Queen Elizabeth II | 1926-2022 | Rest in Peace

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We got a flight tracker for Antony but what about the royal train? Can that be tracked?
 

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Flight on its way to Aberdeen carrying seven members of the royal household, expected to land in around 10 minutes, reports BBC News, having taken off from RAF Northolt.
 

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I was on about tonight tbh. But I still don't think PL games would be suspended either.
They will be off the weekend after next at least. I can't see how they can have football matches with all the police they will need to patrol the capitol on the day of the funeral.
 

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Flight on its way to Aberdeen carrying seven members of the royal household, expected to land in around 10 minutes, reports BBC News, having taken off from RAF Northolt.
I’d expect them to be arriving at Balmoral in about an hour or so
 

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It wouldn't take an hour to fly to Scotland.
The plane is 10 mins out from Aberdeen. Balmoral is just over an hour from Aberdeen, with a police escort it’ll probably be about 50 mins or so…

…so about an hour.
 

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Queen looks very frail the last public pictures honestly
 

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So the country comes to a standstill because the monarch dies? This isn't some banana republic.

Let those who want to mourn the head of an archaic institution do so via their own private means, not entirely sure why the rest of us need to be sucked into it at the expense of everything else going on.

(I'd take the bank holiday though).
At least one set of fixtures would be cancelled for sure, out of respect. I heard that it was 12 days last time out and that was for a much shorter serving monarch.
 

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Instead of cancelling fixtures, can the players all play in a plain black strip with Elizabeth on the back (like they did with black lives matter)?
 

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Well, 96-year-olds rarely look like brimming with youthful strength.
Not generally but sometimes people don't look so frail, the decline is usually fast.

My grandad died at 97 and at 96 he still looked healthy, then he got a chest infection and he dropped weight rapidly and died around 2 months after.

The queen looks like she's having a lot of medical treatment like her hands and she's lost considerable weight since her last public outings.