Queen Elizabeth II passes at age 96

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Originally Posted by RealSNR

I do find the concept of a country keeping one's monarchs around kind of interesting. The concept of a singular entity being given any decision-making power entirely due to birthright is pretty antiquated, and if (like in the case of Britain and a few other European countries) the monarch essentially has no powers, then why have one at all? But you ask Brits how they feel about having a monarch, and they're like, "What? Why would we get rid of the royal family?"

So I guess the pomp and circumstance and all that shit is kind of interesting to watch from afar. I think the royal wedding like 10 years ago that made everybody's panties wet was waaaaaay overblown, but whatever.

And this bitch lasted 70 years on the throne. So many of her subjects have only ever known her reign and no one else's. It's not monumental to their lives, and nothing drastic will be different from day-to-day, but it is an interesting marker in observing the passage of time, I guess.

It must hearken them back to a nostalgic, romantic vision of what once was

Knights and round tables and grand ceremony, etc

But yeah its a strange thing that modern monarchs have no official power, yet their words and actions still carry considerable weight

I dunno, but she was clearly the best of this modern lot by a country mile... RIP Elizabeth