Posted on 05/28/2009 9:12:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Queen Elizabeth is not amused.
Indeed, she is decidedly displeased, angry even, that she was not invited to join President Obama and France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, next week at commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, according to reports published in Britain’s mass-circulation tabloid newspapers on Wednesday. Pointedly, Buckingham Palace did not deny the reports.
The queen, who is 83, is the only living head of state who served in uniform during World War II. As Elizabeth Windsor, service number 230873, she volunteered as a subaltern in the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service, training as a driver and a mechanic. Eventually, she drove military trucks in support roles in England.
While serving, she met the supreme Allied commander for the D-Day landings, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and developed a fondness for him, according to several biographies. This prompted Queen Elizabeth, who was crowned in June 1953, to say in later years that he was the American president with whom she felt most at ease.
But on June 6, when Mr. Obama and Mr. Sarkozy attend commemorations at the iconic locations associated with the American D-Day assault — Utah Beach, the town of Ste.-Mère-Église, where the first United States paratroopers landed, and the American war cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer — the highest-ranking British representative will be Prime Minister Gordon Brown. His main role will be at ceremonies at the town of Arromanches, near the beaches where British troops landed.
How the queen came to be excluded has become entangled in a thicket of diplomatic missteps, or misunderstandings, depending on whether the account is given in London or Paris.
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I thought about taking him on too and decided life is short bastards are long.
You are a gentleman!
Nicholas and Barry can do the next best thing and just send the queen a recording of the event e-mailed to her I-phone.
Ignore the nonsense.
While you are at it,, also compare starting points and what they accomplished on their own.
Really, what has she ever truly accomplished? She has basically learned to hold a teacup, to read rousing prepared words, and to pose impeccably. But tell me one thing she has ever “accomplished”. At best, you can say she hasnt squandered the family fortune and isnt rude in public. Thats all i see. But its a massive stretch to call her a leader. And if she is, when does she get credit for the failure.
But her admirers are like cult members.
There are times when nonsense is entertaining.
Now, if it was Princess Di who was dissed...
The queen is head of a dysfunctional family and the symbolic head of an increasingly irrelevant country. What’s not to like?
Evidence?
Take your pick.
The fact that she and her royals get paid 8.1 million a year by the British government solely by birthright.
Her “cordial dislike” for Maggie Thatcher and foot dragging at allowing her to be given a state funeral when the time comes?
Maggies statement that the Queen would be very comfortable voting as a “social democrat”.
How about the clear *fact* that in 50 years she has never spoken against british socialism even once. But simultaneously we are told that she is such a magnificent leader. You can’t have it both ways. If you are leader, you sure get the blame or credit for a 50 year trend. Especially if you never said a word.
But the royals sure have time to talk about Global Warming. But Maggie Thatcher? She’s a class act if you need a British leader to admire.
Hahahaah thnx! Thats the highest praise a guy can imagine.
More class from the obamanation? Guess she didn’t like the ipod he gave her.
Does she really want to be there when DumbO surrenders to the Fascists?
She is a GREAT QUEEN! Obama is just a so-so queen.
I apologize, I was just being bitterly sarcastic.
She should call the privvy council and gather her noblemen and strike now with full fury while the iron is hot.
No time to waste in matters of threats to the crown.
(she’s a Windsor though...what do they know)
I apologize, I was just being bitterly sarcastic.
The O’s left the room before the Queen in the PALACE???
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