Queen Mother DEAD!

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At last Suzy is right. Ahem.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[Let's hope DG isn't]

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Royalist BBC are going to have a field day with this one. Already 5 live have gone onto Autopilot OTT biography ! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BBC1 + BBC2 already gone. None of the digital BBC channels are working for me today.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They have contingency plans mapped out for this .. it's going to drag on for 48hrs..

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is this true ? What is it with all the old people dying ?

― anthony, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BBC News

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is it with all the old people dying ?

um...

― jess, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ofcourse it's true moose.

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The BBC/Flextech channels (UK Gold, Play UK and so on) are still broadcasting as normal, apart from flashing up a notice telling everyone to switch over to News 24 and BBC1 earlier.

― Chris Lyons, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're going to have fun spinning this out. They just had Nicholas Witchell on the phone reading out the notice from the gates of Buckingham Palace, which says the same thing as the press release they'd just read out.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Already a trying to spin out a phone call to her niece has just died on its arse.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is it too soon to allow a Republican screed ?

― anthony, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now another correspondent is reading out the press statement LIVE FROM WINDSOR. Gah.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

next up balmoral and sandringham ?

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can someone kidnap Nicholas Witchell for the weekend ?

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worse still is radio1, where 'the weekend starts here' has stopped, and its coldplay etc for our saturday night entertainment. Still, apparently it was Kenny G when diana died, so thank god for small mercies.

― sos, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The BBC's plans, allegedly.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where is ILE's Romford Correspondent? with his statement

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

please define the following terms used in this thread: Sandringham, 5 live, Nicholas Witchell, Flextech, UK Gold, Romford, Play UK, Balmoral.

― ethan, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is why we had the revolutionary war ethan.

― jess, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sandringham, Balmoral = Royal palaces 5 live = BBC news/sport radio station Nicholas Witchell = Dull BBC News correspondent Flextech = Company BBC produces Play UK and UK Gold with. Romford = Where DG lives. UK Gold = Reruns channel UK Play = Music + Comedy channel

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

please define the following terms used in this thread:

Sandringham = Royalist Stately Home in Norfolk

5 live = BBC News/ Current Affairs & Sports Radio station

Nicholas Witchell = BBC Royal Correspondent

Flextech = the content/media division of Telewest, a large cable company

UK Gold = Old Television programmes on Digital TV

Romford = Where DG lives. DG is anti-Royalist

Play UK = TV station?

Balmoral = Royal Castle in Scotland. The official Royalist home in Scotland.

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wait so the actual QUEEN didn't die? who fucking cares then?

― ethan, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THE BBC.

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they interviewed the man who trained her horse on radio 4! I mean fer fuxake....

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ITV had a rubbish Alvin Stardust impersonator, huzzah.

― Graham, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

really, when is the man who supplied the liters of gin that pickeled the bitch til her timely death being interviewed?

― anthony, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let's drag out the old 'she was a Nazi sympathiser y'know' line. Come on...

― DavidM, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can't wait for Liz II to live just as long as her mum. Charles takes the throne as a withered skeleton...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah David but she was hardly unique in her generation / class: I remember Edward VIII / the Duke of Windsor being described by James Whitaker as "the Nazi great uncle", and the sad truth is that many, many aristocratic families had similar skeletons in their closets (they related to the ideas of an "ordered society": it related to their views on how the "lower orders" should be treated). The QM's prejudices were the opposite of my own views on practically everything (especially her support for P.W. Botha's South African regime) but those were the prejudices of virtually her entire social axis: she just happened to capture a certain moment in WW2 and go on to outlive her contemporaries.

5 Live has been on it for too long, and *of course* I've been listening to Tommy Boyd on Talk Sport instead, but it's worth remembering that the most hysterically fawning tribute I've seen was going out on Sky News when BBC1 had already moved on to "Man and Boy".

Another part of the old order is gone, basically: the dramatic social changes in recent British history continue apace. That's what this is, over and above the Queen Mother herself.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hadn't seen any news today, so I thought y'all were joking again til I checked the New York Times online.

― Nicole, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole, as if Graham or myself would tell porkies - it's not April Fools day yet !

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Too true. On that day, the thread will read "Queen Mother ALIVE!" She'll become the Beast and reign in terror over mankind's cowering remnants.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, remember last year on April 1st - The Cure black front cover of Freaky Trigger !

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Toonces! Watch out!

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was pondering a follow-up, but was too lazy to go through with it...

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so - the civil list - does this mean we get a hooge tax rebate this yar - get in

― a-33, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Christ. Was in a theatre, and they came and announced it and people were audibly shocked. then we had two minutes silence. (is it me or are silences getting longer?) there was this strange mexican wave effect as people decided to stand up and people were too scared not to follow suit.
in paper this morning: bbc criticised for not having peter sissons wearing black tie, and putting out man and boy instead of getting all diana on us. also for starting to debate the future of the monarchy. Now, I know they're meant to be respectful, but if the woman who was meant to be holding the monarchy together dies, surely this is rather an obvious thing for a current affairs service to cover?

― Bill, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most sensible reponse so far:
On a train last night heading out of London, drunk woman announces QM has died, kev on train exclaims "But I only sold her a couple of pills! Shit, did they say they were doves or mitsubishis?" 3 cheers for the kev, I say.

I was at LC's house watching some Wogan-hosted bloopers show when the news came on, so immediately we flicked through the channels (all news) until we got to Channel 5 which was still showing some kid's film - much cheering for C5 and their apparent PUNKROCK scheduling ethic, until the news came on 5 minutes later than the BBC. Much sulking. At least the Beeb didn't claim she stayed in London during the war...

― DG, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have it on good authority that the mum did not die peacefully in her sleep but was given a heart attack by an exploding spy corgi sent by queen elizabeth 2 as she was pissed off at the publicity/waiting around for her inheritance.

― Queen G, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the civil list ?

― anthony, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Several - er - heartphelt tributes 'ave been on the radio, like. I'm sure they would have been more konvincing & meaningphul had they not obv been rekorded months & months ago.

I am listening to dear ole vaughan williams, 'cuz thee radio is pretty much unbearable.

Robin's Another part of the old order is gone, basically: the dramatic social changes in recent British history continue apace. That's what this is, over and above the Queen Mother herself. is obv. OTM, and even more so as the guy who organised the yearly aristo "Deb's Ball" died a little while ago, since when it is apparently in a state ov crisis according to the dear old guardian anyway. That I do find a bit sad, actually.

― Norman Phay, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bill's mexican wave is my favourite response so far

she was a cute toddler, mind

― mark s, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my mum's mum — born 1901, a year after QM — was always fairly pro-monarchy, but if anyone said how well QM was, she'd always say, "Well if you'd never dressed yourself or knelt to scrub a floor in your life, you'd be well too"

tho actually she scrubbed her own kitchen floor on her knees well into her 80s, and made it to her mid-90s, so maybe this doesn't actually follow...

― mark s, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which paper was that, Bill? (I deliberately haven't read any.) Because that's just the sort of thing the Sunday Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and probably certain other rags would say: with such an incredibly wide range of cultural bases to cover and respond to, the BBC really is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't, isn't it? I noticed News 24 showing their technology programme "Click Online" this afternoon while Sky News and ITN News Channel were still fawning over the QM (emails saying "She cared for the common people" blah blah) which pleased me, as did the discussion on the future of the monarchy I caught on 5 Live earlier this evening before I switched to Tommy Boyd.

I noticed that as well, Norman: from that Guardian article Peter Townend seemed like a nicer and more sympathetic person than others of his ilk, and certainly Harpers And Queen Diarist commenting that they now cover celebrity events far more than debs' balls was another sign of the way we're heading. Amusingly though when I mentioned Townend's death to my mum last year she first thought I meant the man Princess Margaret didn't marry, then the racist former Tory MP John Townend :).

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was all hyped to get buggy cuz i thought channel five wd hoof CHARMED in favour of black ties and b/w, but then they didn't, and piper had hot sex with her demon lover so yay brit tv!!

― mark s, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robin: The Telegraph. They're at it again this morning. Watched Sky News last night, and they damnded all the broadsheets, however, for not capturing the public mood, much like the BBC, and being far too unemotional. It's strange, because everything seemed to be dying down, and now it's blanket coverage again. (At least on the news channels and in the papers). At least not as OTT as Diana malarkey, though.
The funny thing is, the more this goes on, I find myself becoming increasingly pro-royal, partly because I think, no matter what people may say, it is an ingrained part of this country, partly because I have always seemed to yearn after that supposedly 'nicer' age between the wars which has now dissapeared.
One final thing: Surprised its taken a while for people to pick up that the Queen has lost her sister and mother in less than two months...

― Bill, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hahaha i've been watching "skynews" etc. in my hotel room late at night. from the news it seems like it's a huge deal, and then i go out on the streets and no one here seems to care. lots of telephoto lenses for those shots on TV of the flowers, crying people, etc.

(ps: if you're in london right now drop me an email, i leave on wed)

― geeta, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Telegraph, eh? Quelle surprise.

I can't see myself ever being persuaded that way, Bill: the notional idea of what things were like between the wars is lovely until you become widely-read and historically knowledgable. My awareness of that period was negligible when I read Joyce Grenfell's letters of the 1930s and going through an (unknowingly) right-wing phase, I started wishing I could live that life. Then my historical reading widened and I clicked out of that phase soon enough.

That world is utterly vanished forever: monarchism won't bring it back, though it might allow Telegraph readers to retain their illusions that it can come back for maybe 10 more years.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, as I heard on my hospital bed, hooked up to an intravenous transfusion with a tube emptying goo out of my belly into a bag and doped up with morphine, wanting to be out in the bright sunshine that I could see through my panoramic 6th floor John Radcliffe Hospital window (Oxford's dreaming spires, birds, trees, oo! springtime) my reaction was "oh so the old bag's snuffed it at 101 big deal happens all the time I'm YOUNG and ILL and that's far more unusual the bbc should be telling the nation about *ME*!!!!!!"
amazing how self-centred a spell in hospital can make you!

― MarkH, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we could spin it out a week surely mark h: sunday how to dispose of the pus, monday the piano, tue the CDs, wed yr RESPONSE to the CDs, thur yr sadness at edward the 8th having to abdicate to become a nazi and marry a sex-change american, fri = GIN DAY!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A week? I want at least a fortnight mate. And books of condolence outside my house, with a stream of people stretching at least to Carfax Tower, if not Martyr's Memorial. And a supplement in every broadsheet: "Mark Hester: His Guts in Pictures."

― MarkH, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

her falbby flesh is gonna reek something horrid by the time they drag the carcass out to show.

― Queen G, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they should drag it to the Tower. Be a good day for the ravens.

― MarkH, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robin: Of course it never really happened, but it is a nice dream, isn't it?

MarkH: I think you should try for the entire M40...

― Bill, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A nice dream, yes, but I suspect a nicer dream for people who distrust the Guardian than it is for the rest of us ...

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

The biography also tells of the Queen Mother's love of popular television comedies like Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers and Keeping Up Appearances.

um, that last one? is some kind of awes...

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:26 (sixteen years ago)

uh i read this title and was all kinda ooh and then i remembered she died in 2002 and i already knew about it

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:28 (sixteen years ago)

anyway, obligatory revival of the old 'what goes stiff after a couple of strokes' gag.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:29 (sixteen years ago)

um, "Room On Fire" ?

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

NO THE QUEEN MOTHER LOL

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:36 (sixteen years ago)

anyway, obligatory revival of the old 'what goes stiff after a couple of strokes' gag.

i've just spent the last minute looking for evidence of someone who had slept with two members of The Strokes and then died; all the time wondering what it had to do with the Queen Mum. But actually google tells me the punchline is Princess Margaret, which is a bit more boring. i am slow today.

― tomofthenest, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:37 (sixteen years ago)

oh xpost bollocks. you see, I am slow. going back to bed.

― tomofthenest, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:38 (sixteen years ago)

doh!

xpost.

Actually, she ~~possibly did sleep with two of the strokes. Worse than Courtney Love, that woman!~~

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

this thread isn't even ON ILM, i mean ffs guys

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

Pricess Margaret, that is isn't.

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

Apparently my dad wooed my mother with this then topical gag:

Q: What's the Queen's favourite record?
A: 'Magic Moments' on Philips 12"

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:43 (sixteen years ago)

Was probably only a 7" really, my dad was obviously embellishing.

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:45 (sixteen years ago)

"Magic Moments" was on 10" RCA.

Oh, it's a joke!

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:46 (sixteen years ago)

As was Phil... in fact he probably started that joke

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

(xp)

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

Can't have been, it's not even racist.

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:52 (sixteen years ago)

Would have loved to have seen the Queen Mum be introduced to President Obama.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:53 (sixteen years ago)

"Ooh, hello, where have you parked the President's car?"

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:54 (sixteen years ago)

Penny for your thoughts, Phil

http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/President+Obama+First+Lady+Meet+Queen+v6vUdEvJ23xl.jpg

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:55 (sixteen years ago)

He's thinking "MAGIC MOMENTS!! 12" !! a HAAA!!!"

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:56 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

;_;

― Terminal Boredoms (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

peace god

― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

went stiff after a few rough strokes

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

ten years pass...

just leaving this where it might be handy

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:45 (four years ago)

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