A lot of people from all over talk about why does England or any other country need a 'Royal Family'?

As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London and told Hitler that he'd have to go through them first before they'd let him get his grubby little hands on the British Isles. And that's what very nearly happened.

God bless the Queen.

Daily Mail, what are you doing scouring over the police beats of the Southwest USA for wacky family disputes rather than paying attention to your own damn country?

Wait, this is an article on the Queen?

Really?

Carry on.

Did it involve disbanding the imperial senate? I would watch a movie about that.

Lizard people are not THAT cold blooded, they do give their succession to their offspring!

Keen to capture more on her camera, the Queen awoke early the following day and saw two rhino fighting at a nearby waterhole.

Riiight, "fighting"

She single handedly defeated the Germans in the Battle of Pearl Harbor?

How did she get to be queen? I didn't vote for her.

I DRTFA, either

Coelacanth: A lot of people from all over talk about why does England or any other country need a 'Royal Family'?

As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London and told Hitler that he'd have to go through them first before they'd let him get his grubby little hands on the British Isles. And that's what very nearly happened.

God bless the Queen.

A Brit explained it to me nicely one time. Have the queen allows you to hate the government but still have national pride. Or something like that. It made sense at the time and I am sure I am not doing his sentiment justice.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: She single handedly defeated the Germans in the Battle of Pearl Harbor?

Germans?

Inigo_Montoya: Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: She single handedly defeated the Germans in the Battle of Pearl Harbor?

Germans?

Let him go, he is on a roll.

1) She was the heir when the King died.

If memory serves, she defeated all comers in a no-holds barred death match that culminated with her spitting the partially bitten off nose of some distant cousin at Winston Churchill and screaming 'Fight that on that streets and beaches you bloody wanker!' I just saw this on The Learned-Discovering Channel on cable televison so it must be true!

Her wise to p-p-p-power?

Slaxl: Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: She single handedly defeated the Germans in the Battle of Pearl Harbor?

She's British, so it's Peurl Haurbur. Sheesh.

I think you mean "Pearl Harbour."

Were George's last words 'E-buh-dee-buh-dee, That's all folks!'?

/Irish
//F@#k the Royals

Petit_Merdeux: Executive summary:

ABSTRACT:

The king died.

22 August 1485: the Crown of England is found in a hawthorn bush.

6 February 1952: the Monarch of England is found in a fig tree.

What is it with English royalty and shrubbery?

/ni

teto85: WWII also was a very stressful time for His Majesty.

Know who else it was stressful for?

Next in line if the treehouse had collapsed

God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb

God save the queen
She ain't no human being
There is no future
And England's dreaming

Actually, she came to power because the monarch who served in 1936, PRIOR to her father, at the end of that year took an unprecedented detour down the Love Trail, thus switching the train of succession over to the next track.

We can thank Mrs. Simpson for Queen Elizabeth II.

Getting this over with...



King Arthur: I am your king.
Peasant Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Peasant Woman: Well, how'd you become king, then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis the Peasant: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Ah yes, good King Edward, the finest Nazi sympathizer the House of Windsor ever produced!

Crewmannumber6: Were George's last words 'E-buh-dee-buh-dee, That's all folks!'?

/Irish
//F@#k the Royals


Probably something along the lines of "Where's my farking manservant!".

/Irish
//Get over it Crewmannumber6.

Even then she had the whole stoic British image perfected. I always forget she was pretty.

Wow, two Kenya articles on one day!

/was at treetops 30 years later, was a much nicer place then

I Hate the Bloody Queen

I've always had a dream
I'd like to meet the queen
I'd punch her in the face
Yeah, that would make me laugh

I'd love to kick her in the teeth
And then I'd make a picture of it
In lovely Ektachrome
And then I'd give it to the prince

(Chorus)

I hate the bloody Queen
She made me go to school
I hate the bloody Queen
And all her bloody rules

(solo)

I'd like to drown the Queen
Off the coast of Argentine
Throw her off a battleship
With her Falkland war machine

She taxes me to death
I can't afford me dope
I'd like to get her high
Yeah, that would make me laugh

(Chorus)

I hate the bloody Queen (repeat x3)

I feel sorry for you Lady Di
Havin' a mother-in-law like that

Coelacanth: A lot of people from all over talk about why does England or any other country need a 'Royal Family'?

As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London and told Hitler that he'd have to go through them first before they'd let him get his grubby little hands on the British Isles. And that's what very nearly happened.

God bless the Queen.

That's easy to say when you have an underground bunker over 100 thousand square foot to hide in....just saying.

Jake Havechek

Ah yes, good King Edward, the finest Nazi sympathizer the House of Windsor ever produced!


So was the Vatican at the time....must of been a fad back then.

vudukungfu: teto85: WWII also was a very stressful time for His Majesty.

Know who else it was stressful for?

Elizabeth was a teen during the whole WWII thing. Not bad looking at the time. I wonder if Hitler would have insisted on planting his Vienna sausage in her royal shrubbery as spoils of war should the Battle of Britain gone the other way.

Slaxl: Ooba Tooba: Slaxl: Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: She single handedly defeated the Germans in the Battle of Pearl Harbor?

She's British, so it's Peurl Haurbur. Sheesh.

I think you mean "Pearl Harbour."

I know what I meant.

Nutz to me:)

Gunny Highway: Coelacanth: A lot of people from all over talk about why does England or any other country need a 'Royal Family'?

As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London and told Hitler that he'd have to go through them first before they'd let him get his grubby little hands on the British Isles. And that's what very nearly happened.

God bless the Queen.

A Brit explained it to me nicely one time. Have the queen allows you to hate the government but still have national pride. Or something like that. It made sense at the time and I am sure I am not doing his sentiment justice.

The way I look at it: The Prime Minister of the UK doesn't have to waste his time shaking hands with the winners of the English Premier League. The Prime Minister's spouse doesn't have to waste her time talking about helping kids stay off drugs / learn to read / lose weight. Instead the PM can be concerned about running the country and the PM's spouse can have a life.

KimNorth: Coelacanth: A lot of people from all over talk about why does England or any other country need a 'Royal Family'?

As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London and told Hitler that he'd have to go through them first before they'd let him get his grubby little hands on the British Isles. And that's what very nearly happened.

God bless the Queen.

That's easy to say when you have an underground bunker over 100 thousand square foot to hide in....just saying.

She enlisted and drove a supply truck.

Petit_Merdeux: Executive summary:

The king died and the next in the line of succession took the throne.

indeed

I started to read the article, but needed to stop a couple of times for an espresso to stop myself nodding off.

Inigo_Montoya: Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: She single handedly defeated the Germans in the Battle of Pearl Harbor?

Germans?

According to him:

Coelacanth: A lot of people from all over talk about why does England or any other country need a 'Royal Family'?

As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London and told Hitler that he'd have to go through them first before they'd let him get his grubby little hands on the British Isles. And that's what very nearly happened.

God bless the Queen.

My favourite quote from the Queen Mum happened after Buckingham Palace got hit with a few bombs: "I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face."

Petit_Merdeux: Coelacanth: As I recall, during WWII, instead of finding a nice safe hole to hide in, Queen Elizabeth and the rest stayed in London

She wasn't the queen yet.

There was a Queen Elizabeth in the palace. She was the wife of the king.