The big Jubilee event yesterday was a pageant of boats
sailing down the Thames led by the Queen’s barge. Among
the heaving crowd of flag waving, pro-royalist onlookers was a small
demonstration by republican activists, and a heated discussion broke out between
them.
One of the royalists was a 70-year-old woman called Gloria
Brown, who taunted the opposition with a personal rendering of God Save the
Queen. The republicans were so impressed, apparently, that they applauded her
and chanted ‘Gloria for President.’
There were no wrecks and nobody drownded, and that’s one
aspect of Britishness with which I’m happy to associate.
4 comments:
Ha ha, I bet given the chance Gloria would grab the tiara. With both hands ;)
And imagine herself Queen.
I'm waiting for a foreign person to ask 'Excuse me, is drownded a word?' And then I can tell them all about Albert and the Lion.
Is this the Albert and the Lion you are referring to Mr B?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jXMsfLxhI
Tears rolled down my cheeks...
It is indeed. I happen to know that one and the first two sequels (Albert Returns and Albert and the 'Eadsman) by heart, don't you know.
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