I suppose this is the end of the news about the funeral.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
Chile
September 20, 2022 10:07am CST
I have been reading news about Queen Elizabeth´s funeral for several days. And I suppose that this is going to end soon and that life will go on.
I have my own opinions about many of the protocol. And of course the question is Why should I? The Queen was never my queen. There´s no monarchy in my country since 1818.
Still, I wish that Harry and Megan would have been treated better by their family although that is not the usual family. I could not even think of my family following all those strict and formal steps they did. So maybe Harry knew what was before him.
I also would not have left out of my will anyone of my grandchildren. But then, I am not a queen. I am giving away some pots and pails to my children now that I´m old. And gave away some Corelle cups to Dixie as she was so keen on having them.
To be a Royal, you have to be born a Royal. If not, there is no possibility of understanding anything at all.
Have you thought about all this?
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@FourWalls (86974)
• United States
20 Sep 22
To me, as an American, I see the king/queen today more as a figurehead than an actual “ruler.” I don’t think King Charles is going to have anyone beheaded the way Henry VIII did.
Still, the old military traditions are fascinating.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
Still I prefer my family with all its flaws.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
@FourWalls Royals and celebrities are not the kind of life I would like.
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@FourWalls (86974)
• United States
21 Sep 22
@marguicha — ditto. I wouldn’t trade my brother for anyone’s.
I really hate the fact that Charles has lived his entire life with everything since his first diaper change being reported in the press. Yeah, I get it, he was heir to the throne and now he’s king, but EVERYBODY is entitled to privacy! All that media attention will definitely put the funk in dysfunctional when it comes to families. 
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@LindaOHio (223056)
• United States
21 Sep 22
The monarchy is its own little world with its own set of protocols. We can't imagine what it's like living as they do.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
I know. I don´t think that I´d like to live as they do. I live with so little protocol that it is just a number of good manners that my mother taught me when I was a child.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
If I lived in Canada, I would be anti monarchy too.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
I would have left a piece of jewelry to little Lilibet.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
@Fleura News said that she left all her jewels to Kate and Charlotte.
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@HomewardBound (552)
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20 Sep 22
Like you, I can’t imagine being able to follow the protocol required of the members of the monarchy. As I watched the grandchildren during the ceremonies, I kept thinking how hard it must be for them to have their grief for their grandmother be so publicly displayed and even analyzed.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
21 Sep 22
We are just people. They are taught since they were born.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
10 Oct 22
I'm not ambitious or too ambitious to be a king or to live as a royal family even in my dreams. I am just contented of what I am and of what I have.
