# Queen Elizabeth crashes a wedding **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902 "2012-03-27T01:12:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/1 "2012-03-27T01:12:44Z")
And they say Her Maj doesn’t have a sense of humour. 🙂 [Link from the CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/03/25/queen-wedding-crasher.html). ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/2 "2012-03-27T01:30:24Z")
I always think it’s so sweet when public figures do little things like this. It’s just a few minutes out of her day, but this will be a story that will be told in the new family for generations. Too cute. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/3 "2012-03-27T01:36:00Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > It’s just a few minutes out of her day, but this will be a story that will be told in the new family for generations. "And then the Queen put her hand on my stomach, where you were, and asked, ‘Are you knocked up, dear?’ And then she said, ‘We heard the food was better on this side. May I have a gin?’ " ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/4 "2012-03-27T01:36:15Z")
Her Royal Highness was probably checking out the groom as _prima nocta_ meat. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/5 "2012-03-27T01:36:33Z")
I’m not exactly a royalist, but that truly was awesome. They were so chuffed. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/6 "2012-03-27T01:39:51Z")
Regardless of your opinions on the institution of the monarchy, I think almost everyone agrees that Elizabeth II does the job very well. Charles is totally screwed. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/7 "2012-03-27T01:56:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Regardless of your opinions on the institution of the monarchy, I think almost everyone agrees that Elizabeth II does the job very well. > > Charles is totally screwed. Yes, I’m very much the anti-monarchist, but I’ll always have a soft spot for Queen Elizabeth. She won me over long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/8 "2012-03-27T02:12:26Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Her Royal Highness was probably checking out the groom as _prima nocta_ meat. Her Royal Highness? :dubious: “Her Majesty” is the correct form - though she is also Duke of Normandy and Lord of Mann. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/9 "2012-03-27T09:15:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Charles is totally screwed. I like Charles. I do realise, though, that I am probably the only person in the British Commonwealth of Nations who does. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/10 "2012-03-27T09:46:52Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I like Charles. I do realise, though, that I am probably the only person in the British Commonwealth of Nations who does. Hey, I’ve got a soft spot for Charles too. All families need someone to scapegoat, and for the Windsors, it seems that Charles was the soft target! I reckon he’d make a great Monarch…maybe a slightly eccentric one, but a good bloke all the same. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/11 "2012-03-27T09:57:30Z")
On the front page, this thread title just shows up as “Queen Elizabeth Crashes a…”, so I had to click to find out more. I was thinking tank or ship. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/12 "2012-03-27T10:18:19Z")
Echoing something said in the comments for that article: It appears that the groom had sent the Queen an invitation (just as a joke, and not expecting her to actually show up). So, technically, Her Majesty didn’t _crash_ anything. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/13 "2012-03-27T12:24:24Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I like Charles. I do realise, though, that I am probably the only person in the British Commonwealth of Nations who does. > [@kambuckta](#): > > Hey, I’ve got a soft spot for Charles too. All families need someone to scapegoat, and for the Windsors, it seems that Charles was the soft target! I reckon he’d make a great Monarch…maybe a slightly eccentric one, but a good bloke all the same. 🙂 Agreed. Charles is ok. (Oh - and I never could stand Diana. He’s much better off with Camilla.) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/14 "2012-03-27T13:05:05Z")
I’m pro-Chuckles too. He’s a doofus, but he tries. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/15 "2012-03-27T13:17:51Z")
> [@MarcusF](#): > > Agreed. Charles is ok. (Oh - and I never could stand Diana. He’s much better off with Camilla.) I wrote to Charles ages ago when he made a speech about historic preservation, and got a lovely letter back, complete with the royal crest on the envelope! My landlady was impressed. Her Maj strikes me as a very nice girl (though she doesn’t have a lot to say), and I have always been on Team Camilla. Classic no-nonsense dowager. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/16 "2012-03-27T13:33:48Z")
I don’t get why everybody seems to think Camilla is so ugly, **Eve**. I mean, she’s better looking than most of them and a perfectly handsome older woman. She does need some fashion help, I’m afraid. I did love what she wore for her own wedding, but have been quite disappointed in her choices lately. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/17 "2012-03-27T13:45:45Z")
On the down-side, this little incident is going to cost the young couple massive social points in the intermediate period (after the novelty is gone and before it becomes a story told to the grand-children). Nobody is going to want to invite them to parties, because they will always have the trump story. He’ll never be able to spin a yarn at the pub, either. He’ll start out telling his mates about the flat tyre he got on the way to Croyden and somebody will pipe up with “And then Charles showed up to change it for you, right?” and everybody will smirk and go back to drinking. She’ll never get to say anything to her friends on their little victories in Life, because her friends will never be sure if she’s just being condescending instead of really interested. Thanks a lot, Queenie! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/18 "2012-03-27T13:46:22Z")
Heard about it on the news last night. I thought it was a wonderful story. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/19 "2012-03-27T13:54:04Z")
Is it technically crashing a wedding if you are invited, decline, and show up anyway? Still, a cool story. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902/20 "2012-03-27T14:03:30Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Echoing something said in the comments for that article: It appears that the groom had sent the Queen an invitation (just as a joke, and not expecting her to actually show up). So, technically, Her Majesty didn’t _crash_ anything. “Sorry, Your Majesty, we _did_ invite you, but you didn’t RSVP. We don’t have seating for you; afraid you’ll have to leave.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-crashes-a-wedding/616902.md?page=2)