From The Long and Short of it All archives:
Queen, Queen Mother, and Dachshund Watch Badminton Horse Trials
19 April, 1958: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN WITH THE QUEEN MOTHER HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE BADMINTON HORSE TRIALS AT BADMINTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
THEY SAW MISS SHEILA WILLCOX ON "HIGH AND MIGHTY" ESTABLISH A LEAD OVER ALL OTHER COMPETITORS.
ABOVE, THE QUEEN WATCHES THE TRIALS AT BADMINTON WHILE CARRYING ONE OF HER PET DACHSHUNDS.
ABOVE, THE QUEEN WATCHES THE TRIALS AT BADMINTON WHILE CARRYING ONE OF HER PET DACHSHUNDS.
Do you love the Royals, despise the Royals, or are you just indifferent? It's pretty clear where one of our favorite British popstars, Morrissey, stands on the subject. He wrote these words a few days ago:
The soul is tried all over again as the jackboot of dictatorship strangles England. This week, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee presents a new lesson in the force of tyranny, and is an expression of loathing and abhorrence of the British poor - and all done, quite naturally, at the public's expense! It is degrading to anyone of intelligence. While dictatorships throughout the Middle East are gently condemned by the British government, there is no examination of the extremism enforced by the British 'royals', who remain the most overpaid and most utterly useless people on the planet. Having done nothing to earn our respect, they demand everything by return. It is a cunning and extravagant form of benefit fraud.
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