The French will invade!
Yes, on the grounds that ‘the King is dead, long live the King’.
The notes and coins get periodically redesigned anyway as fraudsters catch up with the designs.
The old coins continued to circulate for many decades after the late King’s demise. You could still find Victorian ones occasionally into the 1960s.
The Clydesdale Bank have started issuing plastic fivers, and I think the other issuers are moving that way too. Changing an element of the design of a note seems fairly trivial in comparison.
Juan Carlos I of Spain is only a decade older than Prince Charles, and he’s already had his reign and abdicated. And if that’s still not bad enough he had to represent his mother at the Willem-Alexander’s inauguration.
A couple of times, though years ago, I found myself in possession King George V quarters, and he died in January 1936. They were very worn. The heads side of each was little more than bare metal.
I wonder how they escaped recall by the Bank of Canada.
Is that sarcasm?
And Canada just redid all its banknotes…
But that’s not such a big deal. Canada redesigns its coins and currency on a regular basis.
Since Her Majesty ascended to the throne in 1952, Canada has had four different images of her on our coins, and five different images of her on banknotes.
Doing a new image for the coins and the one banknote that has her picture would be part of the regular redevelopment of the coins and currency, and part of the regular updating that has always occurred.
Nope. Dead serious. That’s powerful use of language. Rather over-the-top frilly by modern standards, but that just demonstrates how tweet-like American English has become.
Owning a copy of the Declaration of Independence I would say you guys have some flair as well 
Bear in mind that Proclamations such as that are a standard format and haven’t been altered substantially in centuries. When the Queen sends messages to Parliament many of them are pretty much unchanged from Tudor times.
It’s all the extra capital letters. They’ve been keeping them from us.
That’s the first time in years I’ve read a use of the word “gentlemen” that wasn’t either obsequious or sleazy.
Thank you.
It was exactly what I had in mind. It sounds so florid when one first reads it in fourth grade, but it’s practically Hemingway to me now.
What do people snap at male students acting up in the back of the classroom?
Or co-workers standing the doorway, or the middle of the corridor?
Or male patrons who are studiously ignoring last call?
In short, what do people do when they don’t know every person’s middle name?
I keep meaning to write my MP to propose a bill be introduced that upon Elizabeth’s death or abdication, Canada will become a republic.
Maybe after the upcoming election.
depends how the president died.
Don’t forget to write to your MNA, Bryan. And the premiers of the other nine provinces. Needs unanimity to abolish the monarchy in Canada.
Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy, as the Cub would say.
In other words, Bryan, see s. 41 (a) of the Charter. A simple law won’t do it to get rid of the Monarch; you’ll need to amend the Constitution with the assent of all ten provinces and Parliament.
Nice symbolism to have the empire bookended by Elizabeths, but what will you call the Mounties, and will they still get to wear those nifty dress uniforms?
Since “royal” has come and gone several times as a slang synonym for bitchin’, far out, neato, cool, groovy (?), awesome, etc., it seems to me that the RCMP can leave its name unchanged and it would work just as well.