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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I won't stay in this thread because obviously it really isn't my place but I really couldn't not respond to this post.

Why is this seen as a good thing, I don't get it? Why is it good to have had a robotic monarch that none of you knew and had no idea what she thought on all the important events of the last 70 years? Idgi

I don't know if it is necessarily a good thing and that's what I was wondering when I posted it. I do think the Queen represented a connection from today's generation right back to the 1950s though. If there's a thread from that time way back then till today she is that thread.

People now who are over 60 years old have only ever known her as head of state and all the time she's been gracious, steadfast, dutiful, good humoured etc etc in her role. Compare that to our last few PMs who have all been forced to quit in disarray after only a few years. She's a million times more popular than any of our recent leaders so I'm not sorry that she was our head of state and not them.