The First Prince Willem from the house of Orange. Exported religious tolerance to Ireland.
Dear reader,
from the thinking person’s scribe of our very own version of the ‘Global Daily’ comes another one from Frank.
We detect via in-depth scrutiny of various clues and repetitive idiom that Frank is sending out a message that may be critical of both the legendary status of Our Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Secombe, and her heir, King Charles the Turd.
Let it be made quite clear here and now. The editorial ship of pcbycp is steadfastly a standard of the house of Windsor. We reject Frank’s assertion that ‘God save the King’ is not ‘Kingly”, as we reject assertions made by the same author that Rolf’s ‘Two Little Boys’ is not destined to become the unofficial Australian Anthem. That’s the problem with republicans, they’re Unreliable.
Three Cheers to His Majesty; and long to rain over us ‘God Save Our Chuck’!
Frank writes….
Vrienden,
Prince Willem the Turd, Sponsored ‘Wee Willem’ cigars to England
My father could get very pissed off about the Dutch National Anthem:
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe William of Nassau
ben ik, van Duitsen bloed, am I of German blood
den Koning van Hispanje the King of Spain
heb ik altijd geëerd. I’ve always honoured
He held a strong opinion that in view of what happened in 1940-45 German blood wasn’t anything to write home about. And as for the Spanish occupation of the Low Countries several centuries ago, honouring their King was even more ludicrous.
We were in agreement that the Argentine National Anthem (“Oid mortales el grito Sagrado: Libertad, Libertad, Libertad”) had a lot more to commend it.
As for God Save the Queen, changing it to God Save the King isn’t going to change all I’ll say about it. I have heard a lot of better music.
What the hell, here is some of what I’m talking about:
The latest Prince William is the bald bloke on the right. (Assassin following closely behind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzkV9EDnJGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NFVLrAu1wc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCgUrOBX0I
Princess Anne, coulda been a stand- in for Emma Peel, but the horses said ‘Nay”
In My Yuendumu Story you may recall the anecdote of Chuck and the Dook’s fly-over over our Arctic oil drilling rig. A truly life-changing experience. So let me tell you the sequel:
Our departed sovereign in her famous; ” Golden Showers Dress”
On our return to Calgary, our 4 engine Electra plane did its usual refuelling stop at Yellowknife. Only a few weeks earlier a passenger plane had aborted a landing at Ottawa, and as it circled for a second attempt, a wing fell off and the plane crashed. So, you can imagine what I was thinking when our plane as it descended to land suddenly took off to circle the airstrip. I needn’t have worried. Princess Anne’s small plane got to land ahead of ours.
At the front of the terminal there was a row of alternating maple leaf and union jack flags, and lined up in front of the flag poles was an assemblage of Canadian toffs in formal wear. As we walked in front of them in our drilling-mud splattered parkas, we gave them royal waves.
When Princess Anne descended from her plane, after our two weeks on the drilling rig, we thought she was as good looking as a Playboy centrefold, and said so loudly to the chagrin of the assembled Yellowknifeians.
Many of you will have experienced reading a book and recognising a character or place you’re familiar with. In Mordecai Richler’s ‘Solomon Gurski was here’ he mentions a dinner party in Yellowknife on the occasion of the Royal Visit- in the book there is no mention of the drilling crew interlopers.
So, as I watched the wall-to-wall TV coverage of the Royal death and ascension, I felt smug with my Royal memories until a man was briefly featured on the news who spoke of the most important event in his long life, as he told it, the Queen had once shook his hand!
Another highlight I can recall was the TV series ‘The Royle Family’. I was particularly taken by Episode 3, Series 3 which deals with changing the wallpaper.
possibly the unofficial Australian national Anthem as endorsed by Brendan Nelson and the AWM
Meanwhile the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker rolls on. It tells me almost nothing I didn’t know. All the same I’m glad that in between being told about the latest on the Queen and King, the world is being told about the character of the cast in the tragedy that unfolded in Yuendumu on 9th November 2019. The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
Dag,
Frank