60 years ago today, Queen Elizabeth was coronated. I remember being dragged to a neighbor's house where there was a television and made to watch the ceremony on grainy B & W TV and being told that this was a memorable occasion. Any other Anglphyles remember this?
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last commentToo young.
But I understand her son wants to be a tampon. So I'm waiting for the coronation of King Bloody Tampon I.
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Anglephyles?
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No. I must have been in a strip club.
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No. I'm Old, but not that old.
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I was 4 years old. No TV on our farm until the early 1960s when I was about 13-14. As a result, I never did pick up the TV-watching addiction.
It truly pisses me off that we have that dreary old queen's face on all our coinage here in Canada and on our $20 bills. She is revered but for what?......being the matriarch of one of the world's most dysfunctional families? Crypto-nazis the lot of them!
That Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (aka Windsor since WWI) family makes the Kardashians look like a normal, well adjusted group.
I dearly wish that Canada becomes a republic in my lifetime. I like the British parliamentary system much better than your USA system of government but I really want the Canadian head of state to be an elected Canadian citizen.
Not holding my breath.
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I'm not a Royal Watcher, but I do think it's fascinating that I have lived thru 11 US Presidents, buy only one Queen.
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@motorhead,
Could be another 15-20 years of dreary old Betty. Her gin swilling useless old mother lived to be 101.
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Ouch...that's a tad below the belt farmerart?
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@londonguy,
As long as that useless crowd of twits stays in the British Isles I am fine with them. They belong to you. Keep 'em there. Have you guys even had a monarch of English blood since Elizabeth I? I can think of a whole string of Scots, Dutch, Germans, Greeks, Danes; not too many true blue English since about 1600. That first Betty must have been a real ball buster.
Tell the truth, londonguy, aren't you appalled at the thought of Chuckles the Clown becoming your king? King Charlie III? Horse-faced Queen Camilla of the suspect personal hygiene? Didn't something real nasty happen to Charles I? Nell Gwynne was supposed to have given Charles II the gift that keeps on giving (and dripping and dripping and dripping.....).
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