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Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral
- yotamoron 4y agoWow, I can't believe she will eventually die. I thought royalties live forever! Damn you reality! Where's neo when you need him?!
- mellosouls 4y agoPrince Charles has travelled to Balmoral. The Duchess of Cornwall has also travelled there and the Duke of Cambridge is on his way. This isn't a normal "senior royal is unwell" announcement, especially considering her age and fragility.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoThe interupted the normal broadcasting schedule of the BBC to have a news broadcast about it. Notes passed in Westminsiter during session to update people. Doesn't sound to good for her.
- Theodores 4y agoThis could be Operation London Bridge.
- jleyank 4y agoLook for where prince Harry and the other, lesser, members of the family are.
- hericium 4y ago
- racktash 4y agoFor many, royalty is not a joke. In my view, the role of the Queen as a unifying and stabilising influence in the UK is invaluable. Has she been a perfect human being? Of course not, but her dedication to her duties has been inspiring to many including me.
- tokai 4y agoJleyank called no human lesser. Their membership of the royal family is lesser. Its not up to debate - aristocracy is hierarchical.
- Hoasi 4y ago> aristocracy is hierarchical Hierarchy is the entire raison d'être of aristocracy.
- guidopallemans 4y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lesser https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lesser > lesser: of less size, quality, degree, or significance : of lower status No need to be so rude. "Lesser" is used correctly here, whatever you think of royalty.
- BoxOfRain 4y agoIt's not meant in a 'they're a lesser human being' way, it just means they're further down the line of succession. You're making a bit of a storm in a teacup I think.
- blibble 4y agowould it be out of place to talk about lesser/lower management in a company hierarchy? because that's what the royal family is it is even referred to as The Firm
- dbbk 4y agoHarry and Meghan are on their way to Scotland now, just reported
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- InitialLastName 4y agoIf my 90+year-old mother/grandmother/family matriarch were sick, I would also prioritize traveling to visit her over approximately anything else.
- another_another 4y agoAha, so it's not just for the Balmoral Highland Games then?
- cja 4y agoOperation London Bridge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...
- Victerius 4y agoOperational code names tend to be secret until after the fact. What's the point of having a code word if everyone knows what it is?
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- Couple of interesting things picked up from researching the Queens physician referenced in this article - Sir Huw Jeremy Wyndham Thomas - Huw is a Welsh first name - a variant of Hugo or Hugh - https://www.babynames.co.uk/names/huw/ https://www.babynames.co.uk/names/huw/ Royal Victorian Order is a thing - and has some interesting members - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order A Bachelors degree can be "promoted" to Masters - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambridge,_and_Dublin) https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambridge... You can book a consultation with him - https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/make-an-appointment?consultant=Professor%20Huw%20Thomas https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/make-an-appointment?consulta... The Queens doctor doesn't have a traditional MD - he has a Bachelor of Arts - Bachelor of Medicine and a PhD in molecular genetics --
- pledg 4y agoThe other comment was downvoted, presumably people thinking it was a joke, but it is called Operation Unicorn too if she's in Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge#Operation_Unicorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge#Operat...
- tcmb 4y agoMaybe a bit macabre, but live updates are here: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62834633 https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62834633
- elcapitan 4y agoWait, no live pulse diagram? That's not the data driven future I've been promised.
- noisy_boy 4y agoThe article was published on Fri 17 Mar 2017 07.40 GMT when Theresa May was PM: > For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as “London Bridge.” The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “London Bridge is down” on secure lines. Interestingly, the current PM is also a she.
- LatteLazy 4y agoI think we (Brits) now draw with Norway for the most Female PMs (3 each). Of course 2 of these in the UK never won general elections...
- Ndymium 4y agoFinland also has our 3rd woman PM right now. Though one of them was only PM for 68 days.
- LatteLazy 4y agoNice work! I will see how long our current PM makes it before I condemn anyone for only making 68 days...
- sbuk 4y agoNot true. Amazingly, Teresa May won one in 2017.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoWe had in France a few female PM: the current one, Edith Cresson and maybe someone else. 0 female president, though.
- LatteLazy 4y agoHumans care about the weirdest things.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- Turns out tradition may have an evolutionary reason -- Cultural Traditions and the Evolutionary Advantages of Noninnovation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284099630_Cultural_Traditions_and_the_Evolutionary_Advantages_of_Noninnovation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284099630_Cultural_... --
- spaetzleesser 4y agoI don’t understand why people like kings, queens, popes and in the US Supreme Court justices don’t retire when they get old. Instead you see them being dragged out into the public while they are barely alive and certainly can’t perform their tasks in any reasonable manner. Retire in dignity and let younger people do a better job.
- InitialLastName 4y ago> kings, queens ... abdicate regularly [0][1] > popes The most recent pope to leave office retired. The current one has said he is considering it. > Supreme Court justices By my count [2], 7 of the last 10 justices to leave office retired. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Suprem...
- klyrs 4y agoLeaving Charles in charge? Sometimes "over my dead body" is quite literal.
- onion2k 4y agoAt least she stuck around to make sure Boris actually left.
- lordnacho 4y agoIt is an interesting statistical fact that someone in their mid 90s is less than 50% likely to make it to 100. Quite different to say a 46 year old making it to 50. There's a real cliff beyond the 80s as frailty takes hold. At least she'll have her family by her side.
- ggambetta 4y agoFirst of all - I hope the Queen goes back to good health. Seems to have been a good monarch over an extremely long period of time, which also included a ton of technological and societal change. Second - "London Bridge is down". I can't help but wonder what happens if the actual, physical London Bridge experiences a catastrophic failure falls to the river. What's the codename for that event? "Escape London Bridge is down"? "London Bridge is down, literally, for real, no, I mean it"? "The Queen has climbed to the roof"?
- igorkraw 4y ago"London bridge collapsed/ is broken", "London bridge is down and I don't mean the queen" etc. seem perfectly serviceable. Although I would like it to be "her majesty has died" for symmetry reasons
- krapp 4y agoOff-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "96 year old woman might die soon" is not a new or interesting phenomenon. Unless she wrote a compiler or published a whitepaper I'm unaware of, the Queen isn't relevant to this community, and this isn't even news yet. Flagging.
- BeenChilling 4y ago"96 year old woman might die soon" is not a new or interesting phenomenon. Unless she wrote a compiler or published a whitepaper I'm unaware of, the Queen isn't relevant to this community, and this isn't even news yet. Flagging.
- krapp 4y agoCongrats, you've mastered copy and paste.
- jleyank 4y agoWell, she’s the head of state of a number of countries and the commonwealth. Represents political and social continuity. This has historical significance, which might be of interest to some of the readership. She was trained as a mechanic and is one of the few old enough to have been an adult in the war. Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government. Bit more significant to RL than one might think.
- InitialLastName 4y agoAnd the owner of one of the largest investment firms in the world.
- Normille 4y ago>Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government. Should boost Scotland's chances of voting for independence too. As I don't think Charlie boy is anywhere near as popular.
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- dang 4y agoRelated: Queen Elizabeth II has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834 - Sept 2022 (1082 comments)