Queen Elizabeth II: 70 years of reign and counting
I distinctly remember watching a moment or two of her coronation on TV when I was very small. What I recall is her back as she walked down the aisle, and the incredibly long train:
Young, pretty, happy:
The Queen shows a light, deft touch with her lines in a video she made with Paddington Bear for the 70th. Then again, she’s been acting in front of the public her entire life. I couldn’t find a way to embed the whole thing, but it’s on Twitter. I don’t quite “get” Paddington Bear, but the bit with the teapot seems to be gently mocking the Brits’ preoccupation with protocol and manners. Elizabeth II still adheres to those principles, but she’s somewhat a relic of a former time. The rest of the Western world doesn’t seem to care much anymore about manners and custom, but most people still like the Queen.
While the long and illustrious reign of this much-admired monarch is capturing a great deal of attention in the media, one of Andrea Widburg’s latest pieces (posted at AmericanThinker) concentrates on a more important issue receiving almost no attention from the MSM, the massive influx of illegal migrants (mostly young, male, and Muslim) into an already-overcrowded island. Her sobering essay about the war on its own citizens being waged by its own government includes an excellent video by the always-interesting Paul Joseph Watson.
Sitting down to tea is so very British, and Paddington Bear often inadvertently gets into trouble, and then makes it right. The video was utterly charming, including the Queen’s making gentle fun of herself, revealing that her ubiquitous old-fashioned handbag contains a marmalade sandwich for emergencies.
Neil Oliver’s conversation with two other commentators on the Queen and Paddington Bear: she brings the nation together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7okTyCF3Xa8&ab_channel=GBNews
The commenters are as taken with Neil Oliver as with the Queen and Paddington Bear.
And if the Queen is a “relic of a former time,” she sets a far better example than Brandon, with his foul language and general incoherence. She is also the only living head of state who served in WWII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThEYAKITOk&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions
Two days ago, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway; today is the 78th anniversary of D-Day. Respect and gratitude to all who served.
Pa Cat,
I was going to link that Neil Oliver segment on GBNews. It is very good and so is Neil Oliver he also has a long podcast interview with Bret Weinstein that is interesting.
And for all of the small (r) republicans out there it looks like Boris Johnson is in trouble.
The way Paddington Bear drank tea is how my Grandma used to drink coffee. She would put the spout right up to her lips. Glug glug glug.
Boris won his confidence vote, but that doesn’t mean he’s out of the woods yet.
On the topic of the excellent Neil Oliver, The Conservative Treehouse posted a fine video of his two days ago; in it he describes the process by which Western governments (of the UK, but also of the U.S.) have come to regard the citizenry as an enemy of “progress”, one fit to be lorded over, surveilled, controlled, bullied and disenfranchised, invariably in the name of some nebulous globalist agenda (“the right side of history”).
PA Cat and Griffin,
A bit of that was featured in the film “The Queen” with Helen Mirren when she’s handling the 4×4 small truck touring Balmoral.
Dame Mirren said that one of the frequently fun things about being an actress are the cool wardrobes that are often given to them. She said she almost wept when she saw how boring her wardrobe was for “The Queen.”
j e,
I believe this is the Neil Oliver monologue to which you refer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2iU1cqqYU
This one is also good and might be the one that CT was referring to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68bjj1rfdqM
The Royal Physicians are doing everything in their power to keep ERII alive and kicking, seeing as they, along with the Royal Court generally, are well aware of the bizarre propensities and questionable capabilities of the Next In Line.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is, likewise, doing his part, appealing to Providence and as many Divine forces as will heed the plea to forestall the inevitable for as long as possible.
(The problem in the latter case, alas, is that given his track record, no one in their right mind will listen to the Archbishop of Canterbury. And so one must hope, and pray, for divine dispensation to, as it were, kick in….)
The display of humour, albeit rather dubious, and esprit, such as it is, involving that silly bear does indicate that HRH, or at least her advisors, do possess some sense of the ridiculous, which is an extremely hopeful sign.
May the Almighty—and all those marmalade sandwiches—give her strength for many years to come.
The Royal Physicians are doing everything in their power to keep ER II alive and kicking, seeing as they are well aware of the propensities and capabilities of the Next In Line.
How very different things were in January 1936, when George V’s personal physician (who bore the title “Lord Dawson of Penn”) gave the king a fatal dose of morphine without consulting either Queen Mary or the Prince of Wales (the later Duke of Windsor, who was also a painful illustration of “the propensities and capabilities of the Next In Line”). The truth about Dawson’s role in the king’s death came out when his diary was found and published in 1986. It prompted the rhyme:
Lord Dawson of Penn
Has killed many men,
Wherefore we all sing,
“God Save the King.”
Anyone who enjoys a classically produced program about a murder mystery with a British accent might enjoy “The Murder of King George V, 1936,” part of the series “They Got Away with Murder.” Yes, it’s an hour long, but it’s done as only a Brit could do it, and it ends with George V’s last wish, that the throne would pass to his younger son Bertie (George VI) and then “Lilibet,” Elizabeth II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWpOADZPGk&ab_channel=TheyGotAwayWithMurder
Dawson, of course, was motivated by what some have called the “M.Deity complex”; he was a snob who wanted (among other considerations) to have George V’s death first reported in the Times rather than the “less appropriate evening papers.” He does not appear to have wanted to hasten the accession of Edward VIII but accepted it as what a modern doctor might call the adverse effect of George V’s involuntary euthanasia.
“The rest of the Western world doesn’t seem to care much anymore about manners and custom…” neo
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” Robert Anson Heinlein
In Robert Burnham’s very astute “Suicide of the WEst” he goes to great lengths to point out that fundamental to liberalism is the dismissal of custom itself as antithetical to ‘progress’.
https://archive.org/details/james-burnham-suicide-of-the-west_202008/page/57/mode/1up?view=theater
“We are raising a generation of moral savages” comment by a sociologist in the Sunday Paper ‘Parade Magazine’ approx. 20 years ago.
World Economic Forum adviser Yuval Noah Harari may be the foremost example of the above,
https://www.independentsentinel.com/wef-prophet-humans-are-for-nothing-elites-need-to-surveil/
Klaus Schwab’s WEF got its start in 1974 with backing from three of the most influential people in the West; Henry Kissinger, John Kenneth Galbraith and Herman Kahn
“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world” — Henry Kissinger 1971
Henry Kissinger was Klaus Schwab’s professor at Harvard
“World Economic Forum adviser Yuval Noah Harari may be the foremost example of the above…”
Harari, it appears, is just another garden variety uber-genius and amoral nihilist, a vector that would appears to lead—necessarily—to pure immorality.
Which prompts the question: How can these geniuses (genii?) be so utterly stupid?
The answer would appear to be their PROUD—and PRINCIPLED?—jettisoning of any moral sense….
IOW, the value of a human being, for such as Harari, seems to be contingent on the USEFULNESS of that particular human being.
(Indeed, one is an uber-genius, one can come to some amazing conclusions…. Which may well be precisely what Nietzsche was warning about with regard to the death of God…)
Of course, one might ask how useful is a person such as Harari….
File under: Let us elevate PERVERSITY above all things!
Should be, “Indeed, if one is an…”