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See the video at the BBC: Queen in Cumbria. The Queen’s reaction to this man is priceless!

That was disturbing! After you watch the video (post-article), there is a link to the next video, which is the Queen’s visit to Turkey. It is very interesting and leads to further videos. Then some more. Before you know it - if you’re anything like me - two hours of royalty will go by and you realize you need to actually get up and go do errands.

Hillary Clinton, ever the wonderous champion of justice, is now into macho posturing.

“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel),” Clinton said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,” she said.

Hil, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that the entire country is fed up with war-mongering, and if Iran wants to launch an attack on Israel, then just let them work it out, ok?

Can you imagine the Queen doing this?

In her “guts for glory” moment to launch herself into presidency, Elizabeth Windsor declared that “If I was president, I would tell that ape-faced Iranian that he could ride his camel back to the cave from whence he came! WAH HA!” [insert majestic pose or gesture here].

That’s just WRONG. Absolutely, totally, wrong. And don’t you just love the quote from Hillary that says ‘In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack […]’ as if the American Presidency lasts an entire decade? It probably will once she gets in and changes the rules.

Time.com presents a photo essay in honor of Her Majesty’s 82nd birthday (they are calling her ‘Her Royal Highness’… faux pas!)

UPDATE: The Time.com words are linked to the photo slideshow, but I was told it wasn’t very easy to find the link that way. So, here is the full link (sorry guys!) to the images:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1732332,00.html

Also, I noted that they changed the title to read “A Gallery of Images Celebrating Her Majesty’s 82nd birthday”.

A tongue-in-cheek look at the Queen’s longevity. This should raise Gareth Robson’s hackles… hehehe.

Courtesy of the Onion: Queen Will Leave Behind Long Legacy Of Waving

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I am watching this BBC documentary and find myself starting to get tearful at some points. It really does amaze me how much of an impact the Queen has on me - that she has on everyone, really.

Watching the Britannia get decommissioned made me want to cry freely, and I just about did. Her Majesty looked so sad, and as you saw her at the ceremony there were flashbacks to a toddler Charles and tow-haired Anne frolicking on the yacht’s deck. It was like a home to HM and her family, for about forty or so years! The place that she could actually kick back and relax and feel right at home, yet still travel the world. It must have been amazing.

Remember, anything that gives the Queen privacy and shields her family from the public once in a while is a place to be treasured. She is not Diana, Princess of Wales, always seeking the limelight for validation. Nor is the Queen a politician, whose career could peak one year and then be gone the next, forever in obscurity. No, Elizabeth was placed into the public eye at a young age and there she has remained, whether she likes it or not.

Then you see her dancing with joy at a Ghillies’ Ball, and everyone is smiling and laughing. People interviewed for the documentary comment on how wonderful the Queen’s smile is and how it really lights up a room. And it’s true. I feel like I’m welling up again.

What a documentary! I can’t make it through 10 minutes without my tissues! Jerramy Fine, author of “Someday My Prince Will Come”, summed up these sorts of feelings very succinctly in her book. It was overwhelming and beautiful to be in London, and it was emotional. It was a strong pull of the heart and soul to get to this particular place, and it was magic. I feel that way, too, and I know that when I finally step in front of the gates of the Palace, I probably will cry. It will be overwhelming and it will be magical too, because the person that lives there is very special, irreplaceable, and she simply is what she is - a simple person with an enormous job to do, and she does it beautifully. Knowing that the Queen is there makes the harsh realities of the world a bit easier.

Important, viable news stories rarely permeate our culture these days, especially in the world of entertainment.

I don’t know if you’ve seen it (or ever care to), but a certain celebrity has been splashed onto the cover of the latest issue of “Rolling Stone”. She has been declared by said magazine to be “An American Tragedy”. I started laughing hysterically, which, when you have a bad cold, became less laughing and more severe coughing fit. Oh well.

The only American tragedy I see is people believing in stories like this. How sad and desperate do the media think we are to care this much about a sex-driven, careless, twenty-something who has had a mental breakdown because of her parental enforced prostitution (i.e. pop music career)? No one in their right mind would consider this girl to be some crucial American anything, never mind important enough to be on the cover of a magazine. A tragedy, yes; important, no.

These are the things that make me wish we could zoom the Queen back to the age of 25, young, glamorous, and completely devoid of the recent disease called ‘manic attention seeking’. You know, someone who is truly newsworthy. That way, the youth of today may be able to relate to her and (God love us!) begin to emulate her.

As a society we are losing a valuable aspect - respect for oneself. The Queen has always had respect for herself and the job she does; Her Majesty never took it for granted and instead of a feverish sensation-seeker, we have a woman who simply took her place among the annals of history. The Queen brings attention to herself just by being herself, and that self is someone who is elegant, refined, yet tantalizingly dismissive of airs and graces.
Elizabeth didn’t seek personal glory. She wasn’t constantly obsessing over her personal appearance so that her picture would turn out perfectly in the papers. The Queen wasn’t about concocting the latest stunt or publicity gag that would turn heads, she simply drove past and smiled. Elizabeth dressed in the serious manner she expected to be taken. Her work was paramount. The Queen cared.

She still cares. That’s more than you can say about any high-profile woman in the U.S. today (except for Oprah. Maybe.). Does everything have to be trashy or trendy to get attention? Can’t we have a break from all of that for a little while?

Apparently I have had this rant building up for some time! Sheesh. Thanks for listening though. I really hope to help make some sort of difference in this world one day, and if that’s by posting my annoyance and dismay over the course our world is taking, and one person listens, so be it.

By Mandy

Koh-i-noor, a mixed-media sculpture of Queen Elizabeth by the Scottish-born artist Hew Locke, explores tensions within contemporary British society and their relationship to colonial history. The sculpture has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

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Update: Visit Hew Locke’s website and view his House of Windsor section HERE (note: I originally titled the post “Hew Locke Gains Queen Sculpture”. Oops. )

Yeah, it was a dumb pun. I think it’s exciting that the Queen really likes the Nintendo Wii though. And why wouldn’t she? It’s one of the most entertaining and innovative systems out there.

The Queen seems to like keeping abreast of the times with the latest gadgets and technology. Look at her Royal YouTube channel, for instance. A lot of that is Prince Philip’s influence too, I think. We all know how much he loves efficiency and gadgets.

When Elizabeth and Philip were first married, he made sweeping changes in the royal homes. When they got to Buckingham Palace, he did the same thing - the installation of dishwashers, washing machines, and even hotplates in separate royal apartments so the kitchens would not have to run full-steam 24/7.

Check out the post on the Queen and the Wii at CheatMasters Blog