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 ...
I thought this was a Babylon Bee article. Really, I’m not kidding.
But please don’t tell the ravens at the Tower of London. They might leave.
… in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries …Oh yes; do contradict your own headline in the first sentence. Great journalism.
Make with the Royal Jelly.
So then he tells them to bee good ;)
Bee talking is a thing. https://daily.jstor.org/telling-the-bees/
And they told him to buzz off.
Beekeeper: Queen Elizabeth II has passed on. Charles III is your new King.
Bees: Bring on the varoa mites!
Saw a sign in a London shop about 10 years ago -
Without Bees we’re _uggered.
and then he told them to bee hive.
Queen bee to be replaced by a king bee?
Then the Royal Guitarist came out and played ‘Johnny Bee Goode’!
Drones get kicked out of the hive before winter.
Heheh. You’re on a roll.
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?
That’s so Raven!
Perhaps “Charles the turd” will rethink his choice of kingly monikers.
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
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