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gingerwentworth1's avatar

Well, your family has served over the centuries but I believe this queen doesn't serve back. She's a cold, arrogant person, who's produced a cold arrogant family. Her neglect of Diana and of Meghan stands out-- I believe-- because Diana and Meghan were both charismatic figures who couldn't be made smaller than they were. The queens in the Netherlands-- belonging to an equally ancient, equally rich family-- seem to be markedly different-- they seem to go visiting all their subjects in their own homes, and don't try to maintain a mystique. All that is IMHO.

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Kiwiwriter's avatar

Actually, Elizabeth II HAS been visiting people in their homes in the UK, but she has been cutting back on that and a lot of her other duties due to being 94 years old. She gave up most of her positions of being head of charities for that reason, and her son and grandsons are performing awards ceremonies.

You are also forgetting how quickly she responded to support the victims of the bombing attacks of 7/7 in London and at the Ariane Grande concert, the latter of which is a musical form decidedly outside of her knowledge. Bombing in London, on the other hand, is something she's VERY familiar with.

But as I say, my support of the Crown makes me about as popular nowadays as an SS Hauptscharfuehrer in a Kibbutz.

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