.

Don't forget the Spanx!

[quote]The Maul reporting tonight she met the Cambridges and Princess Beatrice at Windsor yesterday.

Hopefully discussing what to do with the traitor, Princess Eugenie.

Death bed vigil.

R238 The woman on the death-bed vigil has recovered and drove herself yesterday from the castle to Frogmore to hang with Bea and her baby and all five Cambridges.

Interestingly, no mention of Euge and Jack. Apparently "not at home" was the tactful phrase used in the DM yesterday.

One cannot but wonder if family lines are bring drawn up, with placid, seemingly dull Bea turning out to be sharper than one supposed.

Bea and Eugenie will not be blamed for their disgraced scumbag of a father. They are still princesses and I believe they are well liked despite being spoiled because what member of the Royal Family isn't? It comes with the position. I see them taking on some of the roles as young representatives of a rapidly aging monarchy.

She has a resumed virtual audiences... photo from today.

Poor dear. She looks like shit.

Ladies and gentlemen, the York girls are nice and will be getting royal duties soon troll returns.

They are toxic by association. A reminder of their father every time they show their faces.

R242 everybody looks like shit on Zoom calls, especially soon-to-be 96 year olds just recovering from Covid.

She needs a light ring.

But while we’re here, R242 - how about posting a screen shot of how you look on Zoom or Teams? I’m sure you look absolutely delightful, right?

I'm worried 😟 about Long Covid with the Queen. I mean problems could show up for her ten or twenty years down the road!

She's tough, R245. I'd bet big money in ten or twenty years she won't even feel it.

In 2043, the Queen will be telling her great-great-grandchildren about how she lived through the Great Pandemic of the 2020s...

If the Queen can do some of her government work through Zoom, they should just set up an AI image to do it, like Max Headroom.

Ah, glad to see she's feeling better. Finally some good news in this world. Maybe she'll make one of her sweet, grandmotherly videos so she can tell Putin to go fuck himself ("or, as my dear irish friends say, go feck yourself, ya rusky twat!")

A woman who will be 96 in one month is entitled to look like shit.

[quote] I'd bet big money in ten or twenty years she won't even feel it.

That's not a bet. It's a sure thing.

In ten or twenty years, she won't be feeling anything.

Gee, do you think maybe that was the joke?

R242 thinks she should look like Kim Novak in 1956.

The Queen was a bug chaser.

If Diana were still alive, she would’ve cemented her status as The People’s Princess by hugging her COVID-positive former mother-in-law.

If Diana were still alive, she'd be on the Polish border handing out blankets, toys, and food.

[quote] The Queen was a bug chaser.

YASSSSSSS KWEEEEEN!!!

[quote]Bea and Eugenie will not be blamed for their disgraced scumbag of a father.

Eugenie should be more concerned about her association with Harry and Meghan.