Posted on 06/03/2012 6:36:37 PM PDT by Ebenezer
Anybody wishing to send Queen Elizabeth II a message by e-mail on the occasion of her 60 years as British monarch may do so through the following link:
http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/send-message-queen
Your post had me laughing out loud!
London Historian's Blog - Victoria Tower has more details.
It is called breeding. Peasant.
When I was in London last year, I learned that Big Ben is the bell itself. So, they are naming the tower tht holds Big Ben.
The whole royal family is nothing but glorifed welfare recipients. Why would anyone want to “congratulate” or celebrate that?
Thanks, no. I’ll send a “God Bless You” to Maggie Thatcher though.
An understandable error, since the BBC also got it wrong.
The tower was called just the Clock Tower, so never had its own name. "Big Ben" is the name of the largest bell inside the tower, so named after Benjamin Caunt, a famous heavyweight boxer of the 1850s.
So the old name will not be lost.
A lovely, delicate anime, and based on an English original. But relevant to Big Ben how?
She has no such authority.
AMEN to that. There is nothing wrong with congraulating someone who is rejocing, it does not make me less of an American. It is just simply offering best wishes.
Still a big milstone.
But sadly, this country has in the last few years has become one.
You don’t think the Queen works for a living? Wow.
My hat’s off to any lady who at 86 still gets up in the morning and puts on pantyhose. Happy Jubilee, Lilibelle!
You don’t think the Queen works for a living? Wow.
My hat’s off to any lady who at 86 still gets up in the morning and puts on pantyhose. Happy Jubilee, Lilibet!
Yes, the Queen was a mechanic during WWII. Her family behaved bravely and honorably during that awful time.
I thought it was the 16th that made you a democracy and a republic. Another good reason to strike down income tax, lol.
I am no royalist, but they create more wealth than they receive. That said, I would prefer the British monarchy be like the European models and taxpayer monies restricted to a very small amount of royals.
She has the power to veto, but no monarch has done so since the Civil War. And to do so would create huge problems.
And again, for the 7,856,419 th time, the Muslim population (inc ‘native’ white and black converts) is 4%. 96% of the UK isnt Muslim.
That twit son of hers is in fact a highly intelligent, funny, charming man who will make a fine King one day.
Yes, I have met him.
The majority of the British public likes him, and has agreed with, for example, his attacks on modern architecture and how we have literally destroyed our finest buildings in the name of ‘progress’.
Americans like you seem to have a beef with him because of that silly dead bimbo he married OR because he has said he wants to ‘defend all faiths’, which has been stupidly interpretated as Charles therefore being a ‘dhimmi’, when he has publicly defended Christianity and Judaism on many occasions, and is simply against oppressive secularisation.
He is also very fond, btw, of your country and people.
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