Queen Elizabeth

[Tecumsehsbones]

Anecdote: On Oct 19, 1957, the Queen and Prince Philip were on a state visit to the U.S., meeting President Eisenhower. The Queen expressed her desire to see an American football game, so the times being easier and more casual back then, they were taken to College Park, Maryland to see the University of Maryland Terrapins (Fear the Turtle!) play the University of North Carolina Tar Heels (don't ask). The queen met with players of both teams and with Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin, and inspected the coin for the coin-toss. Prince Philip received an autographed football.

Maryland won 21-7.

Closest thing I've got to a "Queen Elizabeth" anecdote.

 

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And she has a wicked sense of humour.

During her Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this year, former Royal Protection Officer Richard 'Dickie' Griffin told this true story to Sky News about the time she came across two American tourists hiking in the grounds of her Scottish estate of Balmoral (where she died yesterday):

He said: 'Normally on these picnic sites you'll meet nobody. But there were two hikers coming towards us and the Queen would always stop and say hello.

'And it was two Americans on a walking holiday. And it was clear from the moment we first stopped they hadn't recognized the Queen, which is fine.

'The American gentleman was telling the Queen where he came from, where they were going to next and where they'd been to in Britain.

'And I could see it coming and sure enough he said to Her Majesty, and where do you live?

'And she said well I live in London but I've got a holiday home just the other side of the hills.

'He said how often have you been coming here? Oh, she said, I've been coming up here ever since I was a little girl, so over 80 years.

'He said well if you've been coming up here for 80 years you must have met the Queen.

'As quick as a flash she said: 'Well I haven't, but Dickie here meets her regularly. The guy says to me, you've met the Queen? What's she like?

'I said well she can be very cantankerous at times but she's got a lovely sense of humor.

'The next thing I knew this guy comes around put his arm around my shoulder and before I see what was happening he gets his camera, gives it to the Queen and says can you take a picture?

'Anyway we swapped places and I took a picture of them with the Queen, we never let on, and we waved goodbye and Her Majesty said to me ''I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he shows that to his friends in America.'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11193985/amp/Her-Majestys-humor-Queen-PRANKED-two-American-tourists.html

 

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Royals remain at Balmoral Castle​

Kirsty Wark
reporting from Balmoral Castle


A car carrying King Charles III's niece Lady Louise, 18, who is 15th in line to the Throne, arrives at Balmoral earlier tonight

Remaining at Balmoral tonight is the Queen's only daughter - Princess Anne.

Also here on Royal Deeside are the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and Prince Andrew.

All of the Queen's grandchildren, including Lady Louise, are here except for Prince Harry and Prince William, the new Prince of Wales.

This has been a very private day for them, a day of great sadness, and for the household staff too - many of whom who have worked for the Queen for many years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62842089

 

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The Hamlet line quoted by the King​

King Charles III ended his first address to the nation with a touching tribute to his "darling Mama", and concluded with a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "May 'flights of angels sing thee to thy rest'."

The quote comes at the end of the classic play and is said by Hamlet's friend Horatio just after the Danish prince has been killed.

The same line was famously quoted at the start of composer John Tavener's best-known work, Song For Athene, which was sung as Princess Diana's coffin was carried out of Westminster Cathedral at her funeral in 1997.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62842089

 

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The Hamlet line quoted by the King​

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King Charles III ended his first address to the nation with a touching tribute to his "darling Mama", and concluded with a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "May 'flights of angels sing thee to thy rest'."

The quote comes at the end of the classic play and is said by Hamlet's friend Horatio just after the Danish prince has been killed.

The same line was famously quoted at the start of composer John Tavener's best-known work, Song For Athene, which was sung as Princess Diana's coffin was carried out of Westminster Cathedral at her funeral in 1997.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62842089

OK, that turned out better than I feared.

Not a lot of positive sentiments in Hamlet.

Queen Elizabeth I may well have seen the premier. It was late in her reign.

 

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At the age of 73, Charles III is the oldest person ever to take the British Throne, beating the previous record held by his great-great-great-great-uncle William IV, who was 64 when he took the Throne in 1830.

 

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OK, that turned out better than I feared.

Not a lot of positive sentiments in Hamlet.

Queen Elizabeth I may well have seen the premier. It was late in her reign.

Hamlet was published in 1603 the year Queen Elizabeth I died.

The first known performance of Hamlet was onboard the English ship the Red Dragon, off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1607.

However, she did see a few of Shakespeare's plays and that he performed at her court, despite the fact that Shakespeare was born nearly six years into Elizabeth's reign.

(Thanks, Wikipedia)

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Hamlet was published in 1603 the year Queen Elizabeth I died.

The first known performance of Hamlet was onboard the English ship the Red Dragon, off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1607.

However, she did see a few of Shakespeare's plays and that he performed at her court, despite the fact that Shakespeare was born nearly six years into Elizabeth's reign.

(Thanks, Wikipedia)

Published, yeah, but scholars think it was written between 1599-1601.

Shakespeare scholars say that the working papers of his plays were "lines and cues" (paper was expensive). Nobody got a full script except Will.

 

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Fifteen PMs. From giants to midgets to worms.

She also worked her way through Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Other Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. Only one less president than PM.

 

[The_Foxer]

The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed

Author of the article:Christina Blizzard
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 7 Comments
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo.
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?


It’s hard to imagine a $20 Canadian bill without Queen Elizabeth II’s face smiling out at us.


We’ll have to get used to it.

It’s customary, as soon as one monarch dies, for the Royal Canadian Mint to begin replacing the currency, both coins and paper money, with the new one. The banknotes won’t be replaced overnight, but gradually phased out of circulation as new ones with Charles’ image replace them.

Have we considered all our options?



I've decided i'm ok with Charles 3 instead

 

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Charles will likely be very different as King as he was in all those decades as Prince of Wales, just as Johnson became far more serious and less clownish when he became PM. Charles now has the top job in the country and he'll take it seriously.

It was the Queen, of course, who ensured that Camilla would be styled Queen Camilla when Charles takes the Throne. There was going to be a break with tradition and she wasn't going to use that title, but I think it was either last year or the year before that the Queen ordered that she would take the title. Camilla isn't an actual Queen or a monarch, she merely has the title of Queen as the wife of the King. She's Queen Consort.

I don't think the British public were too enamoured of Camilla in years gone by but in recent years we've realised she seems quite a nice a woman and have warned to her.

As for William and Kate, I think they are a lovely couple and will make a lovely King William IV and Queen Catherine. I shudder to think of King Henry IX and Queen Meghan.

How come Phillip was "Prince Phillip" and not "King Consort"?

 

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Truss arrives for Accession Council​

Claire Heald

Reporting from St James's Palace

We've just seen PM Liz Truss walk in. She looked calm and composed on the Saturday morning of such a huge week for her - becoming the new prime minister on Tuesday, appointed by the Queen at Balmoral and now, being part of the ceremony which appoints the Queen's successor, the King.

She's away from the crowd's gaze here, walking in under the crenelated balcony of the Palace. Inside she'll meet her Conservative colleague Penny Mordaunt - who, as Lord President of the Privy Council, has the role of announcing the death of the Queen during the ceremony.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62842089

 

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How come Phillip was "Prince Phillip" and not "King Consort"?

For some reason, the husband of a reigning Queen only has the title "Prince."

 

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Cameras will show the ceremony in full colour​

Claire Heald
Reporting from St James's Palace



King Charles III draws back part of the Royal curtain today - this ceremony is televised for the first time. It’s a huge contrast with the stark, few, black and white pictures from the time when this happened 70 years ago.

But it means the practicalities are being tried-out beforehand. The proclamation will be read out from this balcony this morning.

So “testing, testing, 1… 2…” is coming out loud and clear from the microphone speakers, as the guards march back and forth below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62842089

 

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King Charles III addresses the Proclamation Council at St James's Palace

 

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For some reason, the husband of a reigning Queen only has the title "Prince."

From everything I've read, it's so that there's no confusion about who the ruler really is, when it's a Queen.

Since people see King and think they automatically overrule the woman, even if the woman is Queen.

That's why Camilla will be Queen consort, even if she won't have the power to rule as Queen when Charles dies.

 

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After the blaring of trumpets, the Garter King of Arms is reading the first and Principal Proclamation from the balcony above Friary Court at St James's Palace.

This is the first public announcement that Charles III is now King.

The Garter King of Arms then shouts "God Save the King!" as member of the public gathered below cheer.

Another Proclamation will be shouted out in the City of London shortly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62842089

 

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From everything I've read, it's so that there's no confusion about who the ruler really is, when it's a Queen.

Since people see King and think they automatically overrule the woman, even if the woman is Queen.

That's why Camilla will be Queen consort, even if she won't have the power to rule as Queen when Charles dies.

So, why was Prince Philip not King Philip?​

The answer is found in British Parliamentary law, which determines who’s up next for the throne, and also what title his or her spouse will have. In terms of succession, the law looks only to blood, and not to gender. This rule makes the royal family tree sound complicated, but it’s actually easily explained. In terms of the spouses of royalty, however, that law treats men and women differently.

• When a male in the royal bloodline marries: His wife takes whatever is the female form of his title. Thus, when Prince William married Kate Middleton and became Duke of Cambridge, Kate became Duchess of Cambridge, and when Prince William becomes King, Kate’s title will change to match William’s. And delving back a couple of generations, when Queen Elizabeth II’s father, George VI, became King, his wife’s title became “Queen Consort,” although she was usually referred to as “Queen Elizabeth” (having been born Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, not to be confused with Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn). Queen Elizabeth held her title until George died, at which point Elizabeth II ascended to the throne, and her mum became “Queen Mother.”
• When a female in the royal bloodline marries: Her husband is not eligible to take the male form of his wife’s title, as Marlene Koenig, a royal historian and writer of the Royal Musings blog, told Town and Country. That’s why Princess Eugenie’s husband, Jack Brooksbank, remains “Mr. Jack Brooksbank” when they got married in October 2018.

In keeping with this, when Philip Mountbatten married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947, he did not become Prince. It wasn’t until 1957 that Queen Elizabeth bestowed the title of “prince” on Philip by issuing a letters patent.

Why Wasn’t Prince Philip the King of England?

Why was Prince Philip not king when he married Queen Elizabeth? Turns out, the answer lies in British Parliamentary law.

www.rd.com

 

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The Principal Proclamation took place on the balcony at St James's Palace as trumpets blared, guns were fired from the Tower of London, and the centuries-old ceremony was televised for the first time.

It was followed by a rendition of God Save the King and three cheers for the King.

 

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Have we considered all our options?

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I've decided i'm ok with Charles 3 instead

There might be a bit of a problem with the money thing, especially with coins. They will have to be made a bit larger to fit Chucks ears in.................