And I Thought He Was A Republican
May. 8th, 2007 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloWherever the Queen of England goes she carries her pomp with her.
Even when she goes to Washington.
I thought the rule was when in Rome do as the Romans do.
But when the Queen goes visiting it's her hosts who have to scuttle around to make sure she never gets a glimpse of how things are done in the modern world.
It's weird how she puts this hoodoo on people.
Apparently she got George Bush to wear a white tie for the first time in his presidency.
And this morning there's all this oohing and aaahing over the gaffes he made.
Like he nearly said 1776 when he meant 1976- implying that the Queen was over 300 years old.
Ha!
Actually, he may have been getting close to the truth there.
Why isn't she treated like any other head of state? Why all this bowing and scraping in the Land of the Free?
It's almost as if we all still believed in the Divine Right of Kings.
Even when she goes to Washington.
I thought the rule was when in Rome do as the Romans do.
But when the Queen goes visiting it's her hosts who have to scuttle around to make sure she never gets a glimpse of how things are done in the modern world.
It's weird how she puts this hoodoo on people.
Apparently she got George Bush to wear a white tie for the first time in his presidency.
And this morning there's all this oohing and aaahing over the gaffes he made.
Like he nearly said 1776 when he meant 1976- implying that the Queen was over 300 years old.
Ha!
Actually, he may have been getting close to the truth there.
Why isn't she treated like any other head of state? Why all this bowing and scraping in the Land of the Free?
It's almost as if we all still believed in the Divine Right of Kings.
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Date: 2007-05-09 10:15 pm (UTC)I'm not sure why; I've never seen it performed, so I suppose the music could be a disaster, but I love the libretto:
"I further read—and the statement is vouched for by no less an authority than Mephistopheles Minor—that your Majesty indulges in a bath of hot rum-punch every morning. I trust I do not lay myself open to the charge of displaying an indelicate curiosity as to the mysteries of the royal dressing-room when I ask if there is any foundation for this statement?"
"None whatever. When our medical adviser exhibits rum-punch it is as a draught, not as a fomentation. As to our bath, our valet plays the garden hose upon us every morning."
The Public Exploder is a wonderful idea. Inspirational.
I think so!