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EXCLUSIVE: Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that the Queen has died and King Charles is their new boss in bizarre tradition dating back centuries
The Daily Mail ^ | September 10, 2022 | John Dingwall

Posted on 09/10/2022 2:45:26 PM PDT by Twotone

The royal beekeeper - in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries - has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.

And the bees have also been told, in hushed tones, that their new master is now King Charles III.

The official Palace beekeeper, John Chapple, 79, told MailOnline how he travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House on Friday following news of The Queen’s death to carry out the superstitious ritual.

He placed black ribbons tied into bows on the hives, home to tens of thousands of bees, before informing them that their mistress had died and that a new master would be in charge from now on.

He then urged the bees to be good to their new master - himself once famed for talking to plants.

The strange ritual is underpinned by an old superstition that not to tell them of a change of owner would lead to the bees not producing honey, leaving the hive or even dying.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: beekeeper; buckinghampalace; charlesiii; clarencehouse; elizabethii; gotellthebees; hives; honey; houseofwindsor; johnchapple; queenelizabeth; royalhives; thelatestbuzz; tradition; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 09/10/2022 2:45:26 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Well there’s a headline you don’t see every day


2 posted on 09/10/2022 2:46:55 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Twotone

What, don’t the bees have Internet?


3 posted on 09/10/2022 2:48:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: V_TWIN

Creating quite the buzz.


4 posted on 09/10/2022 2:48:18 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah... I hear that tradition is the bee’s knees.


5 posted on 09/10/2022 2:49:53 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Twotone

Is this article from the Bee (pun couldn’t be resisted)?


6 posted on 09/10/2022 2:50:33 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

You beat me to the buzz jokes.


7 posted on 09/10/2022 2:50:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: Twotone

How did Queen Bee take the news?


8 posted on 09/10/2022 2:51:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: Twotone

I'm a king bee
Buzzing around your hive
I'm a king bee, baby
Buzzing around your hive
Well, you know I can make honey
Let me come inside

9 posted on 09/10/2022 2:51:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I hope the bees don’t commit suicide over this news. They have been having enough trouble as it is, without having a dunce as their King.

If they want to quit making honey until William takes over, I won’t blame them.


10 posted on 09/10/2022 2:51:33 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Twotone

11 posted on 09/10/2022 2:53:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The royal beekeeper quoted scripture: “Death, where is thy sting?”
They liked that part


12 posted on 09/10/2022 2:54:56 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Twotone

My honey and I have BEEn waiting a long time to hear that Charles III has pollen.


13 posted on 09/10/2022 2:56:05 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Twotone

Not that bizarre. It was always the custom to tell the bees when the beekeeper had died.

I have no idea where the custom started, but I think it’s done in many countries.


14 posted on 09/10/2022 3:00:37 PM PDT by livius
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To: V_TWIN

For heaven’s sake! I thought that was just an old Southern tradition! I’ve even heard of the old folks that would tie a black ribbon around a hive to let the bees know of the keeper’s death.


15 posted on 09/10/2022 3:01:00 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: Twotone

To Bee or not to Bee....


16 posted on 09/10/2022 3:01:01 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Twotone

No one informed the bees that the monarchy is just a figurehead after puppet-lament usurped all power.


17 posted on 09/10/2022 3:03:22 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Twotone

So, the new boss of the bee hive is a DRONE? They don’t last in the hive long before being given the old Heave-ho by the workers.


18 posted on 09/10/2022 3:07:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Twotone

Britain - the land which embraces useless traditions, but frowns on the God-given traditions of male-female roles.


19 posted on 09/10/2022 3:10:27 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Twotone

I suppose the bees were stung by the news.


20 posted on 09/10/2022 3:15:38 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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