Posted on 04/27/2016 6:07:17 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
New rules after the president’s entourage wrecked her garden in 2011
Her majesty insisted President Obama bring no more than three choppers to her 90th birthday celebration.
After his entourage of twelve helicopters ruined the grass in Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle gardens during a 2011 visit, the Obama administration’s attempts to bring an extensive security detail were no match for the Queen’s insistence.
The Queen called President Obama’s entourage “over the top,” and refused to yield in her scaled back security demands.
According to the Deccan Herald:
The Queen called Obama’s bevy of choppers “over the top”, meaning the Secret Service had to rethink their plans to land about six aircraft in the 300-year-old gardens of her main residence.
“It was a write-off and the Queen was not amused,” ‘Daily Express’ quoted a royal source as saying.
“Her Majesty refused to back down and said, ‘three helicopters only’. The Secret Service had to go away and think about their plan. The President’s officials were told that the Queen regarded Windsor Castle as her family home and the most important of all royal residences,” the report said.
“She rarely imposes her will but when she does people listen – it just took the US Secret Service agents a little time to realise that,” the source said.
The Queen, whose 90th birthday was celebrated recently, said there was no chance Obama’s extensive security backup would be accompanying him to Windsor Castle. Her insistence came after Obama’s helicopters damaged the grass when half a dozen of them landed during his last visit in 2011.
The engines’ heat scorched the grounds and the wheels left divots in one of the UK’s oldest lawns, planted during the reign of Queen Anne in the early 1700s.
The Queen said only three helicopters, including the president’s personal aircraft Marine One, could land on the lawn when Obama, 54, and his wife, Michelle, 52, came for dinner with the monarch and Prince Philip to celebrate her 90th birthday, the report said.
An insider said US aides refused to change their plans on security grounds but came around to the Queen’s wishes eventually.
There’s a joke about the Revolutionary War and British subjugation in here somewhere.
But the lesson is clear — a woman never forgets a man whose vanity destroyed her garden.
I would have told the prick to go eat at McDonalds........
Good for the Queen!
The ugly American
Even a 90 year old woman thinks he is a jagoff.
Maybe he’ll just deliver (drop) the Churchill bust from 3000 ft.
The political class of the entire world are such creeps these days but we have some of the worst.
“Our Royalty is better than your Royalty.”
Democrat quote.
Obama was just shown how “important” he is to the Queen...and to the world....
Maybe he can get a couple of carriers in sore need of maintenance through the shipyards and support his endeavor.
If I were president I’d really think about limiting State visits like this. In the electronic age they don’t serve much purpose and are hideously expensive. Just don’t go Barrack!
I’d also move the presidential residence to Camp David and turn the White House into a venue for formal state functions and a museum. This would simplify the traffic around the DC area and allow some major roads to be opened up again.
It would be beneficial to the president because security would be much easier since the residence is farther from streets and buildings where terrorist/snipers/bomb wearing jihadi’s could hide.
It would also, I think add to the presidential quality of life. Children in the first family could play outside because Camp David is in the middle of a big military base. There is a swimming pool, a golf course, a movie theatre, bowling alley and other amenities on the base that the White House lacks. Kids could ride bikes or play ball games outside with considerably less security issues.
It would also mean that when the president addressed Congress he/she would take a helicopter to the capital steps rather than causing a traffic jam down Pennsylvania avenue.
Just my opinion
Is this really true? I’ve seen it before, but find it hard to believe.
Twelve helicopters? Just more of the ridiculous cult of the presidency BS. All recent ones are the most spoiled human beings in all of human history.
Can anyone imagine Ike or Truman demanding to land 12 helos in the queens garden?
Crap like this is precisely why the world hates us.
why she even allows this Honolulu hapa papolo lowlife to visit her domain I cannot understand
I don’t think there’s any substitute for eye to eye meetings.
But the hideously expensive part can be fixed pretty quick.
This whole entourage worthy of a 3rd world potentate needs to be sh!tcanned pronto.
Thank you, Ma’am, for taking that self-important sumbitch down about 9 notches. He’s sorely needed to be informed he isn’t the god of the world he thinks he is.
Obama could wrap a rag on his head and put on a galabeya in London and get gold star treatment all the way to Her Majesty without ANY security detail.
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