Encounters with RoyaltyMy good friend Jonathan once had to entertain the Queen whilst she had her portrait painted. The night before he was panicking as he didn't know any clean jokes.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Aug 2006, 15:06)
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Enough near brushes with RoyaltyI don't think I have ever met actual Royalty (although I've fucked enough queens in my time) BUT I have a catalogue of 2nd hand encounters with the real thing:
1)- a colleague used to be some kind of millitary person, and he had to carry Lady Di's suitcase from the back of their car to the waiting yacht when her and Charlie were off on a holiday or honeymoon or something (the bags were surprisingly light, he remarks)
2) - my ex-landlady got a job taking bus loads of piss-stinking old grannies around Clarence House to see The Queen Mum's old bits of china and art collection (which grew considerably during the years 1939-1945). While working there, she did pilfer half a slice of Prince Charles' fruit cake (a wonderful afternoon energy booster, apparently), so she practically met Royalty.
3) - my ancestor, Simon, was quite good friends with Henry III until he decided to make Henry hand over control of England to the newly formed parliament that Simon set up (there were only 15 members of parliament back then).
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