The Queen is Dead -- Long Live the Queen

She had a snub nose .38. She was very 2nd Amendment.

 

Sammiches

 

TIL that the last time Charles got a formal promotion two people died in a protest bombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_of_the_Prince_of_Wales

 

Alternative lead:
"Thirty-six years after they first claimed it, The Smiths are right. The queen is, in fact, dead."

 

The only scandal for Charles was marrying the wrong woman/having an affair with the other one. He's far from the first royal to do that. That's a helluva lot better than chasing after teenage tail and associating with a child molester.

Someone posted this here long ago, and it made me take a liking to the chap.

 

The people with the hardest job in England today had to be the singers in the Westminster Abbey choir, who had to remember it's "God Save the King."

 

Walther PPK, or the Sig P229. Compact, effective, fits in the purse beside the sandwich and biscuits.

 

It struck me watching his speech, that Charles deference to his mother, (who doubled as his queen) was probably misunderstood by many as a sign of "weakness."
Granted, that speech has probably been written and re-written 20 times in the last 20 years - but it was pitch perfect in terms of establishing the transition.

 

I don't think that the British public, the one that counts for him, thinks that at all. I mean, only the very oldest of them can remember a sovereign besides Elizabeth. Deference to his mother was just the right note for an audience that had come to think of her as an eternal part of their mental landscape, the nation's sweet, all-forgiving grandmother. Shit, that's basically what Mick Jagger posted on Twitter, and he's older than me.