Cool Britannia
In some ways I'm quite a fan of the monarchy - I think that Prince Philip and The Queen are both rather cool in their own special way.
In that vein I thought this snippet from The Times is worthy of a mention:
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Her Majesty and a battle of the bards
Ray Davies of the Kinks, who was shot during a mugging in New Orleans last year, was shocked when the Queen told him: “I hope they catch the b****** who shot you.”
Davies claimed the Queen said the rude but quite cool thing while he was picking up his CBE insignia at Buckingham Palace, according to GQ magazine. A Buckingham Palace spokesman has denied the quote, saying: “I think it’s highly unlikely she spoke in this manner.”
So what did the Queen say? Obviously, as an elder statesman of rock, Davies’s hearing has taken a high-decibel battering over the years, so it must have been something that sounded a bit like “b*****”. “Last bard”, perhaps — the Queen assuming that Davies, as a fairly forthright individual, has had many “run-ins” with fellow rock stars, or “bards”, and that this mugging was merely the latest.
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I'm not sure what's more amusing - the fact that the Queen said what she did or the random and slightly eccentric reason the writer of the article gives to explain what she must have said instead. Of course the Queen would never use language like that...
In that vein I thought this snippet from The Times is worthy of a mention:
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Her Majesty and a battle of the bards
Ray Davies of the Kinks, who was shot during a mugging in New Orleans last year, was shocked when the Queen told him: “I hope they catch the b****** who shot you.”
Davies claimed the Queen said the rude but quite cool thing while he was picking up his CBE insignia at Buckingham Palace, according to GQ magazine. A Buckingham Palace spokesman has denied the quote, saying: “I think it’s highly unlikely she spoke in this manner.”
So what did the Queen say? Obviously, as an elder statesman of rock, Davies’s hearing has taken a high-decibel battering over the years, so it must have been something that sounded a bit like “b*****”. “Last bard”, perhaps — the Queen assuming that Davies, as a fairly forthright individual, has had many “run-ins” with fellow rock stars, or “bards”, and that this mugging was merely the latest.
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I'm not sure what's more amusing - the fact that the Queen said what she did or the random and slightly eccentric reason the writer of the article gives to explain what she must have said instead. Of course the Queen would never use language like that...
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