What Happens When The Queen Dies

Yes and she's almost 93 now..I fully expect her to live at least as long as her mother....

 

London Bridge is fall... no it ain't gonna fall. Like our presidents there's a whole line of succession standing by

 

She did this in her middle eighties.

 

I guess an example of his judgement is having an affair with Camilla while he was married to Diana.

 

@Tom Galty apparently we can't view that on this side of the Atlantic.

 

Can you see this one Don..?

 

It's just a code phrase which the Press secretary will use to the prime minister when the Queen dies

 

Yes, I can see that on @Holly Saunders. The Queen is pretty spry for her age even a few years ago (London Olympics, right?), but I don't think she can hold a candle to ol' Winston, who is still waving after having been dead for 50 years....

 

"How this enthusiastic and diligent person, who has frequently stated his desire to be a good, responsible monarch, managed to incur such opprobrium is the central question that the American writer Sally Bedell Smith sets out to answer in a new biography, “Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life” (Random House). Hers is not an entirely disinterested investigation. As might be inferred from her two previous alliteratively subtitled works—“Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess” and “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch”—Smith is an avid monarchist. "

"For anyone invested in the survival of the royals, Prince Charles presents a challenge, and Smith’s stance is very close to what one imagines a senior palace aide’s might be: Charles is far from ideal, but he is what we’ve got, and there can be no talk of mucking about with the law of succession and replacing him with his son. Once you start allowing the popular will to determine who wears the crown, people are liable to wonder why anyone is wearing a crown in the first place."

 

From Wikipedia:

In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second.

He gave up a kingdom for the woman he loved. If not for that, Queen Elizabeth would never have been queen. Fate has some strange quirks.

 

Sorry just saw that it was a BBC vid.

 

Only if Edward and Simpson had had a child.

If not then after his death his younger brother would have become king.

At that time Liz was third to the throne anyway.

 

I'm liking the Prince more every day lately.

"Prince Charles credited soul group The Three Degrees' pop hit, Givin' Up, Givin In, as the song that made him want to boogie, describing it as 'one of my favourites and, long ago, used to provide me with an irresistible urge to get up and dance'." ... BBC NEWS