Gardian Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Didn't want to mess up the fun on the 'Banana' thread, so something different.Let me first of all say that I'm neither a Royalist nor an anti-Royalist. Unashamedly on the fence.However, I've thought for a while that QE has hung on too long: it's been time for her to step aside for a long while. How old is she now - mid-80's? Prince Philip is 90. It's time for Charles to take over & do the things that royalty are there for. I'll bet that there haven't been more than half a dozen state visits in the last ten years. She really does need to stand aside.Today's announcement makes it all the more difficult. Not next year. Not in 2012 (Diamond Jub).When?p.s. Don't want this to become a 'Why Royalty' thread - that's not the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 She will, when her grandson is so popular that he can take over and leave Charles aside. Perhaps if our lovely Kate could produce a couple of nice babies pdq, it would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Tut tut Wooly, she's been promoted, she's no longer a Kate, she now has to be referred to as Katherine cos the people wot know about these things say so.Doesn't matter whether current royal abdicates or dies, the UK media of every type will be full of it, every pundit, idiot with a vested interest and royal correspondent will crawl out of the woodwork. So far on BBC tele news this evening they have had 4 royal correspondents, for a family of how many? Please don't abdicate and then die, that means two helpings of wall to wall royal stories and opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Ahhh Kate, your Prince has come, you lucky girl.Tony FFFF, it is a wonderful way of distracting people in bad times. Now just imagine how Tony Blair would have profited from such an event. I reckon he'd have been under the royal bed to record the royal b*nk on the wedding nite and say it was thanks to him that it came to that, so to speak.Or Peter Mandelson, how would he have described the event? I draw a veil...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Yes but, so far, it's done b u g g e r all for the pound![:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 [quote user="sweet 17"]Yes but, so far, it's done b u g g e r all for the pound![:'(][/quote]Back to Mandelson again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Do not blame your Prince, but those incompetent Europeans. Doubtless we shall have to cross the Channel and save them yet again. BEF anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 [quote user="woolybanana"]Do not blame your Prince, but those incompetent Europeans. Doubtless we shall have to cross the Channel and save them yet again. BEF anyone?[/quote]Leaving via Dunkirk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Yep.Anyway, I think we should have a forum wedding gift for the happy couple. Any suggestions?No, Norman, not gob stoppers for girls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 As a gambling woman I would lay money that the Queen will not abdicate. The trouble is, at the present rate of progress, she will outlive me.Good luck to William and Kate any way.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Er, why would they need luck, Hoddy? Seems to me they've got it all already? And quite a bit of it supplied by the British taxpayer, that much maligned species? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Can you think of any person who is fit to be a British president; Blair, Brown, Kinnock, Thatcher, Mandelson......... gimme the Royal Family any time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Oh, Wooly, you old closet monarchist, you............![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 I'm quite happy to wish anyone about to set out on married life good luck. I'll happily accept that money makes life easier, but as William's mother demonstrated it can't guarantee a happy marriage. Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote user="woolybanana"]Ahhh Kate, your Prince has come, you lucky girl.Tony FFFF, it is a wonderful way of distracting people in bad times. Now just imagine how Tony Blair would have profited from such an event. I reckon he'd have been under the royal bed to record the royal b*nk on the wedding nite and say it was thanks to him that it came to that, so to speak.Or Peter Mandelson, how would he have described the event? I draw a veil...![/quote]What a modern young couple you assume them to be[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Every egg a bird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 I give great thanks to whoever/whatever that Bliar has indeed gone and left us in in peace - or perhaps peace is the wrong word! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Nah, I think Queenie should stay on. I think before I moved to France I was a bit of a republican, but when I had lived in France for a little while, I realised that I was not and I prefer the current UK system, Kings, Queens et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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