Who's going to say it first?

OK, I will if I have to.

Personally, I hope and think not, as I quite like the Queen.And in any case: these royals are made of iron.

I'm just getting tickled by all the news stories covering Her Majesty's gastroenteritis where the journalist is clearly aching to ask whether Queenie will soon be singing in the choir invisible.




Check out this
by the BBC. The last sentence of the article is a sober reminder to the reader of just how serious this is, you know:

But earlier in the day, the Queen was forced to pull out of the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, for only the second time since becoming monarch.

The media love excitement, love the 'big stories', and there's nothing more exciting for news desks than when a monarch joins the great majority.

However much they'll deny it.