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by BeenChilling 1381 days ago
"96 year old woman might die soon" is not a new or interesting phenomenon. Unless she wrote a compiler or published a whitepaper I'm unaware of, the Queen isn't relevant to this community, and this isn't even news yet. Flagging.
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Congrats, you've mastered copy and paste.
Well, she’s the head of state of a number of countries and the commonwealth. Represents political and social continuity. This has historical significance, which might be of interest to some of the readership. She was trained as a mechanic and is one of the few old enough to have been an adult in the war. Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government.

Bit more significant to RL than one might think.

  >Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government.
Should boost Scotland's chances of voting for independence too. As I don't think Charlie boy is anywhere near as popular.
And the owner of one of the largest investment firms in the world.