I am absolutely disgusted with Andy Richards and Jez Macdonald (Letters, April 6).

Both of them are obviously ignorant of how tirelessly the Queen Mother worked.

Despite hip replacements and frailty, she still kept her appointments.

She was this country's mainstay during the war years and has continued to be a symbol of strength and determination, devoted to her family and country.

She can never be replaced and will be missed the world over.

These two ignoramuses who dare to denigrate the wonderful respect and response from, thankfully, the majority of her loyal subjects should go and live in a republic and then wish they had not been so disrespectful.

-Pauline M McHale, Montpelier Crescent, Brighton