Hoping it's anything other than what I think it could be

[Scooter]

Queen Elizabeth’s entire staff called to ‘highly unusual’ emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace

QUEEN Elizabeth II’s entire staff from across the United Kingdom has been summoned to an emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace in London today, according to reports.

Servants will be addressed by the Royal Household’s most senior officer Lord Chamberlain and Her Majesty’s Private Secretary Sir Christopher Geidt in just hours.

The meeting, called suddenly and described as highly unusual by royal watchers, has sent Britain’s rumour mill into a concerned frenzy.
It’s currently the middle of the night in London.

There is speculation that the announcement is to do with either the Queen or her husband the Duke of Edinburgh’s health.

Social media has erupted in panic with many offering theories about the announcement, from abdication to far more serious issues.

The Mirror reports that even the most trusted of staff have been left in the cold as to what the meeting will be about.

“Although meetings involving the entire royal household are occasionally called, the way this has been done at the eleventh hour is highly unusual and suggests that there is something major to be disseminated,” Mail Online reported.

Buckingham Palace has declined to comment.

[Guinevere]

It's Phillip. Announcement at 8AM London time.

She is going to be bereft, poor lady.

[Lord Jim]

Sorry to hear of the passing of her Greek Sailor...

[Guinevere]

Well no confirmation yet, apparently. So perhaps not. They were both out and about yesterday.

[Scooter]

I see that it is French media that has jumped the gun to report this. Figures.

[Gob]

It's Phillip. Announcement at 8AM London time.

Anything to get out of meeting Trump.

She is going to be bereft, poor lady.

Agreed (if it's true,) but she's 91, and he's 96, so it's not going to be unexpected.

[Gob]

It's Phillip. Announcement at 8AM London time.

Anything to get out of meeting Trump.

She is going to be bereft, poor lady.

Agreed (if it's true,) but she's 91, and he's 96, so it's not going to be unexpected.

[Guinevere]

Well, much ado about not much. They're both apparently fine. The Duke is standing down from public life.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.independ ... html%3Famp


https://www.royal.uk/announcement-regar ... -edinburgh

[RayThom]

Well, much ado about not much. They're both apparently fine. The Duke is standing down from public life.

This is positive spin to make us believe all is well even in the face of impending doom. "The cat is on the roof..."

http://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jo ... ofjoke.htm
I feel there's a race to the finish line going on between the Duke and Bush Sr. We're sure to find out -- sooner than later.

[Scooter]

First George H.W. Bush checks himself into the hospital to avoid going to Trump's inauguration.

Now the Duke of Edinburgh retires to avoid having to meet him.

You'd think the guy would take the hint.

[Scooter]

Queen to pretend to be dead until Donald Trump has gone

Buckingham Palace has called a meeting asking everyone to ‘play along’ with pretending the Queen is dead until after Donald Trump has completed his state visit.

Palace insiders reported that her Majesty had been looking for a way to duck the forthcoming visit, and decided that just lying very quietly and asking everyone not to let on was probably the best way out.

Britain will be asked to act like the country is in national mourning when President is present, which isn’t expected to be too difficult.

The ruse will also mean the President will not be able to ride in the gold coach like he wants because it would be inappropriate during mourning, and the Queen is worried he’ll leave ‘unsightly’ stains on the seats.

Prince Philip is understood to be looking forward to the visit, as he’ll be able to say anything he likes to Trump and everyone will blame it on him grieving.

“Her Majesty will stage a miraculous recovery shortly after the President has left,” a spokesman told us.

“As President Trump believes everything he sees on Fox news we’ll just say it was done with homeopathy and healing crystals or some shit and he’ll lap that right up.”

[rubato]

"The Sun" is French, I didn't know. I would think it would be called "Le Soleil".

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 16861.html

"The Sun mistakenly reports Prince Philip is dead"'

yrs,
rubato

[Econoline]

First George H.W. Bush checks himself into the hospital to avoid going to Trump's inauguration.

Now the Duke of Edinburgh retires to avoid having to meet him.

You'd think the guy would take the hint.

[Scooter]

Let's look back on his best gaffes and funny moments.

"British women can't cook" (in Britain in 1966).

"What do you gargle with, pebbles?" (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).

"I declare this thing open, whatever it is." (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" (during the 1981 recession).

"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).

"It looks like a tart's bedroom." (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988)

"Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on." (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).

"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).

"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).

"Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).

"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school's steel band).

"They must be out of their minds." (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%).

"You are a woman, aren't you?"(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).

"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).

"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a Koala bear).

"You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).

"You managed not to get eaten, then?" (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).

In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as "Reichskanzler" - the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.

"You're too fat to be an astronaut." (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).

"I wish he'd turn the microphone off." (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).

"Do you still throw spears at each other?" (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).

"You look like a suicide bomber." (to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002).

"Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?" (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral, 2002)

"Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" (to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009).

"There's a lot of your family in tonight." (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009).

"Do you work it a strip club?" (to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub in March 2010).

"Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" pointing to some tartan (to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010).

"Bits are beginning to drop off." (on approaching his 90th birthday, 2011)

"How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?" (meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012)

"I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." (to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent, in May 2012)

"The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." (on meeting a Filipino nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013)

"Most stripping is done by hand." (to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013)

"(Children) go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." (prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013)

"Just take the f***ing picture." (losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - July 2015)

"You look starved." (to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men - February 2017)

"I'm just a bloody amoeba." (on the Queen's decision that their children should be called Windsor, not Mountbatten).

"Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out."(to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain's inefficient industries in 1961).

"Are you asking me if the Queen is going to die?" (on being questioned on when the Prince of Wales would succeed to the throne)

"If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity." (On a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974).

"I hope he breaks his bloody neck." (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree)

"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she's not interested." (on the Princess Royal)

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." (on marriage).

"It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people." (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).

"Where did you get that hat?" (supposedly to Queen at her Coronation).

[Big RR]

Most are funny, but some are worthy of Trump.

[Lord Jim]

Yeah, Phil has long had a filtering mechanism issue with his mouth, which is something he has in common with Trump...

He's also displayed some fairly coarse bigotry from time to time...(Another thing he has in common with The Donald)

I imagine Trump will be disappointed if he doesn't get to meet him; they might get on quite well...

[Bicycle Bill]

"You are a woman, aren't you?" (In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

-"BB"-