#elizabeth ii

[corvidous]

(Sept 08 2022)

[useless-englandfacts]

i know it’s been a weird few days but come on

[janetsnakehole02]

This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).

Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”

This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.

edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.

[pansexual-lilychen]

the european urge to contact everyone you know to let them know the queen has died

[chance4choice]

[burntblueberrywaffles]

my brother: the queen just died

me, immediately: oh tumblr is going to have a field day with this

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Hey, like, what if the queen never comes back? What if they never announce her death either? What if everyone just pretends she's still alive forever? What then?

[Edit 1/12/22: MSN did not get my permission to use this post in their article]

[Edit: 9/8/22: oh man, oh geez, oh god, is it finally happening? Everyone stay clam! Everyone stay #@$&ing calm!]

[carnival-phantasm]

Queen of england is saving up her energy for one final tornado blowjob

[glass-ya]

[charlesoberonn]

[netscapenavigator-official]

I wish Diana would’ve trended beyond belief. Imagine how pissed Charles would’ve been if the people were talking more about his ex-wife than his dead mother or his new status.

[pinkinthenightdean]

monkey queen, banksy, 2005 / 'god save the queen', the sex pistols, 1977 / les miserables, victor hugo / 'parasite' graffiti in kent, england / ben paterson on twitter / liz truss, 1994 / christopher eccleston on instagram (now deleted) / felipe torres medina on twitter / we serve neither king nor kaiser, but ireland!, keogh brothers, 1914 / british commonwealth countries / the queen visiting tuvalu, 1982 / karen attiah, twp / uji anya on twitter (now reported) / jason farrell, sky news / bobby vylan, npr / darshna soni on twitter, and thread / black mountain, belfast, ireland / various, twitter / sisters nerissa bowes-lyon and katherine bowes-lyon / itv news / les miserables, victor hugo

[useless-englandfacts]

Best tweet about this that I've seen thus far -

https: //twitter.com/ stavvers/ status/ 1567861075 189678084 (without the spaces obvs)(thought you'd appreciate it, we love a bit of history)

ex-fucking-SCUSE me?

[strawbeb]

what kind of bollocks is this

[cloverhighfive]

of course

[ID: A "what's happening" section of Twitter, showing two different news stories on Queen Elizabeth's death, followed by "Supernatural" being on the trending topics. End ID]

[demigoddessqueens]

It has been a day!!!