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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: V_TWIN

If you watch Midsomer Murders it is very familiar.


41 posted on 09/10/2022 3:46:13 PM PDT by mware
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To: Twotone

Interesting that 70+ years since this was last done, someone remembered now.


42 posted on 09/10/2022 3:47:42 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

They’re somewhat expendable in hard times, otherwise drones seeve s purpose in breeding. Pretty cool ti stand in the middle of a mating swarm. You really get to know why they’re called drones.


43 posted on 09/10/2022 3:48:53 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: RoosterRedux

🐝😄


44 posted on 09/10/2022 3:51:44 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Twotone

Have not watched, but for anyone interested.

https://www.pbs.org/video/queens-garden-royal-bees/


45 posted on 09/10/2022 3:53:43 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Twotone

Have not watched, but for anyone interested.

https://www.pbs.org/video/queens-garden-royal-bees/


46 posted on 09/10/2022 3:54:54 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Twotone
Just make sure there is a good stock of Ravens at the Tower of London.

The Ravens of the Tower of London are a group of at least six captive ravens resident at the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.

Some historians, including the Tower's official historian, believe the "Tower's raven mythology is likely to be a Victorian flight of fantasy".

The earliest known reference to captive ravens at the Tower is an illustration from 1883. Historically, wild ravens were common throughout Britain, even in towns; the Tower was within their natural range. When they were exterminated from much of their traditional range, including London, they could only exist at the Tower in captivity and with official support.

The Tower ravens are tended to by the Ravenmaster of the Yeomen Warders. Local legend puts the origin of the captive raven population at the time of King Charles II (reigned 1660–85)

47 posted on 09/10/2022 3:58:20 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

‘The Life of the Bee’, by Maurice Maeterlinck, is one of the most beautiful books I’ve read:

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Bee-Maurice-Maeterlinck/dp/0486451437


48 posted on 09/10/2022 3:59:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Twotone

Now that’s odd


49 posted on 09/10/2022 4:00:10 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Twotone

How about the Corgis?


50 posted on 09/10/2022 4:01:19 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: ClearCase_guy

Never more


51 posted on 09/10/2022 4:02:09 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: spokeshave
The RavenMaster himself


52 posted on 09/10/2022 4:02:51 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Twotone

People still talk to the bees in the U.S. Old custom.


53 posted on 09/10/2022 4:09:30 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Twotone

...ahem.. This is NOT the Bee?


54 posted on 09/10/2022 4:10:17 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Twotone

I lol’d at this one!


55 posted on 09/10/2022 4:11:43 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Twotone

We’re going to be treated with lots of weird rituals over the next few months - read about one yesterday where Charles is to sprinkle red dirt from a silver bowl (or maybe it’s silver dirt from a red bowl) - onto his mother’s casket as it is being lowered into her grave.


56 posted on 09/10/2022 4:12:09 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Twotone
The Intelligence of Bees!
57 posted on 09/10/2022 4:15:29 PM PDT by Species8472 (Don’t celebrate sin)
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To: Twotone

Not the Babylon Bee?


58 posted on 09/10/2022 4:15:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: immadashell

Exactly


59 posted on 09/10/2022 4:16:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Twotone

The UK can either have a Monarcy or a vibrant middle class, time to decide...


60 posted on 09/10/2022 4:26:06 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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