We have a reputation to keep as, as Art says.

Quite right, Tom, but at least it's a two-car garage.

BERRYVILLE — A month after her death, Queen Elizabeth II continues to be remembered — in Berryville as well as Britain.

A Service of Thanksgiving for the late sovereign will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Grace Episcopal Church, 110 N. Church St., Berryville. The service is intended to give British people living in the region an opportunity to pay their respects.

I was supposed to be visiting Berryville, VA yesterday but ended up not going.  I would have attended this service had I known.

It lovely to know that it's taking place so far away.

It lovely to know that it's taking place so far away.

Mark, as I have posted before, the Queen was well loved over here & the only monarch most of us remember. Charles....................not so much. 

It says the pictures are in line Art but can only see one of them. If you send me the other picture then I can post it for you.

Where is the original grave site where this marker is at Art?

Prince Andrew could have had a very impressive life but something went wrong with him and now he's just a creepy guy.  I dare say he caused the Queen more heart ache than Harry moving to the U.S.

He was always a headache for his mother the Queen and like Tommy said, he earned the nickname of Randy Andy.

Many people don't know this about Prince Andrew.

The year 1977 found Prince Andrew at Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada, and in 1979, he attended the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth — a path that led to joining the Royal Navy as an officer and training to become a pilot.

Lakefield is little more than a village in Ontario and the school was and still is, a private one.

It says the pictures are in line Art but can only see one of them. If you send me the other picture then I can post it for you.

Where is the original grave site where this marker is at Art?

The same here, nothing there.

Also a reminder to our North American fan(s), you know who you are, that the TV series The Crown is a dramatized imagining of what went on in the Royal Family in the 1990s. The Press over here have gone to great lengths to point out the inaccuracies in the storyline, not so much for UK viewers who know already, but those overseas who may think it's a documentary rather than a "Holywoodized" version of history.  

Also a reminder to our North American fan(s), you know who you are, that the TV series The Crown is a dramatized imagining of what went on in the Royal Family in the 1990s. The Press over here have gone to great lengths to point out the inaccuracies in the storyline, not so much for UK viewers who know already, but those overseas who may think it's a documentary rather than a "Holywoodized" version of history.  

Damn you Mark, & all the while I was taking this series verbatim. Now I will have to inform all the bar flies whom I passed  all my knowledge to that I was inaccurate. I was very convincing too........oh well I shall just remain silent & still held high in their esteem. 

History Professor Emeritus Tommy

HM King Charles III is 74 today.

HM Queen Elizabeth II died a year ago today. Even now I get a twinge when I see pictures or film of her. 

Part of it due to their long reigns, Catherine the Great, Victoria, Maria Theresa of Austria, they had to be strong to govern in a man's world.

HM King Charles III is 74 today.

Always enjoyed this picture of the King. He even has the young female smiling. Just wondering with their Blue Berets are they Marines??

Is her hat badge anything like this one. I got this one in Norway from that British Helicopter Regiment who ended up going to the Falklands. It's owner was killed when the ship they were on got hit with a missile which was suppose to hit another ship but somehow the ship intended had a jamming device and it then ended up switching to the one my friend was on which was carrying their helicopters.

Can't send the picture Art, too large.

Do you mean the SS Atlantic Conveyor? It was a Cunard container ship requisitioned by the government to carry helicopters to the Falklands. It was hit by two exocet missiles on 25 May 1982 and sank under tow three days later. 12 were killed; six civilians (Merchant Navy), three Royal Navy and three RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary). Have you got a name?

Can't send the picture Art, too large.

I get that Pete, so sometimes I take a picture of the picture on my camera, load it up to my computer and then I can get it in.

Do you mean the SS Atlantic Conveyor? It was a Cunard container ship requisitioned by the government to carry helicopters to the Falklands. It was hit by two exocet missiles on 25 May 1982 and sank under tow three days later. 12 were killed; six civilians (Merchant Navy), three Royal Navy and three RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary). Have you got a name?

I did have a name and address at one time Mark because I got him the lighter he wanted and my mother posted it to his place when she went over in May for a visit.

He use to call me Brown Hatter because of the winter touque I use to wear.

I also gave him a fur hat I use to wear like this.