Agree but we have been trying to do that for years with little success for “O Canada”
I bet the British professor took great pleasure in making the American students sing that!
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Note the lack of quotes.
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…and the American students took great pleasure in singing it very, very badly. 
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Also the transition from a US President who dies in office to his or her successor must be quick without hiccups as the position has great power. In contrast, the British monarch’s power is largely symbolic.
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Earlier in the thread there was a link to a news article regarding the plans previously put in place for what happens in Britain after the demise of the Crown.
Here’s the analogue for Canada:
What? Did he think the British won the war?
I think the exercise was introduced with a statement along the lines of, “in recognition of the colonies rejecting the authority of the Crown, let us stand and sing ‘G-d Save the King’ one last time.”
It really was a good class, and I appreciated the different viewpoint brought by the professor, as well as his stereotypically dry British wit. I think it was one of my two favorite classes in college (right up there with the, essentially, “P&C 101” class in the otherwise life-focused actuarial program; I was in that class when Waco happened, and that day’s lecture began “let’s discuss why you don’t write unsprinklered frame buildings in protection class 10.”)
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LOL
who are the gays behind these hats though
The Royal Gays
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Well, it seems Rachel Trevor-Morgan is the main milliner:
I loved her in the Naked Gun. She had a decent arm.
RIP
Long live the King
In 2012? I was living there then, my mom came to visit for the jubilee also, accidentally.
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Yep! My mom & I met at Heathrow and had a two week mother-daughter trip, so I was also there with my mom!
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That was just a few weeks before one of my favorite QEII moments:
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The end of an era. She was such a fixture of world politics, and she served so well. Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth.
