rea ponders thus:

"Why someone would feel obliged to come into a thread where people are mourning a passing and make snide remarks and political statements is beyond me."

She was the matriarch of the Windsor family, which continues to rule the British empire (such as it is now, but that is another story), well beyond the shores of England.

What is ludicrous in the extreme is to have an expectation that when a death in the British royal family occurs, everyone who has suffered at the hands of the Windsors should be expected to be polite and not comment on the many political aspects involved when a death in the British royal family takes place.