More Queen Mum Waffle

tHE vAGGABOND

Better than this is the facts email, quoting:

In the interests of free debate....... (Found on the internet)
This information is far from a secret and has appeared in a documentary
on Channel 4 as recently as 1999.
Yes, she was of great age which commands a certain respect.
But the Queen Mother's life needs to be put into perspective........

THE QUEEN Mother was a racist snob who excelled in extravagant living.
Amid
all the grovelling, hypocritical tributes paid to her this week, here
are
some facts to remember. The Queen Mother referred to black people as
"nig-nogs" or "blackamoors". She backed white minority rule in Rhodesia.
She
criticised Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India, "for giving away the
empire"
and his wife because "her mother was half-Jewish".

She opposed immigration, and thought black Africans incapable of running

their own countries. The media call her the "nation's favourite granny",
but
she enjoyed luxury beyond most people's wildest dreams. The Queen Mother

squandered millions on vintage champagne, racehorses and parties. She
had
five homes, including a Scottish castle with 25,000 acres worth £20
million.

The castle cost half a million pounds a year to run. She refused to give
it
up even though she only stayed there for six weeks a year. A small army
of
80 servants was employed to look after her. The Queen Mother dined out
at
the poshest restaurants, like Claridge's and the Ritz. She liked to have

"drinky-poos" before her lavish lunches.

Her fortune was estimated at £60 million. Even so, she couldn't manage
on
the £643,000 she creamed off us from the civil list every year. Luckily
for
her, the queen regularly chucked her a million quid or two. Prince
Charles
had to cough up another £80,000 a year to pay her long-suffering
servants.

A royal aide denied she was mean, saying, "She is simply out of touch
with
the costs of modern life and believes that what she pays is a living
wage."
When officials pointed out that she had amassed a £4 million overdraft,
she
refused to economise or sell any of her huge jewellery collection. This
included a necklace once owned by Marie Antoinette.

In her will she left some money to "her darlings", not relatives but
racehorses. The Queen Mother was hailed as the first commoner to marry
into
the royal family. In fact she was the daughter of the Earl of
Strathmore,
and her full name was Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon. Hers
was
a typically caring aristocratic family.

Two of Elizabeth's nieces were born disabled and were secretly locked
away
in a mental institution for the rest of their lives. The public was told

they were dead. She married Prince Albert, who was second in line to the

throne. One biographer, Michael Thornton, writes, "Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
was
determined to marry into the royal family so, after his third proposal,
she
settled for the runt of the litter."

More info on the nice old granny..

When Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, Albert
became
king and Elizabeth queen. The Second World War was, the media say, the
Queen
Mother's greatest hour as she stuck by the people of London during the
Blitz. But the idea that she shared the wartime privations of ordinary
people is a complete myth.

The king and queen visited Buckingham Palace during the day, but slept
every
night in Windsor Castle. She was at the other end of the country,
literally.
And made a dash to Buck House for the sake of the press and newsreels.
East Enders booed, jeered and pelted the Queen Mother with rubbish on
her
first tour of east London. She believed her pampered appearance would
"raise morale".
It just showed how she still lived the high life while everyone else
endured rationing.
And it is total fiction that she said she could now "look the east-end
in the face"
after the bombing of the palace. Yet again, an invention of early-PR.

For some 50 years the Queen Mother guarded royal documents in vaults at
Windsor Castle that detailed the abdicated king's relations with Hitler
and
the Nazis. They included captured German documents describing the
Windsors'
meeting with Hitler in 1937 and plans to restore the Duke of Windsor to
the
throne if the Nazis won the war. Some of these documents remain hidden
from
the public.

Before the war began the Queen Mother was a supporter of making
concessions
to Hitler and the Nazis. She once sent a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf to
a
friend, saying, "Even a skip through gives you a good idea of his
obvious
sincerity."

The Queen Mother was vicious to anyone she thought undermined the royal
family. Her treatment of the royal nanny Marion Crawford was described
by
one writer as "symptomatic of the ruthless and brutal cold-heartedness
of
that family and the way they treat the victims they leave in their wake
who
have generally done them great service". She engineered the pairing of
Charles and Diana through her friend, Diana's grandmother. Yet grew to
resent her
for continually flying in the face of Royal protocol, and believed her
to have too
much say in the future of the Monarch as mother to the heir to the
throne.

She did not step willingly aside for her daughter to become queen. The
then
prime minister, Winston Churchill, had to bribe her to get her out of
Buckingham Palace. The title of Queen Mother being invented to pacify
her.
The media praise her "devotion to duty", but she was far
more devoted to drinking and betting. The establishment is uneasy about
what
the response to the Queen Mother's death will be. So they should be. For
100
years we paid to keep her in the lap of luxury.

four_star

a nice story but can you prove any of it. if you can you are quite the historian. for a person you appear to hate you sure as hell no a lot about her!

seamus

To add the humour to this thread -

The crew from Banzai (great CH4 show) got arrested on the day of the funeral for setting up a speed camera on the hearse's intended route!! Rofl, I don't need to tell you what they were doing.

tHE vAGGABOND

a nice story but can you prove any of it

hence it being posted in the Humour section you muppet!

Our man in Havana

Originally posted by seamus
To add the humour to this thread -

The crew from Banzai (great CH4 show) got arrested on the day of the funeral for setting up a speed camera on the hearse's intended route!! Rofl, I don't need to tell you what they were doing.

Where did you hear this? Is it on the web?