Me too. I get this tingling in my toes just thinking about it.
Given the shortage of prison places and the shortage of places for Burnham to rehouse rough sleepers it isn’t difficult to envision alternative uses for the palace
Of course not. i doubt if any non-historian under 40 would know who Wallis Simpson was
They would if they watched The Crown. Or The King’s Speech.
I agree. I am sure that a significant number of Brits have heard of him but I can’t imagine anyone gives a crap about the abdication in any respect.
him ?
How many Americans under 60 can recognize the name “Mamie Eisenhower” given no context?
“You like Billie Holiday?” “Oh, I love him!”
I know who she is. That was an unfortunate typo.
Quoting myself for context …
Try Americans under 80 who recognize Lou Henry.
Where’s Wallis at? Where the fuck is Wallis? Where’s Wallis, String? String! Where the fuck is Wallis? Huh? Stringer?!
I knew someone from Lubbock, Texas who bragged that he grew up down the block from “the store where Billie Holliday bought his first guitar.”
Another scandal to hit King Charles from a memoir by Princess Diana’s brother in a new book–and serialized in the Daily Mail:
The Earl claims a furious Prince Charles told him days after Princess Diana’s death, ‘rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough’, in a devastating memoir to be serialised in the Daily Mail from tomorrow.
So tacky. I see the Palace have made the unusual step of issuing a rebuttal. I’m not sure who’s likely to take Spencer’s side on this one. But honestly, I think we’re all a bit sick of the gravy train still clinging to Diana’s death, THIRTY YEARS on.
Spencer still making money out of his sister after all these years.
In other news:
Why Buckingham Palace’s bearskin caps might soon be a relic of the past
I mean, good? Bearskins have always been stupid. A change is definitely in order. If they want to continue with the 1815 cosplay, why not reintroduce the Shako? It’s smart, elegant and cruelty-free.
I like shakos, too. But if, as noted in the article, the “bear pelts [are] sourced from legal culls in Canada,” I have no problem with their continuing use for these caps.
The idea was to make the soldiers look taller, bigger and thus more intimidating.