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.
Just payback...
Obama must have seen London Has Fallen. 12?
The audacity of this woman! Really telling the President of the USA what he can and cannot do! who the hell does she think she is the Queen of England?? ............ oh wait, she is. Nevermind
Hilariousness!
I missed that the firs time I looked at it.
Just goes to show that O thinks our allies are enemies.
He thinks he needs 12 choppers to land at the queens house.
I bet he’d be willing to go on foot to Tehran.
“Twelve helicopters? Just more of the ridiculous cult of the presidency BS. “
It’s really a good thing that Trump has his own “air department,” because The Half-Breed” will have reducted the “WH airforce” to a bunch of worn out junk before he leaves.
She figured that out even before Obama totally screwed up his toast to her at the state dinner. LOL
In case anyone is wondering where libbylu went, she is spreading her idiocy over at Legal Insurrection now.
She fits right in with the vile and childish #nevertrump crowd that infest that place now.
FUstupidBO
LOL!!
Camp David is not on a military base. It is located in the idyllic mountains of Western MD adjacent to the lovely Catoctin Mountain State Park just across from one of the most pristine and beautiful private zoological parks in the nation, the Catoctin Wildlife Zoological Preserve.
One for the president, one for backup, and one for decoy.
Staff traveled by ground.
“Camp David is not on a military base. ‘
Oh, my mistake (Actually Google). When I looked it up it showed a military base.
I know you you said... I agree. But I think is is popolo. It used to be so common a a word. There were even comedy albums using it, and the Sheraton-Hilton luau MC used it. No problem then.
Maybe if you provide a link to their sign up page?
Call it the "Opus encouragement link."
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