THE record-breaking queues to see Her Majesty’s coffin lying-in-state in Westminster Hall have been irrefutable proof that countless Brits are profoundly affected by our late Queen’s death.
Hundreds of thousands have joined lines snaking up to five miles long across London and taking up to a whole day to traverse.
The sheer scale of those taking part meant that on Friday no more people were allowed to join for several hours.
They have come from across the country, a silent majority not interested in shouting their views on Twitter.
Any reasonable spectator of these historic events cannot deny the almost tangible devotion and attachment so many have to our late monarch.
Yet the response from a loud, left-wing cabal of commentators has been one of contempt.
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The pomp and pageantry which has given Brits a profound sense of national identity has upset the sneery, unsentimental, monarchy bashing classes.
They have dismissed heartfelt displays of mourning by a nation in grief as hysterical and performative.
They have accused those who don’t think it is the appropriate time to score cheap political points as bullies.
The Guardian has been one of the chief protagonists.
A piece by one veteran journalist cries: “Dissenting voices on royal mourning have been silenced. This is ‘cancel culture’.”
Which is odd, given the same newspaper has had a swarm of anti-monarchist journalists on call, very much exercising their free speech to criticise Queen and country.
“Don’t ask me to give the Queen a minute’s silence, ask me for the truth about British colonialism”, one journo wrote.
“Don’t be fooled that everyone queuing in London is mourning the Queen”, said another.
Other pieces bash so-called “King Charles the billionaire” and even call the current sense of togetherness fake, asking readers not to be fooled.
How miserable it must be to see so many Brits so united and use the moment to sneer at the silent majority who wish to simply honour the much- loved monarch.
Sadly, the tedious point-scoring doesn’t stop there.
“For black Brits, the Queen’s death is raking up conflicted feelings: How can people of colour forget the past when the past continues to affect our future?”, HuffPost wrote a mere three days after Her Majesty’s death.
I’m sure the black woman draped in a Union Jack who, along with an Asian woman, queued for hours to be one of the first in line to see the Queen lying-in-state knew just how she felt towards the Queen (spoiler, it’s probably all positive).
But don’t let reality get in the way of a narrative.
And of course, they want us to believe our new King is an affront to the young, too.
In a piece on “How Gen Z really feels about a new monarch”, journalists desperately pretend they can string a compelling argument together when they claim the young dislike the King because of his infidelity to Diana.
The truth is: The polling experts clearly show that lower youth support for the monarchy is nothing new.
As pollsters from the country’s biggest survey say: “The older people become, the more likely they are to feel it is ‘very important’ to have a monarchy.”
Youngsters being less fond of the monarchy is not an indicator that the monarchy is unloved and crumbling, as some would like to suggest.
But the monarchy-bashing wouldn’t be complete if poor people weren’t being failed, too, of course.
In a piece published barely two days after the Queen’s death, a former royal correspondent for The Guardian accused the King of not “engaging with” ordinary people in the past.
He’s never done a “nine-to-five, wage- earning job.”
He’s the Queen’s son and King in waiting for 50-years, for goodness’ sake, do you expect him to be stacking shelves in his local Tesco?
And as for his supposed contempt for ordinary people, the King’s unwavering commitment to meet with the mourning public as he has dutifully toured the country ahead of his mother’s funeral completely says otherwise.
Republican lefties have done nothing but complain, ridicule and dismiss those paying their respects.
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They’ve tried to sabotage the posthumous legacy of the Queen with a conveyor belt of hit pieces on the King, the country and public mourners.
Those of us who truly loved Her Majesty, who want to grieve with decorum and decency, also have a right to tell them, in the strongest of terms, to naff off.
