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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passes away. 21st April 1926 - 8th September 2022.


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15 hours ago, Bigwig said:

When Diana died we were due to play Liverpool away a kid they had quite a few injuries but the game ended up getting suspended out of respect. We lost the rearranged game. 

I was an hour into my journey that day which was a Sunday and heard on radio game had been called off so had to turn back round and head home. No mobile phones like today where could get info instant like today 

15 hours ago, sc91 said:

Good point, are they going to cancel the football?

I've got tickets to anfield.

was going to the game myself. I can’t make the next two home games as I will be working both Saturdays and can’t get time off for champions league games so will be gutted if it is postponed. We will find out later today if it is or not but I thought football would be cancelled even though I don’t think the players would be effected and it should carry on in my opinion 

I must admit I didn’t think I would be that bothered if she passed away or not but got bit watery eyes hearing the news. My mum is 89 so thought of my mum and also people can say the queen had a good life seeing so many countries had money etc but throughout her life she travelled many countries working meaning she couldn’t see her family and family’s new born and children growing up . Prince Philip was he only she would spent time with because of her duties and her dad passed away at an early age 

queen and princess Diane are the only ones that I liked to be honest as they connected and and understood the people 

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7 hours ago, Garethjohn79 said:

Hes the Prince of Wales too, his misses is the Princess of Wales.

No he's not, not yet and not automatically. 
 

He probably will be but it's a discretionary title bestowed on their first born by the reigning monarch. 

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10 hours ago, pearcey_90 said:

At what point do they stop and leave things? 10pm news and end it? Or just keep chatting **** and showing Buckingham Palace all the way till the funeral in 10 days time?

I’m guessing until two days after the funeral. Surprised sky sports not looking to put the funeral on ppv with Martin Tyler saying and it’s live 

it’s nice seeing old pics of the queen growing up and her life story etc but by the time hey finish talking about the queen we will know her better than some of our own family 

as I said I don’t mind the queen or princess Diana but not keen on the rest of them but don’t wish any harm to people just because I’m not keen on them 

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After an hour watching the news and it being a tribute I have had enough. Was watching BBC News earlier and they had a interviewer outside Bucks Palace at 3am. 

She asked one lad why he had come and he said “Well I was out with work when I heard and put on the news, and I saw YOU.”

At that point I just had to laugh and switch off. 

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5 hours ago, Christmas said:

Absolutely insane that BBC sport is just news items about the Queen. 

What a strange little country 

BBC1 with whole day just devoted to news. But news that carries no news other than very old lady dies. It’s frankly insane. Doing my head in already.

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10 minutes ago, Lucas said:

After an hour watching the news and it being a tribute I have had enough.

I think this will be most peoples viewpoint, yesterday evening, absolutely fair enough, but this morning we are reduced to watching a JCB putting out fencing at Balmoral. There will be moments that should be shown, Charles will make a statement later for instance, but a five minute update each hour, in the normal programming would be fine. At least they’ve unpinned BBC2 so that has gone back to ‘normal’ shows

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1 minute ago, Peterj said:

BBC1 with whole day just devoted to news. But news that carries no news other than very old lady dies. It’s frankly insane. Doing my head in already.

I heard that yesterday and evidently early today is meant to be about tributes to Elizabeth II and today will have more "what happens now" stuff.

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23 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:

No he's not, not yet and not automatically. 
 

He probably will be but it's a discretionary title bestowed on their first born by the reigning monarch. 

And while it's probable, it's in a very different time to when Charles was made Prince of Wales.

I can't see us happily accepting an investiture in the same way as went before for Charles.

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Just now, SouthCoastRed said:

That’s every day though, don’t need a monarchs death to make that a hammer horror show

True but I tend to restrict my usage.  Now I can't even log on.  Usually sane sensible people reduced to patriotic nonsense

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1 minute ago, The_jagster said:

I heard that yesterday and evidently early today is meant to be about tributes to Elizabeth II and today will have more "what happens now" stuff.

At a guess the what happens now is a period where it’s compulsory to be sad and all fun things will be banned. Her son rather than mourn will be required to go all over the shop to deal with scripted ceremonials of faux grief while he deals with his real loss. She is then buried. Then he becomes King.  About right? I am sure I have seen this episode before.

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I get it's all a bit frustrating. Having to be exposed to wall to wall coverage. But we knew this would be the case so I kinda prepared for it. It helps I don't really watch tv, nor am I on social media. This forum is basically my only social online activity.

Lets just be grateful we live in a world where we have youtube and netflix etc. Imagine this was 15 years ago, when we just had tv to watch. 

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Christ, was reminded my first band when i was stupid young had a song called "I am the Queen".

The lyrics were something really ****ing stupid like:

"I've been trapped in this box for a week

My clothes they are starting to reek

I've reached my sexual peak

I am the Queen."

It's a travesty we never made it.

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8 minutes ago, Lucas said:

Almost. He’s already King. 

Yeah. Was more thinking the ceremonial bit where the arch bishop pops a crown on his head while we all clap, cheer and say long love the king (even though he is already sort of long lived)

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13 minutes ago, VP. said:

Every ****ing radio station playing the most depressing songs they can think of today. 

I don’t think this helps at all, try uplifting the mood, instead of reducing those who care (not us heathens) to tears and pissing everyone else off.

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There's gonna be loads of people who have no idea what to do, like radio producers who have some kind of influence over a wide range of people but this has never happened before - probably not high enough up the media food chain that you get a proper briefing and they have to wing it. Country will be a bit lost for a few more days yet 

 

I think it's all ok, people are gonna do what they need to do

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13 minutes ago, Tony7 said:

I was thinking the same last night at work. I was thinking it would be better play upbeat songs, songs she may have liked and celebrate her life and achiements 

 

12 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:

I don’t think this helps at all, try uplifting the mood, instead of reducing those who care (not us heathens) to tears and pissing everyone else off.

My thoughts exactly, last thing anyone needs is what they're currently doing.

Just switched over to Heart Essex (which is awful enough as it is), but I was pleasantly surprised and felt very reasured to hear both Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden tell me that they're 'here for us all this morning'. What the actual ****!

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Jisntdaman said:

Meh doesn't bother me. If I wanted some dance anthems I'd go online. The lack of adverts is quite weird though. Must be costing the stations' money

If I wanted to be depressed I'd listen to Smooth FM!

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Last 3 songs -

Sam Smith - Stay With Me

Bangles - Eternal Flame

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

No don't get me wrong I love music and these are all great songs but not when they're played one after the other. 

 

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3 minutes ago, VP. said:

Last 3 songs -

Sam Smith - Stay With Me

Bangles - Eternal Flame

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

No don't get me wrong I love music and these are all great songs but not when they're played one after the other. 

 

Followed up with some Coldplay and Keane.

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I watched the Man Utd match last night and it was all a bit surreal. Could understand not having adverts but then you had a presenter who literally just started the match for each half and there was no half-time analysis or anything. Would it have been too disrespectful to be discussing a team’s performance in this time of national mourning.

Not sure who was on commentary but it got really annoying when he kept finding ways to mention the Queen every 5mins. At half time he even described it as an understandably subdued performance from Utd.  I didn’t stick around at the full time whistle to see if he blamed the result on the players being too upset to play.

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Last Night of the Proms cancelled, see again surely this would have been an opportunity for a lot of people of that age and persuasion to have an outpouring of love and respect and a good sing along.

99% of you peasants wouldn’t care one way or the other though :D

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4 minutes ago, Bigwig said:

I watched the Man Utd match last night and it was all a bit surreal. Could understand not having adverts but then you had a presenter who literally just started the match for each half and there was no half-time analysis or anything. Would it have been too disrespectful to be discussing a team’s performance in this time of national mourning.

Not sure who was on commentary but it got really annoying when he kept finding ways to mention the Queen every 5mins. At half time he even described it as an understandably subdued performance from Utd.  I didn’t stick around at the full time whistle to see if he blamed the result on the players being too upset to play.

They did proper analysis for the Arsenal game but that was in the studio. All of them were in black for it. Also think the announcement came while they were playing and it was an away game anyway.

It was Darke & Savage on Comms. Savage barely said anything at all.

I think, they'd planned to have the coverage of the game from Old Trafford either pitchside or the box, but this then threw that through a loop. So they just went with how they went.

@themadsheep2001 will probably be able to explain better what actually happened and maybe give an insight if he's allowed to.

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5 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:

Last Night of the Proms cancelled, see again surely this would have been an opportunity for a lot of people of that age and persuasion to have an outpouring of love and respect and a good sing along.

99% of you peasants wouldn’t care one way or the other though :D

Christ, can you imagine that lot all singing God Save the Queen one last time before then bursting out into God Save the King then rounding it all off with Land of Hope and Glory?

It'd be so euphoric for them they'd probably never do anything else again in their lives.

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3 minutes ago, Confused Clarity said:

They did proper analysis for the Arsenal game but that was in the studio. All of them were in black for it. Also think the announcement came while they were playing and it was an away game anyway.

It was Darke & Savage on Comms. Savage barely said anything at all.

I think, they'd planned to have the coverage of the game from Old Trafford either pitchside or the box, but this then threw that through a loop. So they just went with how they went.

@themadsheep2001 will probably be able to explain better what actually happened and maybe give an insight if he's allowed to.

They also had analysis for the West Ham game at the same time with a suitablely somber looking Joe Cole providing his insights. It was just the United game which is a bit odd.

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Don't mind the sombre music personally. On Absolute, they've already played Adele (Hometown Glory), Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here), The Beatles (Let It Be), and are now on Neil Young (Heart of Gold). All quality songs.

Just as long as I don't have to hear Freya Ridings' Lost Without You every hour, I'll be fine. :D

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5 minutes ago, Confused Clarity said:

They did proper analysis for the Arsenal game but that was in the studio. All of them were in black for it. Also think the announcement came while they were playing and it was an away game anyway.

It was Darke & Savage on Comms. Savage barely said anything at all.

I think, they'd planned to have the coverage of the game from Old Trafford either pitchside or the box, but this then threw that through a loop. So they just went with how they went.

@themadsheep2001 will probably be able to explain better what actually happened and maybe give an insight if he's allowed to.

That's pretty much correct. We're given a protocol to follow in circumstances like this, there's 4 different categories, leading Monarch is Cat A, Prime minister is Cat B etc. If we haven't gone to air then it's minimal build up and presentation, if we have gone to air already we minimise breaks etc. The announcement came before United hence the minimal coverage. We're still not sure what is happening today and across the weekend 

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24 minutes ago, VP. said:

 

My thoughts exactly, last thing anyone needs is what they're currently doing.

Just switched over to Heart Essex (which is awful enough as it is), but I was pleasantly surprised and felt very reasured to hear both Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden tell me that they're 'here for us all this morning'. What the actual ****!

 

 

I didn't think I be upset about the Queen but when she passes away I think of my mum as she's 89 and I'm sure many others think of their families when hear news like this 

I think yes she had money etc but life isn't all about money. She travelled the world didn't see grandchildren and other family members deliver their children or spend much time with them and travelled alone with Prince Philip. 

It is sad but come on we are here for you but every other day when so many die from suicide, cost of living crises etc just put radio on life goes on we will cheer you up with some happy tunes. Queen dies we will put most saddest songs on radio and make it depressing for next 10 days 

I rather hear nice stories like what she did for charities, the sorry about an American not knowing who she was etc that make me smile 

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3 minutes ago, CFuller said:

Don't mind the sombre music personally. On Absolute, they've already played Adele (Hometown Glory), Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here), The Beatles (Let It Be), and are now on Neil Young (Heart of Gold). All quality songs.

Just as long as I don't have to hear Freya Ridings' Lost Without You every hour, I'll be fine. :D

Same. I quite like miserable music :D :D My mum used to say can’t you listen to something a bit more uplifting when I was a teen many decades ago.

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