Finally, I understand why they need grammar schools in the United Kingdom!
Huh, thanks. But I still want to be a British subject for purposes of the hypothetical.
Well, you can’t have people saying things that could produce alarm and despondency. What if someone on a bus had been overheard saying they thought Germany was winning the war?
Too great a risk.
You mean challenging her to guns at 10 paces?
I mean, if that’s the protocol, so be it. And look out, Lizzie!
No offense meant toward your marksman skills, but if it came to that, I think I’d put my money on the old girl.
She knows her way round an automatic weapon http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/05/queen2-460x287.jpg
Did she have to learn to shoot any weapons during World War II when she was in the ATS?
I concede that QE2 is likely to win a duel, especially one involving automatic weapons; but remember she insulted me. This is no way to run a kingdom.
The word on the street is that the new Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn, is set to refuse membership of Her Majesty’s Privy Council as he is an avowed republican. A stupid idea IMO, but nobody’s going to force him…
She would just sentence you to be hanged, drawn, and Corgied. The death of a thousand wounds, all of them on your ankles.
He leans republican, but isn’t willing to do anything about it politically. She could put him on Her Majesty’s Council for the Privies if he slights her.
For a more individual punishment she could just reestablish the Groom of the Stool:
Wow. This sounds depraved.
But that pretty clearly falls in to the catagory “offending a policeman”. Queen Beatrix was just incidental to the offense.
Joking aside though, that wouldn’t work as a punishment, what with the position being regarded as an honour.
Curiously, there is still a certain doubt about the technical legal position in regard to republican campaigning. The Treason Felony Act makes it a criminal offence to imagine depriving the monarch of his/her throne, and it appears to be still on the statute book. But then, so are all sorts of nonsenses that no-one takes any notice of.
He never said that, just that he couldn’t attend the first available investiture ceremony due to prior commitments. Cameron did the same. The press then turned it into one of their many lies about Corbyn.