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Date Posted:2022-09-08 01:39:21Copy HTML

Could be overreaction of course but it's reported that members of the Royal Family are gathering at Balmoral where the Queen is said to be "under medical supervision".

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Date Posted:2022-09-19 05:24:54Copy HTML

After learning of the royal title, Groom of the Stool, I thought only the Brits. Today I learned of another called, Royal Mistress. Is that true, an actual title?

Mistress of the Robes, but no official title of Royal Mistress, although many women could have claimed that title unofficially.

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Date Posted:2022-09-19 07:44:11Copy HTML

you can get Queen Victoria’s funeral on YouTube  it’s obviously in black and white but you can see lots of familiarity and differences. The Guards uniforms are different with white webbing. Just put in Queen Victorias funeral 1901British Pathe

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Date Posted:2022-09-20 01:29:57Copy HTML

The small chapel where the Queen, Prince Philip, King George VI, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret are interred is a modern addition to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle built as recently as 1969. 

King George died in 1952 in his 50s, he was laid to rest in the larger Royal Vault but there would be no room for anyone else when their time came. So in the 1960s the Queen constructed a side chapel for the King and his immediate family. It's only small which is why Princess Margaret was cremated and the urn holding her ashes buried with her parents. King George was moved to his current resting place in 1969. They all lie under a simple marble slab rather than in an elaborate table top tomb we usually associate with Royal tombs, there is no room for anything bigger.    

It's the more "recent looking" structure in the middle.

King George VI Memorial Chapel - Wikipedia 

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Date Posted:2022-09-20 02:35:14Copy HTML

There is a tomb in there of King Charles Louis Napoleon lll only it's not his tomb at all, it's a fake, but a very elaborate one. Louis was a great favourite of Queen Victoria and following his death at the hands of the Zulus the Queen had an empty tomb built for him in St Georges.
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Date Posted:2022-09-20 04:01:17Copy HTML

Read an obit for Elizabeth II which read in part, "The queen who held a changing nation together." I thought it was appropriate.
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There is a tomb in there of King Charles Louis Napoleon lll only it's not his tomb at all, it's a fake, but a very elaborate one. Louis was a great favourite of Queen Victoria and following his death at the hands of the Zulus the Queen had an empty tomb built for him in St Georges.

He would have been Napoleon IV, Napoleon III was his father. He is buried in England though, at St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough along with his father and mother, the Empress Eugénie. 

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Date Posted:2022-09-20 05:56:44Copy HTML

She was always a 'constant' an enigma in an ever changing world. How do you rule for 70 years, have a dozen or more Prime Ministers, who have to visit her every week, and still nobody knew anything about her political views. Imagine having your life mapped out for you by strangers, possibly years in advance? She went where the government of the day sent her and she healed a hundred rifts. Take Ireland for instance, what she achieved there couldn't be done by a hundred politicians. An extraordinary woman and I liked having a Queen, it's more benign, less confrontational than men and let's face it, men talk to men very differently than they talk to women. Remember when she visited the, I was going to say wogs, but I thought better not, of Arabia, men who absolutely treat women as cattle, they almost behaved themselves and they were never going to get the best of Lizzie. One of their top Princes, who come boxed by the dozen in Arabia, slighted her because she was a woman and he couldn't help himself and when she was leaving he was sent out to wave her off at the airport. He held his hand out and she turned her back on him and walked off. He must have had nightmares over that, imagine, a woman making a tit out of him? Fantastic. I'm missing her already.
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She was always a 'constant' an enigma in an ever changing world. How do you rule for 70 years, have a dozen or more Prime Ministers, who have to visit her every week, and still nobody knew anything about her political views. Imagine having your life mapped out for you by strangers, possibly years in advance? She went where the government of the day sent her and she healed a hundred rifts. Take Ireland for instance, what she achieved  there couldn't be done by a hundred politicians. An extraordinary woman and I liked having a Queen, it's more benign, less confrontational than men and let's face it, men talk to men very differently than they talk to women. Remember when she visited the, I was going to say wogs, but I thought better not, of Arabia, men who absolutely treat women as cattle, they almost behaved themselves and they were never going to get the best of Lizzie. One of their top Princes, who come boxed by the dozen in Arabia, slighted her because she was a woman and he couldn't help himself and when she was leaving he was sent out to wave her off at the airport. He held his hand out and she turned her back on him and walked off. He must have had nightmares over that, imagine, a woman making a tit out of him? Fantastic. I'm missing her already.

Therein lies the problem with Charles. A lot of the derision heaped on him after Diana's death seemed a wee bit unfair, he is a "crank" who has damaged his image with his all too public marital difficulties. As you have pointed out, the Queen kept her opinions to herself. Instead Charles has lobbied cabinet members & aired his views on everything from climate change to alternative medicine. He is the type of guy you would shy away from at the pub, Major.

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Date Posted:2022-09-20 07:58:29Copy HTML

Washington Post, by Karen Attiah The ugly truths about the racist, colonial empire the Queen so dutifully represented. Fantasy & ignorance are colliding with Britain's brutal record of subjugation & the lingering bitterness of those who's families suffered massacre & displacement as the Queen draped herself in plundered jewels. With a mother who grew up singing "God Save the Queen" in pre-independence Nigeria, it's a legacy I can't forgive. This Karen Attiah is an ungrateful wog eh?
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Date Posted:2022-09-20 08:03:16Copy HTML

We have to mention Canada or at least Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who was in a London pub participating in song some three days before the Queen was to be interred. Apparently making a drunken fool of himself while at it & drawing boos from most of the crowd. It was not reported if he was in "blackface" but his splendid eyebrows were noted.
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Date Posted:2022-09-20 11:34:28Copy HTML

I think Trudeau fancies himself a star.
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Date Posted:2022-09-21 08:56:11Copy HTML

There is a tomb in there of King Charles Louis Napoleon lll only it's not his tomb at all, it's a fake, but a very elaborate one. Louis was a great favourite of Queen Victoria and following his death at the hands of the Zulus the Queen had an empty tomb built for him in St Georges.

He would have been Napoleon IV, Napoleon III was his father. He is buried in England though, at St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough along with his father and mother, the Empress Eugénie. 

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Date Posted:2022-09-21 08:57:21Copy HTML

interesting vid.

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Date Posted:2022-09-21 09:00:51Copy HTML

We have to mention Canada or at least Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who was in a London pub participating in song some three days before the Queen was to be interred. Apparently making a drunken fool of himself while at it & drawing boos from most of the crowd. It was not reported if he was in "blackface" but his splendid eyebrows were noted.

The horrendous tit was singing the group Queen’s records

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Date Posted:2022-09-21 01:25:15Copy HTML

He seemed to think it was somehow appropriate.  Queen and THE Queen.  I wonder if the Canadians thought he was being clever.
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Date Posted:2022-09-21 07:49:07Copy HTML

I think Trudeau fancies himself a star.


On TV when Trump's daughter Ivanka sat beside him she got all red and flustered and even seemed to move her chair closer to him. Must have been his after shave. His Father Pierre, was ugly as sin but the women hung to him like magnets.

Justin for sure is not the pick of the litter for PM but he looks like a Knight in shining Armour compared to Trump.

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We have to mention Canada or at least Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who was in a London pub participating in song some three days before the Queen was to be interred. Apparently making a drunken fool of himself while at it & drawing boos from most of the crowd. It was not reported if he was in "blackface" but his splendid eyebrows were noted.

The horrendous tit was singing the group Queen’s records


Justin couldn't have been getting booed Art because everyone in the place was buying him drinks. The only drinks he pays for on a regular bases is for the natives of Canada.

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Date Posted:2022-09-21 09:30:35Copy HTML

See the source image

The Star of Africa diamond in the Royal scepter.

The Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross of the British Crown Jewels. The sceptre was made in 1661 CE and the large stone is the Cullinan I diamond, added in 1911 CE. The diamond weighs 530 carats and is also known as the Star of Africa. The British Crown Jewels are kept in the Tower of London. (I

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Date Posted:2022-09-21 10:52:37Copy HTML

Some controversy over the upcoming coronation, cost & extravagance during the current hard times for the average John & Mary types. Some predict Charles will pare it down, others say he will chip in some of his own $ to defray the cost. What is the skinny from our learned group?
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Date Posted:2022-09-22 07:29:54Copy HTML

It will be a smaller affair, but still grand enough. There's talk of it being on 2 June the 70th anniversary of the Queen's coronation.  

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Date Posted:2022-09-22 09:05:05Copy HTML

It will be a smaller affair, but still grand enough. There's talk of it being on 2 June the 70th anniversary of the Queen's coronation.  


Charles has always been coddled. He had to have someone to dress him and if he drops anything he expects someone else to pick it up for him.

So when King, it will probably carry on. He will never be able to fill his mother's shoes. I pity his poor wife who is 5 years his senior.


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Date Posted:2022-09-22 09:08:58Copy HTML

I wonder how many foreign leaders will attend that, if any? Is it one of those kind of occasions Mark? I believe the Queen’s funeral was the greatest gathering of world leaders in history, it was certainly the most viewed television in history. I hear that Biden wasn’t happy with the seating arrangements, as he was a few rows back in the cheap seats, sat next to the President of Switzerland, who he didn’t recognise. No surprises there then? The whole world arrives in coaches together but he has to arrive separately at the front door in an armoured column. I mean, why would anybody want to kill him, he’s already braindead.
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Date Posted:2022-09-22 11:26:26Copy HTML

It will be a smaller affair, but still grand enough. There's talk of it being on 2 June the 70th anniversary of the Queen's coronation.  


Charles has always been coddled. He had to have someone to dress him and if he drops anything he expects someone else to pick it up for him.

So when King, it will probably carry on. He will never be able to fill his mother's shoes. I pity his poor wife who is 5 years his senior.



Pity his poor wife? You mean the "other woman" who broke up his happy home with the beautiful Diana? The evil wicked demon who God punished with looking like a bag of arseholes tied in the middle? Oh well, we all could pass such a test?

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Date Posted:2022-09-22 11:57:02Copy HTML

Queen Camilla is 16 months older than the King, not five years. He is a much maligned figure who does not deserve such criticism. 

The Coronation will be well attended, who's going to turn down an invitation to the greatest show on Earth.

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Date Posted:2022-09-22 04:40:00Copy HTML

Queen Camilla is 16 months older than the King, not five years. He is a much maligned figure who does not deserve such criticism. 

The Coronation will be well attended, who's going to turn down an invitation to the greatest show on Earth.


I am almost used to King Charles, but Queen Camilla, I dunno, that will take some getting used to, if ever.

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