The monarchy is clearly a touchy subject for some, I am amazed at the amount and volume of bitterness, hate and vitriol being thrown her way online today. The way some of these people are talking, it's like Lizzie herself was out there enforcing racist policies and bad behavior. The blame is more correctly placed on the politicians and assholes in the church but they are celebrating her death and it's a little much.
She was born into a world far different from ours. Kids under fifty have no idea what the post-WW2 world was like.
She inherited a position she may not have wanted but she did what she felt was her duty, working literally to the day she died.
And of course she did her duty in WW2 as a lowly truck driver when she could easily have fucked off to the relative safety of the colonies like some other royals did.
Not many perb readers would stay in a city being bombed if they could avoid it, especially if the enemy put a huge bounty on their head.
I don't envy Charles, he is almost universally disliked and his horrible wife is utterly despised. Floppy Lugs and Camilla Bow Wow.
The status of the Royal family will diminish greatly. Canadians mostly only know the immediate family but there are hundreds of hangers-on, lords, ladies, dukes, earls and so on. A thorough cull is coming.
