Why I respect QEII.
Posted on 06/04/2012 8:39:48 PM PDT by rmlew
All I know is that Queen Victoria would have never had a Sodomite like Elton John play a Royal Party.
Agreed, in 60 years she’s not exercised her powers, but, in all that time she’s served her people better than all but one president (Reagan) and one PM (Thatcher).
Sad to say, “elected by God” has a better track record than “elected by the mob”.
Repeal the 17th - bring back hereditary peerages!
Why I respect QEII.
I respect her, too. Three swanky hots, in a very swanky cot, does not equate personal freedom. She took a pledge, filmed, at a very young age, to faithfully uphold the burden placed upon her as eventual monarch,once her uncle abdicated and dumped that responsibility on her poor parents. In my opinion, she has upheld that pledge at the sacrifice of any hope of normality in her life. I don’t see that same personal sacrifice in Princes Charles, Andrew, and Edward. I have high hopes for Prince William and his wife, though, in a more modern interpretation of royalty and divine right and their roles in a Constitutional monarchy in the fullness of time. Hey, long live the Queen! Her Mum made it to 101!
Darn straight; I’m American, but if I were English..
Everybody has one.
Excellent article, if too polite.
Going along with things is seen as somehow morally neutral these days, at the very most, inept. But it most certainly is not - especially in a sovereign.
Silence in the presence of evil IS evil, because it enables, protects and expands evil.
By deliberate design.
That photo would have been taken during the three week Transportation course she took a short distance from Windsor Castle, largely isolated from others, she ‘enlisted’ in March 1945. Hitler killed himself in April.
“She was enlisted as 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the ATS, [March, 1945] and sent to train as a transport officer at Camberley. The course was three weeks and Princess Elizabeth did not associate too closely with her fellow trainees.
She lunched in the officers’ mess and slept the night at Windsor; 50 years later, her grandsons would eat cadet food, iron their own uniforms, polish their own boots and be shouted at on the drill square.
Despite her kid-glove treatment, Princess Elizabeth greatly appreciated her spell in the ATS, believing it gave her a confidence she had previously lacked
The war in Europe was now drawing to a close and on May 8, 1945, the two princesses were allowed out of the Palace with their Guards officer friends to mingle with the crowds in the Mall and join in the shouts of “We want the King”
The entire WWII experience as a military member for Princess Elizabeth seems to have consisted of about 6 or 7 weeks when she lived in Windsor Castle, enlisted as a Lieutenant, attended a personalized 3 week course, had some photos taken of her touching trucks, never left the house, was promoted to Captain and was finished with the entire exercise by the 6th or 7th week.
She had been a Colonel before.
“In keeping with her power and status of high birth, on her 16th birthday she was appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards during WWII (during 1942).
The Grenadier Guards training element was stationed at her home, Windsor Castle as security and personal escorts for her.”
See post 10, she never “served” in any capacity, and she was never a mechanic.
She most certainly did serve - not as a mechanic, but as a driver - which required her to have basic mechanical skills as drivers were expected to perform running repairs where necessary. The article fairly accurately describes her training - it does not describe her subsequent service which did involve her driving military vehicles all over England. She was on active service from March until the end of July 1945, at which point, following the close of the war in Europe, she was released from active service along with thousands of other women who were among the first to be ‘demobbed’. It was only five months active service, but it was active service. The Royal Family do not claim active service unless they can do so on the same terms as any other members of the service.
Actually, she has exercised her powers on a few occasions.
In 1963, she appointed a Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home. In 1974, she directed Harold MacMillan to form a minority government. And in 1999, she refused permission to debate a Bill in Parliament.
The Queen only exercises her powers in very specific circumstances, but it does happen.
Great article about Elizabeth the Useless! The monarchy has failed the people!
Not unlike the US Congress and Presidency.
“All I know is that Queen Victoria would have never had a Sodomite like Elton John play a Royal Party.”
I doubt George Washington would’ve appreciated having to bow to a Kenyan muslim president, but that’s what America elected. Times change but on balance I’ll take a queen singing for the Queen over the near white minority in the US.
She wasn’t driving a truck during the war, and she did not “serve” as a soldier, it was theater for photographs and public relations.
So you have the future Queen of England leaving Windsor Castle every morning and leaving her security people and the intense security of the Royal family’s residence, to go drive a truck around England during the daytime, and then drive back to the castle after the WWII work day so that she could sleep under high security at night.
All that so that she could serve in the last weeks of the war leaving all that daytime truck driving with the rank of Captain.
How many truck drivers enter military service, attend school, attain the rank of Captain and then are discharged, all in five months, all the time living under security, having little contact with normal soldiers, and spending her nights sleeping in the most protected residence of England in WWII for security reasons?
Any ideas why she waited until almost her 19th birthday to do all this, just as the war was ending and Germany was totally collapsing?
Her first Prime Minister was Winston Churchill.
McGovern served in World War 2. I guess he was the patriotic choice too.
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