I honestly don't have a problem with the Queen. She was a guest in our country, and it's polite to honor her traditions just as we would honor the traditions and customs of any other country's dignitary.
I don't feel less of a person because of it. Maybe that's just me.
Don’t you think that every single person who was to come in contact with the Queen was going to go out of his/her way to make her visit pleasant - special, even? Of course. That’s American hospitality - and good manners. Who cares whether you extend your hand to the Queen before she extends hers to you? President Bush doesn’t make an issue of it when someone does that to him. No American does. So why does the Queen make an issue of it when she is visiting us, first by schooling us yokels on “proper” behavior in her presence and second by looking annoyed, put out and disapproving when someone forgets the intricacies of protocol that we fought a revolution not to have to follow?
One time, during a state dinner hosted by Bush 41, one of the foreign heads of state drank from the finger bowl by mistake. Seeing this and not wanting the dignitary to even get a hint that he may have done something wrong, Bush 41 picked up his finger bowl and drank from it too. That is the sort of manners - American manners - that no protocol advisor from Buckingham palace can ever teach. Because their job is to make you feel inferior so that their boss can feel superior.
” I honestly don’t have a problem with the Queen. She was a guest in our country, and it’s polite to honor her traditions just as we would honor the traditions and customs of any other country’s dignitary.
I don’t feel less of a person because of it. Maybe that’s just me.”
My point exactly. Guess that makes two of us!