Hail to Her Majesty.

After more than 1,000 years of PR spin the UK Royal Family were sure to get it right finally.

But the Windsors are just upstarts https://youtu.be/ejRJXR92B7g

We Plantagenets did it better https://youtu.be/65-cIkBSPA4

Plantas are a bit like Bomber Abbott's Cabinet. Aye?

Constance
Good luck with that. Yah I think I had a royal cousin in some many degrees there somewhere, our lineal descents being separated by way of a few Caledonian cattle rustlers and deranged poets from the woods of old Ireland.

Plantagenet
Do you mean to say you are a real Plantagenet and all? Now that is a name to conjure with.

Yes, that ole Queen Elizabeth sure has been excrutiatingly polite, ain't she? It's a wonder a body don't suffer a brain rupture from that amount of chronic politeness. Perhaps she will break her own mould one day and the real radical in her will come out but it's looking decreasingly likely.

But you know, in the scheme of things, I think I prefer the dull but polite monarchs to your average Plantagenet :-)

Hi JKJ

In my commoner estimation the Queen has been (is) very good value, providing one of the pillars of Westminster democracy. Her staying on the job has prevented some other less worthy relatives from getting the job and stuffing it up.

Charlie may be much too influenced by the brighter Camilla (or too little influenced) to be a popular King - though not as bad as real Plantagenets.

If the Queen bats to a Century the Charles-CAMILLA reign may be mercifully brief - until the better William-Kate team get the guernsey.

Pete

The Queen's Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Queen-Elizabeth-140671425981842/timeline/ seems a fair reflection of her balanced public image.

Not too splashy. Her outfits are not too fashionable nor drab. There is the solid hat and handbag that we've come to expect.

Some ordinary people have their Posts on it.

"The Royal Baby" is linked https://www.facebook.com/The-Royal-Baby-1401630640051091/timeline/ .

Some great St James Palace photos eg. https://www.facebook.com/140671425981842/photos/a.440980932617555.92300.140671425981842/803491753033136/?type=1&theater

A well balanced site, like her image.

Even better than mine https://www.facebook.com/Plantagenet-Descendants-261227000583637/timeline/

:)

Pete

I look forward to Australia becoming a Republic, so we can leave all that outdated, old-fashioned Royal rubbish where it belongs....back in the old country.
We need to grow up and move on now...

//I look forward to Australia becoming a Republic, so we can leave all that outdated, old-fashioned Royal rubbish where it belongs....back in the old country.//

And look forward to sensible and intelligent heads of state like George Bush....

Call me old-fashioned, but I'd much prefer some inbred and outdated European fossil over the likes of Trump. Queen Elizabeth II has more decency and decorum in her right thumbnail than Trump has in his entire ludicrous toupee.

God save the Queen: long may she protect us from the ridiculous buffoons who would otherwise become our head of state.