What made the Queen so good at her job?
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- Queen Elizabeth II of England (I of Scotland) was very good at her job, but why was this? What are the ideal qualities of a modern constitutional monarch? I stand in a dark shirt and talk.
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It has been pointed out to me that the officers who attempted a coup in Spain in 1981 were 'Civil Guard' and not 'army' as I said. This is a distinction which exists in Spain but not in Britain.
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I "met" the Queen in Sydney in 1992 when I was 11 years old. I was trying to get a better vantage point and pushed some friends out of the way. She called me a "Rude little boy". My claim to fame is that I tell my friends that I am rude, by royal decree.
Exceelent mate; what a great anecdote.
These days, that would just be called hustle haha. Great story!
@@tybaltyrant1 I call it 'being a Sydneysider'.
Does it come with an honourific? "Your Insolence"? "Your Royal Effrontery"? "My Lout"? "Embarrassador plenipotentiary"? "Ill-Mannered Ankle-Biter Extraordinary"? "Queen's Consternation"? "Impropietor to Her Royal &c"? "Order of the Cane"?
Your Nuisanjesty
LindyBeige is too modest. He said he was going to paraphrase Boris but then quoted him exactly with an exact impersonation of his voice and mannerisms.
I laughed so hard
@@Faust1169 funnily enough it starts at 41:02
Copyright strike coming up!
I will look to see if the hair matches.
Still makes more sense than a Joe Biden speech. :)
Can we just take a moment to appreciate, that Lindy combed his hair and didn't even wear BEIGE for Her Majesty
But its the Royal Colour!
I was miss looking for the background
My Grandfather was an Architect in the British Railways. He met the Queen a few times (one time of which was recieving an MBE for his work in the railways). The first time he met her as far as I recall was at the opening of a new ward in a hospice in Scotland, which he did a lot of charity work for. It was the usual 'how do you do, what do you do' type affair.
A year or two later he's at the opening of a train station and the Queen is there doing her duty. My Grandpa wasn't supposed to be there, and therefore wasn't on the list that the Royal staff would have to brief the Queen on who she's meeting. He joins the end of the line anyway to meet her, and before he can properly introduce himself she says "Oh, how are the people of (The name of the Hospice?)"
My Grandpa prompty stood there agape that she would remember him and what he did, completely unbriefed - a year or two after the fact!
Regardless of your opinion on the Monarchy itself, she was a remarkable person.
These legends........want not to say lies.......exist in many many families!
Some people are really good at remembering names... I am most definitely NOT one of those types of people... Around 20 years ago, I was working for a major aerospace contractor on a Navy project... We had this one middle-age black woman who worked there and was on the custodial staff... One of her tasks was to periodically go around to the cubicles and empty the trash / recycle cans that each person had... We did not have name tags on our cubicles, but she could remember the name of EVERYONE in the building and always greeted everyone by their name...
On the other hand, I feel I'm doing good just remembering my wife's name...
@@seanseoltoir I can't remember faces. I worked in the same office with somebody for years. Then they'd quit, and we would happen to meet outside a year later, and I wouldn't recognize them until they've explained. This has happened several times. I don't remember the faces of my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. I don't even remember my own face when I was younger.
@@danielch6662
You know, there's a particular type of brain injury that makes it impossible to recognise people's faces? It's very strange. In some cases, a person won't know it's his wife in front of him, but as soon as she gets up and starts walking, he recognises her gait and knows who she is. Or he recognises her voice when she starts talking, etc.
I doubt that you are suffering from this kind of brain damage, though. Unless, of course, you used to be able to recognise people and can no longer do so.
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Maybe they're so widespread because they're true?
I can't really say since I'm Australian and haven't heard any.
Nothing can clear a short-term schedule quite like a Lindybeige video.
Perhaps a command performance
This one isn't essential
@Great Dane Let me see yur päpas.
Yup… my dishes go unwashed!
Damn straight.
fun fact from the non-english speaking world: in many countries (in this case, czechia/slovakia), Charles was always Charles, but the moment he became king, his first name was translated and he’s now referred to as Karel III (czech) and Karol III (slovak). same with queen, who was referred to as Alžbeta II (czech/slovak).
That's pretty cool. I'm glad their names get translated
In Norway, we don't do that anymore.
Charles I of Britain is in Norway known as Karl I.
Charles II of Britain is known as Karl II.
But Charles III will be known as Charles III. We have stopped translating names now.
Fun fact: Charles III is named after the Norwegian king Haakon VII.
See if you can figure that one out.
That's a very interesting fact.
In Finland they decided right now that this dude will not be "Kaarle-Kuningas" like the Swedish KIng is. Now we have to decide how the "Charles" is to be pronounced, is it "Khaarles" or "Tsaarles" or maybe "Haarles".
In UK even though we still call him Charles III, he is known officially Carolus III in carvings/coins etc, the latin form of charles. Same went for Charles I and II so I guess that's a way of reflecting this change?
My dads aunt & uncle had a cottage on the coast on one of the roads you have to drive on if you want to go to Balmoral estate. He spent many summers at that cottage on holiday and would reminisce about how his uncle kept a bowling green quality lawn and had the most beautiful garden.
Well, one day my great uncle got a knock on the door and it was a very well to do looking gentleman standing there: "sir, her majesty has travelled past your cottage many times on her way to Balmoral and always admired your garden. Recently the gardener for the Balmoral estate has retired and she would like to invite you to take the position....."
He's now 96. Still lives on the Balmoral estate (retired) and has two royal corgi offspring to keep him company.
A great anecdote about the late Queen is the joy she had at opening bridges of all things. She would often go through the 'reject' pile of requests for attendance and would become very cross if there was a bridge to be opened without her.
Another fun fact. The difference between the birthdate of her first prime minister (Churchill, 1874) and her last (Truss, 1975) is 101 years.
"One saw that! You were trying to hide a bridge opening. Not quick enough!"
That's probably the only thing Mrs. Truss will be remembered for.
Absolutely collapsed when you did the Boris impression; thank you.
Her Late Majesty shaking McGuinness's hand was not an easy or enjoyable thing, for her, of for us watching. It wasn't until afterwards that I appreciated the genius of it. Not only did she shake his hand, but, of course, HE shook hers. He shook the hand of the reigning Queen of Northern Ireland, in Northern Ireland, in his capacity as a minister of Her government in Northen Ireland. Her shaking his hand was a massive gesture of forgiveness and reconciliation. Him shaking hers was an acknowledgment of sovereignty.
Did not McGuinness by the gesture want to reconcile his electorate to the consequences of participating in government notwithstanding the deadly motives of the past; but for Queen Elizabeth the act could only be seen as selfless devotion.
When she visited my country Ireland 🇮🇪, its significance wasn't lost on many of us. She shocked us all by speaking in Irish at the state dinner. She wore green too.
Aww, how sweet, I guess that makes up for all the atrocities her and her family did in Ireland, right? As long as she wore green, who cares about all of the people killed
Wow no matter the political strife between our two nations the Queen always found a way to be a apoitical and uniting fugure. I love that she wore green intentionally and spoke Irish, she knew what she was doing, such a clever woman.
I've always said that the monarchy should have ended with her, you will never get a better high note to end an era of history.
Now they've gone and crowned Charles who's a bit of a twat and a racist.
In 2013, after the funeral of King Petar Karađorđević on Oplenac in Serbia, I was walking from the church yard towards the parking lot, I stopped to buy a book at the stand, the next minute an elderly gentleman stood next to me and looked at the books. When the salesman tried to say something in broken English I turned and realized I was standing next to Prince Philip. He just smiled, nodded, told the seller he was just looking and left. His security was only one man.
He must have forgotten about it the next day, but to this day I still don't believe that the husband of the Queen of England was standing half a meter away from me.
Didn't King Petar Karađorđević died in the start of the 20th Century? How comes the funeral was in 2013? What happened with the body in the meantime?
@@silviasanchez648 Sorry, I meant Peter the second, his grandson. He died in 1970 in the US. After WW2 the communists did not allow him to return to the country. In 2013, he, his mother and brother were finally buried in Serbia.
"Do you want anything? It's on me."
Would have been perfect.
Just one detail your Beigeness. She wasn't on Honeymoon when George VI died, she was married in 1947 and the King died in 1952 she was on an official visit to the Commonwealth and headed for Australia via Kenya. She had a very short honeymoon in the UK spending much of it at Balmoral, then Philip was stationed by the Navy in Malta so they spent a lot of time there.
She already had 2 children when she became queen, so I, too, doubt that she was on her honeymoon.
Maybe he meant honeymoon as the short period at the start of her reign. Maybe
Define short.
@@mauricematla8379
One half of a garment worn over the pelvic area usually for sports.
I think, and I could be oh so wrong, that because her real honeymoon was so short, she took this trip with her husband as her proper honeymoon, even though they were standing in for the King
I'm an American and I look to lindybiege as the leading authority on all things British.
Agreed. He a real OG🇬🇧
I see no problem with this...
As you should. Unless it's a subject that might paint Britain in a bad light. Then he'll do anything to spin and justify it. Which I've never really understood.
@@JJJMMM1 Subjects like the monarchy 💀
Yikes
Actually, people DID say a lot of negative things about Queen Victoria during her reign. You touch upon it yourself when you say she retreated from public life. After the death of Prince Albert in 1861 she vanished so completely from view that she was called the "Queen of the Empty Throne." Punch famously published a cartoon of a vacant throne with a "To Let" sign on it. It was only in the latter half of the 1870's - largely due to the influence of Disraeli - that she emerged from hibernation, so to speak, and her popularity returned to former levels as she became the Grandmother of the Nation.
Yes, in Fowey in Cornwall they erected an obelisk to commemorate Queen Victoria and Albert's visit in the 1840s, and it was later dumped in the harbour when her popularity waned. In the late 20th Century it was fished out and repositioned on a plinth in the town for Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee.
True, there were people who complained of this behaviour, but wanting to see more of someone is not an expression of dislike.
@@lindybeige Saying someone is not doing their job rather IS an expression of dislike, or at least of deep disapproval.
@@lindybeige perhaps even the opposite?
I mean if the biggest negative thing to say about someone is that he isn't around enough that doesn't sound much like a negative....
It has only been since her death that I have found how close my family has been to hers, many of her favourite fell ponies have grown up around our farm and been raised by my family. Her favourite horse that attended her funeral at Windsor was sired by my aunts horse which grew up on the land next to my house, with horses I rode, her 2 newest horses (white fell ponies) that she was pictured with for her birthday were owned by my neighbours and good family friends who I would regularly work for. Knowing that I quite possibly had a part in her life, however tangential, is amazing to me, and such an honour. I truly can't understand how anyone could hate her, the lies they must have been fed about her to actually HATE her just astounds me
I was travelling in Morocco by the sahara when the queen died, we had people the next day saying " sorry to heard about your queens death". Until her death never really though of her as my queen, so it quite a new thing to me. I'm from nz.
Surely you must have known, she'd been doing the job for 70yrs.
@@JohnyG29 That's not what he meant. I'm also from NZ. She's on all our currency and everything, but we are on the other side of the world and the monarchy doesn't really feature in our every day lives. We'd normally refer to her as "the queen" or "queen elizabeth". But never "our/my queen".
@@JohnyG29 sorry I meant I never thought of her as my queen, she was England's queen. We don't really care about the royals here but in the end she is our queen.
@@qwertyasdf66 Australian here. That's pretty much out attitude too. But I think with the deaths of HRH, the Duke n the Queen Mum occurring in a clump (can't think of another way to say it) there's a bit of sadness and a feeling of "What next". I'm sixty and have a great respect for her insistence on doing her duty by the people.
@@justlolit Englishman here. Average Londoner lad on the street doesn't see her as "our Queen" either, I can almost assure you. We all got that collective shock in a realization we had this thing that we were united under, that is now sort of gone.
I loved the bit where you said "Could you go for that amount of time without expressing an opinion on ANYTHING? .. I don't think I could" - Mr Lloyd, of course you couldn't, your entire livelihood is you expressing your opinion on EVERYTHING hahaha
And he does so most entertainingly.
Given the meetings between the PM and queen were confidential, we have no way of knowing if she gave any views on government.
@@gerry343 that's just the point though - publicly she made no statements on politics one way or the other
@@tbone2646 And so we do not know if she influenced the decisions of any PM.
@@gerry343 She surely has had influence behind the scenes, but again that's not the point that Lindybeige was making. He said she hasnt publicly held opinions (and therefore hasn't influenced the way people vote at the ballots)
Look at Charles on the other hand who has spent his whole life publicly weighing in on all kinds of topics; political, environmental, economic and more
I’d flip one point. She wasn’t a good queen because she was a bad public speaker, she was a bad public speaker because she was a good queen
It's interesting how many of these positive qualities in a constitutional monarch would be negative qualities in an elected official. I think it goes to show how different the roles of cultural leader are from those of governmental leaders.
Like following the script when you're a person who was voted into their position to change it. But still, this video has got me curious about the pros and cons of both. It's not something I've thought about before.
My grandfather drove the Queen many times in the 1960s. I can confirm that she was sensible, not supremely intelligent but she really liked going fast.
Ok 30 minutes in he brings up the queen's intelligence. I retract my statement.
She had an opinion?!
There's a story about HMQ driving one of the Saudi kings around Windsor in her Land Rover. Poor guy was confirmed in his "This is why we don't let them drive" position by her dainty regal lead foot.
I'm a British-Canadian trucker that operates mostly across the United States, and I have been so humbled by our American cousins over the last couple of weeks, since the death of the Queen. Personally, I expected to hear little jibes and sneers about my 'little queen'. Not at all! The vast majority of flags were at half-mast. At 1st I thought that it was because of 9-11, but I was assured by all that I met that it was out of respect for the late Queen. I have unashamedly held on to my English (erm, ... Scouse) accent, so at every truck stop and hotel I went to, I would be approached by people who had heard my accent. They were so sincere in offering their condolances, that I couldn't help but get a little choked-up. Certainly, a newfound respect for my American cousins.
You met the minority. The majority of us don't give a fuck that a privileged monarch died.
That's so nice to hear about fellow Americans, thank you for sharing your story!
I'm American, and I feel like the world is emptier with her gone. While I may not agree with every decision by the Royal Family, I have always respected her strength and determination to be true to herself as much as she could be allowed to be, and I ADORE her sense of humor. I think she was a captivating person and regret that I never got to see her in person. Condolences for the loss of your Little Queen; I kinda felt like she was a little mine, too :)
It disgusts me that after we fought a war to get rid of the red coats all these years later my fame obsessed idiot countrymen honor someone else's royalty. SICKENING!
She was a good egg.
You were lucky to live during her reign.
The thought of the queen developing her little handshake seems so adorable and wholesome to me. Like she's the queen and she's too polite to tell ppl their time has passed and I feel like her arm does it for her lol
She min-maxed her wave which says enough imo. Not a full wave but instead a slight tilt back and forth. How often was she waving and how tired did her arm become from participating in all of those occasions to develop something as unique as that lol.
Small digression: On the 100th birthday of her mother, the "Queen Mum", a parade was held in her honor in front of her house. She went out to take the parade in person. Her butler surreptitiously tried to offer her a chair but she would have none of it. A 100 year old lady with two artificial hips, taking a parade in her honor. Standing.
The Queen had unlimited movement, and was easily the most powerful unit in the game, even more powerful than the Rook or Bishop. Look what happened in the Falklands
As opposed to the Argies who just moved all their pawns forward one square.
this got me rolling
Pro tip: don't kick your parliament out of the building if there's a tennis court nearby.
Not unless you want the ultimate haircut
I am Canadian, and saw the Queen a few times. The closest was her visit to sign our Constitution, removing the last bits of the House of Lord's powers over Canada. She was tiny! Remarkably so. But, the aura of power around her was palpable. Someone coming down from another planet would be able to see that she was boss. A remarkable woman. And, our Queen too.
As a Brit, I am proud that Canada and the UK are joined through the Crown. All the best mate.
recently met a canadia i always thought your politness must be an over exagurated seriotype and was pleasently suprised
I wish the Queen had met my Mum, who is a doppelganger of Empress Livia Augusta.
Its not like the island has seen a record number of foreign invaders under her watch. Oh wait...
No finer eulogy could have been made for the queen than that which we have just seen here.
I'm sure her family could do better, but her personal affairs belong to her personal family. This was a fine eulogy for members of the general public like myself.
I am not a commonwealth citizen, nor have I ever lived there. But She was the queen when I was born (1961) and I have known her ever since, from afar. She is the one and only political figure in my life who lived so long and was an inspiration of stability and serenity. My condolences to your nation, great loss really.
6:20 Causation and correlation.
It just so happens that constitutional monarchy and "good standard of living" both come from the root of "western european country" and the history behind that.
Germany and france are just as well in that club, so are the swiss etc.
Very little to do with a form of government where the best you can hope from the "monarchy" bit is that it is politically irrelevant.
When monachy works, people thrive, when it doesn't they may bomb people on boats.
I believe the mechanisms by which the Spartans made their monachy work for them mitigate some of the worst outcomes at limited cost.
I hate to be this guy but this also ignores that most of the constitutional monarchies around the world today were the people who colonized most of the world. And if you oppress most of the world until the last century, it isn’t very hard to have a better quality of life than the people you’re oppressing
@@SizzleCorndog That is in part what I meant by "the history behind that".
Various factors that lead to those developed nations having advantages and using those advantages to gain more advantages (by whatever means, moral or not).
@@aenorist2431 Oh I totally agree, I feel like Lindy is being a little patriotic and is probably swept up in the emotion of the event to say "yeah the queen was very good at her job but she wasn't perfect and in some cases was a villain"
Being a yank, there are, typically, a lot of cultural and political differences between myself and someone from the UK but one thing most of us can find common ground on is having an admiration for someone like Queen Elizabeth. She was the Queen people deserved even though she was under no obligation to be. Even though the position is relatively ceremonial, she made a point of serving the people in whatever way she could, all the while, never attempting to interfere or take sides. She was as close to being an ideal Head of State as anyone I’ve ever seen and was the grandmother of the free world. We’ll never see another like her and the world is a lesser place without her.
amen, as an american i respect the queen
Being at a 'certain British boarding school associated with the Royal family' the contrasting views in the past two weeks have been astonishing to me. Exposure to so much hate for the monarchy contrasted with blind love for the same has, I think helped us as a nation to think hard about what exactly our monarchy means to us.
I've never been a staunch royalist but Her Majesty's death hit me harder than I thought, almost like losing a grandmother.
It's kinda sad how many of the blind hatred ones seem to be based on stuff that isn't actually specific or true of her, like calling her a coloniser or such.
@@FFKonoko I haven't seen much of that, although that said I rarely read politically hard left material, but there has been quite a counter response to the institution itself. For example:
th-cam.com/video/7TzM1TO2pb4/w-d-xo.html
Hate and being against the institutionele itself is not the same thing though.
@@FFKonoko nah she's definitely a colonizer she was complicit in the invasion of Egypt during the cold war
Ol' one take lindybeige. Old school. It's way more engaging when you don't jumpcut the imperfections out, feels like an actual conversation
Watching this some time after the event, I was also struck by that. This is a seriously impressive monologue with literally no takes.
With regard to her outfits, I think it was partly a security measure too.
She was a tiny woman, easy to lose in a crowd. If there had ever been any risk to her, she had to be easy for security to spot.
I'm not sure if I've read that, or if it's just my reasoning.
She was indeed very brave. I think that's shown very clearly by what happened when the young guy climbed into her room. With the shots fired she was in her public persona, putting emotions aside.
I'm not saying she wasn't brave then. Just that I think her actions that morning showed a different sort of bravery
If I woke up to find an intruder sitting on the end of my bed, I doubt I'd be making conversation, offering tea and cigarettes!!
What I always wondered about was her purse. She seemed to always have a purse at her public appearances. The queen had people to carry anything she could possibly want - so what was in the purse?
@@WyvernYT supposedly a handkerchief.
But I've read or seen it was a code or signal item to minders n handlers.
If she wanted to get away from someone she'd change arms. If it was urgent she'd fiddle with the clasp. That's one reason they were always the same model of handbag just different colours.
@@WyvernYT oh, and I'm not British or I would have remembered the Paddington Bear ad and said "Marmalade sandwiches"
I remember when Juan Carlos defused the coup in Spain. I was rather young, but I do remember Franco, and with the coup, everyone seemed to expect a return of dictatorship. Juan Carlos' intervention was more or less a miracle. Remember, Franco appointed Juan Carlos to be his successor as dictator. Juan Carlos made spain a democracy, and then he came out in defense of the democracy he created. Yes, I know there have been scandals, but Juan Carlos still acheived a miracle!
Luis Carrero Blanco was Franco's successor as dictator, but fortunately he became Spain's first astronaut instead
I love when this crusty, grizzled cynic gets emotional; a very rare, endearing side to Lindybeige.
I find it hilarious how his vid about Napoleon Bonaparte is the opposite of this. Typical Brit hating on the French and glorifying anything British
@@kaudsiz Part of Lindybeige's charm is his unapologetic Britishness.
As a child I saw the Queen at a distance, in 1973 at the opening of the Sydney Opera House, and in 1982 when she opened the public hospital in the suburb of Sydney I lived in as a teenager. I am glad we had her and she will be missed.
Excited to vote for a Republic, rip bozo.
With you here saw her myself from a distance at the royal show grounds in Melbourne in 1973
@@daboos6353 what's so good about a repubic above a constitutional monarchy
@@grendalsuncle4040 Queen Elizabeth spent taxpayer money on the legal defense of her child rapist son Prince Andrew. If you want to be funding that be my guest.
When I was very young, my father gave me spare Canadian coins to collect. This was my first introduction to the British Queen. I've been collecting her ever since.
It is worth noting that constitutional monarchy is not a magical talisman against coup d'etat when you actually look at more than one example of attempted coups in such countries. Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, and has suffered 12 of them since 1932. There has been at least one instance of a Thai coup in which the leader of the coup has met with the King and delivered a formal apology for their actions, and asking permission to serve as his representative.
Italy, back in the 1920s also had a constitutional monarchy. Mussolini certainly didn't seem to mind the fact that he was taking over from the King's established government. Over the interwar period, this is far from the only constitutional monarchy to succumb to fascists in this way. (Indeed, Germany is the exception here in that the coup attempt was put down before it really got the ball rolling, and it then took several years of politicking for Hitler to get himself elected to a position where he could make the final step to dictatorship.)
Indeed, it seems likely that the Spanish example you mentioned where the King ordered his soldiers to stand down from their coup and was actually obeyed is in the minority. It's certainly a *possible* benefit; there is, as you said, documentation of it happening at least once. But I contend that you're overselling the concept on this point.
Arguably Edward VIII was ousted by a parliamentary coup against him. Not sure why you'd ever think a figurehead like QE2 actually would have made a difference to anything tbh. She was just too weak to.
Hello Lindy. While I do share your sentiments about the sadness in the late Queen’s passing, I must say that she was not Elizabeth II of England and Elizabeth I of Scotland. Due to the Union of the crowns, she became Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Official protocol states that they choose whichever regnal number is higher from the Scottish or English thrones, but technically the last Queen of Scotland or Queen of England was Queen Anne.
I think he knows that. Dual regnal numbers are an impossibility ever since the union of the two kingdoms. But never the less it is a fun thing to say and a reminder of how this practice came about. At the start of her reign mailboxes marked EIIR in Scotland were vandalised, as she was the first Queen Elisabeth of Scots. Old man Winston than came up with a compromise, where by the highest regnal number would be used. So if we ever get a King James, he will be James VIII.
So if we have another King James, he will be James IX?
@@zoetropo1 No... So far we have had 7 King James'es... If the son of Prince George were to be called James, he would be King James VIII.
Oh god. He’s a disembodied head now!!!
Poor choice of clothing 😂 definitely should have not worn black
@@bgonzales817 It's a sign of respect, black is the colour of mourning.
The last time I was this early, Alfred the Great was on the throne.
All royals should be in boxes.
I spent some years in Malta, (I have seen your videos from the Upper Baracka Gardens and Fort St Angelo) and lived almost next door to her residence in Pieta, very close to St Luke's hospital where my eldest two was born.
I was interested in her life prior to becoming Queen, serving in the land army, how she met Phillip (his grandmother sounded a crazy old coot too). I think she was a blessing to this nation.
“Hmmm, someone appears to be attempting to shoot me. How quaint.”
Hmm. An unexpected explosion a few blocks from my motorcade. That's rather invigorating for the bloodstream.
She wasn’t on her honeymoon when she heard about her father’s death. She and Phillip already had two children.
Elizabeth has been my head of state for all of my life. I am not a rabid royalist but she has never made me ashamed and has often made me proud to be British.
Queen Elizabeth, on her 1997 visit to St. John's, is given a tour of Purity Factories, longtime Newfoundland producer of cookies, crackers and all things sweet.
Chatting with workers on the production line, she asks an employee, "And what are you making?"
His response: "$12.50 an hour, Your Majesty."
The Queen was married in 1947 and so she was most definitely not on her honeymoon when she heard of her father’s death in 1952
I think she had a natural, deep sense of loyalty and was deeply moved by her experiences of WWII. She was quite proud of helping out in the motor pool, awed by the sacrifice of her people, and committed herself to serve the realm as those who had given their lives. As society devolved into increasing self-centredness, her example became a beacon. Very much enjoyed this, thanks.
Nicely put
You left out that she was the only hed of state who could change the oil in a 3-ton lorry
What made Queen Elizabeth II so good at her job is that she consistently did it.
Her "job" was to accept the trappings of immense wealth and privilege while being uncontroversial. She almost succeeded - only letting herself down at the end with that £13 million of tax payers money she paid to a US court so her son could avoid giving evidence in a case involving a woman he says he never met.
Behind every great woman is a great man. I don't see enough tributes for the Duke, who I believe was an immense influence on both his wife and the monarchy. His absence and hers is sure to be missed.
Lloyd, your background made me so proud of my OLED screen.
As a cameraman I would suggest that Lindybeige when presenting against a black background (whilst also wearing black,) that he has a strong backlight. This will highlight and separate his body from the gloom thus not becoming a "floating head."
As a callow youth I was persuaded of the pointlessness and injustice of monarchy. In my middle years I became merely disinterested in them. In my later years I've realised how utterly revolting the alternative of an elected presidency can be and how remarkable her achievements are/were.
Another very entertaining programme, I especially agree with your closing words re claiming no credit for anything. Compare that to the typical vacuous claims of our typical recent PM's.
Same here
I agree Luddite, I've been through exactly the same process with my opinion on the monarchy over the years. We have an elected government, the very last thing we need in UK is another level of politics.
In theory a democratically elected head of state sounds great, in reality we'd get more political bullsht, lies and money/power grabbimg.There would be interminable and devisive election campaigns and there is no chance of getting an apolitical leader, we'd end up with President Johnson or Cameron or Blair. The very thought makes me feel sick.
Wow u support a pedo king ok yeah v sane
My grand-uncle was a bombardier during WW2 in the USAAF and then the USAF - he was in the lead plane on the first daylight raid of the Ploiesti Oil Fields in Romania - at one point he wrote a letter to then Princess Elizabeth, describing his life and current occupation, Bombing Nazis - much to his surprise he received a reply, and quite a kind one too! Her parents apparently helped her build a habit of reading and answering the considerable volume of mail she received, even during war time. Everything i understand about her said she absolutely devoted herself to being of service to her fellows - a small description for a very BIG job.
My dad got a glimpse of her when she was princess Elizabeth and her family during the war and he was awestruck, he was with his US Army group and it was crowded he said he was stationed there, he said they were treated like the enemy uh duh it was wartime. He was only 4 years older than her I just noticed that, he died in 2002 he was 80 I miss him every day. And now she's gone I was a bit frazzled myself, because of that memory he shared with me.
On one of the dumb trivia quiz sites out there, there's a quiz about all the countries the Queen Elizabeth II had visited during her reign. Turns out she has visited 109 countries. Out of 197. Well over half of the countries on earth. Not bad! I've been to I think five...
I've been to six ha!
Wow think of her carbon footprint 👣
I've been to six, seven if you count sitting in a plane while it refueled...
@@rmsgrey 11, maybe i should sign up for German king if someone's looking? :D
I've never left the UK and Ireland and I can die happily having seen a lot of this glorious land
What made her good at her job?
She kept staying alive
Maybe trying 7000 different hats? Drinking 9 billion cups of tea? Attending 1200 games? Organizing 1000 private parties? Losing the greatest modern empire?
@@evilkate9884 it's true, she drank 1 cup of tea for every person born on the planet during her reign and wore a different hat for every color in existence, attended a game every time a revolution happened and organised a private party for each member of parliament ever
Danish person here. We also have a constitutional monarchy, and i have always personally been fairly ambivalent towards the tradition, leaning towards being anti-monachy, but I'll admit this breakdown had swayed by opinion.
We have a very well functioning monarchy in Denmark, and I expect it will continue to be so when Frederik takes over, as he has already proven himself as a popular and liked figure, who resembles his grandfather quite a lot. (Even with tatoos and all.) I must say I don't watch much news in general, and certainly not the "coloured weekly" kind, but he has appeared on TV now and then and seems reasonably well grounded, while also showing engagement in apolitical causes. I consider myself a liberal socialist, and have also been antiroyal, but there is something about having people who are trained to fulfil the role as head of state for many years. (Like Liz, Daisy wasn't originally meant to have that position, but I think she had a few more years to learn the "trade" than QE.)
I read a nice reasoning on Quora: a monarch can not assume responsibility for dealing with disasters etc, that is the job of the PM, this means that the monach can unite people, whereas a PM can be ctiticised for how a situation is dealt with.
A 43 minute video and it seemed to go by in a flash. What a wonderful, heartfelt tribute to Queen Elizabeth by one of her people. Well done Lindybeige!
I would like to point out that since Elizabeth was never supposed to be queen to begin with, but took on the role splendidly, she's a fine example of the fact there can be truly extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary people.
I hope this goes towards buying you a pint in honour of our Queen. Fantastic video, so good I'm watching it again in fact, cheers! 🍻🇬🇧
This is a superb video. Thank you so much for posting it and very well done Sir!
I know people tend to attach nickname titles to the previous Monarchs. Richard the Lionheart, George the Mad King, etc. I think there would never be any objection if we nicknamed Her, Elizabeth The Dutiful.
Or Lizzy the Busy?
Elizabeth the Well-Beloved.
i'm no monarchist but I can certainly understand her appeal to other brits. If we're gonna insist upon having a divinely appointed head of state we could do a lot worse than someone like her
Logical fallacies abound.
I suppose everyone has something they are irrational about.
Please feel free to state so here...unless you just wanted to state an opinion with no clarification?
@@XxKilleredxX I'm quite confident that, in time, this video (left unedited) will provide clarification enough.
"Real Queens don't look at assassins."
🤣
I think she looked at one for Diana
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I can now understand the reaction of the English people to the death of their Queen.
She must have treated her subordinates with absolute respect because there have been no “tell all” books!
Good at her job?
I too can wave out a window for 70 years
I don't know you... but I bet you would make it less than 5 years before you burned out, said something vulgar, or worse, did something that embarrassed the entire nation.
@@macmcleod1188 Id take a possible embarrassment over a doormat for head of state tbh. Elizabeth was around for so long because she was inoffensive and useless.
@@laurie1183 "Brand Finance estimates that in 2017 the Monarchy generated a gross uplift of £1.766 billion to the UK economy. The contribution includes the Crown Estate's surplus as well as the Monarchy's indirect effect on various industries."
The total family creates and per inside magazinearticle, "the firm, 1,133
people who work
for the Queen", they directly create 1,133 jobs.
Many businesses depend on their business and world go bankrupt without them.
And "In all, The Queen held Patronages with over 70 education and training organisations, over 60 sports and recreational organisations, over 30 faith organisations and over 40 arts and cultural organisations." She raised 1.434 *billion* dollars for charities last year on to of direct donations.
@@macmcleod1188 The monarchy could cost the country two billion and it still wouldn't be relevant. They are not there to make money. They are the there to control the British political system and stop Parliamentarians doing stupid things. Elizabeth II allowed the house of Lords to be turned into nothing more than a hall of corrupt cronies. She did nothing to arrest the decline. She stood back and watched while the country spiraled into crisis after crisis. As a monarch, she was abysmal.
Thank you for another long video of just talking, Its what I prefer to get to sleep and I have been listening to the same 10 videos of yours for months! Will enjoy this one tonight :)
I lived in England for about 7 years. I saw the Queen and Prince Phillip in London in 1977 during her silver jubilee. I admired her.
It’s nice to see someone talking about the good thing she did in a historical manner. I knew she wasn’t the memed about evil lizard monster crazies talk about, but it’s interesting to hear about her successes and stoicism in her role as monarch. Honestly she seems like she was a nice lady with a lot of dedication to her duty.
Easy to be stoic knowing your rich and that your riches are stolen goods and the police won't come looking for them
@@JohnKobaRuddy Couldn't keep your mouth shut? Do explain, where do you live? I bet your lands were stolen...
My favourite part of the Queen's reign was when her representative in my country went rogue and dismissed the highest democratically elected official in the land to reinstate a conservative government that the country had voted out of power, then the country held its breath, watched and waited, as the Queen did nothing.
I'm in agreeance that she's a nice person, but when her people needed her, she dropped the ball.
Not sure the queen could have interfered, her representative doing what he did had already damaged her reputation among the Australians without her even doing anything.
@@Valencetheshireman927 She quote literally could have, very easily, stop being a pathetic crusader larper.
@@aidanrock8719 Not quite sure what that is, fairly certain the queen wasn’t a “crusader larper” but ok.
@@Valencetheshireman927 I'm quite clearly talking about you, thanks for proving my suspicions correct of your intelligence being somewhere around the crayon eating range.
@@aidanrock8719 Very sorry I’m in multi tasking here. So I didn’t fully read your comment. Not sure what my profile pic has to do with anything though. I like the medieval period so I have a knight as my profile pic there’s not much more to it than that. Of all the responses you could have come up you went with “ha your profile pic bad”. Come up with a better response and I perhaps will do the same. 😉
"Nobody seems to have a bad word to say about her" - because that's an easy way to get arrested
again the morcie need to die, if you a free person
Just got a chance to watch this. And heard a wonderful story about QEII. She was at Balmoral and out for a little bit of a walk. She came across a couple of American hikers. I forget exactly what they were looking for, but they didn't recognize her. She was accompanied by her security guard, and when one of the Americans asked her if she lived around here, she said, "Oh yes, I have a little place just over the hill there." And they of course asked if she'd ever met the queen. She said, "Well no, but he's met her quite often." So, they immediately started asking him questions about Elizabeth and what she was like, etc. and then they handed her their camera and asked her to take a picture of them, which she did, and then they of course took a pic with her as well. After they'd hiked on, she told her security man, "I wish I could be there when they show those pictures to their friends."
Apparently she had a marvelous sense of humour.
She will be missed.
It must have been quite a rare treat for her, to have a chat with someone who didn't know who she was.
The only thing I know about royalty is that I don't envy them.
At no point did Lindy ever actually point to a single thing that she actually did, or accomplished, other than be a symbolic figure. If she never expressed an opinion, how could she ever change or influence anything? I just don't see the point in celebrating a pampered family that doesn't actually do anything.
Because their role in the country *is* to be a silent diplomatic figure which exists purely for the purpose of leading the executive.
They're not supposed to be directly influential in the public, that's the role of parliament, which answers to her.
She did express her opinion. She wanted the British to be content with being replaced. She wasn't shy about expressing that.
@@williamchristy9463 so her role can be easily fulfilled by a very pampered squirrel, got it.
@@ThumbSipper The squirrel wouldn't be capable of leading the Church, vetoing bad laws, or dismissing incompetent leaders with any level of aptitude, as is the Queen's job.
@@williamchristy9463 as if the royals where ever necessary to do any of that, you know who would be able to do all these things just as well or even better? An elected official that wasn't treated like a god by virtue of having a shiny hat and being born in an extremely unimportant bloodline.
Considering every country on earth can also lead churches (hardly a useful feature btw), vetoing bad laws and fire worthless people I still stand that a squirrel would have been just as successful in the role.
Hard to imagine that one could love someone that they have never met.
But I like many others I loved her majesty the queen, and I grieve for the loss of someone who was always a part of my life.
May she rest in peace.
Not so hard to imagine. Many people have parasocial relationships. It's not reciprocal, but it's still real to you.
She was in her job for 70 bloody years. I mean, if she had still been shite at the end of such a long reign, that would have been a huge embarrassment.
She didn't need to make jokes, she left those for Phillip to make.
Even when I don't agree with your opinions, I agree that the queen was a master on branding, while some countries selled their cultures and locations the UK selled the queen
Its nothing to worry about but im curious what exact opinion did you take issue with?
@@jboss119 I personally disagreed with constitutional monarchs being the best form of government. Especially with a monarch with no legislative, tax, or judicial impact. Strong democracies (not the US), and socialist democracies are better.
@@mitchellcozzens44 Any form of government that relies on (however closer to LARPing it is than taken seriously) a 'God-appointed' head of state who's right to the position is nothing but an arbitrary birthright, is i think by definition NOT the best form of government. It's frankly absurd in this day and age that this is even happening in the UK still.
@@jboss119 I don't like the concept that my taxes are used to pay the expensive life of a person who has never done anything for me
@@santiagoacosta3372 I think you'd be surprised how little of your taxes goes towards the royal family actually, I think after the Queen's death I heard a statistic that it's about 70p per person per year. Most of their income comes from their estates.
Bravo!
I would not change a word in this stunning, accurate and heart felt commentary for a wonderful woman, head of state and Monarch.
20:40 Who's this bloke we're talking about?
27:59 Only the English could imagine that the rest of the world desperately envies their ability to queue.*
*(read this first in the voice of a foreigner, with a high-pitched Nazi German sneer, then once again as a patriotic speech in the voice of Capt. Mainwaring).
She was more than a person. She was a symbol.
...the lack of beige is frightening...
I'm not a monarchist but in my sixty years I don't recall any incident of the queen ever issuing a ill considered word. She always represented herself and her position with honor and dignity.
Is it honorable to watch your prime minister offer Europe to Adolf? Was it honorable to let commies take over after Adolf?
She did give an honorary knighthood to Henry Kissinger, one of the worst war criminals of the modern era
Maybe should have paid attention better
Used to find her xmas speech every year to be rather disgusting given the context it was delivered in and the state of the country for the last 2 decades. I guess if you've got your blinders on, everything she said was honourable and dignified, yeah.
yeah covering up a bunch of pedos for years surly isn't an incident.
Rest in peace , even as German I always had utmost respect for her majesty, and its hard to imagine without her.
That being said, your discussion of constitutional monarchy, especially in Britain as one of the oldest democracies with a purely ceremonial monarch is pretty biased. Especially is weird comparison with Germany after WW1 makes no sense, the entire foundation of society is different. Britain (mostly England) was already a long standing centralized nation with federal enclaves and at that point a long and stable democracy with a ceremonial constitutional monarch, while Germany didn't even exist as a unity 30 years prior to this point and never had either a stable monarch or democracy. Same with the Juan Carlos story, yes, he was able to talk the soldiers down from rebellion. But most monarchs in history couldn't, just like most democratic leaders.
There is too little evidence to support any of these claims as democracy and constitutional monarchies are too young to draw empirical conclusions. Is the same with the "democracies never fight each other" fallacy that existed for a long time.
Wherever she went it always seemed like she had genuine interest in all the people she met. Every single one. Very interesting to observe. You rarely see that in any person, let alone someone who met so many people and played such an important role.
Why do you give as an example of Her Majesty reforming the abolition of primogeniture?
It was through an Act of Parliament initiated by the elected government.
If she was behind the reform she could have done it in the 80s or 90s when discrimination in employment based on sex was made unlawful in a number of countries.
Thanks for the awesome content
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Dear Mr. Lidybeige, please, accept my congratulations for this superb video, certainly the very best of yours. It deserves to be seen again and again for ever!
So good at her job? What did she actually do?
Amazing and touching monologue.
Not a Commonwealth citizen, but don't have to be, to appreciate a great person.
Your Queen impressions were absolutely Python-esque.
The best thing about the Queen was that she never said spiteful things about her own people, unlike all the politicians.
I'm disappointed by the lack of beige in this episode, but my condolences on the loss of your queen.
The way you shot this video makes you look like Holly from Red Dwarf. She's dead Dave, they're all dead.
Thanks for the video. I have even more respect for the Queen having watched.
I didn't know being a queen was a job to begin with, lol.
If you consider how much responsibility and power she had, she was basically the highest tier of management for 15 countries directly, another 40 or so independent countries...
@@Cheesus-Sliced but she didn’t actually do anything, besides waste taxpayer money to talk down to people all over the world on why they need to obey her
@@andrewahern3730 what should she have done that she didn't? Being very careful about what she did was a good thing.
So what did she get right?
I'm expecting that she foiled some international incident I never heard about.
She did once give a rather harsh opinion on herring paste. She said it was disgusting. God rest her Majesty.