Queen Elizabeth II: her Diamond Jubilee weekend is upon us, 02 June - 05 June

[wfgodot]

[video=youtube;1ngFpAIKLfI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngFpAIKLfI[/video]

 

[wfgodot]

A toast today to the Peasants Revolt heroes, to Wat Tyler, to John Ball and Jack Straw. A toast to the spirit of 1381!

 

[wfgodot]

A toast to Gladstone and a toast to Dizzy, a toast to Sheridan and a toast to Wilkes; a toast to Henry V and to the English dead at Agincourt. A toast to Lloyd George and a toast to Churchill, and a toast to the English kingdom that saved the world.

 

[badhorsie]

Byron, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, the PRB, Townsend-Warner, Bowie, Rossettis, the Clash and the Pistols, just a few of my cultural heroes that I would raise a toast to, gin of course

 

[wfgodot]

To Earl Oxford, Edward de Vere, who wrote the works of "Shakespeare";

To Mad Mary Lamb and to her brother Charles;

To William Blake;

To John Betjeman and to Philip Larkin;

To Dr Johnson and James Boswell, to Percy Shelley and John Keats, to Leigh Hunt and John Clare: a toast to Great Britain.

 

[The Farm]

Well I just love all the pomp, respect, jewels, crowns, gowns, carriages and horses horses horses!
I also think her royal highness has loosened up since her grandchildren have grown. They have I think opened her eyes to what the young are thinking.
Charles always seemed to be stuck in the mud.....lol
Thank you all for the pictures!

 

[badhorsie]

This video is really sweet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-shows-Charles-Anne-buried-necks-beach.html

 

[badhorsie]

HMQ is afloat, link here with much forelock tugging by the media pundits

 

[badhorsie]

Just heard the classic words "Raise the Tenpole" in a regal context, which brings this to mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHusxM-Oyw

 

[badhorsie]

I am orf to pour a large gin, more news as it happens

 

[badhorsie]

The Royal Barge looks somewhat like a Chinese restaurant

 

[badhorsie]

HMQ aboard

 

[wfgodot]

I am orf to pour a large gin, more news as it happens

During Jubilee it's always #ginoclock.

 

[wfgodot]

For Lilybet and for the nation - the Jam:
[video=youtube;G1ADNAQAlQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ADNAQAlQk[/video]

 

[wfgodot]

The Royal Barge looks somewhat like a Chinese restaurant

Someone keep an eye on Prince Philip then! His array of casual insults may turn Far Eastward.

 

[badhorsie]

Here is a comprehensive list of DOE's gaffes

This is just a small appetizer;
17. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.

18. "If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

19. "You ARE a woman, aren't you?" To a woman in Kenya in 1984, after accepting a gift.

 

[wfgodot]

Sunday Mail pic of the whole kit and kaboodle on the waters. And article here.

 

[wfgodot]

For the Duke of Edinburgh:
[video=youtube;AbMG1v7qDqs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMG1v7qDqs[/video]

 

[badhorsie]

This England, another view
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pxGH4eyLQ&feature=youtu.be

 

[badhorsie]

About the first Queen Elizabeth, Gloriana Dying by Sylvia Townsend Warner, a gifted writer who lived not 50 yards from my house. This recording of her reciting her poem when on her own deathbed reduces me to tears
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=13831