The daily mash has another pov
Great post, thank you.
Izzy x
I’m so glad I’m not The Queen
I can wander up the road and chat with all and sundry… and not worry about a 'naff photo in tomorrow’s Press or nasty comments about my accent or the fact that I’ve still got my slippers on… 
OH and I can stay indoors and not see a soul … if we want to… not forced to go out and be bright and charming to all and sundry… especially ghastly when it’s with folk who we don’t actually like.
We can dash to the shops… cinema… resto… wherever takes our fancy… and just be US and not find ourselves plastered all over Social Media and criticized for this and that…
We have a private life and are free to do as we please… hurrah.
I think The Queen has fulfilled her role admirably.
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Well you don’t - but we have a group of French friends who do.
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Is that all the french then like the previous post.
rumour has it that the Queen often does (did) this incognito thing and was often not recognised at all…
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I love to think she did manage it on occasions…
The point is that you/me/us-lot can do as we please… when we please… with no pressure, no ridicule, no nastiness… for The Queen life has never been that easy.
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on the contrary… she had led a privileged life and her status has seldom got in the way..
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I suspect that I would never enjoy living life the way The Queen has to.
Likewise, I suspect you and I will never agree on this subject… so let’s just agree to disagree… 
the sun’s shining again and all’s well with our small part of the world…
I can hear Little Owl screeching/bellowing to me, so I’m off out to “bellow back”… 
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Oh dear… I don’t understand why you are taking your bat home since we basically agree…
The point I was making was that, out of the usual context, the Queen can mingle in full public view, visit shops and make purchases without people realising who she is - and has done so on numerous occasions.
(wanders off muttering… “I’ll never understand women as long as I live”)
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Oh I’m being subjective of course and it is based on only my limited experience of the people with whom I have spoken/corresponded, but on the strength of having a British sounding name/hearing me speak English many of my concitoyens talk to me about the monarchy and while they have nothing but nice things to say about la reine, they see the monarchy qua institution as a quaint anachronism at best and a huge con-trick social disgrace at worst.
I hope the generalisation has been suitably qualified.
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After what the French did to their last monarch…?
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This can also be said for the tens of thousands of people who have been in the public eye at one time or another though, you don’t have to be royalty. I know of cases of “celebrities” (I use the quotation as I hate that term so much) who didn’t leave their house for years because not being able to stand in line in Boots without the entire queue eyeballing your haemorrhoid medication and calling the papers or shouting your catchphrases from 30 years ago at you in the supermarket, or much worse for people who the papers portrayed or characters they played as ‘villains’, the downside of their money and success was that it had a hugely debilitating effect on their life. I’d argue that aside from terrorism and general maniacs the queen at least has been well liked so has barely had a bad word said to her from the public so is in somewhat a better position than the likes of soap actresses who have people (nutcases) shout “slag” at them in the petrol queue because their character on tv had an affair or something.
It wouldn’t surprise me if until she got frail the queen had a pretty normal life in the villages and towns around where she lived, sure she couldn’t wander out and peruse the tat shops on Buckingham Palace Rd to find the nastiest gift for Donald Trump’s state visits or such, but elsewhere I’d imagine it was different, we just won’t know unless the locals decide to blab once she’s gone upstairs or such.
Back in the late 70’s my work included several stints at Sandringham and when the Queen was in residence we were kept at a distance on the grounds of security and her privacy although I do know she freely moved around the local villages but always with people in attendance.
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I would love to stay and chat some more but must get going, did I mention I am off to Buckinham Palace for Party at the Palace.
Laters…
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nothing to do with cricket… I’ve been trying to get the laundry dry all morning, popping in and out between showers… and when Little Owl calls it means the rain won’t be back for a while… (not a lot of people know that…).
There are now at least 1000 socks on the line and they will hopefully dry before Little Owl has to go into hiding once again…
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Yes!!
I’ve currently got Party at the Palace on the TV. However, for the last hour, Ive been playing Led Zeppelin with the TV sound turned off. It’s wonderful. Trampled underfoot, Bron-y-aur stomp and The rain song were particularly good.
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