The Princess of Wales on Friday issued a personal statement, thanking the public for their support and updating them on the progress of her cancer treatment.
She confirmed that she would attend Trooping the Colour, and said she hopes to join a few public engagements over the summer.
It’s curious how the more vocally tolerant people dominate public debate, the uglier it gets. Consider the death of Queen Elizabeth II. If there were one event where you’d think people could swallow their bile briefly, it would be this one. But you’d be wrong.
While the Queen’s funeral offered the nation – and the world – a chance to mourn our longest serving monarch, there were moments during Monday’s historic service that reminded those watching that the day was very much about a family grieving for a beloved late family member.
The UK still leads the world in magnificent final farewells to its leaders
State funerals say a lot about the country in which they take place — and one of the things in which Britain still indisputably leads the world are the magnificent final farewells that it arranges for its leaders.
How very different are some of the send-offs seen in less fortunate lands. When Stalin died in 1953, hundreds, possibly thousands, were added to the toll of his victims when they were fatally crushed lining up in Moscow to view the dead Soviet dictator. In 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in revolutionary Iran, the chaotic funeral culminated in the dead Supreme Leader’s body actually falling out of its coffin, while Revolutionary Guards fired into the crowd of more than a million mourners, killing at least eight. In Britain, in stark contrast, the funerary rituals are so meticulously planned and rehearsed that it seems shocking and makes headlines if a lone anti-monarchist shouts a disobliging comment or holds up a blank placard.
I don’t consider myself a Monarchist but as with so many I did admire the steadfast Queen Elizabeth.
Regardless of our personal opinions of the institution there is no question that Elizabeth served her nation and the commonwealth in exemplary fashion.
I am saddened at her passing but history will remember her well.
How historic day will unfold as Britain says farewell to Queen: Her Majesty’s coffin will be taken to Westminster Abbey at 10.44am, arrive at Windsor at 3.06pm before she is laid to rest with her beloved Philip at 7.30pm
Sleep well.
Freedom under a symbolic monarch, guided by a distributed system of government, is a gift from Britain to the world
There are only a few figures who are recognised nationally, and even fewer who are known internationally. But it’s a very small number – a handful – who are known by everyone, everywhere in the world. Fame, like everything else, comes in tiers, and the sky’s the limit.
Queen Elizabeth II was one such figure. American presidents sometimes come close, but none have been as enduringly popular or as instantly recognisable as the Queen. But Elizabeth II was far more than the world’s most famous woman. She was the defender of the most effective system of government that has yet been created: that of constitutional monarchy.
LONDON (AP) — The long good-bye for Queen Elizabeth II is a reminder of a broader truth playing out with little fanfare across Britain: The nation is bidding farewell to the men and women who fought the country’s battles during World War II.
The queen, who served as a mechanic and truck driver in the last months of the war, was a tangible link to the sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines and others who signed up to do their bit in a conflict that killed 384,000 service personnel and 70,000 British civilians.
But like the queen, even the youngest veterans of the war are now nearing their 100th birthdays, and a steady stream of obituaries tells the story of a disappearing generation.
So you want Canada to abolish the monarchy? Here’s why that’s basically impossible
So you want to get rid of the monarchy in Canada?
Legal and constitutional experts agree: It’s practically impossible.
In the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II — whose 70-year reign was the longest in Canadian history — Canadians are again questioning whether it makes sense for the country’s head of state to be a hereditary monarch who lives in the United Kingdom. The Queen’s eldest son, King Charles III, automatically became Canada’s head of state upon his mother’s death.
Nearly 60 per cent of Canadians want a referendum held to determine whether the country stays tied to the British monarchy, a new poll suggests — despite nearly equal support both for and against preserving those ties.
The Ipsos poll, conducted exclusively for Global News just days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, found support for a referendum on the future of the monarchy has gone up since last year, from 53 per cent in 2021 to 58 per cent today.
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Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will travel to London from Sept. 17 to 20 to attend the state funeral for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, their first overseas trip since Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno announced at a news conference on Sept. 14 that the Cabinet will grant official approval on Sept. 16 for the couple’s visit to London. Elizabeth’s funeral is scheduled to be held in Westminster Abbey at 11 a.m. on Sept. 19.
While it is unusual for the emperor to attend the funeral of a member of a foreign royal family, the government took into account the traditional close ties between the imperial family and the British royal family.
The late queen, the world’s longest-reigning monarch who died on Sept. 8 at age 96 after 70 years on the throne, had interactions with not only Naruhito but also his father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, and his grandfather, Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989), posthumously known as Emperor Showa.
“Although the plan was shelved by the outbreak of the global novel coronavirus pandemic, the queen herself had invited the emperor and empress to visit Britain,” Matsuno said of the major reason behind the latest decision.
He added that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Japanese government officials will not attend the funeral.
According to Imperial Household Agency officials, Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko attended the state funeral in 1993 for Belgian King Baudouin, the only other time an emperor has attended a state funeral for a foreign head of state or royal family member.
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests that while many Canadians plan to watch Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral next week, the vast majority have not been personally impacted by her passing and feel no attachment to the monarchy.
The poll from Leger and the Association of Canadian Studies also found that while some Canadians are happy about King Charles III taking the throne and others are not, most are largely indifferent to Canada’s new head of state.
The results, which are based on an online survey of 1,565 Canadians polled between Sept. 9 and 11, are among the first to assess how Canadians feel about the monarchy since the 96-year-old Queen died last week.
Amid the genuine tributes, the left reminds the world of its fundamental commitment to hatred and spite.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying,” Tweeted Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya. “May her pain be excruciating.”
The professor of Modern Languages ghoulishly savored a painful death for the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II: “That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f***ed generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.”
People are lining the streets as Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin travels from Balmoral to Edinburgh.
The hearse is being driven to the Palace of Holyroodhouse as part of the journey to London ahead of her funeral on 19 September.
Mourners have been watching in silence as her coffin, wrapped in the Royal Standard for Scotland, passed by.
Since the Queen’s death, support for ending the monarchy and a desire to debate its relevance have both grown stronger
For Matthew, the Queen’s death is double edged: “There’s cause for celebration in the sense that it might kickstart the end of the monarchy – but it’s frustrating because I daren’t say that to anyone but my wife!”
He admits crafting several Facebook posts arguing that the death of Queen Elizabeth II ought to preempt the UK’s transition to a republic but has shied away from pressing send. “A lot of people seem very emotional at the moment and I don’t want to be the target of a massive pile-on by trolls,” said Matthew (not his real name).
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral will be held on Monday 19 September
The Queen’s funeral is to be held on Monday 19 September, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The event will come at the end of an official 10-day period of mourning, after the death of Queen Elizabeth aged 96 on Thursday. It will be held at 11am at Westminster Abbey.
As long as she was here, as long as she persisted in full dutifulness to the role she was born to, we could say that there was at least one person in all the high offices of the West who manifested and maintained the ideal of dignity.
The word as well as the practice is a lost commodity these days, and has in so many ways been usurped by its polar opposite, vulgarity. Vulgarity is often the premise of fame, indeed how it’s purchased for many, and it has become a tidal force in all areas of public life. Should I begin to tabulate examples there would be no end. From television to fashion to business to universities to politics crude and vulgar rules, and that decayed ideal of dignity, dignity of person and conduct, save for the high example of Elizabeth II — is a ghost presence.
