Much to my utter amazement, a guardsman for The Queen attacked a student mimicking his patrol.
The student marched alongside the guard, who was on sentry duty outside St. James’ Palace, as his friend filmed his mocking performance.
The soldier suddenly marched over to push him in the back and aimed a kick at him. The pair ran off, citing fear of the bayonet attached to the guard’s SA-80 semi-automatic rifle.
A source said the guard will not be disciplined over the incident, while another Queen’s guardsman said he could understand his colleague’s actions.
The soldier told Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “On one hand you can understand him wanting to put a hobnailed size 12 up the guy’s backside for taking the p**s.
“But on the other hand he will be in hot water for losing his cool when he should have ignored it. He should have gone back into his sentry box and just stood guard.”
“This was human error. We are very sorry and our online news team has sent an apology to the royal family,” said a spokeswoman for the Flemish VRT television website.
The queen – who had surgery to correct a thyroid problem earlier this month – was diagnosed with pneumonia and is currently in a “serious but stable” condition.
Queen Fabiola Facts:
Consort to the late King Baudouin of Belgium
Aunt to Crown Prince Phillipe
Elected to be sedated using hypnosis during her recent surgery
Her godmother was Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain
The Queen was born Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, a daughter of the Marquess of Casa Riera, 2nd Count of Mora
Cherie Blair, the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, recently made an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”. Mrs. Blair was there to promote her memoirs entitled “Speaking For Myself”.
Mrs. Blair revealed that her fourth child, Leo, now 8, was conceived at the Queen’s Balmoral residence after she left her contraception at home because she was embarrassed that a maid would find it.
“I thought, ‘I’m 44′, so some things I left out of that bag,” said Cherie.
Apparently she wasn’t too embarrassed to discuss that fact in front of millions of television viewers and a live audience, though.
Then, while attempting to explain the role of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip, Cherie put her foot in it.
“…The First Lady is the wife of the head of state. So on that basis the spouse of our head of state is actually Prince Philip. So I suppose you could say Prince Philip is really the First Lady of Britain.”
While Prince Philip would probably get a chuckle out of that, I think that it’s pretty sad for the wife of a world leader – former or not - to try to look “hip” and cool for the Americans by talking about private matters and taking a crack at Prince Philip. I realize that Mrs. Blair was referencing what is written in her book when speaking about her child, but let the public take that bit of information in personally if they decide to buy the book.
It seems that former Rugby captain Will Carling has found the need to update the world on his movements.
The social networking site “Twitter”, used by everyone from me to the Foreign Office and CNN, is now rife with Carling notes and comments.
You remember Carling (albeit painfully). He was caught up in a torrid affair with Diana after meeting her at a London gym. His wife Julia was more than a little disgusted with Diana and her husband, both of whom were verbally bashed about after Julia kicked him out of their home.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is said to be devastated at the loss of her laptop computer, taken during a burglary at a studio in Hertfordshire.
It was not just an expensive piece of equipment, but it also contained a number of precious family photographs.
This is not the only hiccup in “Fergie’s” personal affairs of late. Only a couple of weeks ago, the Duchess’ private address was found by the buyer of her used car.
Buyer Steven Coulson was stunned to discover police had accidentally sold the Jaguar XJ6 with its satellite navigation system still installed. The Duchess’ address, as well as the addresses of other royal homes, was readily available. D’oh!
