Posted on 09/01/2022 5:34:43 AM PDT by weston
Hilarious!
Thanks for the belly laugh.
Good ones!
El Paso hasn’t been the greatest place for decades. Must really be bad now.
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Awe.
‘I Was Queen Elizabeth II’s Chef, Our First Encounter Was Unforgettable’
So I wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth II when I got home. Not long after I had an interview and soon, I was working as a chef for the queen. But I moved from being chef de partie saucier right down to being chef number 20 of 20 for the queen. My first job was actually peeling carrots for a horse.
I remember thinking: What on earth am I doing? I was peeling carrots for the groom to come to take and put in the queen’s riding jacket pocket, so she could feed a horse at the end of her ride.
On my first day working at Balmoral, after lunch, I was told I could go and explore. I was walking along the path at two in the afternoon and I saw in the distance this lady walking towards me wearing a headscarf, wellington boots and a Barbour jacket, and she had corgis with her.
My first thought was: “Oh my gosh, this is the queen.” As we got closer to one another, my heart was pounding and I began reminding myself to call her “Your Majesty,” and not to speak unless she spoke first. Then, the dogs saw me and started barking. She had quite a few corgis at the time, and they all just ran towards me.
The Queen burst out laughing. I turned and ran. I realized then that I wasn’t meeting the Queen that day. She never called them off me, but I guess she never set them on me either!
Talking to her happened a lot later on. It was a few years later at Wood Farm at Sandringham. I’d been working all weekend, and the queen had been entertaining. She came into the kitchen and said, “Thank you for a lovely weekend.” She had this way of making you feel like you were the only person in the world at that moment. She was just amazing.
A Frugal and Practical Queen
Once at Balmoral, I was outside at the back of the castle, chatting to a policeman over a mug of tea. Then, the queen trotted up on a horse. We stood to attention and I put my tea down quickly. Her Majesty said to the policeman, “Why is that light not being turned off at the bottom of the chain walk?” There was one light that had been left on from the social club dance the night before. She then trotted down there, got off the horse and flicked the switch off herself. That was Queen Elizabeth
Interesting stories from the chef. He was Princes Diana and the boys chef after the marriage separation.
Princess Diana had lots of vegetables, steamed fish and poached chicken. We also had the boys, Prince William and Prince Harry, but they loved all the comfort foods like shepherd’s pie, pizza, fried chicken, and ribs. My job was trying to balance the two so that everybody was happy.
When the princess wasn’t there, their nanny chose the menus, and I remember one day I had roast chicken, cabbage, broccoli and potatoes on the menu for dinner. That’s what their nanny, Jessie Webb, wanted the boys to have. When I came into the kitchen that day, there was a note on my desk saying “Darren, please give the boys pizza for dinner tonight.” And it was signed by “Jessie.” But it was written in 7-year-old Prince Harry’s handwriting. They got the chicken, I was scared of the nanny!
I bet the WH had something to do with this new protocol. Make sure Joe isn’t outshined.
In a departure from tradition, former US presidents will not be invited to attend the funeral of the Queen. Instead, the honor will be extended only to current heads of state, and their spouses or partners, American-based news website The Daily Beast reported.
The White House announced on Sunday that US President Biden had accepted an invitation to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. But the invitation “was for the president and the first lady only,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday, according to the American-based newspaper USA Today.
A Message of Warning to America, From the Underground Church in Iran (President Biden 9-2-22 Speech)
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Europe could see a devastating ‘Lehman Brothers’ event as power producers face $1.5 trillion in margin calls — here’s how governments across the region are stepping in
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President Joe Biden remains silent after Democrat senate candidate in Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan called for Americans to “kill and confront” supporters of former president Donald Trump and his MAGA political movement. https://t.co/I62iJaq5U8— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 14, 2022
Thank you. We saw what they did to churches during COVID. And they found what they could get away with.
US soldiers being told to put their families on food stamps
Visa, MasterCard, and Amex are flagging purchases from gun stores
Were is the GOP on any of this?— NO JUSTICE NO SLEEP POSO 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 14, 2022
Army suggests soldiers fighting inflation go on food stamps https://t.co/7rU4SmnDMT pic.twitter.com/os7np5CFwV— New York Post (@nypost) September 13, 2022
Exactly. Steele and Danchenko are lowlife grifters who destroyed countless lives for a few measly dollars. All this talk about Russian disinformation is a decoy to deflect from the fact that the FBI used (and paid) two miscreants to try and take down a duly elected president. https://t.co/zdMm3HsFuQ— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 14, 2022
What a story
A funny and true story about the Queen:
Around 2005, the Queen and her Personal Protection Officer, Dick Griffin, were walking alone one afternoon in the hills near the Scottish royal castle, Balmoral.
Two tourists approached them, and engaged in conversation. Griffin recalls:
“There were two hikers coming towards us, and the Queen would always stop and say hello.
“They were two Americans on a walking holiday.
“It was clear from the moment we stopped that they hadn’t recognised the Queen, which was fine.
“The American gentleman was telling the Queen where they came from, where they were going next, and where they’d been in Britain.
“I could see it coming, and sure enough, he said to Her Majesty: ‘And where do you live?’
“She replied: ‘Well I live in London, but I’ve got a holiday home just the other side of the hills.’
“He said: ‘How long have you been coming up here?’
“She replied: ‘I’ve been coming up here ever since I was a little girl, so over 80 years.’
“You could see the cogs whirring, so he said: ‘Well, if you’ve been coming up here for over 80 years, you must have met the Queen.’
“Quick as a flash, she said: ‘I haven’t, but Dick here meets her regularly.’
The hiker then asked Griffin what the monarch was like in person.
“Because I was with her a long time, and I knew I could pull her leg, I said: ‘Oh, she can be very cantankerous at times, but she’s got a lovely sense of humour.’
“The next thing I knew, this guy comes round, puts his arm around my shoulder, and before I could see what was happening, he gets his camera, GIVES IT TO THE QUEEN, and says: ‘Can you take a picture of the two of us?’
“Then we swapped places, and I TOOK A PICTURE OF THEM WITH THE QUEEN.
“And we never let on, and we waved goodbye.
“Afterwards, Her Majesty said to me: ‘I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to his friends in America, and hopefully someone tells him who I am’.”
RIP, Your Majesty
LOL
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