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    Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

"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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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.

And the owner of one of the largest investment firms in the world.

  >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.

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