40 minutes ago, Paul K said:

Dominique, I hope you won't mind if I post that picture on another flight sim forum, credit given. Thank you for posting it here - remarkable.

The source came to my Twitter time list from a French journalist. I just copied and pasted it here and added a short translation 😀 

 

On a British Airways flight to London

 

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Yes, you’re correct. Louis XIV of France served longer but he became King at the age of 4 I believe.

So much of our lives will now change. Postage stamps, currency, the National Anthem and even post boxes that show ER that will change to CR. The R stands for Regina - the ‘surname’ of the Monarch.

In the courts Queen’s Council becomes King’s Council.

Spell checker is an word not allowed again. It's Counsel.

11 hours ago, FBW737 said:

 I only wish she had corrected the schism in Christendom crated by Henry VIII

She had plenty of time to do it and since the Anglican Church is disintegrating except for the orthodox element which are just covering

to Catholicism.

Lol wut!?😟.

 

14 hours ago, JRMurray said:

A sad day for us in Canada as well. May she rest in peace. She's been the Queen for my entire life; it's going to be an adjustment to think of the King now ... King Charles III. On a side note, it will be interesting to see how long it will take for our money and stamps to change--if indeed they do change.

In the UK, top lawyers become Queen's Council - (QC's) - a very high honour for the very best (and most expensive) lawyers.  I heard on the radio this morning that that has changed with immediate to "KC".  Of course I understood it's an immediate transfer: "The Queen is dead, long live the King" and all that but a KC just sounds so weird...

26 minutes ago, ailchim said:

In the UK, top lawyers become Queen's Council

My spellchecker made the same change. Counsel of course. Not just KC but his profile on postage stamps, coins and his face on banknotes.

We had a 96 gun salute at Castle Cornet. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gun-salute-to-mark-queen-s-death-held-in-guernsey/ar-AA11DWdZ?li=BBnbcA1

I was nearby at the time. Sounded like it was going on forever. One every ten seconds. 

She seemed such a nice lady. Regal yet at times more down to earth (jam sandwiches with Paddington). Interested in photography as well; when I was shopping for an old Leica M3 and my fiancé was rolling her eyes I just told her that "if it's good enough for QE it is good enough for me". 

One of those people I would have liked to sit and talk to about anything. 

This is very sad. She was highly respected around the world, and I admired the way that she conducted herself at all times. A truly remarkable woman.

18 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

I don't think any of her progeny will measure up.

In addition to being a queen she was also a nice lady.  Very few are these days.  I doubt anyone in the world will ever be able to measure up to her.

In 1953 I was a young Marine in Korea.  The news of her coronation came rather quickly considering where we were.  There were Brits serving there too and I recall one of them pulling up in a jeep to our unit with a bottle of wine and a glass.  He poured a little of the wine into the glass and raised a toast to the new queen.  He was making the rounds of all the nearby units.

It's nice to have an apolitical leader who does not have to stand for election and who you can look up to as someone who is above the fray and is honored by almost everyone.   

I will be watching for the new king's coronation.  Nobody does pomp as well as the British.  It's a pleasure to watch.

I once flew to into Sydney on a TDY trip to our station in Alice Springs.  I flew in commercial but was going to fly to Alice the next morning in an RAAF aircraft so I spent the night at some Air Base near Sydney.

In the morning I went to the officer's mess as a guest for breakfast.  An orderly with a towel draped over his forearm came up to me and scared me a little when he stomped his feet and asked if I wanted coffee or tea.  I had only seen that in movies before.

I was only in Alice for two weeks, but I loved it there.  The Aussies were very friendly.

May your Queen rest in peace.  She was a lady in every sense of the word.  She will be long remembered.

Noel

Edited September 9, 20223 yr by birdguy

@MaDDogz, I think he was being sarcastic.

I’ve hidden a couple of posts from people wanting an argument. Take it to PM. No more please.

12 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

So much of our lives will now change. Postage stamps, currency,

I'm not sure that currency will change all that soon. After all, the gov't just spent how much to replace 20's and 50's with the new 'polymer' bills?

I visited GB only once when I was around 11 years old. I was astonished that paper bills were all different sizes. I remember my dad having to fold some of the bills so they would fit in his wallet.

The advent of ATM's would not have been possible had the currency not been rationalized to be standard sizes.

12 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

The R stands for Regina - the ‘surname’ of the Monarch.

Sorry for the pedantry, but years of post-secondary Latin studies tend to have an influence ... "R" stood for "Regina" for Queen Elizabeth II, but it will stand for "Rex" for Charles III.

31 minutes ago, n4gix said:

I was astonished that paper bills were all different sizes

I think that was so that blind people could differentiate between the different denominations.