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It is sad, but it doesn't affect me that much. She did no more during the war than any of my dead grandparents, and I didn't expect strangers to mourn them.

Obviously she is a public figure who has always been around, so I do feel a certain attachment and therefore personal sadness, but she had a good life and lived to an exceptional age so hardly a tragedy. I'm younger (late 20s if that counts) and I don't think I've heard her say anything except the odd word. I know nothing of who she really was, so I, and most people of my age and younger will find it hard to be affected by it.

However, my sympathies go to the Queen, the rest of the Royals and all those that did actually know her. I hope protocol and faux admiration from randoms don't interfere with their needs for privacy and to mourn her as they see fit.

I've just put the tv on, and it's like a circus outside Buck house.