Inventing Royal traditions
The 1871 Bank Holidays Act was replaced by the 1971 Banking and Financial Dealings Act. It essentially says that any activity that doesn’t take place on Christmas Day or Good Friday doesn’t need to take place on a Bank Holiday. 50 years have passed and Easter Sunday more than Good Friday is now the day when restrictions apply.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/80/section/1
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, the period of mourning and funeral have given rise to some new Royal related traditions covering both mourning and funeral. Some it must be said appear to relate to nostalgia for lockdown authoritarianism. Supermarkets for example do not normally close on a Bank Holiday
Supermarkets and other retailers closed all day (as opposed to just for the funeral)
McDonalds closed
Queen’s bees told of her death and hives bound in black ribbon. The tradition of telling the bees is not new. Placing a black ribbon around the hives likely is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees
Queue for the Queen’s lying in State over several days with people reportedly deploying tents
Food Banks closed
All traditions are of course invented which may come as a surprise to numerous BBC reporters.
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