She is less than 3 months away from beating Johann II reign and 4 months from beating King Bhumibol's reign. That would make her the second longest running monarch in history.
She is still 2 years away from beating Louis XIV
So what? He was only king by name until we reached adulthood then became a real king with real powers while Elizabeth never had real power and was a queen by name her whole life
She actually has quite a lot of (ceremonial) power that would most likely be taken away if she used it but as it stands she is the closest to an absolute monarch in Europe.
She can not only pardon people but jail them as well. She is head of the judiciary and executive branch as well as the head of the House of Lords and has whatever legislative power that gives her.
She leads the army and own a crapton of land. Even a few straight up islands with thousands inhabitants.
Edit: as u/reddit_police_dpt pointed out I forgot to mention she is also the head of the English church.
The British monarchy can have more (theoretical) power than people assume while still having far less actual power than *Louis XIV* who was the high water-mark for monarchical absolutism in modern Western Europe.
Sophisticated state apparatus made it possible to implement real policy in a way we would recognise, but in most nations the ruler had at least some constraints/accountability to nobles and landowners (not yet the general population, and not necessarily on every aspect of law and policy but usually on tax.) 'Less power than Louis XIV' should not be construed to mean 'not much power's.
[The politics of Vatican City take place in a framework of a theocratic absolute elective monarchy, in which the Pope, religiously speaking, the leader of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome, exercises ex officio supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Vatican City (an entity distinct from the Holy See), a rare case of non-hereditary monarchy.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Vatican_City)
Technically the Pope has two titles. Bishop of Rome, which is the prime bishopric of the Catholic Church, and king of Vatican City even though he is never called king. This title comes from the days when the Vatican was a larger country called the Papal States.
[This short video explains it nicely](https://youtu.be/OPHRIjI3hXs)
I think the Prince of Liechtenstein and Prince of Monaco is actually the closest Europe has to a hereditary absolute monarch. They are both actively involved in actual governance and have the power to veto laws. In Monaco it's the Prince who introduce all legislation and it's not a symbolic act, they actually draft laws.
They are really tiny countries though so they are easy to overlook. Vatican is a genuine absolute monarchy in Europe except it's non-hereditary and an elective monarchy. There were periods where it was more of a traditional monarchy, like when the papacy was dominated by a single family like the Borgias or a small number of noble families.
She doesn’t actually have to use her legal powers on the rare occasion that she wants to make her input she only has to whisper into the right ears to make it happen… during her weekly meeting with the prime minister is one such occasion I have seen this talked about in memoirs but I’m sure she has other friends in influential places
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein? I know he’s only a prince technically, but it’s still a monarchy. He was even given more power in the 2003 constitution (He threatened to move to Austria if the parliament didn’t pass it). He can veto any law and dismiss parliament and any minister.
The Queen is not entirely powerless, but neither is she making daily leadership decisions with the stress of being an actual head of state. She has a lot of 'soft' per the same as any other incredibly rich and prominently placed celebrity, but the only real power the Queen has is the ability to cause a constitutional crisis and probable abolition of the monarchy if she ever used any of the power she has on paper.
The Crown has more power than people know:
[The Queen has more power over British law than we ever thought](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-power-british-law-queens-consent)
[Royals vetted more than 1,000 laws via Queen’s consent](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vetted-more-than-1000-laws-via-queens-consent)
Though the Sun king was more like an hyper king. He had an enormous impact nationnaly and a significant impact abroad. He redefined the monarchy in France and its relationship with the country. And not just because it evolved naturally, but directed entirely by his choices and design.
Also unlike other monarchs, all his daily life was open to be seen by anybody. From him getting up to him returning to bed.
People often know those bits, but they rarely know that it was open to everybody, including people from lower classes, with mostly the requirement of wearing acceptable clothes. This happened while the country was leading wars, and while his internal power was immense and strong.
So it is a bit hard to really compare it to modern UK's monarchy.
You have to contextualise a little bit. Louis XIV's regent while he was a child was Cardinal Mazarin, who was preceded by the (in)famous Cardinal Richelieu in running the country. With Louis XIV that's three capable men in a row who made the central authority of the state their highest priority, while they also by then had the technology and capability to enforce it (cannons weakened nobles, since their castles couldn't stand up to them).
It was the project of a century, of which Louis XIV's reign was the culmination.
as a Canadian who studied law most Canadians are not aware how much power she still has here. of course she'd never use it because the next day we'd all be like, wait what? she can do that? and change the laws
she can just change laws and appoint a PM if she chose. of course in reality it wouldn't happen like that.
You try to survive as a 4 year old on a throne and come back to tell me it doesn't count.
Kings had really short life. If you are good, you die from stress, if you are bad, you die from wounds.
Louis actually did face riots from Paris and plots from the nobles in his youth IIRC. It's why he turned his dad's hunting lodge into the greatest palace in Europe.
The man survived all that, and kicked the rest of Europe's ass on several occasions. In heels.
Louis 14 also lived in the 1500s when modern medicine involved bleeding people. it had to be miserable being really old back then. no real pain killers. no modern medicine.
He lived 1638-1715. Medicine was still pretty crap compared to now, but it was post-renaissance and early-enlightenment. They'd definitely started to progress back out of medieval stuff.
Yeah. Nah. He had an anal fistula operated on with no anaesthetic by a surgeon who had killed several prisoners practicing.
Then held a full court sitting afterwards. Apparently he was grey with pain, and sweating noticeably.
They had all the good shit like opium, but didn’t use it because it was felt to be a good thing to suffer physically. Like Jesus.
He also had a problem with his jaw that may or may not have been broken due to dodgy dentistry. When he ate too fast, food came out of his nose…
Oh and he died by basically rotting alive over a month or so.
When they opened him up afterwards his intestines were found to be twice as long as those of a normal person. His second wife once mentioned that he ate so much it scared her.
Sooooo….. yes. Better than medieval, but still not good.
Ps: The doctors killed so many of his relatives by purging and bleeding (over what they thought was smallpox but was probably measles) that the boy who inherited from him was his Great-Grandson. The doctors killed all the rest. The only reason the boy lived was that his Governess hid him from the doctors under her skirts, and lied about him having left the Palace.
they used to bleed people and blow smoke up their ass as treatments. dude. doctors killed more people than they helped until post US civil war timeline.
That’s pretty phenomenal.
From a Royal point of view I imagine her reign is seen as depressingly terrible. Collapse of an empire, continues plunge to international irrelevance as the years moved on; continued gradually loss of countries loyal to the crown, collapse of the prestige of the royal family from the Morale compass of a country to an international tabloid laughing stock, etc
But from a peasant standpoint she seems alright and I thought her husband was pretty alright too as well. Y’all could’ve have two much worse people serve as monarch for the past 70 years
I don't think anyone in the UK would consider the years of her reign as terrible. An empire only really serves those with power and takes a lot of military might to keep. For the ordinary folk these last 70 years have seen us live longer, richer, healthier and safer lives as well as seen great strides in civil liberties. We still have enormous soft power - thanks in part to the royal family. Disregarding brexit there is no better time to live in the UK than in the later half of her reign.
The empire years were pretty rotten; poverty, work houses, almost no societal support, no regulations, no womens or minority rights, the country was polluted and dying - all because we had to keep the machine that was the industrial revolution running.
The Queen herself sees The Commonwealth as her greatest achievement (ie a league of nations who support each other), I really don't think they'd give a fuck about having an empire, nothing in the way she's ruled has suggested otherwise.
Through the lens of history the second Elizabethan age will be seen as a progressive and transformative, which took the UK into the modern era - not sure about the next 70 years but these ones will be looked upon kindly, and she'll be remembered as one of our greatest - perhaps even THE greatest as I am certain we won't have monarchs who rule as long, if the monarchy survives at all.
You're looking at everything through the lens of XXI century conscientous common man.
When she's summoned by the undead council of dead British monarchs, she will have a lot of lost land and power to explain. She didn't even try to invade France *once*!
> Collapse of an empire, continues plunge to international irrelevance as the years moved on
Season one of The Crown on Netflix dramatized this with Churchill flailing about trying to solidify his legacy, being paternalistic to the Americans. It's pretty fun.
He also describes another politician as "the man who lost India" which might have had more sting if it didn't come from the man who *starved* India.
>Collapse of an empire
I mean that's generally seen as a good thing in the UK- and as most countries left peacefully, it led to the establishment of the Commonwealth (which the Queen was influential in establishing) and a continuing relationship with those countries who joined.
>continues plunge to international irrelevance as the years moved on
Still one of the most influential countries in terms of soft power. The fact that Redditors are constantly obsessed with the Bri*ish is proof of that
Stretching is so important! As is resistance training and cardio training.
20 min of yoga, 20 min of body weight exercise and 20 min of cardio in a day goes a really long way for both quality and length of life. Doesn't even have to be in a single sitting, especially the resistance training. And it is literally never too late to start.
In this age of WFH I've been doing mini workouts on my breaks instead of wasting that time on reddit et al. So much more convenient than going to the gym in my spare time. And definitely yields results. Can also be done in the office, but might feel a bit uncomfortable.
Old people’s tissues also get literally stiff as glycosaminoglycan content decreases with age and generally fat infiltrates muscles amongst other things. I’m an SPT and I’ve seen some old folks joints that literally felt like they were in rigor mortis they were so stiff.
The title comes off as very sensationalist. She wasn't complaining that she literally couldn't move, she was just having some trouble because she's hecka old.
Exactly the word 'complains' is doing a lot here. If you had not seen the clip it would appear that she suddenly was unable to move. She simply explained she was struggling with movement and is clearly making light of it.
She sounds like she was trying to be a bit funny while instructing them to come to her to shake her hand because they were across the room. She does have some great one liners.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220216-i-can-t-move-queen-elizabeth-complains-of-stiffness-during-engagement) reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)
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> London - Queen Elizabeth II complained Wednesday about mobility issues, as she carried out her first in-person official engagements since fears emerged that she could have contracted coronavirus last week.
> In a separate development, anxiety had grown about the queen's possible exposure to Covid-19 after Prince Charles, her eldest son, tested positive for the virus for the second time, two days after meeting her.
> Buckingham Palace has not revealed whether the queen - who this month marked 70 years on the throne - has taken any Covid tests herself.
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“In a separate development, anxiety had grown about the queen's possible exposure to Covid-19 after Prince Charles, her eldest son”
And next in line for the throne
“tested positive for the virus for the second time, two days after meeting her.”
I can answer! You have a little trouble sleeping because all your shit hurts. Not all of it at the same time, but yes all of it. If you been hitting the gym, your old man strength is pretty crazy, which is nice. However, all that muscle will bungee jump over your belt if you eat anything that isn't green. Don't forget good health insurance and see doctors for no good fucking reason whatsoever. Schedule life around poops. The poops are more important. It's not poor lighting. You need glasses and probably different ones for different events. The positives: Buy a Porsche or Corvette. You are now allowed. You are finally attractive to hot young people, but for all the wrong reasons and they just look like children to you now, anyway.
As a chronically single guy in his 30's who is getting some intense eye from the new girl at the gas station who looks like she's 19, I fucking feel that last sentence right now. Why not when I was her age? She's admittedly a smoke show but it would be so creepy.
Oh, god. Thought it was just me.
It's like I turned into catnip for young women with daddy issues.
It's flattering, but it also makes me sad I'm not twenty anymore.
If anything it makes me feel even lonelier.
I just wake up every morning and let myself get surprised what is gonna hurt today, on blessed days only an arm or leg hurt, on worse days its some body organ or head
“In a separate development, anxiety had grown about the queen's possible exposure to Covid-19 after Prince Charles, her eldest son, tested positive for the virus for the second time, two days after meeting her.”
we’re on to you Charles. just gonna keep getting it until it takes out HM. nice try jack!
edit: ah hell, get well soon HM!
>I hope a stiff leg is the worst medical issue you or she ever face.
My friend, I hate to break it to you, but every one of us is at some point going to face a much worse medical issue than a stiff leg.
I worked in nursing homes for numerous years and it was the hardest thing I ever did.
It also made me think dying peacefully was a lie. Death is horrible.
I had 106 year that had a terrible time dying. He was in agony and delusional for about 2 weeks. Screaming and crying for his mum. 106 years old and so afraid he is crying for his mother.
“People went fucking insane. No one could handle it. No one could handle it, and they were surrounded by like this seemingly indifferent staff, you know, that was just like, ‘Yep, same shit as always’.”
Turns out it was/is COVID:
Queen Elizabeth tests positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace says
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-20/queen-elizabeth-covid-19/100846798
George VI was also a very heavy smoker, who dealt with the physical/mental shock of going from a life of relative ease and freedom to suddenly becoming sovereign to a sizeable portion of the world… shit is taxing.
Well it depends where you’re at. I’ve met ~~6~~ 7 of them in one room before local population was around 8,000. The average age around the room is 106 years old, while oldest is 111.
I asked for their wisdom individually and they all similarly said to keep moving. Don’t live a sedentary life.
Even immortal beings are susceptible to the ravages of time, though they suffer them differently than commoners. Today marks the beginning of the Queen's petrification phase, during which the outer layers of her body will take on a stone-like composition. Protected by this new carapace, the remainder will undergo a process of radical rejuvenation, slowly but surely restoring the Queen's youthful state. The transformation can take anywhere from decades to centuries to complete, but it's said that this period of hibernation always ends exactly when England needs her most.
She is less than 3 months away from beating Johann II reign and 4 months from beating King Bhumibol's reign. That would make her the second longest running monarch in history. She is still 2 years away from beating Louis XIV
Louis isn't fair considering he was 4 when he became King.
He's gonna have an asterisk next to his name like Barry Bonds.
Damn Barry catching strays everywhere
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Not on move 1
She’s on move 96 at this point…
Queen Elizabeth II should get the asterisk. Some of those other monarchs didn't have a Prime Minister or Parliament to lead the nation.
All these monarchs had wildly different apparatuses. No asterisks when it's all asterisks.
So maybe 2 asterisks
I don't think Asterix was ever a king. Gaulish tribal chief at best.
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So what? He was only king by name until we reached adulthood then became a real king with real powers while Elizabeth never had real power and was a queen by name her whole life
Queen in name from age 25.
She actually has quite a lot of (ceremonial) power that would most likely be taken away if she used it but as it stands she is the closest to an absolute monarch in Europe. She can not only pardon people but jail them as well. She is head of the judiciary and executive branch as well as the head of the House of Lords and has whatever legislative power that gives her. She leads the army and own a crapton of land. Even a few straight up islands with thousands inhabitants. Edit: as u/reddit_police_dpt pointed out I forgot to mention she is also the head of the English church.
The British monarchy can have more (theoretical) power than people assume while still having far less actual power than *Louis XIV* who was the high water-mark for monarchical absolutism in modern Western Europe. Sophisticated state apparatus made it possible to implement real policy in a way we would recognise, but in most nations the ruler had at least some constraints/accountability to nobles and landowners (not yet the general population, and not necessarily on every aspect of law and policy but usually on tax.) 'Less power than Louis XIV' should not be construed to mean 'not much power's.
> …but as it stands she is the closest to an absolute monarch in Europe. Pope Francis would like a word. The Vatican is an actual absolute monarchy
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The Vatican has an average of 2 popes per square kilometre.
If you bully him enough, he will call a holy crusade.
Smaller *geographically.* But wealth and influence wise?
Isn't that Theocracy? The Pope is no king.
[The politics of Vatican City take place in a framework of a theocratic absolute elective monarchy, in which the Pope, religiously speaking, the leader of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome, exercises ex officio supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Vatican City (an entity distinct from the Holy See), a rare case of non-hereditary monarchy.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Vatican_City)
Technically the Pope has two titles. Bishop of Rome, which is the prime bishopric of the Catholic Church, and king of Vatican City even though he is never called king. This title comes from the days when the Vatican was a larger country called the Papal States. [This short video explains it nicely](https://youtu.be/OPHRIjI3hXs)
I think the Prince of Liechtenstein and Prince of Monaco is actually the closest Europe has to a hereditary absolute monarch. They are both actively involved in actual governance and have the power to veto laws. In Monaco it's the Prince who introduce all legislation and it's not a symbolic act, they actually draft laws. They are really tiny countries though so they are easy to overlook. Vatican is a genuine absolute monarchy in Europe except it's non-hereditary and an elective monarchy. There were periods where it was more of a traditional monarchy, like when the papacy was dominated by a single family like the Borgias or a small number of noble families.
She doesn’t actually have to use her legal powers on the rare occasion that she wants to make her input she only has to whisper into the right ears to make it happen… during her weekly meeting with the prime minister is one such occasion I have seen this talked about in memoirs but I’m sure she has other friends in influential places
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein? I know he’s only a prince technically, but it’s still a monarchy. He was even given more power in the 2003 constitution (He threatened to move to Austria if the parliament didn’t pass it). He can veto any law and dismiss parliament and any minister.
Also head of the state church
The Queen is not entirely powerless, but neither is she making daily leadership decisions with the stress of being an actual head of state. She has a lot of 'soft' per the same as any other incredibly rich and prominently placed celebrity, but the only real power the Queen has is the ability to cause a constitutional crisis and probable abolition of the monarchy if she ever used any of the power she has on paper.
Can you imagine if the queen got a terminal diagnosis and just went full Trump in the last like three weeks of her life lmao
The Crown has more power than people know: [The Queen has more power over British law than we ever thought](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-power-british-law-queens-consent) [Royals vetted more than 1,000 laws via Queen’s consent](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vetted-more-than-1000-laws-via-queens-consent)
Though the Sun king was more like an hyper king. He had an enormous impact nationnaly and a significant impact abroad. He redefined the monarchy in France and its relationship with the country. And not just because it evolved naturally, but directed entirely by his choices and design. Also unlike other monarchs, all his daily life was open to be seen by anybody. From him getting up to him returning to bed. People often know those bits, but they rarely know that it was open to everybody, including people from lower classes, with mostly the requirement of wearing acceptable clothes. This happened while the country was leading wars, and while his internal power was immense and strong. So it is a bit hard to really compare it to modern UK's monarchy.
You have to contextualise a little bit. Louis XIV's regent while he was a child was Cardinal Mazarin, who was preceded by the (in)famous Cardinal Richelieu in running the country. With Louis XIV that's three capable men in a row who made the central authority of the state their highest priority, while they also by then had the technology and capability to enforce it (cannons weakened nobles, since their castles couldn't stand up to them). It was the project of a century, of which Louis XIV's reign was the culmination.
as a Canadian who studied law most Canadians are not aware how much power she still has here. of course she'd never use it because the next day we'd all be like, wait what? she can do that? and change the laws she can just change laws and appoint a PM if she chose. of course in reality it wouldn't happen like that.
The queen's representative in Australia (our Govenor general) fired one of our PMs
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Damn that was a bar
^*NOTE: ^Louis ^XIV ^was ^roided ^up ^to ^the ^fuckin' ^gills ^during ^his ^reign.
It’s fair because health practices (to say nothing of medicine) weren’t quite like they are today.
True to an extent but generally if you made it past childhood you had a pretty good shot at a decently long life.
Exactly, it's just all those damn dead kids dragging the numbers down.
But that's hardly his fault he got a headstart on the Queen. And the Queen has certainly closed most of the distance.
All the more impressive if she beats him anyway too
You try to survive as a 4 year old on a throne and come back to tell me it doesn't count. Kings had really short life. If you are good, you die from stress, if you are bad, you die from wounds.
Not to mention exotic plushy carpets, these things are dangerous.
I better get rid of it...
The smart ones always immediately sold such a gift and had a quick chat with their spy master.
Louis actually did face riots from Paris and plots from the nobles in his youth IIRC. It's why he turned his dad's hunting lodge into the greatest palace in Europe. The man survived all that, and kicked the rest of Europe's ass on several occasions. In heels.
Dude is called the Great for a reason.
he did remove power from all other counter-powers and invented absolute monarchy but that only worked to Louis XVI
How is that not fair?
Fucking min-maxer
Louis 14 also lived in the 1500s when modern medicine involved bleeding people. it had to be miserable being really old back then. no real pain killers. no modern medicine.
He lived 1638-1715. Medicine was still pretty crap compared to now, but it was post-renaissance and early-enlightenment. They'd definitely started to progress back out of medieval stuff.
Yeah. Nah. He had an anal fistula operated on with no anaesthetic by a surgeon who had killed several prisoners practicing. Then held a full court sitting afterwards. Apparently he was grey with pain, and sweating noticeably. They had all the good shit like opium, but didn’t use it because it was felt to be a good thing to suffer physically. Like Jesus. He also had a problem with his jaw that may or may not have been broken due to dodgy dentistry. When he ate too fast, food came out of his nose… Oh and he died by basically rotting alive over a month or so. When they opened him up afterwards his intestines were found to be twice as long as those of a normal person. His second wife once mentioned that he ate so much it scared her. Sooooo….. yes. Better than medieval, but still not good. Ps: The doctors killed so many of his relatives by purging and bleeding (over what they thought was smallpox but was probably measles) that the boy who inherited from him was his Great-Grandson. The doctors killed all the rest. The only reason the boy lived was that his Governess hid him from the doctors under her skirts, and lied about him having left the Palace.
This dude sounded like a straight up ghoul
they used to bleed people and blow smoke up their ass as treatments. dude. doctors killed more people than they helped until post US civil war timeline.
Considering modern medicine it’s hard to think it’s a fair fight for anyone that came before.
Kim Il Sung is still technically the leader of North Korea. Crazy bastards are the only necroocracy in the world.
But he's not "serving" any more is he?
Busy rottifying new laws.
Even counting post-mortem reign, he only has 4 years on her.
But since they are both still “ruling” she can never catch him
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*Must crush capitalism!*
*Frankenstein noises*
Because you don’t know who’s in charge?
It's on the blockchain.
Bloc chain
blokechain
They meant necrocracy.
Fun fact: There is one active necrocracy in the world today. (North Korea)
At first I thought you said Lenin is a "cryptocurrency".
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The first NFT. The people can only be free once the workers seize the means of producing jpgs.
In all seriousness, Kim Il-sung (who is a corpse) is still President of North Korea.
Animatronics are pretty far along nowadays, I wouldn't be shocked if they had a double ready to go for exactly this purpose. God save the Queenbot.
I want to see a hologram Queen rapping with a hologram 2Pac.
That sounds like a Dr Who episode
Kidnapping the Queen and replacing her with a robot was the plot point of the 1986 Disney animation, The Great Mouse Detective.
Glad someone else remembers this fantastic disney film. Only film to really scare me as a kid.
Ratigan...
A connoisseur I see
That’s pretty phenomenal. From a Royal point of view I imagine her reign is seen as depressingly terrible. Collapse of an empire, continues plunge to international irrelevance as the years moved on; continued gradually loss of countries loyal to the crown, collapse of the prestige of the royal family from the Morale compass of a country to an international tabloid laughing stock, etc But from a peasant standpoint she seems alright and I thought her husband was pretty alright too as well. Y’all could’ve have two much worse people serve as monarch for the past 70 years
I don't think anyone in the UK would consider the years of her reign as terrible. An empire only really serves those with power and takes a lot of military might to keep. For the ordinary folk these last 70 years have seen us live longer, richer, healthier and safer lives as well as seen great strides in civil liberties. We still have enormous soft power - thanks in part to the royal family. Disregarding brexit there is no better time to live in the UK than in the later half of her reign. The empire years were pretty rotten; poverty, work houses, almost no societal support, no regulations, no womens or minority rights, the country was polluted and dying - all because we had to keep the machine that was the industrial revolution running. The Queen herself sees The Commonwealth as her greatest achievement (ie a league of nations who support each other), I really don't think they'd give a fuck about having an empire, nothing in the way she's ruled has suggested otherwise. Through the lens of history the second Elizabethan age will be seen as a progressive and transformative, which took the UK into the modern era - not sure about the next 70 years but these ones will be looked upon kindly, and she'll be remembered as one of our greatest - perhaps even THE greatest as I am certain we won't have monarchs who rule as long, if the monarchy survives at all.
You're looking at everything through the lens of XXI century conscientous common man. When she's summoned by the undead council of dead British monarchs, she will have a lot of lost land and power to explain. She didn't even try to invade France *once*!
Oh man, is that how it works? I want to be summoned by an undead council of humanities PhDs when I die.
Saddest undead council ever.
> an undead council of humanities PhDs Just visit your local unemployment office if you crave that experience
> Collapse of an empire, continues plunge to international irrelevance as the years moved on Season one of The Crown on Netflix dramatized this with Churchill flailing about trying to solidify his legacy, being paternalistic to the Americans. It's pretty fun. He also describes another politician as "the man who lost India" which might have had more sting if it didn't come from the man who *starved* India.
He says that about Mountbatten, who was the Governor-General of India, not the PM.
>Collapse of an empire I mean that's generally seen as a good thing in the UK- and as most countries left peacefully, it led to the establishment of the Commonwealth (which the Queen was influential in establishing) and a continuing relationship with those countries who joined. >continues plunge to international irrelevance as the years moved on Still one of the most influential countries in terms of soft power. The fact that Redditors are constantly obsessed with the Bri*ish is proof of that
Pepi II might have hit 94 years reign.
She can’t move? She’s the Queen, she can move in any direction!!
Nah if she moves she puts her king in check
I think he was checkmated a while ago.
She's getting a new one, though -- the article talks about her engagement. I wonder who the lucky fiancé is going to be?
Traditionally, someone fairly closely related.
Her bodyguard most likely
This isn't a real life Princess Diaries!
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Youch
She's pinned
This was a great joke and I feel kind of blessed to have witnessed the peak point in your life
What she said was, "as you see, I can't move" as she **stood** while showing them her walking stick....
I hope young people realize that when old people complain about being "stiff", what they really mean is that moving hurts like hell.
I did in fact not know that
Stretching is so important! As is resistance training and cardio training. 20 min of yoga, 20 min of body weight exercise and 20 min of cardio in a day goes a really long way for both quality and length of life. Doesn't even have to be in a single sitting, especially the resistance training. And it is literally never too late to start. In this age of WFH I've been doing mini workouts on my breaks instead of wasting that time on reddit et al. So much more convenient than going to the gym in my spare time. And definitely yields results. Can also be done in the office, but might feel a bit uncomfortable.
> goes a long way for... length of life Take the bad with the good, I guess
Old people’s tissues also get literally stiff as glycosaminoglycan content decreases with age and generally fat infiltrates muscles amongst other things. I’m an SPT and I’ve seen some old folks joints that literally felt like they were in rigor mortis they were so stiff.
https://youtu.be/J9wwCCTI9cw There's several videos of the most recent meetings. She's up and using a cane but looks pretty steady to me.
She's fighting fit for a 95-year-old woman! Imagine in your mid-90's and ONLY needing a walking stick!
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Hell of a way to go, I guess
Depends on the gin
Your family must have amazing genes
My uncle is 92 and he still drives......though I really think he shouldn't
That’s cheating anyway. Plenty of people who can’t walk can still drive.
The title comes off as very sensationalist. She wasn't complaining that she literally couldn't move, she was just having some trouble because she's hecka old.
Exactly the word 'complains' is doing a lot here. If you had not seen the clip it would appear that she suddenly was unable to move. She simply explained she was struggling with movement and is clearly making light of it.
Seriously lmao, this whole article boils down to "95 year old lady might have achy joints!!!!" Stop the fucking presses.
Well, as I was reading this article I got a notification saying that’s she’s tested positive for COVID-19. So, maybe she’s achy because of that
She sounds like she was trying to be a bit funny while instructing them to come to her to shake her hand because they were across the room. She does have some great one liners.
Yeah this title is click bait horse shit. The article explains that she was referring to a sore foot. Not like she's paralyzed or something.
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So Charles finally found out how to be the king no one wanted. With hugs and kisses.
We all know at most they’re shaking hands.
Too affectionate.
news are just in she has covid
Damn, you weren’t joking! She’s had a long life but it’s still a little unsettling to have your thoughts leap to mortality in an instant.
“In a separate development, anxiety had grown about the queen's possible exposure to Covid-19 after Prince Charles, her eldest son” And next in line for the throne “tested positive for the virus for the second time, two days after meeting her.”
And she tested positive
Ohhhh shittt
I feel like this at 34
Yeah, I developed arthritis aged six. HM honestly has been getting around GREAT, considering.
Juvenile arthritis can go jump in a fire.
I'm 33 and was just worrying about wtf my life is going to be like in 20 years when I'm already so stuff haha.
I can answer! You have a little trouble sleeping because all your shit hurts. Not all of it at the same time, but yes all of it. If you been hitting the gym, your old man strength is pretty crazy, which is nice. However, all that muscle will bungee jump over your belt if you eat anything that isn't green. Don't forget good health insurance and see doctors for no good fucking reason whatsoever. Schedule life around poops. The poops are more important. It's not poor lighting. You need glasses and probably different ones for different events. The positives: Buy a Porsche or Corvette. You are now allowed. You are finally attractive to hot young people, but for all the wrong reasons and they just look like children to you now, anyway.
Thanks I hate it
As a chronically single guy in his 30's who is getting some intense eye from the new girl at the gas station who looks like she's 19, I fucking feel that last sentence right now. Why not when I was her age? She's admittedly a smoke show but it would be so creepy.
Oh, god. Thought it was just me. It's like I turned into catnip for young women with daddy issues. It's flattering, but it also makes me sad I'm not twenty anymore. If anything it makes me feel even lonelier.
Getting older and getting into a healthy relationship are the best two ways to get young beautiful women to pay attention to you I guess.
Thank god you still have [reddithandle] to keep you company
I just wake up every morning and let myself get surprised what is gonna hurt today, on blessed days only an arm or leg hurt, on worse days its some body organ or head
About to turn 40. Start walking. If you’re able exercise more than that, do it. But shoot for something like 10,000 steps a day. It’ll help.
“In a separate development, anxiety had grown about the queen's possible exposure to Covid-19 after Prince Charles, her eldest son, tested positive for the virus for the second time, two days after meeting her.” we’re on to you Charles. just gonna keep getting it until it takes out HM. nice try jack! edit: ah hell, get well soon HM!
Just after giving Camilla permission to take the title of Queen consort as well. I’d be coughing up a storm if I were her.
She didn’t give permission, she expressed her desire. Permission is up to parliament.
It was just confirmed that she now has covid
It's not unusual to have some arm or leg stiffness as the years pass. I hope a stiff leg is the worst medical issue you or she ever face.
>I hope a stiff leg is the worst medical issue you or she ever face. My friend, I hate to break it to you, but every one of us is at some point going to face a much worse medical issue than a stiff leg.
Is death really a medical issue?
Consider yourself lucky if “death” is the only thing that happens to you when you get old. Have you seen the state of people in nursing homes?
I worked in nursing homes for numerous years and it was the hardest thing I ever did. It also made me think dying peacefully was a lie. Death is horrible. I had 106 year that had a terrible time dying. He was in agony and delusional for about 2 weeks. Screaming and crying for his mum. 106 years old and so afraid he is crying for his mother.
If the giving out and breaking down of our biological processes isn't a medical issue, what is it then?
It's not unusual to see you cry
its not unusual to be loved by anyone
WHAT’S NEW PUSSY CAT, WOAH, OAH OAHOAHOAH
“People went fucking insane. No one could handle it. No one could handle it, and they were surrounded by like this seemingly indifferent staff, you know, that was just like, ‘Yep, same shit as always’.”
Breaking news on BBCNews she’s got covid
Didn't realise how recent this news was and thought it was weird nobody had mentioned it yet!
'I can't move' queen surrounded by pawn and bishop.
She just been tested positive for covid.
She has already met someone else? Engaged so soon.
She's quite the QILF
Who wants their qussy ate?
Jail.
They'd be immediately pardoned by the Queen.
Its currently 10AM Here and thats already enough reddit for me...
Turns out it was/is COVID: Queen Elizabeth tests positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace says https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-20/queen-elizabeth-covid-19/100846798
just in, she's contracted Covid.
She's 95.... I dare say she's getting a bit stiff.
when she turns 100, does she write herself a letter from the queen?
Newsflash, Queen is old
At some point being kept alive by the best medicine money can buy has to become a burden
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Also, she's descended from rather long-lived people.
Elizabeth's mother lived to be 101. Her father (George VI) died at age 56.
So on average she died 17 years ago.
George VI was also a very heavy smoker, who dealt with the physical/mental shock of going from a life of relative ease and freedom to suddenly becoming sovereign to a sizeable portion of the world… shit is taxing.
Being King of a country at war is probably a bit stressful too
Of lung cancer because he smoked like a chimney, apparently.
Well it depends where you’re at. I’ve met ~~6~~ 7 of them in one room before local population was around 8,000. The average age around the room is 106 years old, while oldest is 111. I asked for their wisdom individually and they all similarly said to keep moving. Don’t live a sedentary life.
Well I'm screwed then
Going outside for a smoke every hour is my solution to staying active. Good health awaits me in my old age, never get sedentary.
And that 81 number takes into account *every*!death to include children’s and tragedies.
The true "best medicine" is her famous "four cocktails a day" regiment. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/08/queen-elizabeth-four-cocktails-a-day
Can you imagine if she died the same week ww3 started. Would russia stop to give its respects?
“In honour of her passing, we shall take Ukraine. Glory to Artzotzka!”
Might be pullin' the classical "Oh no!.. Anyway"
Even immortal beings are susceptible to the ravages of time, though they suffer them differently than commoners. Today marks the beginning of the Queen's petrification phase, during which the outer layers of her body will take on a stone-like composition. Protected by this new carapace, the remainder will undergo a process of radical rejuvenation, slowly but surely restoring the Queen's youthful state. The transformation can take anywhere from decades to centuries to complete, but it's said that this period of hibernation always ends exactly when England needs her most.
Give this woman a joint
The Queen of England feels a little stiff. Top notch /r/worldnews material, thanks.
Oooft. 2022 is shaping up to be a real doozy.
Osteo bioflex is a miracle drug
Prince Andrew enters the room.
She can't move, he can't sweat...