Look at the Queen Pretending to Be One of Us. Don't be Fooled

Started by cinrit, July 27, 2014, 12:48:17 PM

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QuoteLizzie, doing it like a dude, grinning broadly, photobombing an Australian hockey player's selfie at the Commonwealth Games, seems about as appropriate as her hubby giving high fives and Prince Charles wearing his tartan trews at half-mast, forfeiting handshakes in favour of the Obama fist-bump. Sovereigns and their satellites aren't suited to street style. That's why they have thrones and two-bar electric fires to save on one's heating, and why we don't. Her Majesty went viral on Twitter last week after Jayde Taylor took a photo in Glasgow and saw who had popped up in the background. "Awesome", as Her Madge might now say. Or better not to say at all? Essayist Walter Bagehot wrote of the monarchy: "In its mystery is its life. We must not let daylight in upon magic."

Republicans would prefer that the magic included a disappearing act. Unlikely, so Windsor fans must remember the last time that the daylight or, more accurately, the television camera, was allowed in, and that was a bit of a disaster. Or at least so Queen Liz thought, which is why she has allowed a few clips but kept the 1969 documentary Royal Family under lock and key, available only to researchers.

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