Here’s an interesting article:
The death of Queen Elizabeth will be the most disruptive event in Britain in the last 70 years
Long story short… when the Queen keels over, the British economy will take a mighty thwack. And for no good reason: everything will just… stop.
This is a sad thought: a modern industrialized nation will go bugnuts because one person dies. One person of objectively little actual use: she doesn’t run things; she’s not a manager or executive of any kind. She’s not an inventor. She doesn’t go to the hospital daily and perform medical miracles or even just do the occasional open heart surgery. She’s not doing vital defense research. Nothing she does can’t be done by a friggen Muppet. Keep in mind, she’s in the position she is not because of any actual skills or talents she manifested, but because one of her ancestors was a bigger, more grabby and more *successful* scumbag than the other grabby scumbags in the aristocracy. She is, in many ways, a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian… famous for being famous. And yet Britain will in many ways simply shut down when she does.
This will of course present certain opportunities. It seems that for a period of about two weeks, British business – civil and government – will kinda stop. So if you are a non-British corporation or government and you want to screw with the Brits… when the Queen dies, that’s the time to make lots of opportunities available, on a “sign up fast” basis. Somewhat akin to having free Bar-B-Que and fresh donuts at noon during Ramadan, I suppose. And of course, it’ll be the obvious time for Jihadis – British born and otherwise – to start blowing stuff up.
C’mon, Brits. Wander on up to the 21st Century. Where the death of a hereditary aristocrat is worthy of a few minutes on the news… and no more. If you heard tomorrow that the heir the Kaiser or the Czar had keeled over, or whoever was closest in line to Emperor Norton… would much of anyone apart from close family *really* care?