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The Queen and Prince Philip's 'heavy colds' |
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Hope you get well soon and continue to serve the country in the magnificent way you have for all those years ma'am... *cough* OBE *cough*
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The common cold is a virus (antibiotics useless) which constantly mutates (so last year's antibodies, ''remembered'' by your immune system, won't be much use this year). Similar for flu, the jabs are ''last known version'' .......
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Don't the royal rely on alternative and herbal medicines
The tincture of spiced nettle flower obviously didn't do much good on this occasion |
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So is "heavy cold" a euphemism for "rotten hangover" then?
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"At this time of year our thoughts turn to the Commonweath......" Zzzzzzzz
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It's just been announced that Zara Phillips has suffered a miscarriage do I wonder if this was anything to do with the delay?
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Maybe they are on the way out?
Remember when Princess Margaret apparently burned her feet in the bath and took to a wheelchair for months? All bullshit... she had had a stroke. So, lord knows what a royal cold is. When they pop off, it'll be days after before we mere peasants will be informed. |
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It's just been announced that Zara Phillips has suffered a miscarriage do I wonder if this was anything to do with the delay?
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Ooh what a shame, The are a lovely couple and this is sad news for them.....
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Possibly. But in any event, I'm increasingly getting the sense that neither of them have colds, or if they did, they were never so bad that they would have prevented them from travelling at the usual time and date.
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I thought this sounded suspect from the start. Apart from which older people are less likely to get a cold because they have already been subject to a huge variety of germs (that said us ordinary folks haven't been cosseted in the same way
).Next thing they are off to Sandringham by helicopter which is most unusual. Am I being a bit tin foil hat to suspect that there may have been something else going on - like a specific security alert?
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The common cold is a virus (antibiotics useless) which constantly mutates (so last year's antibodies, ''remembered'' by your immune system, won't be much use this year). Similar for flu, the jabs are ''last known version'' .......
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Wishing them both a speedy recovery.
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Wishing them both a speedy recovery.
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Wishing their own children would look after mommy & daddy for just one day, instead of relying on the lower classes having to disrupt their family Christmas, ah well, I'm alright jack
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I'd bet that the overtime applications are over subscribed and paid at triple time.
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They probably are, maybe that's because their paid such a low salary, they rely on overtime.
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Wishing their own children would look after mommy & daddy for just one day, instead of relying on the lower classes having to disrupt their family Christmas, ah well, I'm alright jack
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What are their salaries, btw, as you seem to have inside information?
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Wow. Some of the responses on here are shocking. If you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all is something I was taught from a young age.
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Wow. Some of the responses on here are shocking. If you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all is something I was taught from a young age.
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If you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all is something I was taught from a young age.
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What are their salaries, btw, as you seem to have inside information?
![]() if you can't be bothered to research, fyi, after 51 years of service, within 12 months of the QM death, this dedicated individual was evicted from Clarence House and left homeless. As I mentioned in a previous post, ah well, I'm alright jack. |
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Plenty of information available publicly on what the queen mother's royal page (William Tallon) who may I add, served the QM for 51 years earned annually.
if you can't be bothered to research, fyi, after 51 years of service, within 12 months of the QM death, this dedicated individual was evicted from Clarence House and left homeless. As I mentioned in a previous post, ah well, I'm alright jack. |
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Lower ranks of the Royal Staff have traditionally earned 'Bugger-All'.
I think there has been a review and they now get 'Bugger-All and a bit' Linky for Lazy Sods: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ro...utf-8&oe=utf-8 |
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I am sure our Queen and the Duke will enjoy their dinner and the after dinner games they play with the family like Pass The Crown, Pin the Tail on the Corgi, Musical Thrones, etc. I wonder if they actually watch the Queen's Christmas Message on TV.
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