Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 12:12pm

Happy 90th Birthday to Queen Elizabeth

My sainted mother was a Newfie of pure Irish descent, with fiery red hair and a tempestuous, but lovable, temperament to match.  She had small use for the British monarchy except for the current reigning monarch who she adored.  My own fondness for Queen Elizabeth dates from the following:

 

 

Queen Elizabeth after 9-11, breaking with royal protocol, ordered the playing of The Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace:

 

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Tom
Tom
Thursday, April 21, AD 2016 8:13am

Yuck. Hasn’t been a monarch of England worth a bucket of warm spit since the fall of the Stuarts. Still anti-Catholic, still anti-Irish freedom. Wonder how they’ll fare under the coming British caliphate?

Clinton
Clinton
Thursday, April 21, AD 2016 9:28am

Her Majesty is a pillar of old-school devotion to duty, bless her. At 90 she
keeps a schedule that would probably have our golfer-in-chief Obama
curled up in the fetal position and crying.

Foxfier
Admin
Thursday, April 21, AD 2016 10:14am

I like her, too– reminds me of my grandmother. (Who also had little use for the English… along with pretty much every group that wasn’t the same group of Scottish protestants, and not many of them while you’re at it. Somehow almost everybody was an exception. 😀 )

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Thursday, April 21, AD 2016 2:43pm

My sainted mother also approved of Her Royal Highness. She is a fine public figure. Today, the number of such virtuous luminaries is very small.

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