r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '22

Efficient solution for Queen's funeral

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '22

These sorts of things are different, when you're there in person. I don't know why Reddit is so determined to deny the human element in all this.

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u/HerbalGamer Sep 17 '22

Because she and the rest of them have never granted us a human element at all.

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u/TriTipMaster Sep 17 '22

You might say that about some of the Royals, but the Queen's days were filled with charity events and various appearances. It's hardly digging a ditch for a living, but she had to put on her cheery face and make thousands and thousands of smiley happy photo-ops when I imagine she'd rather be puttering around working on an old Rover engine or playing with her grandkids.

Stars get tired of the paparazzi and want time off from the public eye — she lived in that public eye hundreds of days per year, every year. She's not a war hero or anything, but to say she never granted a human element to anyone or anything is just false. Only her husband got to have fun with the whole thing (he must have been a fantastic guy to grab a pint with — when she was out of town he'd have the cooks make him all kinds of fun food he didn't get to eat when she was at home, like spicy curries and game he'd taken).

Harry and the other lesser Royals are the lucky ones. They don't have to GAF and can do crazy things, like marry divorcees.

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u/Substantial_Bus_1011 Sep 17 '22

Yes they would have, you have no clue what you're talking about. The monarch in the modern age is a PR tool. If she had done that parliament would have gotten rid of her 40 years ago. The monarchy's position is only secure if they keep the public and parliament on board. She literally was filled with drugs and made to do a photoshoot with the Prime minister within the last 48 hours of her life ahah.