I remember when Princess Diana died, CNN had wall-to-wall coverage for days. Of course, the circumstances of her death added a whole other layer to the coverage.

Makes me wonder how fast The Mint will start replacing the coins with Her Majesty on it.

The Monarchy reminds me of right-wing talk radio...old white people with corgi dogs yelling at clouds, socialism is the antichrist, and thinking coloured folks should be used as 'the help'...

Hahaha!  Great photos of Charles MJ Vancouver. He always looks so surprised, or perplexed in many photos.  There is always the possibility that Charles won't actually become King and defer to William. Somewhat unlikely but still a possibility since Charles is not a young man.

Well, when the The Queen does pass it certainly will be big news around the world.  Even after death, past events, unknown facts, possibly good and bad may surface regarding her.  But as it sits now, she has reined longer than anyone,  largely with no wrongdoing or scandal personally, and she has handled the job and everything that comes with it with grace. Her Majesty agree or not, has set the standard of how a head of state should act and conduct the role.  Nobody has done it better. 

Media coverage certainly news channels and possibly many networks be wall to wall almost everywhere because her passing truly is the end of THE era.

It will be interesting if countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand eventually consider leaving the Commonwealth.  Australia has gone further than most with a referendum in 1999 to become a Republic and amend it's constitution.  The proposal was defeated by 60% of voting Australians opting to remain a constitutional monarchy.  And in Australia, the calls to leave the monarchy have been much stronger than in Canada for years.  However any change would be slow and any amending of the constitution complicated. 

I am sure the obits and most of the programming for the Queen's passing has been in the can for a while.  Reliving and remembering her life will be a real history lesson.   

Justalistener wrote:

Newstalk 1010 will have a Breaking News Alert!

Newstalk 1010 would have, before the cutbacks.

I remember producing a show on TALK 640 the night Princess Diana died, the phones lit up like a Christmas tree and we extended the show until 3 am...calls were ranging from sadness, to shock to downright  anger.

Our technical whiz that night was Gary Bell (from a View from Space), he had a theory about this death and what was supposedly the cause.

The late Gary Bell also tackled the death of the Queen on his show a few years ago...it will be huge, but steeped in some conspiracy as you can well imagine, thus paving the way for the Anti-Christ...

Prince Charles, is scary looking on MJ's picture of the $20 bill, but Bell believed one of his 2 sons would have the mantle of the Anti-Christ.

Gary, was good at what he did, but I didn't always buy in.