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That bloke holding the axe, he might be from my home village.

I think Richard Brandon was from London but there are some who say it was an Irishman from Galway named Gunning who did it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Then there's the two blokes who wrote a book about my village, who say it was someone called George Joyce - "Cornet" George Joyce. I can find no evidence to back up their claims though. Nevertheless, it is a belief I cling to.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i think joyce let the troops who arrested charles when the king broke his promise to cromwell (about not kickstarting the civil war)

wasn't he also a leading leveller at the confrontation at putney? if so he wasn't really "in" with the top brass, bein a bit of a rank-and-file radical as regards democracy and stuff

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know :-(

Legend has it he dressed up as a lady when he got home post-restoration to escape the attentions of rampaging royalists, but one of them murdered him anyway, across the fields.

You can see why I'm so keen to believe this. It is proper ITV teatime stuff.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

i was v. disappointed by the utter ordinaryness of the queens hat today

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Come on, it's FUCHSIA!!! It matches my flat:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41585000/jpg/_41585100_queen_walkabout300.jpg

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

She should have worn one of these.
http://64.33.95.224/store/media/hats/11200_Bowler_UJ_Cheap.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

You mean it wasn't floating 3 ft above her arse like King Charles I's was?

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean is it so wrong to expect something ascot or crowny

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

it looks about three feet above to me! (unless she keeps her arse in a weird place)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

her brooch is of a giant lizard gobbling a puny human!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

12 ft lizard perchance?

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

::avoids pearl necklace gag::

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

nobody gave her some weed this time?

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

actually it's more of a roc-pterodactyl deal, isn't it?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

eight hats the queen wore, which were better then the fuschia mess:
http://www.fashion-era.com/images/SocialHistory/hatfeather.jpg
http://www.fashion-era.com/images/SocialHistory/queenredcarpetyell.jpg
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/images/2003/05/23/23_5_2003_12%20MDF52965.jpg
http://www.ndrtv.de/tv/royalty/images/041104_02_queen_steinbrueck.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Qe2-obe-2004.jpg/180px-Qe2-obe-2004.jpg
http://images.art.com/images/-/Queen-Elizabeth-II--C10288679.jpeg
http://www.pastforward.ca/perspectives/images/Nadonqueenelizabeth.jpg
http://www.celebratecanada.sk.ca/celebrate_canada/poster_challenge/jennifer_queen.jpg

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

A crown is not a hat.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

... that's the first thing they teach you in Queen School

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

why the fuck not

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

The fourth picture needs a caption.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Dada, Anthony has very definitely been to queen school, just not *that* one.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck washing a crown, then

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Asscrown

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

the issue of the queen's potential longevity came up in conversation yesterday. I wondereif she lived to be 120 or whatever then entered a permanent vegetative state and was being kept alivish on a life-support machine, whose decision would it be whether or not to switch the thing off? Would it require an act of parliament?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 April 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

As the procession reached the corner outside Barclays, the Welsh Guards played a version of Procul Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale and Iris began to pack up. The handover of her flowers to the Queen had taken approximately two seconds. Was it worth it? "Oh yes," she said. "It wouldn't have been fair to keep her. And there'll be other opportunities. Just think, only another seven years and it's the diamond jubilee!"

Whiter Shade of Pale? wtf? Is The Guardian being funny here?

― caek (caek), Saturday, 22 April 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it was just that the writer was ignorant of the tune's classical origins. If they'd played Pachelbel's Canon he'd probably say it was All Together Now.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 April 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Christ, that's painful! A perfect example of why I never believe anything I read in the fucking guardian.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 22 April 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

If Charles died suddenly, would Andrew become King next? Or would Camilla become Queen and then William after her?

― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe the succession is Charles, William, Harry, and then Andrew.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder if the whole "heir's wife has to be a virgin" law still applies (because that's why Charles couldn't marry Camilla originally). Diana had to be examined, and yes, she was a virgin in 1981(!). I wouldn't mind Kate Middleton to be Queen, but she probably can't be if she and Wills have already "done it", so to speak.

― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a handy guide for dating royal heirs, if he fucks you he doesn't want to marry you.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

check wikipedia. they list the succession list down to something like the 800th person, if memory serves.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

AND I'M NOT ON THERE!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000WN0SM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

dear queen,

please don't fly your planes over my house when i'm trying to watch the tv - they are very loud and make it hard to hear. it's not even your real birthday ffs.

kthxbye.
andy

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck washing a crown, then

-- M. White (boeldie...), April 21st, 2006.

This makes me so happy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the planes were awesome actually. we were on a 48 bus down Hackney Road and heard/saw the various waves (seemed like ten in total, all around 20 seconds apart) flying overhead including the Red Arrows, that one with the crazy revolving radar dish on top and the tiny jets that really did look like alien invaders.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

view from my office:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/380749364_17fece5d93.jpg

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

given an iPod by the Obamas.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 April 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

She looked tiny beside them, Michelle Obama looked about 7 foot tall

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

bitchin photo of QEII

http://www.vandaprints.com/lowres/39/main/4/142950.jpg

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Thursday, 2 April 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link

when she's only 6ft 11¾ xpost

this line from the Queen to Michelle: "Now we've met, will you please keep in touch?" sounded sweetly sincere when I heard it on the radio this morning.

but fuck the monarch etc prob

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 2 April 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

michelle TOUCHED the queen!!

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 2 April 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

what's with obama giving heads of state dvds and ipods... seems a bit cheap to be honest

― s1ocki, Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah well did u hear what ur queen gave to him??

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

trackies

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

A phonograph with wax cylinders of Gilbert & Sullivan?

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

one's size fits all

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

QE gave autographed portrait, hope salutation was bitchin'

My mom is 2 years younger than HRM and she can't turn on a CD player.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe she should get her arthritis treated?

― Lamp, Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

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