175 Replies to “The Next Kingdom”

  3. As a woman, she was well spoken, and held herself poise with dignity.
    As a monarch, I look at England when she was Crowned, and England now in order to determine her success as the head of state.

  7. The end of an era. Perhaps in more ways than one.

    And what a good way to go – no long illness, no dementia, working until the last day. A class act.

  8. The late Queen deserves a measure of respect on this day of her passing.
    Those whose opinion of her is based on nothing more than propaganda and the MSM do not deserve any measure of respect, be they pro- or anti-monarchy. Her and her successor are pretty close, but she, at least, had the good sense and respect for her subjects not to shoot her mouth off about all the sacrifices we must make in order to preserve society.
    So, all you people who are so respectftul of the Queen, repeat after me:
    “The Queen is dead, long live the King!” if you actually have any strength of your convictions, and are not just mouthing Canadiana like the Tragically Hip.

    1. How do you know you don’t evil?
      Ahh yes, by not lying, cheating and stealing.
      Now, how far do you think a truth-teller will go, politically?
      We ARE fallen, deal with it as God would, by leaving us alone.

    1. Watch as the Canadian right complains so much about having Charles on our money, that we wind up with Mohamed or Fidel on it, as a “compromise.”

  10. I’ve never been a monarchist. Probably started when we would sing God Save the Queen at the end of every school day. Her portrait above the blackboard at the front of the classroom was just one more reminder that the state controlled my world way too much. Sadly things only got worse as the state of which she was the titular head became ever more intrusive into Canadians daily lives. The ultimate failure of the monarchy in Canada was when she signed the Trudeau crap wrap constitution.

  12. God Save the Queen!
    As a 5 year old I remember when George VI died. We sang God save the King very sadly
    and then sang God save the Queen .
    We were then told to go home and have our mothers make a black armband to wear to school the next day.
    Different time but a timeless one.

  13. I loved England. I’m an Englishman. I remember I was a kid when Charles and Diana got married, I was in Wales, and we had parties out on the Welsh mountains, with potato sack races, no less. Even the kids got drunk. Then there were the military Tattoos, with soldiers stripping FNs and Sterling SMGs for the kiddies.
    Now look at the place.
    QEII let that happen. Do you think Charles will fix it?

  14. I remember as 8year old in a socialist country run by communists, watching the coronation on a TV in the showcase of store that sold those things. Quite surprised, though it could have been on an Austrian channel, that we could watch over the air. You could not tell who was speaking and what language. Having a tv set at home was many, many years in the future.
    Anyway for an 8 years old kid, it was just curiosity if seeing tv, the grown ups would be talking about the coronation, that’s how a kid would know what was going on.

    The last time saw the queen live was in Calgary.
    Walking late from work, the streets were mostly empty and here comes, from the flyover down to 5th Avenue SE, a number of black limousines and there, it could have been in the second car from the front, the queen looking straight at me waved. The surprise was so immediate, me, for no reason did not wave back. It bothered me ever since.
    Don’t have particular feeling for monarchy, though anybody that is interested in the affairs of men knows, that the queen was a virtually single class act in the world where there are few and none.

  15. HM Queen Elizabeth II always deserved the utmost respect from all as the model of what every monarch, every human life should be.

    Her view of life; the life she lived:

    . “This is the time of year when we remember that God sent His only son ‘to serve, not to be served’. He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ. It is my prayer this Christmas Day that his example and teaching will continue to bring people together to give the best of themselves in the service of others. The carol, In The Bleak Midwinter, ends by asking a question of all of us who know the Christmas story, of how God gave himself to us in humble service: ‘What can I give him, poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb; if I were a wise man, I would do my part’. The carol gives the answer: ‘Yet what I can I give him – give my heart’. (Christmas message, 2012)

    2. She’s 95 years old, FFS. America would never have existed if it were not for the British thinkers. Stop shitting on her grave and go after the real baddies, like Gates, the Turd and so on. I know what she was, and am willing to forgive, now is the time to fight actual enemies, not dead ones.

  16. She is the only monarch I’ve ever had and I took her commission at the age of twenty one. She was the epitome of dignity and service in her role. With her passing we lose an exemplar of the best qualities of a previous age. RIP

  17. She was my Queen and Her name is on my Officer’s commissioning scroll. Our Gracious Queen. God bless Her.

  18. The late Queen deserves a measure of respect on this day of her passing.
    Those whose opinion of her is based on nothing more than propaganda and the MSM do not deserve any measure of respect, be they pro- or anti-monarchy. Her and her successor are pretty close, but she, at least, had the good sense and respect for her subjects not to shoot her mouth off about all the sacrifices we must make in order to preserve society.
    So, all you people who are so respectful of the Queen, repeat after me:
    “The Queen is dead, long live the King!” if you actually have any strength of your convictions, and are not just mouthing Canadiana like the Tragically Hip.

  19. The Queen prayed every night on her knees to our Lord God.
    She knew to keep God first, family second and her country third.

    She did it right! She was always the bright light in that family.

  20. Not a monarchist, but she was a grand ol dolly and I believe a good and sincere, moral person.
    RIP

  21. From a Yank…

    God Bless Queen Elizabeth II.

    My condolences to her family and the Commonwealth

  22. Very saddened by her passing, and disgusted by the lack of respect for a very classy Lady by a few of the commenters here.

  23. My once and forever Queen, you have earned your rest.
    Etiquette be damned – the King of Heaven will bow to you first,
    out of sheer admiration of your accomplishments.
    Rest in peace, Your Royal Highness.

  24. Witnessing what other leaders have shown us lately it really does show us all what a class act she was with the utmost level of integrity.
    Even with family dysfunction of their own, she was steadfast and never lost her balance. In reflection I hope we all can learn a little of how to carry ourselves within our time in this life as she did!

    Rest in peace

  25. One comment that made me laugh today asked who gets the iPod Obama gave her with his speeches…

    1. Charles III will listen to them nightly, he needs to refresh himself on the Agenda. His mother no doubt told him very little about that stuff.

  28. Saw her twice close up. First when she reviewed us (air cadets) at John Dolan school in Saskatoon. She had “presence”. You knew she was a queen as she walked slowly by…

    Second was classic. She opened the synchrotron at u of s, was working on campus, I convinced a few of the boys to go say hi.
    We went down Preston avenue to North road, iirc.
    Hit the walk lite as soon as I saw the convoy coming south to turn right into u of s. They stopped, then turned right slowly, freaking out the escort as we could have just stepped n front…
    We all stood and did the “queen wave” and yelled “helloooo” as the convoy slowly turned right in front of us.
    Several vehicles full of serious looking dudes, harry eyeballed us…
    Then came the queen. Class act, she gave us a huge smile and the queen wave, mouthed “hellooo” a couple of times (as we were), laughing, and was gone. Followed by a couple more vehicles with serious dudes, including an open window photographer taking multiple shots of us as they passed..

    They don’t make them like that anymore.
    RIP, thank you for your service.

  29. I come to smalldeadanimals almost every day, and most of the time, I agree with the posts and the comments, though I rarely comment. However, on the subject of the monarchy, and especially Prince, now King, Charles, a number of regulars feel the need to adopt a condescending, disrespectful, and deeply unfair attitude to our system of government and the man who is now our Sovereign. No Prince of Wales in history ever did more for charity or to improve the lives of young, often disadvantaged, people than King Charles III. He was a dutiful son, a good father, a doting grandfather, and has been happily married to his second wife for almost 20 years. Is this such a terrible background for a head of state? For those desiring a republic, please tell me who, from the present crop of inferior politicians, you would prefer to see as president? While a prince is entitled to his opinions, a king must keep them to himself, and can only privately advise, encourage, and warn the government of the day. I am confident that the new king understands this very well, and will fulfill his duties in the manner established by his mother and his ancestors. I have loved The Queen ever since I was a school boy, and I deeply grieve her passing. We will never see her like again. But as Churchill said in 1952 on the death of George VI, however hard it is, we “must leave the treasures of the past”, and look forward to the new reign and rally behind the new king. The Queen is dead! Long live The King!

    4. Yours is a very optimistic assessment of a man who has shown on past occasions a potential for taking a much different path than you envisage. I hope you’re right, perhaps he will prove timid as well as feckless.

      As to respecting him, I respected his first wife and wonder how she came to meet her end. I’ll sit this one out and hope William gets to the throne while it still exists.

  30. She did her duty to the end and Paddington Bear had the best response with a simple thank you.
    Much better than all the puffed up politicians pretending to care – I would much rather have a constitutional monarch any day with a true sense of duty rather than the money grabbing, power hungry politicians we are left with as our ‘leaders’

  31. As a Yank of English descent whose family has been in the States since the 1600s, I have to admit there was a small part of me that felt a sort of minor allegiance to her because she was so, well, awesome. Not a greater allegiance than the one to my own country of course, but a recognition that the UK is a great country too and that we’re sort of family, with Her Majesty a mother-like presence. Rest In Peace. And condolences to you Canucks.

  32. I think she checked out just in time. This winter promises to be the worst in Britain since the Legions left in 410.

    Her reign will be looked back upon as the ladt vestiges of a golden age before the collapse

  33. She always was so good at delivering her remarks. I really remember the COVID speech she made when Boris was in hospital. Really well done and I’m sure she wrote them herself. We’ll all miss her.

  34. After lunch today when I heard the Queen had passed I thought of those wonderful Christmas messages she would give and yearly I looked forward to hearing them. Thank-you small c conservative for providing that insight into her majesty, Defender of the Faith..

  36. A life well lived. A woman superior to the people around her, including her own family. Rest In Peace.

  37. A remarkable and noble woman who personally demonstrated so many aspects of character and nobility. We will miss her, of that I am certain.

  38. I had at least one thing in common with my Queen , we were both mechanics. R.I.P. Queen Elizabeth.

  40. Doug:
    // You Canucks are all a bunch of Royalty dreamers,
    &
    Yes, we have troubles of our own with our own version of a “nobility” //

    MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king.
    Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates
    of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
    Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary

  42. A sad day for the world. She set a standard of duty and decency we should all try to live up to.

  43. I was not pragmatically shocked, but not the news I wanted to wake up to.

    Always assumed she would power on for another decade as this constant pillar in our society and culture.

    I did see here once about 20 years ago in my home town. Only from a distance as she took part in one of those informal ‘reviewing lines’ where she spoke to crowds. I have that memory.

    A pillar.

    Missed.

  44. The world will miss a monarch that understood why the monarchy existed. She was calm, sensible, charitable and above all wise. May we all be able to say the same when we are 96 with 70 years in the same job. And may God grant the new King a measure of the same traits… please.

  46. As a descendant of those from the Republic of Ireland the Queen’s death is of little consequence to me and, after all, she was 96.
    Having said that, she did show dignity and class through her entire reign.

  47. The last of the titans of the times now gone.
    She had personified dignity, class and grace.
    It is a lesser world without her.

  48. An amazing Christian woman with admirable values. She was a pillar of strength. Dignity and grace were aspects of fortitude that endeared her to so many. Queen Elizabeth’s vision changed the world. God’s speed to her family and the world as we mourn her passing.

  49. We Americans will probably not be able to understand or experience what her subjects are feeling at her loss, because she had meaning to y’all that we cannot see.

    But we’re certainly able to recognize an exemplary human being, and she was one such. Celebrate that she was here while she was. Everyone passes, but not everyone matters as much while they’re here as she did.

  50. Elizabeth joins Philip in the loving and respectful memories of her loyal subjects.
    Both were marvellous human beings in their public roles.
    The greatest generation will be hard to match.

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