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My condolences to my UK and Commonwealth mates
Black Phoenix:
Looks like it was a mistake when I created this thread.
My objective was into giving proper recognition and condolences as a Portuguese citizen, and as the oldest continuous alliance in the world.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-portugal-joint-declaration-on-bilateral-cooperation/uk-portugal-joint-declaration-on-bilateral-cooperation
As someone who have a lot of recognition and respect from what the UK had achieved (sometimes even envy when compared with my own birth country), who have tons of Nationals as his friends and close contacts (from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), who visit their country more times that I remember counting and made an enormous force when a kid to learn the language and story of a country who was not his but had a ton of respect for.
I don't care about politics so I probably thought (wrongly) that this could not been spin into a politics thread. But looks like I forgot to account for the feelings of others.
Sorry then.
Gyro:
Sorry @Black Phoenix, not your fault. Your thoughts and condoloences were clearly very genuine.
Brumby:
Indeed. Black Phoenix, you have nothing for which to apologise.
I, for one, have had a respect and admiration for the Queen who performed a duty expected of her in a role she never sought - but more that she has done so in an exemplary manner.
She is the only monarch I have known - and I can still remember the portrait of her hanging in our classrooms back in primary school. Today is a day where things have changed in a way that the people of the Commonwealth (and a chunk of the world) will have never experienced in their lives. It is a day of great sadness.
To those mourning in the UK (and elsewhere), please know this: There are quite a few of us here in Oz that not only understand your grief, but share in it.
tom66:
I'm not pro-Royal Family, and I think they should just be treated as a normal family without any constitutional significance.
Still, it was pretty sad to hear the news, and the best wishes to her family.
Having a King will be odd, and I think it could well strain the relationship with the Monarchy in the UK and Commonwealth. (A fun, side-fact, it is for Elizabeth II that we refer to the "Royal Family" and not the "Monarchy", which was the prior terminology. It does make them seem all the more approachable.)
TwistedTransistor:
It's crazy to me that anyone could take a look at modern Britain or Australia and decide that the thing we really need is MORE "democracy" or MORE elected officials.
HM The Queen transcended all that nonsense. In an age of insanity, she was the one constant that anchored us in tradition and to the wisdom and glories of the past. I don't know about anyone else but my main feeling at this time is one of dread.
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