Queen's fury as Bush goons wreck garden

Sunday Mirror ^ | Nov 23, 2003 | Terry O'Hanlon

[YankeeinOkieville]

Elizabeth's mother died April of 2002, aged 101. Sorry no bunced panties from her.

[FreePaul]

I know where she can get a lot of plastic flamingos. They won't suffer from post Bush stress syndrome.

[Cinnamon Girl]

This is the only part of the article I believe: The Palace's head gardener, Mark Lane, was reported to be in tears when he saw the scale of the damage.

[plain talk]

Probably so. We're planning a trip to London at Christmas. I wonder if I should consider bringing a pastic pink flamingo and planting it there as a good will symbol?

[moodyskeptic]

One: I don't believe it.

Two: If true, it's sheer genius!

Smush a few rosebushes, free a few nations.

[HighWheeler]

A little late with the lame story, and no pictures to let us all make our own judgement. No pictures at Yahoo either using "gardens" and "Bush".

[Cuttnhorse]

Time to turn Lizzie in to an unemployed dowager on the dole.

I thought she was an unemployed dowager on the dole.

[HighWheeler]

Did you see the Queen on "The Simpsons" last night? The Sunday Mirror must be mistaking Bush for Homer.

[76834]

So get over it already.
It will all grow back just like it was.

[MinuteGal]

What a load of fertilizer this article is. As though Elizabeth Regina would show "fury" about anything like this in front of anyone. She has too much class and self-discipline.

You can bet it's some of the palace visqueen garden supervisors who get their pansies in a bunch if some of their pretty pink posies bite the dust.

Leni

[JWinNC]

Has there been ANY verification of this story? I can't find any. If it were true, I suspect it would be all over the net.

JWinNC

[AGreatPer]

I find this funny stuff. No verification.

Do you really think the Queen gives a flaunt about the gardens?

[Servant of the 9]

This is a buncha bull-twaddle. The Mirror is just an anti-Bush tabloid. This is as real as Elvis's alien love-child.

Maybe so, but the SS is notorious for this kind of crap.

If you think it is just Anti-Bush Brit papers, ask anyone who was unfortunate enough to be near a Bush or Clinton visit in this country.
Many have had their property trashed without compensation, and will go into a rage now at the mention of a visit to their area by any President.
Ask around at Hilton Head or Martha's Vinyard.
GWB is smart to vacation as much as possible at his own ranch.

So9

[Verginius Rufus]

So Mark Lane is now the head gardener at the palace? I would have expected him to be back in the US for the media frenzy over the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, trying to convince another generation that the Warren Commission got it all wrong.

[plain talk]

No need to come all the way over here to tell us what we already know.

[TheCrusader]

"She's not the "Queen Mum" yet. Not until one of her children is on the throne."

Prince Charles was seen early yesterday entering a porta-potty at a construction site. We now have a Queen Mum. :o)

[CatoRenasci]

I had in mind her receiving the same sized cheque as the millions of other British dowagers on the dole....

[mtbopfuyn]

LOL! This is the best thread all week! Flamingo alerts and poor TV reception. But it's only "thought" the roses may be rare and may have been named after royalty? Oh, where FR could go with naming her roses...

Cool, spell check! It's a sad day for the spelling police but the grammar police are still twirling their batons.

[Ichneumon]

Do we "know" that it was a "Brit" (by the way they hate being called Brits) that did that? We know too little to be making pronouncements or judgements. If the Royal Gardens were trashed (the Royal Gardens by the way contain many rare and irreplacable plants)then the queen is right to be angry, whoever's fault it is.

I just can't imagine that Americans set up their own landing pads, or at least not without *extensive* consultation, coordination, and approval of the folks in charge of the place. And that would be the Queen's folks.

The article mentioned that the landing pads were marked, it wasn't as if the Americans just choppered in and landed on the first flat spot they saw. *Someone* chose and marked those spots in advance, and it's ludicrous to suppose that it wasn't done with the approval/assistance of the owners of the land itself.