Just read QE2 to miss her own Jubilee.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

I wanted to share that I went, by myself, to the Queen's Trooping of the Color when she road by on horseback. I was close enough to note her red cheek complexion. Possibly displaying what is referred to "an English Rose". This was 1973. How time flies!

She looked like this...



"Queen Elizabeth To Skip Friday Jubilee Events Due To ‘Discomfort,' Palace Says"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/queen-elizabeth-skip-friday-platinum-jubilee-events_n_62990e22e4b0c184bdcefc7d

[2naSalit]

1. She was there this morning, though.

[nocoincidences]

2. She had a big day today at the festivities.

Very sorry to hear that it took so much out of her. She enjoyed herself a lot today.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

3. Churchill adored her.

[Karadeniz]

4. To be the devil's advocate, I refuse to get sucked into happiness about monarchs, especially the

British ones we fought two wars to get rid of. We decided not to have titles and a hereditary ruler, and I agree. I just wish we could eliminate the hereditary wealth and opportunity inequality, but everyone pitches a fit when estate taxation is brought up. However, I see the value of a hefty estate tax as a way of lessening hereditary privilege. Sometimes one has to choose between American ideals and personal preferences. I'll almost always choose ideals.

[Alice Kramden]

5. Succinct and to the point

Although there is a human interest component, as well, for me, I agree about the monarchs we fought 2 wars to get rid of.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. And yet...

British society is far more civil, less violent, beats back it's fascist tendencies swiftly and has decent healthcare, abortion rights and gun laws.

Compared to our old nemesis, we suck.

[soldierant]

8. It was Elizabeth's decision, or at least had her approval, that the Crown start paying txes.

And,interestingly, for at least some of the founding Fathers were less upset byy the monarchy than by the P{erliament - which represented the English living in England, but didn't represnet them.

I'm not a Royal Family fan - I just admire Elixabeth, from her auto mechanic work in WWII through her coronation speech promising to be a servant of the people, through her long lifetime of trying and mostly succeedin inclding giving up her yaght.) I don't have a whole lot of use for the rest of the familyt. L did admire Louis Mountbatten, for what that's worth.

But it's also true that one good monarch does not make monarchy a good thing, and that one bad (even a truly godawful one like TFG) president doesn't make the presidency,or a democracy, a bad thing.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. "The Crown" made her many new fans.

I think that God likely saved the queen. They've been singing that request to her for decades.