royals & hats!

[Guest jizzdepapi]

here's wills at a 1986 wedding. queen mum had obviously let him play in her hat closet!

 

http://www.royalarchive.com/gallery/album03/aah.sized.jpg

 

here's mum as a fetching lady elizabeth bowes-lyon. she hadn't yet decided to give the english haberdashery biz a jolt.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/pics/Lady_Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon.JPG

[Guest jizzdepapi]

not a royal but... !

 

definitely NOT haberdasherdly challenged!

 

http://www.geocities.com/diptus_75/images/hgath.jpg

 

too much time on my hands right now but off to get ready to let papi in tonite.

 

cheerio,

jizz

[Guest jizzdepapi]

oops

 

worth the gander, IMHO

 

http://www.geocities.com/diptus_75/images/hgath.jpg

[Guest jizzdepapi]

RE: oops

 

remove the space <slap slap>

 

http://www.geocities.com/diptus_75/ images/hgath.jpg

[Chuck50]

GOD BLESS THE QUEEN MUM on this other great HAT DAY Easter. Every time I see a big brim hat I see her and her Daughter LIz II. Oh yes and maybe one day ours WILLS will come out of the closet without the Hat. HUGS Chuck:9

[Guest JH]

Thanks for the sympathy

 

As an English member of this board, I find this thread to be of enourmous bad taste. I am not the most fervent royalist, but the Queen Mother was probably one of the more popular of the royals and I am sad to see her go.

 

Some words of sympathy, rather than ridicule, would have been more appropriate.

[Chuck50]

RE: Thanks for the sympathy

 

I personally did it as a Tribute I can't think of a better Trademark than the Hat to remmeber her by I don't think I ever saw her without one. I love her too and I am not English. SHe has always been my favorite. My Grandmother also wore big hats like that and she also reminded me of my Grandmother. She may have been like everybodies Grandmother to them. So once again "God Bless the Queen MUM" isn't that what you Brits always say? Now the comment about WIlls was more in jest and he and the rest of the young ones can take a little jest. HUGS Chuck

[bluenix]

RE: Thanks for the sympathy

 

>As an English member of this board, I find this thread to be

>of enourmous bad taste. I am not the most fervent royalist,

>but the Queen Mother was probably one of the more popular of

>the royals and I am sad to see her go.

>

>Some words of sympathy, rather than ridicule, would have

>been more appropriate.

 

Popular, I'll grant you. And until this weekend an important example of continuity that I take it has been an argument in favor of keeping the monarchy. Plus, charities loved her because all she had to do was show up, and people threw money.

 

But come on. As Jonathan Freedland notes in the Guardian, "she had no constitutional role whatsoever. Even her title - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - was a fiction. She invented it herself, so the royal gossips say, so that she might perennially outrank her own daughter: two queens to her one."

 

Meanwhile, she more or less ruined Margaret's life by setting herself as the chief obstacle to her marrying a commoner, and less famously froze Diana out of the family circle at every opportunity.

 

Add to that the tiny troll's addiction to racetrack betting, and losses which may or may not have been partially covered by the public purse.

 

The one I feel sorry for now is the dutiful surviving daughter. Betty Windsor's perfect attendance has garnered her the respect, but not the love, of her subjects. So for all her pains, she'll have to listen to the inevitable arguments about why the monarchy should be abolished.

 

Mum gone. Sister gone. Son and heir an idiot.

 

She'll be more isolated than ever now.

[Guest jizzdepapi]

snuffed a candle in the wind?

 

>As an English member of this board, I find this thread to be of enourmous bad taste...

 

sorry, JH, but i am noted for my bad taste--though i am reminded that Handel composed some of his better oratorios during his sojourn in London.

 

>I am not the most fervent royalist, but the Queen Mother was probably one of the more popular of the royals and I am sad to see her go...

 

again, sorry, JH; but my socialist leanings are well-stated on this board. nothing personal towards the Windsors; i most certainly would not emulate centuries-long royal decrees of "off-with-their-heads" should the throne topple.

 

>Some words of sympathy, rather than ridicule, would have been more appropriate...

 

now think about this, JH. i posted pics of two royals which showed them to be attractive. undoubtedly, i could have dug up a less-than-flattering pic of the queen and not referred to her by her affectionate title.

 

i further suggested that a queen renowned for the ice that is supposed to have flowed through her veins allowed her great-granchild to play with her clothes in her closet.

 

if anything, i think i payed homage to her memory and painted a picture of her that was a little more human and kind than she really was. so why are your panties so bloody twisted?

 

for those in the know, i have been less kind when speaking of our American pretender though i have not suggested that posters might check out pics of W. and Laura picking their noses on http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com (though i certainly don't want anyone looking at that irreverent site).

 

cheerio,

jizz

[Guest jizzdepapi]

Tom Paine wore ugly hats too?

 

besides, if we liked the royals too much, we never would have revolted. and donna karan would have been stuck in new amsterdam (DKNA?) and we all would have had to wear hats like the queen's!

 

just a thought

[Guest JH]

RE: snuffed a candle in the wind?

 

Such audacity young man - my panties are never twisted!! That would mean distorting the flag of St George emblazoned upon them and us Brits are taught from an early age that such a thing is a heinous crime!

 

As long as you're admitting dubious taste, that's fine. I just get pissed off with you Yanks taking a pop at my beloved Blighty unchallenged. Anyone can slag off my country, the weather and the Royal Family PROVIDING they're British. However, do feel free to criticise the crap hotels in London with their slow Internet connections and the abysmal state of the rail service all you like.

 

Tongue firmly in cheek (with endless opportunity for innuendo) JH