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  1. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    I read today that the King is planning on stripping Prince Harry and Prince Andrew of their roles. They've already been humiliated by the King not allowing them to wear military uniforms during the funeral.
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    Canada’s population is booming – and we aren’t building nearly enough homes

    Maybe Truss should ask Biden can we buy Michigan. The Americans bought Alaska off the Russians on the cheap. If we offer Biden £10,000 and three cans of Stella Artois, and to make Prince Harry its king and Meghan its queen consort, maybe he'd let us have it for liebensraum.
  3. Blackleaf

    Canada’s population is booming – and we aren’t building nearly enough homes

    If you think your population is bad in your vast nation look at us here in Britain - we have 68.6 million packed into a country the same size as Michigan.
  4. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    There was a guy who ran towards her coffin in Westminster Hall but he was quickly taken down. I don't know if he was an over-emotional fan or a disgruntled republican. It's difficult having a funeral as a Royal. Most of us have private funerals attended by several family and friends. The Queen...
  5. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    With all the big burly soldiers and sailors knocking about, many of the soldiers armed with sharp pikes, as well as all the cops, you'd have to be foolhardy to try anything.
  6. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    What she said to the American people after 9/11:
  7. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    I can see Trudeau having a chat with a group of people outside the chapel. I also saw former British PM John Major in there.
  8. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    And that's it - the end of the largest funeral in world history.
  9. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    In the chapel at Windsor Castle, the three great physical symbols of the British Sovereign - the Crown, Orb and Sceptre - have been removed from the top of the Queen's coffin. The three will be used again next year for the Coronation of King Charles III. Rumours are swirling that the Coronation...
  10. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    The guys with the colourful uniforms in front of the coffin are the heralds. They always lead Royal processions. As her coffin is lowered into the vault, the Garter King of Arms will read out all her titles before proclaiming Charles III as King.
  11. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    What a glorious site: traditional British pomp and pageantry but out in the Berkshire countryside.
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    Queen Elizabeth

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    Queen Elizabeth

    After the State Funeral the Queen's coffin was conveyed on a gun carriage from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch by 142 Royal Navy sailors. At Wellington Arch the coffin was lifted onto a hearse for the relatively short journey to Windsor Castle in Berkshire where the Queen will be interred...
  14. Blackleaf

    What will change in Canada with the accession of King Charles?

    The Queen faces to the right on coins whereas the King will face to the left.
  15. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    Unfortunately, they made us going into work this Bank Holiday Monday, albeit our shift doing 8-1 instead of the usual 12-8, so I missed the actual funeral. But as I was walking home I watched on my phone the procession with the Queen's coffin on the gun carriage pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors...
  16. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    They still don't have to watch it, though.
  17. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    Two million people have descended on London - on top of the nine million who live there - for the first State Funeral in Britain since that of Churchill in 1965. The funeral is expected to have the biggest TV audience in history, with over half the world's population - 4.1 billion - expected to...
  18. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    A gay man with a wife and kids.
  19. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    Breaking News Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7 - second and third in the line of Succession respectively - are to attend tomorrow's State Funeral of their great-grandmother.
  20. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    Queen Elizabeth II's personal touches in plans for funeral day By George Bowden & Sean Coughlan, royal correspondent BBC News 15th September 2022 A rehearsal for the state funeral was held overnight on Thursday Queen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day...