So, Queen Elizabeth the II has been touring Canada the last few days, and you know what? I like her. She’s been the Queen of England since before my (Scottish) parents were married!
No, she’s a class act all the way and I think I’m warming up to her. I used to oppose the monarchy in Canada, before I got edumacated and realized what a disastrous calamity it would be to try to revise the constitution at this point.
No. She’s a grand lady and I truly respect her service to the Commonwealth.
I don’t like the monarchy as an institution and if we had a vote on it tomorrow I’d vote for it to be abolished, but the fact is that the Queen does her job damned well.
She was a hot piece of ass back in the day, let me tell you.
Yeah, I agree. She’s a great queen, and apparently a charming lady as well. But as an institution, the monarchy is hopelessly out of date.
Under her constitutional role in Canada, she is properly titled “Queen of Canada”, a title the Canadian monarch has held since 1931, albeit essentially only empowered since 1982, when it was recognized that as Queen of Canada she could only be advised on Canadian matters by her Canadian ministers.
But, yeah, she’s a class act.
We’ll see what you think when Charles takes over and starts criticizing Canadian architecture. 
Toronto could use him. Show me a North American metropolis with worse architecture. You can’t.
If he gets too uppity there’s always the first of that name to serve as a precedent.
I always kinda think of her as “my” queen.
I was 7 in June of 1953, and I watched her coronation on our black-and-white Zenith tv with a round screen. My mother told me this is something I’d always remember, and she was right. In 2003 I finally visited London, and saw the gold coach that the queen rode in for her coronation. It is never used for any other purpose. How cool is that, to have a gold coach that you use only once.
The last “Queen of England” died in 1714, HM is the Queen of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc and was also previously Queen of Pakistan and South Africa.
I am hoping to meet her - I have to work Public Affairs for a few venues she is at, she may get bored of seeing me!
AK84 is wrong, RSA became an R in 1948, so HRH Brenda was never Queen of South Africa.
The Queen is definitely a great lady, a shrewd governor and the epitome of class. She also has very good skin, according to the wife who has met her.
I also love the queen. This is a lady who is probably far from a perfect woman, but she has tirelessly given her entire life to doing her duty, and done so smiling all the while.
If he started putting the fear of God in Canadian architects, that would be nothing but good.
I’ve known some people who were bitterly opposed having the Queen being titular head of Canada, but I don’t have a particular problem with it. Maybe if she started taking all our money to pay for her solid gold toilets or something I’d have a problem with that. If I understand things correctly, the Queen is happy to leave things alone with Canada, and we’re happy to leave things alone with having a monarchy, and everything is business as usual.
I had a bit of difficulty swearing allegiance to the Queen when I became a Canadian, but I figured it would be tougher once Charles came on board. As time has gone by I’ve become more pro-Queen, partly because of the sheer stability of the Monarchy. I keep wondering - are Monarchies, even constitutional ones, more stable than Republics?
If so, it’s probably because you’d have to look the Queen in the eye when she asked about your budding dictatorship, and she might purse her lips at you.
“She’s a right good Sheila and not at all stuck up.”
Nope, South Africa didn’t become a republic until 1961. Ireland declared itself a republic in 1948 (effective April 1949).
And Brenda hasn’t been an HRH since the microsecond after her Dad croaked.
Why is she called Brenda?
And you guys are going to have to start spelling things out in full. I’m getting confused.
I hate monarchies and just about everything about them but Elizabeth II, I must grudgingly admit, is a very impressive person.