1997: Queen In Tears As Royal Yacht Decommissioned
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- '1997: Queen In Tears As Royal Yacht Decommissioned'
#OnThisDay 1997: The Queen and Prince Philip were emotional as they watched the decommissioning of the Royal Yacht Britannia.
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This is one of the most British thing that I have ever seen.
Yes, a billionaire crying as she leaves her taxpayer funded plaything.
@@marywinnifred9242 best comment ever
@@marywinnifred9242 I’ve seen many ppl crying on news stories cus they are getting kicked out of their council houses. A home you have had for 50 years can have the same connections to any class of ppl.
@@marywinnifred9242 to be fair, as the ship was operated by the Royal Navy and not privately operated, it was always a ship built for duty from the start.
In the late 40s or early 50s, Royal Family was presented with a much more elaborate concept for its design but turned it down in preference for the much more simplistic design we see today. The ship made 968 state visits over it's service including about 40 commonwealth tours which not only inspired future trade deals but also helped unify the commonwealth.
The reason the ship had so much money spent on its construction and seaworthiness was twofold - First it allowed the ship to visit the more remote parts of the commonwealth (and at the time, the Empire) in the coldest and most harsh regions of the oceans of this amazing world of ours, and, more importantly I'd argue is the second reason - so the ship could be converted into a hospital ship during a time of war (similar to the use of the R.M.S Queen Elizabeth II which was a cunard passenger liner built by the same shipyard and used in the Falklands war for troop transport).
Yes, this capacity as a hospital ship was never used, but the ship did still provide a role as a Royal Navy humanitarian vessel by evacuating just over 1,000 people from war-torn Yemen in 1986, something that no private pleasure-cruiser would ever dream of doing - but this was a Royal Navy ship! There are also numerous other brilliant incidents of this ship being used to deliver humanitarian aid
The Overseas Trade Board estimated that £3 billion was made for the Exchequer as a result of commercial days on Britannia between 1991 and 1995 alone!
I completely understand the point you try to make, and sympathize with the fact that perhaps it was a waste of money - but it certainly wasn't completely useless.
And so, despite having my mind undecided about my view on the monarchy, I definitely think that if done properly - a new Royal Yacht could have potential! But it must be dealt with, like this one was, as a simple and effective hard-working ship with productivity at the heart of the decision-making, something that I don't think bumbling Boris's proposal of a new yacht doesn't have in mind.
@@Rob-ws2kh - it wasn't her home, no comparison. It was a floating ballroom for parties.
She was really upset, I’ve never seen her this upset in my entire life. Looks like she was crying, it must have meant so much to her
Not sure how accurate the Crown is, but they put an importance on the Yacht for QEII... it was the only "home" she got to make her own. Out of all the palaces filled with history and designed by other monarchs, the Yacht was one thing she helped design. She said it felt most like home to her for that reason.
Well, she should have funded the refurbishments herself.
She only had herself to blame.
Not upset enough to pay for the refit though.
It was a symbol of her presumed supremacy . Most egotistical 💩 out there
not the queen being more emotional at the decommission of a yacht than at princess Diana's funeral 💀
I noticed this also. It's not for me to judge what her emotions mean, but she would have received less criticism if she'd shown this emotion at Diana's funeral. Maybe this is partly why Harry is so angry and trying to seek revenge against the whole family. He and William wanted a royal funeral for Diana, but the Queen didn't. She only bended after being pressured.
This yacht was the only place she could feel free and far from the whole publicity… it was, so do I think, her only real home since her youth.
I know a few mother in laws who don’t shed tears for the death of their son’s ex wife. So what’s the big deal 🤷🏻♂️
She shared more time with the Yacht than with princess Diana. Apart from that, she was free in the Yacht without Charles...
What a mean spirited comment. A former daughter-in-law with whom she didn't get along, anyone else In Her Shoes wouldn't shed a tear either. Especially when the perception was that she had damaged everything the queen had worked for.
The yacht was not just a boat it was a place of family and memories and an end of an era.
So to compare the two is a completely false argument created to find some way to criticize the late queen. Shame on you.
Amazing. They would rather decommission the bloody thing instead of pay for *their* yacht with *their own* money 🤣 Cry more
Because they would have to pay every year for it and it would still get decommisioned eventually. She is not crying because she had to pay for it, she is crying because the ship came to an end. She knew it would happen but she was still sad for it because she had many memories there
@@GodisMyNo1 yes it was decommissioned because they did not want to pay for the ship themselves... The next boat they got was paid for by the government also.
Trillion dollar family has no excuse
@@snakeoo7ca the ship was too old
Another poor creature who has watched ”The Crown” and belives everything is true 🤣😖
This Royal Yatch is like her 2nd home. Everyone will be cry when they're lost their home.
I understand why the queen prefers to use Royal Yatch rather than planes. The atmosphere is different. I've seen a photo of her on the deck, and the scenery behind her is amazingly beautiful
Greetings from the Crown!
Second home? More like tenth home…
Who has a second home to cry for? Not normal people, at any rate, and certainly not one that can sail across the oceans.
Monarchy is a remnant of dark ages, no one needs it any more!
its okay she has plenty of castles to dry her tears
Many things were just passed down to her or was something that she "inherited" when she became Queen. The fact that the Britannia was commissioned and launched during her early years as Queen meant that the Britannia was something that was truly 'hers' and not just passed down to her. So it for sure held a special place in her heart.
Got a chance to get onboard when it was docked at the Port of Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 enroute to Hong Kong for the handover ceremony in 1997 we've been given a guided tour as our local press nicknamed the Royal Yacht Britannia as "The Floating Buckingham Palace". I'll never forget that experience.
Wow Awesome Memories Kababayan! ❤️😍
Wow! Thats great ah! I hope to experienced that too..yeah After Prince Charles went to Hongkong last 1997 they went to Manila for an unofficial vacation...before went back to London for the Decommisioning of Beitania
@@chrisrdgymnastics There were also 3 Royal Navy ships went along with the Britannia eventually handed over to the Philippine Navy and are presently in active service patrolling the Philippine waters.
what an honor 😊
The Queens Dad King George VI died not long after the ship had its first voyage in the 1950s so he never got to see it , when the ship was decommissioned in 1997 it was like her waving goodbye to her Dad all over again
@Melissa Fraser Im sure u will be fine if someone says that about u when u mention anything about a dead loved one
@Melissa Fraser Oh typical, destroy one argument and u bring up something completly irrelevant.
George VI died BEFORE the ship had its maiden voyage. He really had nothing to do with it. The ship was ordered on February 5, 1952; George VI died the very next day. The ship was launched in 1952 and had her maiden voyage in 1953. So, I don't see how you can associate George VI with the yacht at all.
@@daniel_sc1024 The ship was ordered then, but the King had been involved in the planning of it more or less since the decommissioning of the old Britannia. There was a documentary on TV in 97 that said how he'd taken a particular interest in the bow of the ship. I can't remember exactly what or why after all this time, but it surprised me that he was so knowledgeable about whatever the nautical term for aerodynamics is.
As he and Elizabeth were so close, it's not unreasonable to speculate that he discussed it with her.
@Melissa Fraser Nobody said anything was special. It's an observation on how, if someone truly and deeply loved someone else, that person's death can still cause pain and sorrow decades later.
We can only ever do our best to be worthy of being remembered with such feeling.
I'm reading "The Palace Papers" and it mentioned the decommissioning of the Britannia and how it made the Queen and Philip. Memories.
that book is so good. tina knows her stuff
I’ve never seen HM cry, so many family memories.
Good grief.
Hello Heidi how are you doing today and your family wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🤔
I would have cried too! The end of free luxury at sea.😢
In 1997, the royal family and the UK lost many things.The Royal Yacht, Hong Kong and Diana.
Yeah, and she didn’t shed as many tears for Diana.
@@leewest356 why would she share tears for an ex daughter in law who cheated her son with everything that moved??
@@miraalbertson C-A-M-I-L-L-A
@@teller1290 markel is revenge.
@@josephwallace7287 she will follow her mom in laws soon
Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth ❤️
@Melissa Fraser As anyone of us.
@Melissa Fraser maybe Saint Diana faced God too about her extramaritaI affairs with married men. The queen wasnt responsible for Diana's actions.
@Melissa Fraser yeah she wasnt. But everyone expected the queen to be perfect and you all made her take the blame for all that he grown up children and her daughters in laws did, as if she was reaponsible for it and as if the burden of the kingdom on her shoulders wasnt already enough for her. So much sympathy for Diana and so little for the quee
@@GodisMyNo1 God is man-made.
@@est9949 I love how know-it-all atheists always share their unsignificant opinion with us believers, as if we asked for it and as if it means anything to us. Saying "God doesnt exist" to a believer, is like saying "love doesnt exist" to a couple who are happily in love with one another. Thats the effect it has on us: none. I have always believed in God and I always will, no matter what. Have the day you deserve
They should have decommissioned Andrew too
Couldn’t agree more. Upkeep of his reputation was costly too 😂😂😂
I'll never forget the Queen's face being so upset....but then seeing her mood lift later.
Eat the rich
I miss Queen Elizabeth
I am not even a brit. Still miss her. 😢
Why? you used to hang out together?
Being decommissioned right after British leaving Hong Kong, this yacht last moments symbolized the ending point on the proud British Empire
We here in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 we're lucky to be given a guided tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia when it was docked at our port in Manila Bay for refueling and resupply as it headed for Hong Kong and days later returned with HRH Prince Charles and 3 Royal Navy ships from the disbanded Hong Kong Squadron eventually turned over to the Philippine Navy and presently on active duty patrolling Philippine waters.
😂😂😂😂 who cares
Huey, yet you're here.
She could be around dying children and not cry, yet she cries over a yacht. I will never understand England's infatuation with the royal family.
Tiden, Brump and the Kardashanians and the Kennedies.
Says an american 🤣
@@rickardnyberg4899 a proud American :)
Came here after watching the Crown
I miss her!! :(
After hearing all my grandfather's war stories of his time in the Navy, as an adult I can now understand when my grandmother used to say "He loves that damned ship as much as he loves me"(in jest of course)..His response was always "DON'T TALK ABOUT MY WOMAN LIKE THAT" haha XD Sailors are just made different man, always have been lol
@Harold Paulle agreed
So why is she crying? She had the option of opening her purse and paying for the needed renovations. She just wanted the people to pay for renovating her damn boat. The Royals have an embarrassing amount of money and they don’t seem to ever want to pay for anything.
She should’ve resigned in disgrace for showing this much emotion over a stupid privileged yacht
Spoken like another old biddy in the gossip vaults.
The tunes played are Highland Cathedral and Sunset, for those wondering
thank you very much, I was trying to find out what it was
I think it’s time to decommission the royal family personally.
The payoff of the victims of paedophiles for example will continue to be costly 😂😂😂
Just Charles and CowMilla. Send them off to a North Sea island and let William be king.
Poor Lilibet! She's Never been upset like this! She loved Britannia! She Opened the Ship in 1953 and saw it decommissioned in 1997. She took her Children, Grandchildren, Cousins, Nieces and Nephews there as well! She had many memories of the ship! She could be with her family without having to be proper all the time. She could have fun and take a break by not doing duties all the time. It's good to have a balance in life just like she did! I Felt so bad for her! It's heart Breaking to see this Amazing Queen cry! She is deeply missed! She's now reunited with the love of her life in Paradise! This Happened twenty seven years ago! I'm sure she would have fun if it had not been decommissioned and probably would have taken her Great Grandchildren there if she could! I Love Lilibet! You're Strong Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth! You're greatly missed every day by many! RIP Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth II/ Lilibet! { 1926 - 2022} Every time I wear a small cut ruby ring I think of you! I love collecting Jewlery and I think of you when I wear small rubies! Since Red is My Fav color! 👑👑❤❤🦢🦢
Back in the late 70's the Britania was in Brisbane and at the time I was living in a house on the river across from Newfarm Park. I could stand on my back deck and look at her just a few hundred yards up the river. I got in my Kayak one day and paddled right up to it. I was amazed at the way the hull was highly polished all the way to the water line. The other thing that amazed me was that nobody on board seemed bothered that I was able to touch the hull of the Royal yacht and remained unchallenged. It was the second time I had seen the Britania. The first time was when I was much younger in the early 60's My family went to watch the Queen disembark when she was in town.
She has shown more emotion for material things than for actual humans
Because you knew her personally and you lived with her
She had emotion for the memories she had on that boat, they travelled the commonwealth in that boat and a huge part of her life took part on it. It's now docked in Leith docks in Edinburgh, 5 mins away on the bus from me, it's surprisingly small
That was her home away from home. The family had traveled the world in that yacht and it has so many memories attached to it. No wonder it made her sad.
@@miraalbertson Glass house judgements notwithstanding, you're apparently falling to see the irony in your own remark. Priceless. (And I'm no fan of royalty, Fwiw.)
shut up
Ridiculous..all over a bloody boat!
Decom is always sad! My family are all kinloss raf so seeing the decom through Forres hurt but bought me so much joy at the same time
Hello Kathleen how are you doing today and your family wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🤔
Some North Korea vibes
To give you an idea of how outrageously cheap rich people are, as much as they loved the yacht, they refused to put their own money in to maintain her. They would rather watch it die than to pay the costs themselves. Money only flows one way for the rich... in.
Something something about the something institution creating revenue something for the something British excuse...
it seem you not read into this, they said even you put money in to fixing it, It would only extends ship life for a few years. Therefore the decision to decommission the yacht was made.
Oh god, it’s a fucking boat. There are people starving to death and being murdered
Why wasn't the family allowed to use funds from the crown estate to rehab the yacht? It's their families wealth...
Think if I am correct it was mor then just refurbishment they needed to do and the cost would been more then a new ship if I am correct
@@Wenchework cost to refurbish was 17 mil pounds. annual net income from crown estate is like 100 million pounds
@@Hallahanify From what I understand that was the refurbish cost however it was lot more then just the refurbish that had to be done remember it was a 45 year old ship that had been used way more then a reguler ship would been so lods more to keep it up to date.
Ships maitense is lot more then what you see
@@Wenchework ya sure lets listen to the guy who cant spell maintenance...
It's because they would rather have the government pay with peoples' taxes rather than out of pocket. They surely had the money, but did not want to spend the money. Quite asinine if you ask me
@@snakeoo7ca There were a lot more to do then just the 17 million pounds on the interior and cost would been way way more and considering how much normal ships would have cost it is not supriceing it was extreamly substansial more then 17 as it was a royal ship and yes it was surgested meny ways to awoyd the tax payers would not pay it but it could not even get close and with the royals useing the plains more then the ship it was no supriced in end it was decommisioned,norway and other scandinavian royals do have ships and tax payers keep them up however they are not in same way as Brittania was upkeep and so on.
English is secondery to me so please show some respect
Extraordinary strong Elizabeth
Emotions almost erupted 💚
Well by this point, infact for decades it was almost completely in private use, and she did get opportunity to fund the restoration on her own dime - which she can certainly affford - instead of on the tax payer, but didn't because everyone including the RF knows its a white elephant. I liked the queen but hard to feel sorry when there are actual homeless people on the streets and people in need when they've got so much land, mansions and castles as it is. The Royals only care about national identity so far as the money doesn't come out of their own pocket. I'm glad the government gave a firm no on this, the govt need to be more hard on tax payer funded frivolity for the RF.
Some of these comments on here are just down right sad. The Royal Yacht Britannia was a working ship used to conduct official state business and travel for the head of state. It wasn't a "private yacht" to cruise around in, it was a working navy vessel for the millitary and its head. The Royal Yacht Britannia was the equivelant of what Air Force One (again, a millitary plane) is for the President for those of us in the United States. So, yes, its decomissioning was a big deal, even if it needed doing after being in service since before she took the throne. So yes, absolutely, she's allowed to be sad at seeing it be retired after all those years and all the state visits and tours to her people she embarked on with it. It was one of the rare places (save Balmoral) where she could actually be a a human being, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother without 50 million cameras in her face. It was another piece of her privacy and her own humanity being retired with it. May Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace and rise in glory. Give Your servant Elizabeth rest with the Saints, O Christ, and eternal memory. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. All you holy Saints of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, pray for her. God save the King!!
Difference is US Presidents eventually leave office and become private citizens. They along with other private citizens pay the taxes that fund the upkeep of Air Force One. The Royal Yacht was funded solely by the people of the UK not the royal family that stays in power until they die. To say it's the same as Air Force One is only half true.
Ok whatever you say.
Watching the slow and steady decay of this once great country is so very sad.
What is that bagpipe tune?
Highland Cathedral
This and One Piece are the only two things that made me weep over a boat
The Royal yacht was a floating gin palace rightly decommissioned by Tony Blair in 1997.
disagree with you.
It was Major who made the decision
That was so unnecessary. It was one thing, I never quite understood that decision
It is just a boat, pieces of metal and furniture.
Exactly, I’ve seen her more emotional here than at some funerals
She didnt cry for the boat itself, she cried for the memories of a lifetime that were tied to it!!
@@krislv9219 She is allowed to be emotional for whatever she wants to, without being judged by people who expect her to react as they would. This is called projection. For this I am glad that Im not a public person. Imagine to be expected to please the public at all times by reacting the way they expect you and want you to!
This was one of the only places that Queen Elizabeth could be herself. She had so many found memories on that ship. It broke my heart to see her having to give this ship up knowing that this was an end to an Era. I was so sad for her.
God save the Queen
Keep her safe and well 🙏
Why did they have to give it up though? I’m sure she could have just privately funded it?
@@kevsouth8497 It is the size of a small cruise ship. It had outlived its purpose, and was very expensive to operate. I doubt they (the Royal Family) could afford it on their own.
@@daniel_sc1024 Ships don't have very long lives. Especially ones with as many miles on the click as Britannia.
The Olympic was known as "Old Reliable" because of how sturdily she was built and equipped, but went for scrap after only 25 years.
@@daniel_sc1024 Sure they could. Please read about the annual profits on their estates alone.
@@mortalclown3812 It wasn't your average yacht - it was more like a small cruise ship. Even with their profits, I doubt they could have afforded the annual operating costs for very long. In 2017 there was talk of a new yacht, and that modern ship was projected to cost 10 million pounds a year to operate; I imagine the 1953 ship cost a lot more than that.
This is where The Crown ended I think.
For season 5, not season 6
@@ongyiyi2401 Really curious where they'll end the series. I don't think they'll take it all the way up to her death, but who knows? I was sure they'd cover Diana's crash in the last episode of 5, but they never did.
Poor thing. Was left with only 4 or so castles to live in.
Britannia was the only one of her residences she could furnish to her taste. The palaces are part of the crown estate and are maintained in the styles of 200 years ago. I don't blame her for being more attached to the ship. She often said it was the only place that felt like home. When Windsor castle caught fire, she was concerned, obviously, but she didn't have the sentimental attachment to it that she had for the yacht.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 maybe if she was a bottle washer somewhere (a job she was qualified for) she would have had more important things to concern herself with.
@@rayhill5767 She was a qualified motor mechanic.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 and she enjoyed it.
Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Palace of Holyroodhouse and Hillsborough Castle belongs to the state - not to the monarch
Very emotional indeed for those fortunate royals closely associated with the ship, but it was a very costly status symbol and axing it saved a few bob to go towards more worthwhile and less contentious projects.
she could’ve paid herself for her holiday boat!!
How can the Queen show more emotion for a Royal Yacht being decommissioned than at some past funerals? So strange
Probably thinking of all the family memories that took place onboard
Because she didnt cry for the yacht itself but for the memories that were attached to it and for the freedom and happiness she felt there. Not so difficult to understand it now, is it??
You'd be surprised how something petty can trigger emotions. I didn't cry while holding my dad's corpse or at his funeral... Then I returned his car to the dealership and all of those emotions hit me at once. For all we know, something similar happened here with the Queen.
To be fair on her that was like a childhood home
Because she was a narcissist who cared only for herself and maintaining dynastic power.
She never showed public emotions in any of the tragedies occurred during his reign (some of those with his relatives) but bitterly cried for the decom of a ship that she could have saved with his own money
Her* not his. His is used for males. If you are going to criticize her at least spell properly. The ship could not have been saved, and thats not true. She showed public emotions for many tragedies, she just felt connected to this ship because she had there the memories of an entire life
@0:25
At first glance I thought Edward was Prince William. It's striking how similar they look
Cry little baby cry
TH-cam is all the richer for your wit & keen vernacular.
She cried for her yacht, but one wonders if she cried for Diana!
Such a drama queen thou art.
Would you cry over your sons controversial ex-wife ? I know for sure that i wouldn’t !
She was more emotional over the end of a stupid yacht than the mother of her very own grandsons 😂
Royals problems
@@niranjansrinivasan4042
Very strange lot
@@KevinSmith-wp9qs Charles showed more emotions
Would you cry over your sons controversial ex-wife ? I know for sure that i wouldn’t !
Oh so she has to return to her palace instead of her yacht, how sad
Ending a 300-year tradition. How sad. Should not have happened. 😢
1:27 what music is this?
0:36 What's the name of this particular song?
Highland Cathedral
THis is what makes her show some emotion!!!!! How many residences does she have that she has at the peoples´expense and in which she has done not one stint of gardening or vacuuming!!!! I do not feel sorry for her at all.
Omg people will loose brain cells reading this ridiculous comment.
@@NarnianHogwart Don't be so hard on yourself.
They couldn’t afford it, unless it’s the peoples money. Just like how they’re living.
World's most expensive welfare cases 🤑
She'd rather show emotion on objects than humans
Says alot about the person, doesnt it ?
Imagine crying because her yacht was decommissioned but couldn’t shed a tear for the victims of the Aberfan disaster, Ibrox disaster, Hillsborough, Bradford City Fire, The Grenfell Towers disaster, PanAm 103 at Lockerbie, Manchester arena or any other disasters…..
Imagine thinking this was just about a boat and that shedding tears is linked to the depth of sadness or emotion a person feels inside.
@@pinkosmondfan imagine being gullible enough to think that the royal family care about any of their subjects.
@@pinkosmondfan She cared more about a damn boat then she ever did about her own people. Who she only viewed as subjects.
Several years earlier the Britannia with Royals aboard visited my city, a Commonwealth metropolis. On a Saturday night during its stay, as our club threw a large party, dozens of its crew arrived in uniform outside the front door, unannounced. Evidently they were roaming about in search of fun. They had found it, for we of course invited them in, and our guests welcomed them warmly for drinking, loud conversation and dancing. The crewmen conducted themselves as one would expect, jovially and impeccably.
Wow young Prince Andrew looks sooo much like Prince William
The Queen regarded HMY Britannia as her home away from home (and by "home" that's Windsor Castle, Sandringham and Balmoral NOT Buckingham Palace which she disliked). The design and furnishings of the Royal Apartments were based on her wishes, so Britannia was "hers" in a way that her other residences, that she inherited, were not.
However, Britannia was not her personal possession, legally the yacht was just a piece of MOD equipment that was in service at the pleasure of the Government...just as the Air Force One aircraft in the United States are merely USAF equipment and not a part of the White House.
So, she was sad at parting with something she'd spent many happy hours aboard, and taken much effort to suit her convenience. Enemies of monarchy of course would say she shed tears because her fancy toy was being taken away.
damn she didn't even cry when those kids died
The piper’s finale Highland Cathedral is so beautiful.
Boo hoo? I guess…
I imagine the tears were because it was the one place she could go where the media wasn't hounding her.
Old bucket of bolts. Good riddance. They have four residences for heaven's sakes! And are worth billions of dollars. My heart's just breaking for them.
Watching this, I just can't get over how unfitting it was to cast Jonathan Pryce as Philip
I cried too when I lost my personal yacht that I didn’t have to pay for and used for free travel. 🙄
People can cry for many things that bring memories to them. Her yacht was her true home to her where she felt free. I feel the same way about my home too
Jealousy is an unattractive trait. Only seen in unattractive people.
Her entire life is in the public eye always under scrutiny. The yacht was the only place she was abe to enjoy privacy and simply be a Mom .
Bing back Fidel!
@@marymccarty9374 She didn’t have to be queen. She chose it.
She was more upset about losing a boat than losing her ex daughter in law…
Lady Diana was a problem for them, as she broke tradition many times, divorced baby boo boo Charles, and spent her last few days behaving erratically. She was still tied like a balloon to the Royals, and her death was not all that surprising to most people. Of course, her death created a whole host of problems as well, but these materialistic fucks, especially the Lizard Queen, would definitely be expected to cry over some ship rather than someone she considered a wench.
Would you cry over your sons controversial ex-wife ? I know for sure that i wouldn’t !
She should have paid to fix it
And do that every year for it to be decommissioned eventually, anyway?? even if other people paid for it, it would still be decommisioned one day, nothing lives forever. She is not crying because she had to pay for it. She is crying because it all came to an end, the memories and history tied with that ship were gone, for her
So ridiculous. Elizabeth needed to get a grip. Did she cry like this when Britain was committing genocide and war crimes in India and Africa. So gross 🙄
God she was only human - maybe this ship like church were her sanity - I cannot imagine how hard life must have been for her. RIP your majesty - you were and are amazing. From a non royalist in australia
Just as sad now as it was in 1997.
The Royals are absolutely loaded, why didn't they buy their own yacht, instead of expecting the British people to supply them with one!?.
Read history?
Perhaps you should do your own research and answer your own question instead of posting a stupid rant that would have been avoided altogether had you have the small time to look up the answer for yourself.
If it bothers u so much that he's ranting then why don't u just explain it to him so he knows instead of giving the lazy answer "Google it"
@@JarodShapiro he didn’t say “google it” tho 💀
@@JarodShapiro maybe u could have used ALL that text to explain if u r so bothered by it
The was a powerful episode in The Crown
The Crown is fiction
I hope they just made a floating hotel the Britania..still it can serve as a Floating hotel rather than being thrown in junk
I’d feel bad if she didn’t have 10 other castles
This is so delusional and vapid. She has more empathy for inanimate objects, than she does for people.
Shame on Tony Blair.
Shame on John Major
Shame on anyone who thinks these idiots are entitled to leach off British tax money
Shame on HMQ, wonder if there were tears when tax payer didn’t pay to shut off Prince Andrew’s victims too 😂😂😂
Shame on Margaret Thatcher, the hateful old cow.
Does anyone know exactly witch repairs that was needed for her to remain in service? I mean, Norway and Denmark still have their royal yachts in service up to these days. Anyway I really felt bad for her Majesty to loosing something ske kept very dear.
When you take away the privilege of a rich
Yes that was a mistake. Another politicians f up.
I don't know it it's true or not, but I read an article in the Daily Express that the Royal Family never forgave Tony Blair for the decommissioning of Britannia, but I also heard that the process began under John Major's government.
If the Queen had just paid for the damn refurbishments herself (which she could have easily afforded multiple times), then she would have been able to keep her precious yacht in commission.
She had only herself to blame.
Thank you. This yacht was last ridded for the Majesty King and our former Governor of Hong Kong and his family members on July 1st 1997.
Always a right royal tear jerker to see a billionaire saying an emotional goodbye to their luxury, public purse funded yacht. Coming a mere five years after one of her favourite castles caught fire and the Government spent £36M of tax payers cash fixing it up for her, it must have been a rather trying time. A bit of an Annus Horribilis part II for her late Majesty one would imagine.
Couldn’t even manage a tear when the children of aberfan were burried alive.
Exactly! And she cries over a fucking boat.
She had expressed her response to Aberfan as the greatest regret of her reign and made a point to visit it several times. She's human. She made a mistake.
@@hutch1197 She has no feelings
is your information from "The Crown"?
@@audreylee9283 perhaps yes...
Oh no I have to give up my floating mansion that's paid for by public taxes! The humanity!
This clip will be taken down soon again. The royal family hates that this video is out there. There is a longer video where you can see tears running down on Queen Elizabeth‘s face but it’s hard to find
They could have left it until they'd both gone surely. Wouldn't have cost much in the big scheme of things.
The rich have no shame, while he poor starve and freeze.
And what are you ? Apparently enough well of to have some place to live, food to eat, and a smartphone or a computer with an internet connection so you can complain at others 🥱😴
@@rickardnyberg4899 Their wealth and history is disgusting. Their tax avoidance, greed, limousines, golden carriages, titles and private jets repulse me.
Interesting how she showed more emotion for this rotten old ship than she did when the mother of her grandchildren died.
Spot-on. I'm not even a subject of hers.
You mean when the adulterous mother of her grandchildren, who had done her best to destroy the institution those boys would inherit - got into a car with a drunken driver and did not bother to put on her seat-belt?
@@a.t.c.3862 Is that you Camilla?
@Bienville25 Yes, it's me. I was in the ambulance disguised as a nurse and I had a pillow with me; earlier, in the hotel bar, Philip had plied the driver with gin and dubonnet; the Queen Mother had been driving a white Fiat in the tunnel and HMQ, from Balmoral, Scotland, coordinated the whole thing via her mobile telephone.
They should have left her to have that ship. I was visiting it in Edinburgh some years ago. It was not really that big. More like a floating garden house.
LIZZIE’S IN A BOX!!!!!
You next
Dam its not the Queen fault that they can't afford to keep it going or buy another one. Oh well life on a budget is hard....