Posted on 04/09/2021 5:41:27 AM PDT by golux
Speaking to a 13-year-old named Andrew Adams who wanted to go into space: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
While chatting to a young fashion designer at Buckingham Palace, 2009: “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard.”
To businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”
After being told that then-President Barack Obama had just met with the British, Chinese and Russian leaders: “Can you tell the difference between them?”
Reflecting on his role as a working royal: “Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.”
In a curiously prescient aside, 2000: “People think there’s a rigid class system here, but Dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.”
To Elton John, who lived near Windsor, 2001: “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.”
Speaking to Aboriginal elder William Brin in Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
Address a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth group, 2002: “So who’s on drugs here? … HE looks as if he’s on drugs.”
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1996, In response to calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting:
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
He would be amusing saying these things to peers who could insult him back, but he is always insulting or being rude to people who can’t be rude back to him. It would have been awesome if all of these people quipped something rude and pointed back at him.
I’m glad you enjoyed his company.
An excellent point, Cecily. Thank you.
I am currently reading Charles Dickens’ “A Child’s History of England”.
Today’s ‘royals’ are pantywaists compared to the ‘royals’ of history.
They killed each other to become King. Brothers, uncles, cousins, blood was usually spilled to become king.
See Richard II and especially Richard III...................
I respect that.
I say make the quip even if no one else hears it.
'When he asked politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose mum and dad are Jamaican, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?” To which Lord Warwick replied: “Birmingham.”'
Lord Warwick had the right approach.
Queen Elizabeth 2, is 95, hope she out lives her nutty son Charles. He is 72.
This article says she has named William as her heir to the throne.
Queen Elizabeth Names William As Her Successor
https://straightnews.ng/queen-elizabeth-names-william-as-her-successor#:~:text=Prince%20William%20In%20a%20shocking%20showdown%2C%20Queen%20Elizabeth,as%20her%20successor%20and%20the%20head%20of%20Commonwealth.
I met him at an RAF Dining-out at the Officer’s Mess at RAF Marham.
He was the PERFECT Dirty Old Uncle, right down to the jokes.
He will be missed. . .
Wish I’d known he was such a riot. It’s no wonder Elizabeth married him. Too bad they had such sorry offspring.
The Queen does not have the power to ‘name her successor’. The succession is determined by Act of Parliament. It can’t be changed at the whim of the current monarch.
Speaking to Aboriginal elder William Brin in Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
Don’t care who you are that’s funny he once to a diplomat from India you always look like your dressed for bed time.
He just spoke his mind how refreshing before PC took hold.
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