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Post by mrk on Sept 8, 2022 20:22:56 GMT
This sounds pretty unnecessary:
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Post by travolta on Sept 8, 2022 20:37:38 GMT
Very sad. Shed a tear . Am travelling to London to the Lying in State at Westminster Hall , as we did for Winston Churchill (a very memorable long queue through a long cold night ). Difficult to get a room in London right now,but just cracked it!
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Post by ilmoro on Sept 8, 2022 20:47:20 GMT
I don't know why he wouldn't still be known as Charles, but apparently it's not unheard of for the new monarch to use one of their other names (Charles Philip Arthur George). Personally I quite fancy another King Arthur.
I thought Charles had decided on George VII, might be wrong as I don't follow royal matters. It'll be because the legacy of Kings with the name Charles in the context of the british monarchy hasn't got a lot going for it.
I was looking at wikipedia and found this as well.
"Diana, Princess of Wales, was descended from two of Charles's II illegitimate sons: the Dukes of Grafton and Richmond. Diana's son, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, heir to the British throne, is likely to be the first British monarch descended from Charles II."
As opposed to his grandfather James I etc?
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Post by ilmoro on Sept 8, 2022 21:05:48 GMT
Brilliant 'Thank you Ma'am, for everything'
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Post by keitha on Sept 8, 2022 21:55:04 GMT
Feels a little strange, never claimed to be a great royal fan, but I feel rather sad, I suppose at 63 years of age it's probably because I've never known another monarch. It will be a big change for anyone my age and younger.
I do rather think Andrew has no chance of becoming a working royal again, can see the King streamlining the family and having less of the immediate line of succession on the payroll
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Post by benaj on Sept 9, 2022 7:00:25 GMT
It’s sad feeling indeed when paying cash with her face on it.
Is there any protocol to change the design of the currency before the coronation?
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Post by pikestaff on Sept 9, 2022 7:19:41 GMT
This sounds pretty unnecessary: I agree. Paper notes would just have been replaced as they wore out (on about that timetable). Plastic notes last longer but there's no reason why they could not do the same, perhaps with a backstop date in 5-10 years. Charles is keen on green issues. Perhaps he'll have something to say about this behind the scenes. With coins, in pre-decimal days we had coins with the head of all monarchs back to Victoria (bar Edward VIII, whose coins never went into circulation). Lots of kids collected pennies for as many different years as they could find. I've still got mine somewhere.
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Post by adrianc on Sept 9, 2022 8:03:48 GMT
We had a parish council meeting scheduled for next week. It has to be officially publicised (agenda on website and noticeboard) three days before, to be legal. According to the "Operation London Bridge" documentation I was sent within two hours of the announcement, not only would it be illegal for the meeting to happen within the official " national mourning" period, but that three day publicity can't, either. Local Government Act 1972, s 243, in case you were wondering. The official mourning period extends from D to D+10 - so the earliest the meeting can happen is D+14, where D is the day of death. The funeral is expected to happen on D+10 unless that's a Sunday (which it is), then it's D+11. It doesn't say whether that knocks the official period to 11 instead of 10 days, though. You'd expect it would. Meanwhile, even Radio 4 has already been reduced to filler including Gyles Brandreth cogitating on how much she loved her parents, and Clare Balding on how much she loved racehorses.
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Post by agent69 on Sept 9, 2022 8:25:14 GMT
This sounds pretty unnecessary: I agree. Paper notes would just have been replaced as they wore out (on about that timetable). Plastic notes last longer but there's no reason why they could not do the same, perhaps with a backstop date in 5-10 years. Charles is keen on green issues. Perhaps he'll have something to say about this behind the scenes. With coins, in pre-decimal days we had coins with the head of all monarchs back to Victoria (bar Edward VIII, whose coins never went into circulation). Lots of kids collected pennies for as many different years as they could find. I've still got mine somewhere. So is there a programme for swapping everything else over? Going from a QC to a KC sounds simple enough (assuming you can get more headed note paper), but what about all the letter boxes with E-R on them?
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Post by adrianc on Sept 9, 2022 8:29:00 GMT
...but what about all the letter boxes with E-R on them? Look at letter boxes more often! There's plenty of even VR boxes still in use. They won't change the existing ones, any more than they did before. NEW ones will have CIIIR on instead of EIIR. But, yep, asking all those barristers currently on strike to reprint all their stationery...
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Post by Mike on Sept 9, 2022 9:18:20 GMT
This sounds pretty unnecessary: I agree. Paper notes would just have been replaced as they wore out (on about that timetable). Plastic notes last longer but there's no reason why they could not do the same, perhaps with a backstop date in 5-10 years. Charles is keen on green issues. Perhaps he'll have something to say about this behind the scenes. With coins, in pre-decimal days we had coins with the head of all monarchs back to Victoria (bar Edward VIII, whose coins never went into circulation). Lots of kids collected pennies for as many different years as they could find. I've still got mine somewhere. Believe Elizabeth was (remarkably) in fact the first monarch to appear on BoE notes. So there's isn't actually a precedent for replacing them..
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 9, 2022 9:28:44 GMT
Feels a little strange, never claimed to be a great royal fan, but I feel rather sad, I suppose at 63 years of age it's probably because I've never known another monarch. It will be a big change for anyone my age and younger. I do rather think Andrew has no chance of becoming a working royal again, can see the King streamlining the family and having less of the immediate line of succession on the payroll I was more than just sad late yesterday. And I'm not a big royal fan. However she has been part of the fabric of our society for the entirety of my life time. Whether you are pro or anti monarchy, or just a bit ambivalent, there is no doubt that QEII has been part of one's British identity, and been a point of ongoing stability in times of change. It doesn't help that she has undoubtedly been a person who genuinely believes in the concept of "service", (in a time when so many of our leading figures don't seem to understand that), and has dedicated herself to doing that. Not a freeloader. She has also always come across - and from what one can tell by what is said of her by those who knew her - as a caring and genuinely 'nice' person. This means that many of us identify with her but also feel we personally 'knew her' even though that is not the reality. I always think that the death of someone you identify with is always more than just feeling the loss of them: it is also a proxy for feeling the other losses you have experienced in your life, and as you get older also perhaps a sense of those that will come. <deleted>
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 9, 2022 10:19:17 GMT
This sounds pretty unnecessary: I agree. Paper notes would just have been replaced as they wore out (on about that timetable). Plastic notes last longer but there's no reason why they could not do the same, perhaps with a backstop date in 5-10 years. Charles is keen on green issues. Perhaps he'll have something to say about this behind the scenes. With coins, in pre-decimal days we had coins with the head of all monarchs back to Victoria (bar Edward VIII, whose coins never went into circulation). Lots of kids collected pennies for as many different years as they could find. I've still got mine somewhere. Yes. They are not going to replace until they wear out, i'm sure. as you say, even I can just about remember coins which had different monarchs head on them pre-decimilsation. The only reason we don't today is because of ..... decimalisation (taking the other coins pre EIIR out of circulation). Why on earth would they make a distinction between coins (leave them in circulation) and notes. I wonder why the Guardian saw reason to say otherwise.
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Post by benaj on Sept 9, 2022 10:39:27 GMT
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Post by registerme on Sept 9, 2022 11:28:02 GMT
This means that many of us identify with her but also feel we personally 'knew her' even though that is not the reality. The old girl I do some shopping for did actually know her. Her husband was the Queen's Equerry for a time. Been on holiday with them at Balmoral etc. She's quite upset . But yes, the Queen was ever present in most of our lives. Even the "republicans" I know acknowledge the loss.
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