The Queen Mother Told off Conservative Minister about Gay Employees

[CorpGovActivist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon">God rest Her Gracious Soul, I have a soft spot for the late Queen Mother.

Lectured by a Conservative Minister about employing HOMOSEXUALS in the 1970s, http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Look-Awfully-Like-Queen/dp/0007148747">the Queen Mother is reported to have quipped that, without them, ""we'd have to go self-service."

When her friend, the gay playwright http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Coward">Noel Coward, was eyeballing some soldiers at a function, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon">she ribbed him: ""I wouldn't if I were you, Noel; they count them before they put them out."

:rofl:

Famously fond of her tipple, she once bellowed in jest: ""When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old queen a drink?"

For those who point out - breathlessly, sputteringly - "But, but, but: Hillary has gay servants, er, staffers!"

I say, "Crass meets class! Talk to the tiara! Hitler described the Queen Mother (then the Queen) as 'http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=hitler+most+dangerous+woman+elizabeth">the most dangerous woman' in all of Europe, for how she rallied the British people with a fine, upstanding example."

[joeybee12]

1. Yup, the gay mafia runs Buckingham Palace...

...and I mean that in a good way.

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Kick Ass Backstairs/Backroom Parties, Too!

And I mean that in a good way.

; )

- Dave

[joeybee12]

6. Do you think they should use their influence in updating Liz's

wardrobe...in a good way???

[CorpGovActivist]

13. I Hesitate...

... to suggest that Her Majesty ought to change a thing.

Pisses me off that Rudy got a knighthood, though.

:grr:

- Dave

[joeybee12]

16. Yeah, and she left Bob Gelbert off her list one year...

...it was later corrected, but geesh, someone should have told her.

[CorpGovActivist]

18. One Does Have...

... an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Horribilis#Queen_Elizabeth_II">annus horribilis, from time to time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_warrant#Purveyors_to_the_British_Royal_Family">Pass the Bolli, would you?

:toast:

- Dave

[joeybee12]

21. Take away one of those "n's"...

...I'm afraid to click on your links now!

[CorpGovActivist]

23. I Don't Know How to Spell

... the sound I just made.

:rofl:

:spray:

Have you now? Speaking from experience?

OMG. I am so borrowing that line.

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

14. Joey...

... you do know about http://www.etoile.co.uk/Rnews.html">this site, right?

- Dave

[joeybee12]

15. I do now! Thanks.

"Duke of Hazard?"!!!!!

[CorpGovActivist]

17. To Whom...

... are you making reference? Duke of Hazard? My teddy? Or Prince Philip? Or Andrew? Or Harry?

:rofl:

Oh, the daily news list there is incredible. The woman who runs it (and who has, for years upon years) is a trooper.

This is a guilty pleasure.

Oh, and of course there's http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp">Her Majesty's Official Website, which - unlike Senator Clinton's - http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page222.asp">has a built-in search feature.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page2495.asp">If you want to figure out whether to curtsy or bow, one site makes it easy to figure out; the other, does not.

- Dave

[terrya]

3. I just liked the fact that she and King George VI refused to leave London...

during the heaviest bombing of World War II. I always thought that was classy.

[CorpGovActivist]

4. Looking Eastenders in the Eye after Buck House Bombed!

:toast:

[joeybee12]

5. She earned a lifetime of goodwill for the entire royal family for that...

...and again, I mean that in a good way!

[CorpGovActivist]

8. I Thought Royalty Was Fake (Fairy Tales Only) until I was 8...

... when, home sick from school, I started paging thru the encyclopedias at home.

King George VI's picture caught my eye. I got hooked on geneaology, and my teddy bear got a name that day. One of the names is George. Poor little guy is looking threadbare these days.

:rofl:



- Dave

[joeybee12]

9. Awww..............n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

11. He Has More Than One Christian Name...

... as any good little prince ought.

He'd been nameless up until that day. Long overdue christening.

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

20. P.S.

Yup, I was a weird little kid, reading encyclopedias on a sick day.

:rofl:

- Dave

[Coexist]

24. unlike our leaders (senate and house) who HID and told us to SHOP.

I was embarassed.

If you want to be a leader - then dammit LEAD.

[terrya]

25. That is a startling comparsion.

That was shameful that day...our "leader" flying all over the country like a scared rabbit. It was embarrassing, to say the least.

[CorpGovActivist]

28. Yup, Sad n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

27. Precisely! n/t

[MasonJar]

7. Queen Liz, then a princess, drove an ambulance. Then we have

the "LOWLY ONE" in the WH flying all over the country like the flunkie he is.

[CorpGovActivist]

10. Yup, She Learned How to Fix Engines, Change a Tire, Etc...

... and when she's summering at Balmoral, insists on driving herself in a Range Rover.

:toast:

- Dave

[peacetalksforall]

12. No horses. No self piloting. Only bikes, jets, limos, and golf carts.

No ambulances.

[CorpGovActivist]

19. One Is Not Isolated; one "Is"

[Onlooker]

22. Those are great quotes

Thanks for posting.

[CorpGovActivist]

26. You Bet!

She was one tough - and classy - person.

:toast:

- Dave