Elizabeth II, queen of England, died today. We expect many people will have questions about this subject. Please direct all of those questions here: other threads will be deleted.
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I don’t quite get why people are so sad. Can someone explain what kind of positive impact she’s brought upon the world that everyone mourns so deeply?
Just a point of correction – despite the opening sentence of this post, she was NOT the Queen of England. That title was abolished in 1707 (along with the title of King/Queen of Scotland) when the Kingdom of Great Britain was formed.
The title of the British monarch changed again in 1801 to the King/Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and once more in 1921 to King/Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which is the title that Elizabeth II had when she died. Those last couple of changes were more simply following political realities, but the main point is that in 1707 the Kingdom of England ceased to exist, and so did its monarchy.
I’m happy to ELI5 further if anyone has questions about this specific point.
When will the UK have a king and queen at the same time again? When did this last happen? Why is it so confusing?
How does the death of the queen afects the rest of the world?
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I’ve seen a lot about indigenous peoples celebrating the death of the queen and calling her a murderer. I’m confused by this as I understand the monarchy was responsible for the mistreatment of indigenous peoples in the past but not during the queens reign – what did she actually do?
ELI5 the rationale behind the line of succession: why does it follow the eldest child and then go to that eldest child’s children, and so on? Why not go through the whole sibling set first?
As it stands now, it’s Charles, William, George and then will go to George’s firstborn when he has a child, bumping his siblings further down the line of succession. My western mind thinks it would make more sense to go through the siblings, then the next generation beginning with eldest sibling’s children, etc. What am I missing?
Why is Camilla the Queen Consort, but Prince Philip was “just” consort and not a King or Prince Consort?
Why does Ireland hate the queen?
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