Not quite, but close!
Posted on 07/20/2015 4:30:11 PM PDT by NRx
The Queen, apparently impatient to get to church, veered onto a grass verge to avoid a family strolling through Windsor Great Park.
The monarch took to the wheel of a Jaguar X-type estate as she drove herself down the Long Walk on the Windsor estate on Sunday.
But when she found her path blocked by the young family, she clearly felt she did not have time to wait for them to get out of the way.
Despite diverting around them, the Queen, who is said to be furious over the leaking of a home movie of herself as a child giving an apparent Nazi salute, smiled and waved at the couple walking with their two children.
Scarlett Vincent. 23, and Toby Core, 30, a company director, said they were left in fits of laughter when they realised who it was.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yep. One of very few movies I paid money to see in a theater.
I thought her church was St George’s Chapel which is in the keep of Windsor Castle?
I walked the Great Park last summer and toured Windsor
Can’t out where she was coming from... Or going to unless there is a lodge some distance from the castle grounds
The car is at least seven years old and based on the Ford Mondeo. Most Jag fans hate the X-Type. They’re relatively cheap.
Most Jag wagons are Europe-only. The current XF ‘Sportbrake’ is pretty good looking, and is available there in a high performance version.
An X-type wagon was for sale near me last year. Certainly a good looking car, and probably the most reliable Jag ever made.
Could I get one as a sedan-delivery?
Not quite, but close!
Very cool.
People around here go gaga over a 72 Nova...and pickups.
I know how you feel, I bought a 2005 Honda S2000. I told my Mom that I couldn’t buy a Miata since it was an “old ladies car.”
Oxymoron at best....we used to say that they had all the durability of a spider web....I owned Import Auto Service for 30 years.
In the video she is doing donuts, ripping yp the grass.... The couple were plastered with grass and dirt. Really.
Ask Jeremy Clarkson.
LoL!
So are the couple and their baby she went around...
The Prince of Wales likes his cars, but he drives them in a way that makes me think he regrets the fact that they wouldn't let him fly fighter jets as often as he wanted to when he was in the service. At least, that's what it felt like when I was in a car he was driving. He may have been trying to make a point as I had just asked him when the last time he'd driven was.
The Duke of Edinburgh used to own a London taxi cab and drive it around the city because it was nicely anonymous. I assume he doesn't do that anymore, but I've heard he even used to pick up tourists sometimes and then confuse them by refusing to charge a fare (he wasn't allowed to as he wasn't a real taxi driver).
“Shall we ‘do some donuts’, Jeeves?”
“That would be capital, Your Majesty. Only the press are about, mind.”
“Mmmmfghf.”
That’ll learn me for not reading first.
If Hillary is Elected, the Queen has promised to come here and give Hillary Driving Lessons.
After that, she will be meeting with Clinton’s Cabinet and other Administration Officials to show them the proper way to Salute America’s new Queen.
73 was the year it all went south
My father used to say the owners of British cars have two happy days, the day they buy it and the day they trade it. LOL But he always had a British car in the drive, usually an MG or a Triumph. (I guess I should say it was in the drive when it wasn’t in the shop.) My uncle had a Jag, same story.
[Re The “Nazi salute”: I read once that before the rise of Hitler that US school children saluted the flag with the extended hand when said the Pledge of Allegiance. When the Nazis adopted it, the pledge was changed to be a hand over the heart.]
You’re right.
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-official-american-flag-salute-used-to-be-a-hitler-salute/
Gee, what fun it is to have a Queen.
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