Buckingham Palace emergency meeting?

Hande hoche!

cml387 wrote: »

You need to read a fascinating article in The Guardian recently about "London Bridge Has Fallen".

You don't need to watch a mediocre film, London has Fallen. It will just about do if its a rainy afternoon or you're a massive Gerard Butler fan.

BlinkingLights

I was hoping it was an emergency meeting to have Theresa and Boris put into the Tower, however it turns out that the real reason is the Queen's briefing staff on a Buckingham Palace refurbishment project.

The amount of hype and speculation in the media was a bit overkill!

sjb25

vicwatson wrote: »

Maybe Camilla is up the duff?

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blinding

Merkel has sent Orders that All Germans have to Pack up Come back to their Fuhrer.........

Jawgap

super_furry wrote: »

There's 10 jobs being kept for 100 workers so they're arranging a Hunger Games to decide who stays. BBC3 will have full nightly coverage.

What a load of b0ll0x......

......it's the Royal Family.......it won't be hunger games.......it'll be jousting and sword fights, and flails and maces......like this, only for keepies

Medieval combat championships in Spain

cml387

Or possibly It's a Knockout ,

The last one went very well altogether.

seamus

Beefy78 wrote: »

A bunch of them have probably been made redundant. Bloody Brexit.

In all seriousness, this is probably the most likely thing. With Liz getting on in years, being less active, and the grandkids being more cosmopolitan and self-sufficient than royals in years gone by, they probably have twice the amount of staff they really need.

blinding

With Diane Abbot potentially becoming Home Secretary.......

They are worried about their Homes...........

kfallon

Lizzy is up the spout I bet!

Mollyb60

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39802636

BORING!

Cazale

Philip is retiring from public.

kopite386

There we go whoever said Prince Philip would be stepping down from public engagements was right

seamus

The Sun put up a placeholder article in expectation of Prince Philip having died, but accidentially published it. The headline is now the top result on Google 😂

Noveight

Cazale wrote: »

Philip is retiring from public.

Meaning he's dead and they've replaced him with a cardboard cutout so the queen can draw two pensions.

xabi

seamus wrote: »

The Sun put up a placeholder article in expectation of Prince Philip having died, but accidentially published it. The headline is now the top result on Google 😂

Wouldn't expect any less from that rag!

kopite386

seamus wrote: »

The Sun put up a placeholder article in expectation of Prince Philip having died, but accidentially published it. The headline is now the top result on Google 😂

Well it is the sun ...

Mint Sauce

Maybe they found Maddie?

donegaLroad

David Bowie made the same announcement a year before he died

Jawgap

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Maybe they found Maddie?

yeaaaah.....not funny.

Tabnabs

Ah for Jaysus sake.

I thought she was dead. She has let me down very badly.

blinding

I suppose he won't have to dodge the benefits investigators now........

blinding

I was Ironing My going to funeral suit......

Beefy78

Fair play to him. Enjoy your retirement Phil.

padd b1975

Lollipops23 wrote: »

Would that necessitate an "emergency" meeting though?

Not really, but from a logistical perspective of getting all staff in the same place at the same time it might be seen as best practice to ramp up the urgency.

The_Kew_Tour

It says a lot about The English Media when this actually makes front page news.

cml387

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

It says a lot about The English Media when this actually makes front page news.

And you're reading this thread about it. So you must be interested too.

The_Kew_Tour

cml387 wrote: »

And you're reading this thread about it. So you must be interested too.

well I thought one might be dead;)

neverever1

I thought it was going to be another jimmy saville/rolf harris type announcement. It really wouldn't be surprising, it seemed to be the done thing in Britain in the 70's/80's.

BlinkingLights

The guy is 95! It's an impressive retirement age.

AndyBoBandy

Big Phil is stepping down..Official

Mint Sauce

Was that it?

Glencarraig

Agustin Whispering Poplar wrote: »

Maybe it was one of the royal corgis whose died..sad day !

The flags would be at half mast if a corgi died, mabee one of them is in heat...........the corgi that is, not a royal !!

BlinkingLights

Harry's going to have to step up and start making more royal gaffes.

padd b1975

kfallon wrote: »

Lizzy is up the spout I bet!

Ghandi's flip-flop......

fryup

***********Pippa Middleton is Pregnant*************

with Prince Philip's child :eek:

Shurimgreat

Yourself isit wrote: »

Read the guardian article. This isn't the way significant information is released. Unless it's totally changed.


I'm sure something is up that effects the staff of the royal family.

Also an emergency meeting isn't a meeting about an emergency. It's just a non scheduled meeting.

Well I was right. It didn't have that much to do with staff after all.
You don't call an emergency meeting unless something is up.
Its not that significant but noteworthy nonetheless. The man has earned his retirement at this stage.

RobbingBandit

He woke the queen up at midnight with the full royal guard dressed as Sto?truppen screaming May the fourth be with you. Lizzy has had him sectioned and he will meet with George Lucas for reeducation.

Shurimgreat

BlinkingLights wrote: »

Harry's going to have to step up and start making more royal gaffes.

He would appear to be the natural successor to Prince Philip in this regard.

BlinkingLights

Shurimgreat wrote: »

He would appear to be the natural successor to Prince Philip in this regard.

Without those they might as well just declare a republic and be done with it.

I mean, it's basically a state-funded live soap opera.

Agricola

BlinkingLights wrote: »

The guy is 95! It's an impressive retirement age.

It is, but then again he is retiring from being a professional tourist essentially.

neverever1

What have these people ever done? They just go around visiting places and live in a massive house without having to cook or clean for themselves? It's hilarious seeing the Brits fawning over them! They've been taken for mugs.

BlinkingLights

Brits being Brits - it's an odd mental state to get your head around. One minute they're a modern, progressive democracy, the next they're worshiping the old lady who owns the place and seeing nothing odd about the Lords Spiritual (bishops in the upper house of the parliament).

It's a bit of an enigma of contradictory facts and ad hoc arrangements that only make sense in context.

dbagman

donegaLroad wrote:

David Bowie made the same announcement a year before he died

As did Bill o herlihy

ohnonotgmail

Agricola wrote: »

It is, but then again he is retiring from being a professional tourist essentially.

I dont remember being told where to go and who to meet when i'm a tourist. You must go on different holidays to me.

The_Kew_Tour

neverever1 wrote: »

What have these people ever done? They just go around visiting places and live in a massive house without having to cook or clean for themselves? It's hilarious seeing the Brits fawning over them! They've been taken for mugs.

Its funny people cant actually see this with Prince (or king or whatever the F he is) Phillip. People wishing him the best on his "retirement". Like he gives two hoots what people think

and this is coming from Half English, Prod myself.:P

Beefy78

Enjoy your enlightened flawless Republic lads.

Omackeral

The Sun is classy as always, reporting Philip dead.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-philip-dead-queen-elizabeth-ii-the-sun-mistake-buckingham-palace-emergency-meeting-royal-a7716861.html

neverever1

Beefy78 wrote: »

Enjoy your enlightened flawless Republic lads.

Uh oh! We've got a fawner here!

donegaLroad

donegaLroad wrote: »

David Bowie made the same announcement a year before he died

Oh stop trying to cheer us up.

Lets face up to the disappointment it is. I want a royal death now to get me over the midweek hump. :mad: