First, wow, you're still here! I haven't seen you on DW for over 2 years.

Second, I look at a similar set of facts to form the opposite opinion. QE2 was England's monarch for the entirety of my life and a whole generation before. It was easy to accept her as a relic of the past, particularly with her anodyne persona. Her passing thus becomes a natural time to ask, "Wow, are we still doing this?" Other countries with ceremonial or largely ceremonial monarchs have made them less of a public spectacle since 1953.