Passing of Queen Elizabeth
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@canefan oh, i thought they changed the rules a while back so the sex didn't matter...and for no reason they might want an extra step between andrew and the crown...for now reason
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@Chris-B said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Crucial said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Had the pleasure of meeting her only 5 years ago at her place and she was still very witty and up to speed. She doesn’t allow selfies but at least we got someone nearby to take photos of us.
How did you get to meet her, Crucial?
Were you the guy in the Paddington Bear suit?
RIP Your Majesty!
Garden Party at the Palace. We were standing with some friends eyeing up the cake tent and some royal assistant approached us and asked if we would like a meet and greet. Had to stand in the 'corridor' that she walks down and she stops, we get introduced and have a little chat and a laugh, then she moves on. Was a bit weird waiting in the open with a crowd behind the rope staring but all good and a bit of a laugh.
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@Crucial it's clear she was in her element with the social stuff. Sir Geoffrey Palmer was talking on RNZ this morning about the Queen's visit in 1990 and the number of events she attended. Said there was a dinner with like 70 odd guests and she wanted a talking point for every single one of them. That's is awesome and she must have had an amazing memory to retain all that information and then weave it into her banter with folks.
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@canefan love her even more now
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@Paekakboyz said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@Crucial it's clear she was in her element with the social stuff. Sir Geoffrey Palmer was talking on RNZ this morning about the Queen's visit in 1990 and the number of events she attended. Said there was a dinner with like 70 odd guests and she wanted a talking point for every single one of them. That's is awesome and she must have had an amazing memory to retain all that information and then weave it into her banter with folks.
The stuff is all written down on a card and there is a slick operation that you wouldn't always notice. For example the people in her meet and greet corridor were spaced just far enough apart that as she finished one group her assistant (in our case the Lord High Chancellor), who has just been handed the info from his aide, briefs her on the very short walk to you. The names are then introduced formally but she has already worked out a couple of talking points.
Ours was a bit funny as the missus and I don't share the same surname and we happened to be standing either side of our friends (a couple) when the card was started. That meant that we had to stand back in that order to greet her and no one connected the dots that we were together. The wife and one of the others were work colleagues from different countries and he was in uniform and obviously with his wife. They chatted work with Her Majesty for a bit (she was very knowledgeable), she spoke to the other wife with general chit chat then turned to me and said 'and how do you fit into all of this?' . I pointed at the missus and said 'logistics for her' and she laughed and said 'I have one of those as well'.
She twigged straight away that her assistants had managed to separate us and found it funny. The LHC wasn't impressed though. Silly old twit. -
A good article in The Times:
Queen Elizabeth II obituary
When the Queen became this country’s longest-serving monarch, the humility with which she acknowledged the passing of that historic moment reflected the same se
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My old Mum is in tears. This is pretty huge.
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@Machpants god i'd love to hear what they said to each other
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@Kiwiwomble said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
@canefan oh, i thought they changed the rules a while back so the sex didn't matter...and for no reason they might want an extra step between andrew and the crown...for now reason
They changed the rule but not retroactive. It was basically prompted by not wanting William to have a girl who was then later superseded by a younger brother (I think, from memory)
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@taniwharugby said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
thought this was neat story
is it the same story @canefan posted?
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@Kiwiwomble no idea...havent read all the articles in here.
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@canefan said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:
Shows her cheekier self-deprecating side
@taniwharugby good thing you dont have to read this one
