Just because I feel like it. From younger days . . .

Please, Great Britain, England, UK, Royalists, RedCoats, whatever . . . please come to your senses.

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Sarah—Very stirring; but the Windsors do have a penchant for ugly hats!

[1] Posted by David Keller on 02-03-2010 at 12:56 PM • top

I always sang that to HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - “the greatest queen since Cleopatra” Rest well great Queen!

And may HM the Queen live forever! (the next generation isn’t much).

[2] Posted by 1928BCPforMe on 02-03-2010 at 01:12 PM • top

Would that Great Britain and especilally the CoE were like her.

[3] Posted by PROPHET MICAIAH on 02-03-2010 at 04:31 PM • top

God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.
O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all.
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen.

[4] Posted by PROPHET MICAIAH on 02-03-2010 at 04:37 PM • top

When at the cathedral in Victoria B.C.the last time the Queen was there at morning prayer, I was told that she wears very large hats so that people can see her(she is very short), you may only get a glimpse of the top of her hat or at least a feather because of the crowds. I would not want her life for anything, I would have a closet full of disguises and a secret passage to a helicoptor to whisk me away to a browse in a shoe store or eat a taco in the street or even poke around in a garage sale.

[5] Posted by sandraoh on 02-03-2010 at 04:43 PM • top

In the words of Mr. Menzies:
“I have seen the Queen but once, and I love her til I die”

In person she has an almost consecrated aura which is very genuine—not caught in photographs.

[6] Posted by Andrewesman on 02-03-2010 at 05:03 PM • top

Can you believe that tentative arrangements are being made for her Diamond Jubilee in 2012? God willing. The Golden Jubilee only seemed a year or two back.

Good to hear our National Anthem - thank you Sarah, and thanks for your prayers.

[7] Posted by Pageantmaster on 02-03-2010 at 05:38 PM • top

Things like this remind me of before everything went to total steaming c**p.
2…yes, I like the Queen Mum, too…also because she did NOT approve of King George VI’s involvement with The Grand Lodge and Freemasonry.
7…yes…seems like her 40th Jubilee was just yesterday to me. Looking forward to seeing the result of the Westminster Abbey Project, with it’s new corona built above the crossing lantern…supposedly built in time to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

[8] Posted by TXThurifer on 02-03-2010 at 10:07 PM • top

#8 TXThurifer - I agree with you on the Queen and how we should celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. I am just not sure about the golden Corona on top of the ancient building. It is an absolutely huge expense, and with the country in recession and people in need of real and practical help from the church, and us short of funds to pay clergy salaries and pensions, for the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Cathedral to be so extravagant will be taken very badly and probably provoke a backlash against the church at large. Certainly no one will believe us when we say that we need funds for basic repairs to the fabric of our churches and cathedrals when we appear to have bottomless funds to go putting vast and gaudy new gold crowns on top of medieval buildings. I think it will be an own goal, but common sense and financial management have gone out of the window, or crossing in this case.

[9] Posted by Pageantmaster on 02-03-2010 at 10:49 PM • top

Duh, that is Westminster Abbey.

[10] Posted by Pageantmaster on 02-03-2010 at 10:51 PM • top

I believe this is Charles and Diana’s wedding at St. Paul’s in 1981.

[11] Posted by BabyBlue on 02-03-2010 at 11:17 PM • top

I didn’t say it would be the best way to spend money…just that I’m looking forward to what they come up with. I think it’s too late to stop the plans. Hopefully it will be without ruining the Abbey’s silhouette…

[12] Posted by TXThurifer on 02-04-2010 at 12:07 AM • top

To all, especially #4:
“Get ye the sons your fatehers got
And God will save the Queen”.

[13] Posted by David Keller on 02-04-2010 at 07:51 AM • top

I also wish to know the date of this. As I remember it, the seating does not quite match the 1981 wedding of Charles and Diana, but I could be wrong.

When I met her in 1992, her hair was more gray, but she was so gracious and unpretentious—of course, she does not need to be pretentious at all and neither did the Prince of Wales when I met him—but as a common man who went to public school in the USA I have been shabbily treated by people a lot of people less significant than Her Maj.

[14] Posted by BravoZulu on 02-04-2010 at 08:11 AM • top

This is the 1981 Wedding folks. Across from the Queen, the lady in the lavender hat and dress is Diana’s mother.

[15] Posted by Donal Clair on 02-04-2010 at 03:15 PM • top

At the end of the You Tube video of this, there are some very stirring settings of the Welsh National Anthem.
With St. David’s Day coming, we could all sing this together! Croeso!

[16] Posted by BravoZulu on 02-06-2010 at 08:55 AM • top

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