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>>xd+(OP)
It's weird, I've never considered myself a "royalist" but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don't quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing "God save the Queen" etc, and this news made me suddenly feel very old, very nostalgic, with the sense that all things pass in time, which makes my heart ache deeply.

>>saberi+d5
Fellow Brit here. I share this sentiment.

I've never had strong views for or against the royal family but always felt genuine respect towards the Queen herself.

She always appeared to be a morally strong character who tried to do the right thing.

I always expected this would feel like a very strange moment when it finally arrived. I wasn't wrong.