The Queen

[mattdazz]

Should we think of The Queen as a mother figure?

[rja211077]

what a strange question. you can think of the queen how you like, but i've got me a mother thanks, and don't need no other.

[smudge]

The Queen is a Mother & seems to be a very nice one. I'm sure all her children love her to bits.

[jno]

well, maybe, smudge; I have to say they don't seem the happiest or best adjusted of families. Kings are often thought of as the fathers of their country, partly I suppose because they have the sort of ultimate power over their subjects that fathers have over their children. Buit queens don't often seem to be regarded as mothers. Elizabeth wasn't, nor her sister Bloody Mary. Victoria was, I think, as she grew old; but Elizabeth II isn't really. She seems to me dry and formal and not very motherly at all - though I haven't met her; members of my family have, and say she is quite funny. But I'll stick to the memory of my own mother, I think.

[Andy008]

erm....if you are Prince Charles, Andrew etc, it might be a sensible idea....

[smudge]

Yes I realise all that jno & Andy - they are a very disfunctional family, with three out of their four children divorced. But mattdazz was asking: 'Should we think of The Queen as a mother figure?'.

Disfunctional family or not, I'm sure all her children love her & look upon her as their dear Mother just the same as you's & I do.

Having said that, I wouldn't want to swap places with any of them - waiting for people to trip them up at every corner. We all make mistakes, some more than others..