Posted on 11/28/2022 11:25:34 AM PST by Red Badger
And Michele put her arm around the Queen!
The Queen took that in stride, too.
Agree.
IMO, “President of the United States” trumps “Queen of the United Kingdom” ...
She’s so short, he probably didn’t even see her.........
So what day die she really die on?
I suspect she actually died during the night, but it wasn’t announced until the next morning until after Harry arrived...........
Precisely, and you expressed it so well :)
She was an example to all the world. I hope we can keep her in memory, now that we have lost her. As you said, there has never been anyone like her, nor will there ever be another.
Perhaps she inherited some of it from her grandma Vickie:
“As the story goes, Queen Victoria was hosting a guest from a foreign country. At the end of the meal, finger bowls of water were passed around so that everyone could clean their hands. The guest of honour had never seen such a thing so he lifted it to his mouth and drank it. Stunned silence passed through the room until the Queen raised her finger bowl to her mouth and drank. And then all the guests followed suit.”
https://siobhankukolic.com/queen-victoria/
She should walk behind him. Protocol? He was the elected leader of the largest powerhouse on earth. The driving force of civilization. She was just in the lucky sperm club, and has never won a single vote in her life. A monarch is a lesser creature than any American president who is legitimately elected. It’s not the job in American president to follow monarchy protocol.
What a wonderful story!
Holy 1776, Batman, do we still kowtow to British royalty?
She took him out to inspect the troops. That means he walks ahead. An American president should not ask submissive to a monarch.
Yet, I notice foreigners never have to follow American rules of decorum.
What was the unofficial date?
Some foreigners don’t even have to follow American statutory law ...
Bingo. And, that is why the losers who hated both her and DJTrump did so — they both had class. Not the snotty NYC type of class, down to earth.
It’s a distraction for an American president to know that he is always have to step off with the left foot, can’t step in front of the queen, all the terms he hast to use for her, the meaning of each and every little nuance. It distracts from his actual mission. All in American president is expected to do is be polite within his own culture, and it’s for the lesser foreigners to look and observe that no one is trying to offend anybody. It’s the same around the world. Foreigners never act even slightly concerned about American sensibilities, when those existed. For example, a Saudi king was never told not to walk along holding hands with George Bush because Americans will think he’s a homo.
And we saved that country twice. The proper thing is for them to show us deference and respect. She needs to make sure she doesn’t have found an American president. Which she did. Monarchist protocol has no meaning for an American.
One could say that any recognition of local customs is a ‘distraction’. And I don’t think it’s too hard to remember to walk behind the queen, don’t touch the queen, and to address her properly. Little British kids learn all of this at a very young age - certainly a U.S. President could master it.
Again, the Queen is very understanding of all of this.. But it would have been nicer if Trump and the Obamas could extend themselves similarly.
“he accidentally broke royal protocol, walking ahead of Her Majesty.”
We’re Americans. Not royal subjects.
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