National grief

I don't understand it either. The nation is NOT reacting to it, just large numbers are for reasons best known to themselves. Perhaps it's because it's what we are told to do by the media, and most people seem to be sadly incapable of independent thought? Unless you were being brainwashed by the queen (which I doubt) then it's probably best just to get on with your life and try to ignore the wall to wall dark age sycophancy.

Sadly no, because I don't get it either. I understand why her immediate family would have a tough time, she was their mum and nan. Yet they don't even get private time to grieve. I sympathise for them as humans.

Meanwhile, a whole nation queues for hours to invade the family's mourning, to express what I don't really know for some one they never met and didn't know? Why are they doing that? It seems disrespectful not respectful to me. Why do they do that?

I do get that she was also a public figure whose life and work need to be reviewed and celebrated on the Beeb or whatever, but really she was an old lady who had done her bit and has moved on to better things. It's not like it's a surprise that she's passed or anything. So, no not getting it at all.

I really don't understand why we aren't just leaving the family alone. Meanwhile what is this public obsession thing? Can they really be THAT emotional? Why?

I am struggling to understand it. I think she was a lovely lady and I had so much respect for her and I felt sad when she passed away but, when people have been through so much sadness with covid and war and poverty its hard for me to understand why they would choose to feel so sad about someone they didnt know. The queing to see the coffin really baffles me, I dont understand why anyone would want to queue to do that, it doesnt make sense to me

I guess the only way I can understand it is to relete it to how I feel when my favourite celebrities have passed away. I was so upset when Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud died and sad when Shane Warne the cricketer passed away. I guess for some people the Queen means to them what those people did to me

Each to their own. Death affects everyone in their own way, there is no right or wrong way to feel and react whether you know the person or not you can express it how you need and want to.

I'm sorry the Queen died. It is sad but I like to think she's in a better place where there's peace and love with her loved ones. That's just my thoughts on it.

I don't actually grieve or feel upset which is good. Death doesn't seem to affect me which did used to make me feel bad but I guess it's just the way I handle it.

I think it varies for everyone. For some they will have really loved the Queen and her family or it will bring back memories of deaths in the family. Or maybe some people are just sensitive to these things. For me it's that I did like the Queen and I genuinely am heartbroken at her death and the loss and pain her family now have to endure. It's also a big change and I find change hard to adapt to. I've also lost my little sister and this has come back fresh since the Queen sadly died.

I felt the same as well to start with but it’s making more sense to me now. It’s also making the hysterical crowds at Princess Diana’s funeral make a bit more sense to me as well all these years later. Watching the Royal family grieve is reminding a lot of people about losing their parents and grandparents, King Charles looked so sad last weekend having to perform all his duties, especially the following day. There are also others who really loved her for her service and she’s also been a presence for the entire lives of the majority of the older generations as well which is such a long time. Many will remember her as Princess Elizabeth as well. And times were different back then, there was more pride in the country and serving and respecting it and the monarchy than there seems to be now. It’s quite hard to comprehend how much of a solid presence she’s been to the country when you can only remember a small fraction of her reign, she was already quite elderly by the time I can remember her. It’s been very interesting talking to the elderly patients at my work who remember King George IV on the throne as well and were young adults when the Queen was crowned

For some, her death reminds them of their own grief. 
For others, they feel sad, because they knew someone that the loved the queen that is no longer with them.

Others just loved her or even served her in the forces.

My mother told me that she had tears roll out of her eyes but no crying when she was watching Charles etc walking behind the coffin. She didn’t expect that to happen.

I myself felt a lump in my throat the day after the queen died, and they were talking about the Paddington sketch she did for the jubilee. When it was on screen, I felt her loss for a moment. She was a good sport. I am not a royalist, but I do appreciate the amount of work she put into serving the country day after day for most of her life. I don’t feel the need to watch everything in TV, nor go to see her coffin. 
I have had a loss in the family this year, and one last year, so I put it down to that.

It signifies a period of change.