From Queen to King

Well I don’t feel I can just put a normal garden diary post up in view of events. The sad and shocking loss of our Queen has removed a constant from our lives.
From Queen to King

I hope we're not going to see hysteria at the funeral as we did with Diana - The Queen was always so dignified and it's the least we can do to lay her to rest with dignity.

I'm actually very much a supporter of the constitutional monarchy we have as a system. We were so lucky to get the Queen we did and now I'm certain a King who will bring the same qualities as she did.

I hope that some allotmenteer breaks the flower spell and places a bunch of homegrown carrots in respect.  I think the queen would have had a chuckle.

Cheers,  Tony.

I agree totally with Snowdrops.   I'm not a Royalist, never have been and never will be, but one has to give the late Queen total respect for her dedication to duty.  Not many, in fact I can't think of anyone, who, at the age of 96, was still working up until two days before they died.  Apart from that, she was a very clever woman who hardly ever put a foot wrong in her seventy years on the throne and knew exactly how to deal with all manner of people no matter what their stripe. 

I was 5 years old when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.  I was at infants school and we were all given an embossed propelling pencil and a commemorative coin, I still have them.

My father bought our first TV especially to watch the coronation.  It was broadcast live and repeated again the next day.  On both days we has a room full of neighbours come to watch the tiny black and white ‘Sobell’ TV; I don’t think many people in our street had one.  I can remember it as though it was yesterday. 

I think King Charles will have learnt some very good lessons from his mother.  I think he’ll do a good job.