Pete Smissen
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Yeah, he's been the heir to the throne for 70 years.
Did you see those lines, the jokes that was like, man, 72 finally gets job?
And she took it very seriously, right?
The oath where she was never going to give the throne up whilst alive.
No, she did.
She was like, this is to death.
I do have a lot of respect for her in that I know very little about her and her family and the royalty in general, but I do know that she worked, you know, incredibly hard at her job.
Oh, into her 90s.
Yeah.
And she never retired.
Like, she was going hard in her entire life.
Yeah.
With no- Like, my grandparents retired shortly- Well, my grandfather, when he was an engineer, retired- I remember maybe a few times picking him up from the station after work when I was a tiny kid with my grandmother.
And then after that, he was retired.
So, for my entire life- And he's about the queen's age, maybe a few years younger.
He's been retired and she was still obviously smashing out work and showing up and travelling.
And yeah, I can't imagine being-
The younger you are, the more I feel like you wish you were like a prince or why wasn't I born into a family that was rich and famous and blah, blah, blah.
Rich and famous is one thing.
And the older you get, you're kind of like, fuck that.