Today's Big Story
Apr. 21st, 2014 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe Telegraph's front page carries a big black and white portrait of the Queen. She's 88 today. The caption reads "Happy and Glorious".
Kirstie, my mother's carer, enthuses over the picture- which turns out to be by David Bailey. Bailey says the Queen has kind eyes. I say nothing.
"I'm neither a Royalist nor a Republican," says Ailz, once we're alone again. "Because they both take energy."
Kirstie, my mother's carer, enthuses over the picture- which turns out to be by David Bailey. Bailey says the Queen has kind eyes. I say nothing.
"I'm neither a Royalist nor a Republican," says Ailz, once we're alone again. "Because they both take energy."
