Right, it’s number eight when the Queen comes out to the front of Buck House. I shall monitor her head-bowage.
ETA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opegfB1s3CQ
Constitution Hill
Here it is
Thank fuck.
I don’t reckon the Queen moved
You know you could have just read the description of each video to find the right one! Nevertheless, way to take one for the team.
It’s about a minute from the start, so no one will have to watch the whole ten minutes.
HM quite clearly bows her head fully. The thing is, she does it very briefly and (though it’s hard to tell because of the parallax) almost ten seconds BEFORE the coffin passes. The TV announcer deems it a bow (about 30 seconds later), but I rather suspect she was checking the royal sneakers were tied.
It does look like Anne glanced up at just the wrong moment, though, and decided she’d better bow, too.
ETA: If this was in the press, surely someone must have asked the palace for a statement. Did they get one?
The manubrium thing is probably a bit of a red herring. She may not even be capable of comfortably touching her chin to her manubrium. She is an old duck after all, no matter how fit she is for her age.
I’d be surprised if she didn’t do at least as much when the Queen Mother died, so I doubt if Diana is the only person she’s bowed her head to as Queen.
:smack: That didn’t occur to me at the back of two in the morning.
Yes, it is maddening. I tend not to want to call it a bow, but only a tilt, if it wasn’t for the purpose of deference to Diana. It is as you say: for all we know, she thought she stepped on some gum and was checking it out.
if she was checking her shoes, we would see a foot lift as well as a head tilt. there may be side to side action of foot and head.
i do believe that would have sent anne into something like the hookey-pookey.
Looked like a bow of the head to me, going by what I’ve seen in Japan.
No, the Queen bows to people all the time. The difference is that she does so in acknowledgment of bows/curtsies/salutes etc. directed at her.
In that case, you presumably think it too generalized that she curtsied four times to the assembled congregation during the Recognition ceremony at her coronation. Although even that was done in acknowledgment of their acclamation of her.
Not to question your veracity, but I’ve never seen her bow in acknowledgement of some other bow, etc. Can you corroborate your statement?