People forget that Great Britain, in itself, is an Empire, the centralized power of Scotland, Wales, England and, tenuously, Ireland. Knowing this, Her Majesty lay in state in Edinburgh tonight.
Later, her body will be brought to Westminster Abbey where many thousands will line up around the block to pay their respects. And what respect it is.
HRH Elizabeth II embodied privilege and with it, service. That's the equation and she most evidently worked the solution. Result? The people loved her. Moral?
No one likes or loves the grifting, get rich quick, MillSoc mountebank, snake oil sales fools who run our country. Imagine, if you can, their funerals. Mall. Lampost. Noose.
Salve Regina,
LSP
Possible genetic (Irish/Scot) loathing of royalty here but I admired her.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lesson that seemed to resonate with the Duchess of Wessex for one, but lost on a certain grandson and his grifting spouse.
ReplyDeleteIndeed our American "royalty" shall have funerals that will not be as peaceful.
ReplyDeleteIndeed our American "royalty" shall have funerals that will not be as peaceful.
ReplyDeletePeople forget she was a 'figurehead', not in control of the .govs in the various commonwealth nations. Hence the 'blame' coming her way for stuff she literally had NO control over... sigh
ReplyDeleteTotally agree, NFO.
ReplyDeleteShe was a bulwark against the NWO, imo.
It'll go down badly, imo, Infidel.
ReplyDeleteStand ready for the 3 am knock on the door.
Mr. DOS, we're in total agreement.
ReplyDeleteWSF, I feel she was the real deal, I really do. And that's why she was loved, eh? Even by the Irish/Scots.
ReplyDeleteGod save the Queen.
ReplyDeleteIt's a heckuvva thing, Wild.
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