Queen Elizabeth II dies

mondeoman72

RIP Elizabeth.

TheValeyard

So she's finally gone.

Vast improvement on Elizabeth 1st Id say.

While I'm not fan of the monarchy, her visit to Ireland did a lot to draw a line and move on from the past.

Wonder if Charles will do the right thing and let William take the throne.

RIP

JP Liz V1

RIP Lizzie

Agent Coulson

RIP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591444#Comment_119591444

She was one of the elders to my generation. I'm 40. Pope JP II was one, too. Old, well respected adults that people have been looking up to since before I was born. A constant background presence who symbolized continuity. Her passing reminds us of the passing of a generation, the march of history and our own mortality.

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591444#Comment_119591444

Same here. It is the end of an era. Far beyond the monarchic aspects, her death also symbolises the passing of the generation that experienced WW2. The changes that she’s lived through are simply breathtaking.

walshb

A truly remarkable woman. 70 years serving…

Beasty

Brian? threadbanned

Psychedelic Hedgehog

Rest in peace. A strange feeling.

MV33

RIP

Very sad news

Sudden Valley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591482#Comment_119591482

I think the general public still has a greater regard for Diana then they will for their new monarch. Both Charles and William are charisma vaccuums compared to Diana and the Queen.

brokenangel

RIP

dinorebel

Hopefully Charles the 3rd or whatever they call him will bring this farce to an end.

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591518#Comment_119591518

You're right there I'd think. Charles will certainly not be able to fill his mother's shoes in my opinion.

Personally I've always felt it was a bit unseemly that Camilla was officially brought into the fold.

bmc58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119589648#Comment_119589648

She had a good long life,everyone dies.

End of an era definitely.

hawley

Really nasty smart comments by Jedward. Totally inappropriate. RIP to the Queen.

Sardonicat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591488#Comment_119591488

Speaking of the march of history, the first Prime Minister that she invited to form a government was born in 1874, the last in 1973.

I think the British will find her death very destabilising. She's been the one, constant unchanging point in the past 10 years.

I feel sad. Its a reminder of times past, she's been there for all our lives unless you're over 96. She was a constant presence, an extremely hardworking Royal, from different times, when dignity, respect, traditions all mattered. A far cry from the world we live in now. People then were made of far tougher stuff then, my Dad was one of them. This will be big for the entire UK.

Its been a bad week, the death of Jack DeBromhead was so sad, and those poor 3 children from Tallaght ..... at least Liz had a great life and leave a great legacy, so it is the celebration of life rather than the sadness of young lives lost. RIP to Lizzie and all of the above poor souls.

A Dub in Glasgo

Now standby for all the 'grieving'

Secret Seven

I feel quite sad. She was a remarkable woman. Hard working even up to a few days ago. They don't make them like that any more.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591527#Comment_119591527

Someone mentioned him maybe going for a new iteration of King George, like his popular Grandfather, and Great Grandfather.

Richard Hillman

Really sad. She seemed like such a brilliant woman. Served her country right until the last. God save her.

chicorytip

If Charles ascends to the throne what title will title will Park Yer Balls be conferred with?

The White Wolf

RIP to Her Majesty.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591556#Comment_119591556

It's a great opportunity to exhibit our maturity as a nation.

This paragraph from the BBC really strikes me:

Her reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, and including Liz Truss, born 101 years later in 1975, and appointed by the Queen earlier this week.

That type of continuity and link to the past is not really there with presidents.

brokenangel

Taoiseach statement

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/62d89-statement-by-the-taoiseach-on-the-death-of-hm-queen-elizabeth/

Schwiiing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591563#Comment_119591563

Queen Consort

igCorcaigh

RIP Liz.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591484#Comment_119591484

Agnatic-Cognatic Primogeniture demands that Charles take the throne. He'd be trampling on nearly a millenium's worth of tradition by doing that.

KaneToad

We should have a public holiday in solidarity...

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591546#Comment_119591546

Those two are desperate for attention, better off just ignoring

MrMusician18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591552#Comment_119591552

Which will no doubt descend into the bonkers and surreal.

Her death marks the end of an era and you get the feeling that it was her continuity and presence that kept the monarchy show on the road. Remains to be seen if Charles can command such respect.

billyhead

May she RIP. She really missed the Duke after he died. He was always by her side. Hopefully he's by her side again. I admired her greatly. The amount of shite she had to put up with in her own family and how resilient and strong she was.

martingriff

BBC just showed a picture of when she meant Truss in Scotland 2 days ago look as if she was good but knowing from a few death od elderly relatives they seem to pick up quiet a bit before dieing.

Like others I wounder what will this do for the popularity of the monarch. There will be a rise of support and nationalism but will it fall away quick. One thing for sure is Charles is not giving up his chance of being King and handing it over (to the more popular) William

Conspiracy theory her last visitors were Johnston and Truss!!!

Will_I_Amnt

I think Charlie will be King George the 7th

King Charles I and II were disasters so I don't think he want that name! Or so I read recently.

Beechwoodspark

Charles and Camilla in charge now.

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591586#Comment_119591586

I’d be up for that. In the interests of showing our “maturity” as a Nation you understand .!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591569#Comment_119591569

https://mobile.twitter.com/JustineStafford/status/1567886953160261634

Joking aside,End of an era,70 years some going tbf ...and I'm sure the whole media circus will be absurd

but the notion her son, just immediately gets to be head-of-state just irks me to the bone...he is no better or worse,than anyone else

brokenangel

Michael D Higgins statement on BBC now, one of the first to be read out by BBC

Great show of support from the people of Ireland

castletownman

Yeah I am strangely emotional over it as well. She was a remarkable woman really. Some longevity. Mad to think that Churchill was her first PM, and she reigned through so many technological, cultural, medical and political change and advancement.

I'm sure small-minded Republicans are thrilled at the death of an 96 year old woman though.

Sandor Clegane

I think the monarchy dies with her, it'll slowly fade into irrelevance now, Charles and Camilla too unpalatable.

Whatever you may think of the monarchy, she was the glue that held it together.

Leftwaffe

Sad someone has died but she’s no different than the rest of us. Some sh1te will be talked over the next few days.

igCorcaigh

Two great world figures gone.

https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1567935789413064710

A Dub in Glasgo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591590#Comment_119591590

I reckon it infuriated her that she had to keep to protocol when greeting that d.ick Johnston the other day

lawrencesummers

RIP

I never understood a lot of aspects of the monarchy from the point of view of UK citizens and more so from the point of view of Irish citizens but she was a remarkable lady, served through a multitude of turbulence and has carried herself in what must at time be a horrible ‘job’ with dignity, sharpness and strength that can only be admired.

You also have to feel sympathy that of all the great world leaders she has met her last hours were taken up meeting two of the worst.

For all its wealth and notoriety I wouldn't wish membership of the royal family on my worst enemy.

nullzero

I suppose you'd want to exchange any English money you might have sharpish.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119591616#Comment_119591616

If she held onto life just to spite Johnson and rob him of the «honor» of being PM when she died…my already high respect for her would go higher still.

AMKC

May she RIP

There will never be another like her or to serve as long as her.

She was not a bad person.

She lived a life of luxury. So not a bad life will lived. RIP to her.