Did you know the QUEEN was going to adbicate in light of the Princess Diana Incident?

Question

I wouldn't have really cared she had or not. I still don't know why we even have the royal family. Your views?

Answer 1

Her wrist was probably getting tired. It's hard work waving at a whole country full of people all by yourself.

Answer 2

HM would never abdicate -- she has seen the effects of abdication on her father. Edward VIII chose an American divorcee over the Crown, thrusting HM's father, George VI into the limelight. He was ill-prepared and had a stammer, which proved rather difficult for public speaking. He did a good job though, supported as he was by the late Queen Mother.

Anyway, my point is that HM would never seriously consider abdication, as she takes her duties very seriously. Plus, there's the whole 'Christian fortitude' thing. Despite what many of us think of the Royals, the Queen isn't the one in the tabloids on a regular basis. I don't know what all the 'republican' fuss is about anyhow, because HM is not an absolute monarch. She has powers but in the grand scheme of things, she is at the mercy of the Parliament, and her line of monarchs has been since the Civil war in the 1600s.

Answer 3

I doubt it, she didn't give a sh it about it which was clearly evident by the fact that she didn't even bother to come back to Buck house for a day or two, and not until public pressure was so overwhelming did we see the flags flying at half mast over the palace. Princess Diana was the only royal in many many years that the public have really liked & respected....... but thats how it goes, the best always go first

Answer 4

She wasn't going to abdicate. The Royal family were very afraid of the public's reaction to them,though.They were afraid of being booed,perhaps having things thrown at them upon their return to Buckingham Palace,to view the flowers left there for the late Princess of Wales.The Queen had the car stopped right in front of the gates,so they could hurry back to the car in case the crowd turned ugly.The immediate Royal family had no clue about the public's feelings for Diana:they were generally kept in the dark by their aristocratic staff.Luckily Charles had a clue and made sure that his ex-wife was treated with dignity and respect.

Answer 5

The combined utter ignorance and arrogance of people sometimes takes my breath away! Here we are, with so called adults telling the world that they don't know why we have a Royal Family and then as a throw away line, saying that they don't care!
Its as though you are proud of your lack of education!
Anyway, for people with brains - The Queen is a religious woman and takes the Oath that She made to God very seriously. The Queen will never abdicate - no matter what happens and certainly not because of an extremely silly newspaper article today, which the questioner has swallowed hook line and sinker. Into the mouths of babes!

Answer 6

What's your source for this crap? Think about it, the Monarchy was in serious trouble at the time of Diana's death. So, on your theory, The Queen abdicates? Oh who then ascends to the throne? Prince Charles for goodness sake! The very person most likely to have outraged many of the population at that time. Complete and utter nonsense!

Answer 7

Id like to know your sources as I doubt it very much. The Queen takes her position very seriously and will never forget how her Uncle abdicated thus her father became King. It was hard going on her father and he went to an early grave. She has dedicated her life to serving the British people and her closest friends, confidants and the royal reporters will tell you that abdication will never be an option for this lady.

Answer 8

The Queen did not hate Diana;she did not understand Diana.there's a large difference between hate and befuddlement.both women human beings were of diverse generations.The Queen grow to be raised to no longer instruct her emotions--the stereotypical "stiff top lip" of the formerly international Wars technology.when you consider that many aristocratic marriages were made as power-mergers,affairs were taken with no interest.different halves were meant to seem any opposite direction;it really is how the Queen grow to be raised.responsibility first,self 2d. Diana grow to be of a very new technology-- the "me" technology the position self grow to be taken into concentration besides as responsibility.Diana merely might want to no longer settle for that Charles grow to be having an affair.Diana grow to be led to have self assurance that she had made a threat-free selection in marrying Charles;marrying Charles meant protection because divorce grow to be supposedly out of the question. Diana grow to be fairly risky emotionally,because of the dishonest,her bulimia and post partum melancholy.She got here to the Queen for help.The Queen tried to assist,yet Charles refused to provide a Camilla.Diana grow to be continually in tears--emotions no longer being the Queen's sturdy-factor when you consider that she grow to be raised to placed responsibility formerly personal desires.The Queen grow to be confounded by technique of both her son and daughter-in-regulation.She gained't have loved the well-known public way that Charles and Diana performed their marital feud,yet she did not hate both one.

Answer 9

Nope. And what 'incident' is that? Do you mean Princess Diana's death? I think it was more than an incident. It was a tragedy, and the Queen would never abdicate. She made that very clear many times. She says that she would be abdicating her responsibilities - translated - she doesn't want jug-ears to Rule Britannia.

Answer 10

They didnt lower the flag on the palace for Dianas death, or her funeral, and even the poor womans WILL was not allowed to stand- they altered numerous bequests she had made. She was hastily shoved into a old black evening dress to be buried, and the day she died, palace staff went through her personal posessions and took away jewellery regarded as "royal"- the stunning thing is, that after all that, these people expect us to RESPECT them??? After their mothers funeral, the princes, then children, were taken straight to their fathers mistress's home by their father- what a prize **** he was then; has he changed??? These people are parasites; they own half of London, most of Scotland, palaces and mansions everywhere worth billions , jewellery in quantities that would take a fork-lift truck to move, slum properties, most of the worlds finest art and priceless furniture, castles, aircraft, boats, polo and racing horses; who picks up the maintenance bills WE DO. They are meanspirited, greedy, grasping vampires, and Russia had the right idea about royalty.......they shot the greedy bastards.

Answer 11

I've heard that there's a stigma in England against abdicating. I know that once Queen Elizabeth dies people want Charles to abdicate the throne and give it to William but that's not likely to happen.