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EXCLUSIVE: Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that the Queen has died and King Charles is their new boss in bizarre tradition dating back centuries
The Daily Mail ^ | September 10, 2022 | John Dingwall

Posted on 09/10/2022 2:45:26 PM PDT by Twotone

The royal beekeeper - in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries - has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.

And the bees have also been told, in hushed tones, that their new master is now King Charles III.

The official Palace beekeeper, John Chapple, 79, told MailOnline how he travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House on Friday following news of The Queen’s death to carry out the superstitious ritual.

He placed black ribbons tied into bows on the hives, home to tens of thousands of bees, before informing them that their mistress had died and that a new master would be in charge from now on.

He then urged the bees to be good to their new master - himself once famed for talking to plants.

The strange ritual is underpinned by an old superstition that not to tell them of a change of owner would lead to the bees not producing honey, leaving the hive or even dying.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: beekeeper; buckinghampalace; charlesiii; clarencehouse; elizabethii; gotellthebees; hives; honey; houseofwindsor; johnchapple; queenelizabeth; royalhives; thelatestbuzz; tradition; unitedkingdom
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To: Twotone

I thought this was a Babylon Bee article. Really, I’m not kidding.


21 posted on 09/10/2022 3:16:37 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Twotone

But please don’t tell the ravens at the Tower of London. They might leave.


22 posted on 09/10/2022 3:16:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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… in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries …
Oh yes; do contradict your own headline in the first sentence. Great journalism.
23 posted on 09/10/2022 3:17:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Twotone

Make with the Royal Jelly.


24 posted on 09/10/2022 3:18:37 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Twotone

So then he tells them to bee good ;)


25 posted on 09/10/2022 3:19:50 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: V_TWIN

Bee talking is a thing. https://daily.jstor.org/telling-the-bees/


26 posted on 09/10/2022 3:23:26 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Beowulf9
So then he tells them to bee good ;)

And they told him to buzz off.

27 posted on 09/10/2022 3:23:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Twotone

Beekeeper: Queen Elizabeth II has passed on. Charles III is your new King.
Bees: Bring on the varoa mites!


28 posted on 09/10/2022 3:24:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Twotone

Saw a sign in a London shop about 10 years ago -

Without Bees we’re _uggered.


29 posted on 09/10/2022 3:24:32 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: RoosterRedux

and then he told them to bee hive.


30 posted on 09/10/2022 3:27:18 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Twotone

Queen bee to be replaced by a king bee?


31 posted on 09/10/2022 3:29:24 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: All

Then the Royal Guitarist came out and played ‘Johnny Bee Goode’!


32 posted on 09/10/2022 3:29:30 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Drones get kicked out of the hive before winter.


33 posted on 09/10/2022 3:30:36 PM PDT by Overtaxed (As it was in the days of Noah.....are we there yet?)
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To: Beowulf9

Heheh. You’re on a roll.


34 posted on 09/10/2022 3:32:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Twotone

That’s the bee’s knees. The Queen owns all the swans in England too. We’re they also told of her death? and that Charles was their new boss? Did any of them commit swanicide?


35 posted on 09/10/2022 3:33:46 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s so Raven!


36 posted on 09/10/2022 3:34:42 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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To: Twotone

Might be something to it

https://daily.jstor.org/telling-the-bees/


37 posted on 09/10/2022 3:39:23 PM PDT by Tolk2112
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To: mass55th
"And after many a summer sings the swan..."
38 posted on 09/10/2022 3:40:49 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Twotone

Perhaps “Charles the turd” will rethink his choice of kingly monikers.


39 posted on 09/10/2022 3:43:47 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("There should have been an age and risk stratification approach." still true)
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To: Twotone

I wonder if they inform the Ravens at the tower of London; apparently they were important to Charles’ last namesake predecessor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Ba7uILkqY


40 posted on 09/10/2022 3:44:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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