The country has gone absolutely mad.
The queen passed away which is sad in that "someone died and that's never nice" way, but people are being LEGALLY PREVENTED BY FEAR from expressing any feelings to the contrary about both that, and about her royal successor, K...Ki...King Charles............... Eurgh.

But this fits into a larger problem the UK has quietly faced forever; an aggrandised sense of how well we do independence. We lean heavy on regressive governments who make our lives worse, on royals who don't do anything other than occasionally interfere in democracy to hide their personal wealth, and now we have a weird state obsession with forcing the country into a black penguin suit and singing a eulogy half of us don't know the words to in tandem. 

The UK has a sickness, a deep gnawing desperate need to rely on other people and other things to tell us how to feel, how to act, what is appropriate.
Someone give us some medicine- we need it.