Looks like Queen is abdicating

errlloyd

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bookmaker-suspends-betting-on-queen-elizabeths-abdication-after-200-windsor-bet-9074274.html


In news that I'm sure hardly anyone will care about, it looks like QE2 is gonna step down this Christmas.

She's been pretty quiet my entire life, so I wonder what a younger more energetic monarch will be like for the UK.

EDIT: Original link was from January, this is an updated link.

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2014-12-17/bookie-suspends-betting-on-queen-announcing-abdication-during-christmas-day-speech/

El Weirdo

Did she accidently the whole thing?

HeidiHeidi

Young and energetic are not adjectives I'd particularly associate with Prince Charles :eek:

Sheep Lover

Big Ears put the bet down I'd say, he's gonna do a pillow over the head job on her to make sure he cashes out.

Menas

The ship QE2 or the woman QE2?

20Cent

So Charles gets it next?
Queen Camilla.

Dj Stiggie

Article is from January

_Whimsical_

All this based on bookies suspending bets on her abdicating because someone in the Windsor area placing a "large bet" of £200 prompting fears of insider knowledge.

If I had insider knowledge and was one of the queens confidants I'd be placing a much larger bet than 200 quid!

Sounds a bit tenuous, must be a slow news day, not that I care what she does.

SEPT 23 1989

Prince George's reign of terror is another step closer

https://whinybaby.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/funny-cute-prince-george-pictures-gifs.jpg

WoollyRedHat

Charles will be singing this plenty over Christmas

donvito99

I'm willing to bet against this.

The Backwards Man

No bookie would suspend betting after a £200 bet on a 3-1 shot.

smcgiff

Dj Stiggie wrote: »

Article is from January

2015? Impressed.

2014? Not so much.

Good. They were never the same after Freddie died.

Menas

Dj Stiggie wrote: »

Article is from January

Good spot. Stand down people, stand down.

Tabnabs

Article is from December according to the Torygraph.

A Royal source told the Telegraph: "If the Queen was going to make a major announcement, she wouldn't do it in a pre-recorded speech that is shown in the South Pacific Commonwealth realms several hours before it is shown here.

"It would mean the end of her reign would officially be announced in Tuvalu, rather than in London. So no, it's not true."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11299022/Bookies-suspend-betting-on-Queen-announcing-abdication-in-Christmas-broadcast.html

smcgiff

She's (quick google) 267 days away from Queen Vic's record for longest serving British monarch. No way is she going willingly before then.

Also, she's (apparently) a firm believer in her being appointed through divinity and therefore believes she should be monarch for life.

TL/DR she's going exactly nowhere.

Philo Beddoe

errlloyd wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bookmaker-suspends-betting-on-queen-elizabeths-abdication-after-200-windsor-bet-9074274.html


In news that I'm sure hardly anyone will care about, it looks like QE2 is gonna step down this Christmas.

She's been pretty quiet my entire life, so I wonder what a younger more energetic monarch will be like for the UK.

Betting suspended over a £200 bet? Seems a bit far-fetched.

Besides, Liz is less than a year short of Victoria's British record.

the groutch

apparently she told Prince Phillip "I want to break free"

Menas

Charles must be fuming. Imagine waiting 48 years for a promotion?

maxwell smart

If anyone in Windsor was going to use insider knowledge and put a large wedge of cash on a sure thing it would be Lizzie herself. And I reckon she would put at least 500 down.

Maybe she is hanging on until the 31st as she has the lot on a spread bet with Paddy Power?

Tabnabs

the groutch wrote: »

apparently she told Prince Phillip "I One wants to break free"

FYP

The Backwards Man

It's a Jan story in the Mail too, somebody in the Telegraph had a bit too much mulled wine last night methinks

Karl Stein

I guess Charles will now have to Stand and Deliver

errlloyd

Edited OP with source from today. Obviously still fairly meaningless.

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2014-12-17/bookie-suspends-betting-on-queen-announcing-abdication-during-christmas-day-speech/

nullzero

What are the odds for her shifting into her lizard self during the speech this year?

c_man

nullzero wrote: »

What are the odds for her shifting into her lizard self during the speech this year?

Those half arsed, ill thought out youtube videos with analysis of highly pixelated footage taken of a tv screen from a 2006 Nokia showing the shape shifting were right all along!

looksee

Two pages of posts in an hour and a half on a topic no-one is interested in! If we could find an interesting topic we could break the internet!

Menas

looksee wrote: »

Two pages of posts in an hour and a half on a topic no-one is interested in! If we could find an interesting topic we could break the internet!

There are a lot of closet crown lovers in this country! A 2015 coronation would be one of the top tv moments on irish tv.

Larbre34

She and Pope Benedict XVI are going to party their asses off in Santa Ponsa.

Beano

Tabnabs wrote: »

Article is from December according to the Torygraph.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11299022/Bookies-suspend-betting-on-Queen-announcing-abdication-in-Christmas-broadcast.html

i think they have just rehashed the earlier story. the amount of the bet is the same in both cases.

Beano

Trigger Happy wrote: »

There are a lot of closet crown lovers in this country! A 2015 coronation would be one of the top tv moments on irish tv.

Us jackeens would have an excuse to break out the union jacks we keep hidden behind the sofa.

TheMilkyPirate

The Backwards Man wrote: »

No bookie would suspend betting after a £200 bet on a 3-1 shot.

They most certainly would on a market such as this.

I don't know any bookie that would even take 200 off some randomer on a market like that.

who the fug

Beano wrote: »

Us jackeens would have an excuse to break out the union jacks we keep hidden behind the sofa.

Unless you have plenty of lube suggest you use the Union Flag , not the Jack

The Diabolical Monocle

errlloyd wrote: »

She's been pretty quiet my entire life, so I wonder what a younger more energetic monarch will be like for the UK.



http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2014-12-17/bookie-suspends-betting-on-queen-announcing-abdication-during-christmas-day-speech/

So would I be too if I was getting away with the sht the royals do.

Id be above politics too.
No no, I must not take a side and destroy all the marketing Ive invested in - for I am above all that.
You may however continue to fund me.

c_man

Trigger Happy wrote: »

There are a lot of closet crown lovers in this country!

Well, they're far better than Dulux imo.

Queen Elizabeth would never abdicate the throne. She is queen for life and rightly so.

Beano

who the fug wrote: »

Unless you have plenty of lube suggest you use the Union Flag , not the Jack

they are the same thing http://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/

Pumpkinseeds

She's not going anywhere. She doesn't want Charles to be king.

who the fug

Beano wrote: »

they are the same thing http://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/

So you are going to believe the Internet over me :mad:

Beano

who the fug wrote: »

So you are going to believe the Internet over me :mad:

you know, hard and it all is to believe, i think i will. I mean, its the website of The Flag Institute. if you cant trust them who can you trust?

who the fug

Beano wrote: »

you know, hard and it all is to believe, i think i will. I mean, its the website of The Flag Institute. if you cant trust them who can you trust?

first off they spelt fleg wrong, need I go on

bnt

Not necessarily, there are still rumblings ongoing. A month or so ago, there was a rash of articles in Teh Grauniad (and poss. elsewhere) about Prince Charles, such as "What kind of King will Charles III be?". (Note the language - "will" and "when", no "ifs" or "buts" about it.) For starters, he probably won't be "Charles III", not after the unpopularity of the previous King Charlies (the first was executed, his son was a closet Catholic who had left no heirs but sired at least a dozen illegitimate children). More likely he'll be King George VII, after his grandfather. But I do think that a multitude of little things are pointing in the general direction of abdication.

Beano

who the fug wrote: »

first off they spelt fleg wrong, need I go on

you make an excellent point sir. one i cannot argue with.

nullzero

c_man wrote: »

Those half arsed, ill thought out youtube videos with analysis of highly pixelated footage taken of a tv screen from a 2006 Nokia showing the shape shifting were right all along!

As if there were ever any doubt.

JaseBelleVie

David Icke will be having a field day over this.

bnt

Deleted User wrote: »

Queen Elizabeth would never abdicate the throne. She is queen for life and rightly so.

The same was said about Edward VIII, but then he had the unmitigated temerity to propose marriage to an American double divorcee... "there's the door, sir".

Times have changed, of course, and Charles is a divorcee married to a divorcee. While that is no longer seen as an obstacle to his reign, not everyone is happy with that for "moral" reasons. There's also a strong perception that Charles is an atheist, albeit one who thinks that religion is a good way of controlling the "common people". He wishes to be known as a generic "Defender of Faiths" rather than "Defender of the Faith" - "the Faith" in there being Church of England.

The most interesting rumour I've heard, though, is that the Queen approached Prince William with the idea of bypassing Charles entirely ... but William said "no", because he wants to concentrate on his young family before the full weight of the crown lands on his head. Hmmm.