From BBC News Online

Now 60 years is an achievement

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The daughter of a notorious Nazi sympathiser (and possibly a murderer herself...), and a Greek walking diplomatic incident who are supposed to represent Britain... can't say I'm a big fan.

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Accusations of murder are not lightly bandied around by civilised people. If it is at all related to Diana, you need to check your meds.

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Wow. Lots of vitriol here.

Congrats to HM and HRH.

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So her father being a Nazi sympathiser makes her what? I think one should judged by one's own deeds.

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Andre

"They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!"
Mark Twain

VERY STRANGE! Can´t believe that´s a serious post on BAUT. How about the mods´ reaction?

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1 + e^i*pi = 0

Looking at the rest of the family, 60 years is indeed a great achievement.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

This mod's reaction is to remind you of this part of rule 16:
If you dislike the post report it, don't discuss it here.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Not as much of an achievement as us lot having to put up with that lot for even longer.

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Congratulations and Best Wishes!

Your Majesty and Your Royal Highness!

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I swear, the first time I looked at the title of this thread I understood it as "Queen and Dude..."

I have nothing against ol' Elizabeth or her Duke, but honestly I'd be more interested in an anniversary of The Queen.

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I'm reminded of Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad:

AndreH,
Daughter of a Nazi sympathiser?
You are confusing Betty with the Duchess of Kent.

And a walking diplomatic incident?
Having met the guy, he's altogether different.

But then the Winsors were originally the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas, so you would know, wouldn't you? Their main fault has been to have a large family who have all been made senior nobles, when other Eurpoean royal families (Danish, Dutch) have left their offspring not in the direct line of descent to sink into blessed obscurity.

John

I just quoted. Edit for clarification: And repeated the quote

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Andre

"They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!"
Mark Twain

I was going to say, wasn't it the Duke of Windsor who was the Nazi sympathizer? I can't be sure, however, as the royals I know about in detail have all been dead for 400 years or more. My interest has always been in the other Queen Elizabeth of England.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

What other Queen Elizabeth of England? There's only ever been one. The current one is Queen Elizabeth of "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"....

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Heh. And the one to whom I refer was Queen Elizabeth of England and Ireland. (I seem to remember the title being much longer, but that's all Wikipedia's providing me with.) Still, we both knew what I meant, and in no other context would I refer to the current Queen Elizabeth as merely Queen of England.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Yup, I know. I was just beating my "Hey, England and Britain aren't the same" drum (again).

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