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Dark Alley Dan said:
So long, H.R.H. Job well done. Time to head home.

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She was a tough old bird who fell into a job that certainly has enormous perks but requires sacrifice of almost everything you want, or are. We could have done worse, and have.
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I don't mean to be rude, but the Sovereign is referred to as Majesty (Her Majesty, His Majesty). It is the heir apparent who is referred to as Royal Highness. So, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales was his Royal Highness. He is now King Charles the III, his Majesty.

My personal opinion on our late Queen is that she was a human being who has dedicated her life to the service of the role that she was thrust into when her Uncle abdicated the throne. As a teenager she begged her father to allow her to "do her bit" and enroll into the war effort as uniformed personnel during WW2. She knew Churchill, the world has changed immensely during her lifetime and during that time even her detractors admit that she rarely made a misstep if ever.

I'm saddened that.."the Queen is dead", but the heart is warmed that our Parliament has already moved to have Charles the III officially recognized as our head of State. "Long live the King!".
 
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Painkillers said:
I don't mean to be rude, but the Sovereign is referred to as Majesty (Her Majesty, His Majesty). It is the heir apparent who is referred to as Royal Highness. So, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales was his Royal Highness. He is now King Charles the III, his Majesty.

My personal opinion on our late Queen is that she was a human being who has dedicated her life to the service of the role that she was thrust into when her Uncle abdicated the throne. As a teenager she begged her father to allow her to "do her bit" and enroll into the war effort as uniformed personnel during WW2. She knew Churchill, the world has changed immensely during her lifetime and during that time even her detractors admit that she rarely made a misstep if ever.

I'm saddened that.."the Queen is dead", but the heart is warmed that our Parliament has already moved to have Charles the III officially recognized as our head of State. "Long live the King!".
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Hopefully that won't be to long.

I was hoping Canada would denounce the Royals after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

$56 million is less than it was a decade ago but it's still way to much for what we get in return.
 
bearhunter said:
Hopefully that won't be to long.

I was hoping Canada would denounce the Royals after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

$56 million is less than it was a decade ago but it's still way to much for what we get in return.
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Careful what you wish for. Under a post Canadian constitutional monarchy you get to have someone like Trudeau as top dog.
 
If our forefathers had wanted a republic they could easily have had one, but they fought long and hard to avoid that.

Watching the one to the south of us "going south" should be enough lesson for those who need one.

The loyalty is to the institution, not the individual', just like you salute the rank not the person who wears it.

The more constitutional checks we have on pukes like Castreau the better off we'll be.

If you want some muppet of the kind the PMO now appoints as GC to be our El Presidente and "court of last appeal", well, all I can say is "good luck!":rolleyes:

You want our troops to swear allegiance to Ida Clarkson or the Notwithstanding Clause?:rolleyes:

Charles seems to have learned his "WEF" lines quite proficiently, but we can't read his mind and he may change it at some future point: monarchs have been known to do so before.
 
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bogusiii said:
Careful what you wish for. Under a post Canadian constitutional monarchy you get to have someone like Trudeau as top dog.
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The Monarchy as it is presently being run is nothing more than pomp and pageantry and a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.

When PET was PM, he made sure the Queen signed off the last of her remaining influence.

The mess we're in with anti firearms groups right now is directly attributable to British influence over the past century+.

Much of the financial mess we're in as well as the indigenous issues are also attributable to the same bunch, just like every other nation they had way to much influence in.

I'm not going on about the average Brit. I'm going on about the heavy handed influence between governments and their minions.

The Parliamentary system can and should work. It hasn't been working properly for a long time, if ever.

It can be fixed so that it isn't so one sided. Time has a way of working to slowly.
 
RRCo. said:
If our forefathers had wanted a republic they could easily have had one, but they fought long and hard to avoid that.

Watching the one to the south of us "going south" should be enough lesson for those who need one.

The loyalty is to the institution, not the individual', just like you salute the rank not the person who wears it.

The more constitutional checks we have on pukes like Castreau the better off we'll be.

If you want some muppet of the kind the PMO now appoints as GC to be our El Presidente and "court of last appeal", well, all I can say is "good luck!":rolleyes:

You want our troops to swear allegiance to Ida Clarkson or the Notwithstanding Clause?:rolleyes:

Charles seems to have learned his "WEF" lines quite proficiently, but we can't read his mind and he may change it at some future point: monarchs have been known to do so before.
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Well said.
 
RRCo. said:
If our forefathers had wanted a republic they could easily have had one, but they fought long and hard to avoid that.

Watching the one to the south of us "going south" should be enough lesson for those who need one.

The loyalty is to the institution, not the individual', just like you salute the rank not the person who wears it.

The more constitutional checks we have on pukes like Castreau the better off we'll be.

If you want some muppet of the kind the PMO now appoints as GC to be our El Presidente and "court of last appeal", well, all I can say is "good luck!":rolleyes:

You want our troops to swear allegiance to Ida Clarkson or the Notwithstanding Clause?:rolleyes:

Charles seems to have learned his "WEF" lines quite proficiently, but we can't read his mind and he may change it at some future point: monarchs have been known to do so before.
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There's value in tradition, it goes deeper than most people realize.

Years ago, I saw an interview with a Brit who'd served on a Resolution Class submarine. I can't remember how it came up, but he mentioned that Vanguard captains didn't have to worry about receiving a signal with the launch codes for their nuclear missiles. They were simply stored in a sealed envelope in the Captain's safe (edit add: or maybe it was a key, I saw this ages ago, and that's not the detail that stuck).

The interviewer made the mistake of asking him "Well, what's to stop a rogue Captain deciding he wants to start WWIII and just punching in the codes and launching the missiles?"

The LOOK he gave, like the interviewer was an especially slow student. All he said was: "The Queen."

It sounds a bit silly, but you could tell he truly believed it. "The Queen" would never tolerate a ship's captain launching the nukes without proper authority or justification, so it simply wouldn't happen. He fully believed that, and most likely every British submariner of the nuclear age believed that. You might disobey a superior officer, but offending the Queen simply wasn't on the table.
 
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Canadian waist gunner in a RAF Dakota/C-47 keeps watch for Japanese fighters during a supply mission to Chindit-held bases in Burma - 1943
Note Vickers K gun and extra ammunition drums behind him
LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer
 
diopter said:
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Canadian waist gunner in a RAF Dakota/C-47 keeps watch for Japanese fighters during a supply mission to Chindit-held bases in Burma - 1943
Note Vickers K gun and extra ammunition drums behind him
LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer
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Wonder how much Brylcreem it took to keep that Dapper Dan hair in place? Between the heat before take off, and the wind through the open window (even in the slipstream, that would have been a windy perch), his hair must have been solid enough to negate the need of a helmet.
 
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Beautiful photo of the stunning Supermarine Seafang on board. It was a Spiteful reimagined for aircraft carrier use with the addition of a reinforced landing gear and a landing cross. It made its first flight in January 1946, while an order of 150 copies was placed in May 1945. However, the arrival of new jet-engine aircraft condemned him and his order was reduced to just 18 copies, so that the Seafang was never operational on carriers (apart from targeting tests). Ultimately, only eleven aircraft were fully built, with the other six being delivered only as spare parts.
All copies disappeared in 1954.
 
BA12 Bissalanka - 1970
B26 rehearsals in the tropical weather

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Luis Sousa Pereira
Douglas B-26C-35-DT Invader with S/N 44-35363 and C/N 28642
Suffered in an accident on 07-17-1945 at Lake Charles Field in Los Angeles, having been sold in 1964 to Greg Board/Aero Associates Inc of Tucson, Arizona, who registered it on 06-22-1965 with civil license plate N91347 and sold it to FAP still 1965 in a lot of 20 transformed for transport of VIPs, to get around the American embargo on the sale of war material to Portugal, having been the last to arrive in 07-1965 after the Americans gave up on Morocco.
It made its first flight in the FAP on 09-09-1970 after a major overhaul of GMMAs, where it was converted into RB-26C for COIN.
It was highlighted for BA12 in 1971 for testing in tropical climate, having returned to Lisbon, being the photo of that time.
Based in Angola, he suffered a journey accident when the nose train collapsed upon landing on Ilha do Sal in Cabo Verde on 30-04-1971, having returned to Lisbon for repairs.
Sent again to Angola in 12-1972, was placed on Esq. 93, operating on BA9 - Luanda until being abandoned during the decolonisation process, in 1975.
 
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