Nobody’s Perfect: Queen Elizabeth II
Nobody’s Perfect
It’s quite amazing how they do it: Rulers that stay in power for literally decades—and Queen Elizabeth has held her ground. Coming from a country that rejected the idea of a family line of rulers as being the quintessence of the most abhorrent political system ever invented, I’m trying to catch a hold of getting myself to “like” the Queen. Now that she is in her winter years, it’s not all that hard. After all, it’s not her fault that she happened to be born with the luck of one in a billion…to inherit all that wealth, all those castles. That doesn’t make her any less a person, because it’s the system itself that is to be criticized, not the people who happen to be born into it, unless of course, they start acting like the old King Henry the Eighth.
But now, in 2012, the Americans, who at their start rejected the power of one man on the throne, seems to have come back rull circle. England through the years, took away the power of the idea of ‘King” or one man on the throne (or woman) leaving them more as figureheads, while America has given their Presidents the powers of a King.
Exactly what our founders fought against…and we are paying dearly for it. 
Why is it hard for me to like the Queen? I’ll tell you why. I was like the rest of the world, heartbroken, when Princess Diana was killed. I thought the Queen’s behavior at that time in history was short of a real snob. She had no class, and showed no grace at the time all the world was looking for her…and that’s probably because she really didn’t like the girl, and was glad to be rid of her. When you live under years of being the number one chip on the block, you are bound to be selfish in your concerns. She just did it when she wanted to. It was finally sweet, but it was a huge political mistake. No doubt, Diana’s Star outshone the Queen and that must have been annoying.
Still…hire the best PR consultants in the business, put your propaganda out…and all will be forgotten. And it has been.
The British people love her….so we must take it from them, that she has more than made up for whatever mistakes she made before. They credit her with the good England’s fortune for the last sixty years, but just how lucky are those people are over? It doesn’t sound so dreamy. They have more camera’s on their streets, more Muslims flooding their welfare rolls, more thugs and drunks on the streets…at least that’s what we see over here in America. Still, what did the Queen have to do with all that? 
Nothing. The Queen is the brand. She stands for the British people..a symbol. That’s her job. As you read about Elizabeth, on the whole, she has done whatever was asked of her in the role she was given, and with grace and honor. She seems to have had a wonderful father, (at least he is presented as such in the movie, The King’s Speech) and even if her son is a bulb short of a socket, you can’t always blame the mother on such things….or can you? The rulers of the world are so busy going around the world, the kids do suffer from their absent. And Elizabeth was away from her children many times in her life, the kids left at home.
No kid ends up without some serious mental problems when they grow up missing their parents, and that happens whether your parents are rich or poor…or divorced.
In defense of this horrible habit of England’s Kings and Queens leaving thier kids somewhere while they went traveling around the world, John Adams and his wife Abigail left their sons at home and didn’t see them for five years while John was away as ambassador in Paris and England.
I don’t care if you have butlers picking your nose and bringing you hot totties at bedtime, kids need the parents around. Both his sons suffered severely for it. 
But, in John’s case…they didn’t have much money. The Queen could have had private tutors wherever she went….so I tend to bring that against her. I suppose she could blame it on her historical duties. There is a whole culture of historical “do’s” and “don’t” in the British upper society that has years of cultural precedence, so the rich kids go off to the private schools and we have the Harry Potter Series to prove it…the unfairness of life if you happen to be born a Mudblood…instead of having the royal Trueblood line.
The trouble with rich elites running the world is that they are so far removed from their people. George HW Bush had never seen a grocery store, something he had in common with Elizabeth. When she was here in America, she saw one for the first time too.
These people never had to buy food for themselves…amazing isn’t it?
Tell me, how can you rule people you can’t possibly relate to?
I watched the Queen floating down the river on her barge on that rainy day…celebrating her sixty- year Jubilee. What was even more endearing were the singers who were singing “God Save the Queen” in the rain, their faces and voices busting with pride…giving the performance of their lives. So proud to be there. So proud to be singing to her.
The Queen is very lucky to have such wonderful subjects….has she ever mention that fact I wonder?
I haven’t heard her say it, but Nobody’s Perfect, and that includes Queen Elizabeth…but there is one thing that we should give it up for her for: She plans to stay in power until she goes to explain herself to the Big Ben in the sky. (applause!) 
The longer she rules, the less time Charles has to mess all her hard work up, and the world is a better place for that.
So, Long live the British Queen! Nobody can wear a hat quite like her.
(Thanks to amfortas for the picture of Elizabeth: gunner! And for his endearing heart and soul for his beloved Queen..she is lucky to have it.)
4 Comments »
Leave a reply to Amfortas Cancel reply
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
Comments
Anonymous on MTGA (Make TRUMP Go Away) ronita on MTGA (Make TRUMP Go Away) ronita on MTGA (Make TRUMP Go Away) Mrs. O on MTGA (Make TRUMP Go Away) Joyanna Adams on DAD: It Only Takes a Moment or…
Joyanna Adams 
So, you have your lenses and I have mine.
My lens is the very idea of the monarchy itself, and all the “lords” of Parliament, and a whole system based on the “elites” and high blood, and the very thought that one family stands in the seat of adoration simply by being born, pretty much putting genetics before intelligence or capability, and that sight drives this independent American nuts.
To an American, the “elites” of the upper class of England, and that includes the Queen, look rather snobbish, and consider themselves superior by DNA alone….which one could argue, has some merit. (Whoa, that’s a whole other blog, and I would love to hear your opinion on that being as the royals have a habit of mating with cousins.)
You amfortas, from my point of view, are just as influenced emotionally by your own relationship with her as anything. You defend her fiercely as a dog would it’s master, and I would think that your self knowledge in psychology would help you point that out to yourself.
You are only human, brillant as you are.
But, please tell me this: It’s considered class and proper to not address a public speaking on a royal death…until what..a month later? Never? Just not in the first week? You are above having to say anything because it’s only good manners not too? The longer you hold out, the more “upper stiff lip” you are showing? The BRAVER you are? I’m not getting it, and don’t say it’s because all Americans are …classless. Be more succinct in your answers.
Here in America, our President spouts off at the most ridiculous things, and we are the FIRST to admit his absurdity. so, where’s the honesty in this? In that case, we see our leaders more realisticaly and honestly.
What is the Queen if not a representative of the people?
I never said that the Queen EVER said anything about Diana. Read me again. Not a word on that issue. Read the part where I said that “she has acted with grace and class” on most all issues. Just not on that one, amfortas..but it was a big one.
The point I keep making over and over again, is that the whole world was watching, and the Queen held out a statement for a long time…She left all the speculation and media pontificate with abandonment.
Not good. Not smart.
Whether Diana was a ninny or not, has no measure to the Queen’s reaction to my point of view, meaning her responsiblity as a Queen to the world. Her own people for DAYS…whether they were socialists, or whatever, were crying in the streets and in great pain, we watched it all over the world, and it was almost as if the people handling the Royal PR were milking the whole event for the best effect…
Like…”Wait for it…wait for it…hunger for it…the great Queen WILL say something …soon…wait for it…okay…a bit longer….tomorrow…maybe..”
This is marketing strategy 101. To say it was because the Queen was being “noble”
smacks a bit naive. What IS the crown in itself but perpetuating the “myth” that one person is superior to all others on the planet?
The Royals used Diana as much as Diana used them. It was a two way street. They needed “heirs” (come on, Charles was HOW old when he got married, and he was in a relationship with Camilla at the time?) and a young Diana got spun, And your magazines and my magazines have nothing to do with the obvious: The Queen is a monarch.
We in America, don’t believe in them, (monarchs) You as a Brit DO. That doesn’t mean we don’t adore the Brits. On the contrary, we are cousins to the max. It’s jut a cultural difference that won’t matter much in the future, and hasn’t when push comes to shove now has it?
We are always, in the thick of the fight, there for each other…but might NOT be in the future, if we don’t get rid of that Muslim in the White House.
So…here is a big American Kiss to you amfortas! DUCK!!!
LikeLike
The ‘great british actress, was Helen Mirren, (actually, Australian) who though being a sort of ‘thinking man’s crumpet’ and quite a favourite of mine, (her ‘Jane Tennison’ policeperson role is excellent acting) is nevertheless a card -carrying leftie whose political views would make your eyes bleed. She would make Obama blush. Her portrayel of the Queen was appalling. It was as bad as that other whactress, Streep, murdering the character of Lindy Chamberlain.
The ‘four days waiting’ is again the fiction of the Blair (leftie) government spin machine. It was Blair who started and kept going the Flag bizzo. Would you kow-tow to the demands of your local mayor and folk down in East St Louis to issue a public statement ‘RIGHT NOW’, on the death of your son? Would you not want to secure yourself in privacy for a while? The leftie (Democrat to you) newspapers, TV, columnists and wannabe journalist hangers on, and the neurotic, whipped-up, fantasising ‘public’ have NO RIGHT to demand any such thing. Not even of the Queen. Just as they would have no right to demand it of you.
Come along now, Joyanna. Don’t get so antagonistically passionate about a Monarch that you only know through an American lense and a British Socialist lense. Here am I , someone you know quite well, who knows full well that people are only human and subject to error and fault. I have no doubt at all that MrsQ has ber black moments. But I did ask you for just one clear bit of evidence that the Queen was ever rude or dismissive to Diana. Personally, had I been King, I would have thrown Diana out on her ear.
LikeLike
Thank you, Joyanna, for the balance in dealing with our Queen.
Liz, Lizzy, Betty, MrsQ , Madge (majesty, gettit?) – we call her all of theses from affection.
A small point is this ‘Rule’ bizzo. It is a Titular ‘Rule’, unlike the ride-roughshod ruling that modern Presidents and Prime Ministers do – The Grand Vizirs of old.
You are quite right about your President behaving as if he had all the autocratic powers of a medaeval King. Lizzy doesn’t have any of that.
The Queen is The One Person who ‘represents’ what it is to be British. While different parts of the British society and indeed other countries in the Commonwealth (still covering a quarter of the world) may exhibit a wide variety of disconcerting attitudes and behaviour, there is always Betty to see and recognise as British. Indeed, ‘English’. There is a constancy and a clear ‘Value’ demonstrated in a singular, if wealthy and privileged, Person and Life.
To be English is to be blessed. To be English is to be wealthy and privileged. Regardless of an Englishman’s material or public status. *
You mention her reactions at the time of Princess Diana’s death. This mention is biased, my dear. It is a ‘recieved’ account based on the views of anti-monarchists. The Queen grieved quietly and personally, in an ‘English’ manner, rather than join the outpouring of ertzatz sentiment and hysterical blubbering displayed by that part of society which slavishly follows the pap and crap of women’s magazines. She was dignified in her family’s personal grief.
We know very little indeed about the Queen’s personal attitudes to Diana, a very young and frankly dim girl who managed to ‘marry a Prince’ and therefore be the fantasy model for immature girls. Name one occasion when the Queen was rude or dismissive of Diana, whose own behavoirs often ought to have been met with a sharp smack on her bottom.
The whine and nonesense about the Flag on Buckingham Palace exemplifies this deliberate manipulation of the public by ‘Republicans’ in little britain’s polity. It was not lowered when Diana died. “Oh, what a nasty woman that Queen must be, snubbing Diana the Wonderful like that. Poor. Diana.” Ignore the Tradition adhered to that the Flag is a Personal Standard that is flown to show that Betty is ‘at home’. It is only ever flown at half-mast on the death of the Monarch. No other reason.
You write, “I thought the Queen’s behavior at that time in history was short of a real snob. She had no class, and showed no grace at the time all the world was looking for her…and that’s probably because she really didn’t like the girl, and was glad to be rid of her. When you live under years of being the number one chip on the block, you are bound to be selfish in your concerns”.
Dear Joyanna, you think no such thing. That idea floating in your head was planted there deliberately for you to trot out whenever the British people celebrate their own traditions and their own Queen. There are some in Britain who rub their hands in glee when nice, smart people like yourself, simply do as they want you to do.
The Queen showed Dignity. She refused to be ‘on show’ with a false sentimentality bordering on psychosis.
* Indeed, God is an Englisman !!
🙂
LikeLike
Okay..so waiting five or six days to “make” a statement when the whole world is waiting for you to “make” a statement is the British way of being…British? Did I get that right? Nobody expected her to “blubber”, ….but even in the movie—your great British movie with that great British actress (whose name I can’t remember at the moment)…made about those days, the Queen was portrayed as rather…snobbish. All she needed to do was make that same speech she made— about more than a few days earlier. You can’t TELL me she didn’t know the whole world was waiting for her to comfort her people with some kind of statement. The whole world watched as she LAID there for four hours and DIED! Where was the great British power then? It was on every channel in the world. What…do the TV’s in Britain…don’t they work? As I have said before…NOBODY’s Perfect…not you, not me, and not the Queen. She’s just a woman. Good lord. You are telling me that her upbringing as the child of a ruler has NO effect on her at all? Queen Elizabeth the first, now THAT was a woman…Queen Elizabeth the II..one tough cookie. If God’s an Englishman, then I’m a rabbit. LOL! In fact, if he’s human, we’re all in more trouble! As for Diana…the Prince married her to have kids..he was still in love with his current wife…and if you think THAT”s a magazine made up piece of crap, then we are both getting too old my friend.
Joyanna Adams
________________________________
LikeLike