Queen's most senior aides 'call ALL royal staff into emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace

[seta-san]

Is the Queen or Prince Philip dead? Is she abdicating? Discuss below

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/queens-most-senior-aides-call-all-royal-staff-into-emergency-meeting-at-buckingham-palace/ar-BBAIDcr?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

[DevTech]

"Yesterday, the Queen met with Theresa May at Buckingham Palace to mark the dissolution of Parliament for the General Election.

The Prime Minister spent more than 30 minutes at the Palace, in a longer-than-anticipated audience with the Queen."

 

Maybe reminding staff to be neutral?

 

[seta-san]

Just now, DevTech said:

"Yesterday, the Queen met with Theresa May at Buckingham Palace to mark the dissolution of Parliament for the General Election.

The Prime Minister spent more than 30 minutes at the Palace, in a longer-than-anticipated audience with the Queen."

 

Maybe reminding staff to be neutral?

 

the royal family don't get involved in politics. the crown is nothing more than a nationalized corporation for the purposes of tourism. the staff should already be keenly aware of that fact to the point they shouldn't need a last minute meeting.

[DevTech]

The election is supposed to be a vote of confidence for Brexit right?

 

So maybe the Queen has firmly decided to postpone the deaths you mentioned for the sake of the country.

 

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

This can mean only one thing.......Invasion

 

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

4 hours ago, DevTech said:

The election is supposed to be a vote of confidence for Brexit right?

 

So maybe the Queen has firmly decided to postpone the deaths you mentioned for the sake of the country.

 

Postpone the deaths

 

 

[Dick Montage]

5 hours ago, DevTech said:

Maybe reminding staff to be neutral?

I doubt such a reminder would not be delivered in person by the Queen herself, as it simply is part of the job.

I'd suspect it's related to Philip, he has been unwell and is old - not a death but perhaps a cease in royal duties?

2 minutes ago, Nefarious Trigger said:

I doubt such a reminder would not be delivered in person by the Queen herself, as it simply is part of the job.

I'd suspect it's related to Philip, he has been unwell and is old - not a death but perhaps a cease in royal duties?

Oh - damn, right on the money!

 

Met him in 2000, gave me a carriage clock and I spoke to him about the "new media" (lol) work we were doing.

[DocM]

NT: Nice call 

[seta-san]

okay. prince Philip is preparing to die. I'm guessing the queen is also going to be handing down more of her duties to Charles over the course of the next year.

[Dick Montage]

28 minutes ago, DocM said:

NT: Nice call 

It was pretty much expected.  While he was a cantankerous, sometimes unwisely-spoken old git from a previous age, he served his duty and despite what many will argue, it IS a life of duty.  Fair play to the guy, he did his job and deserves what remains of his twilight years.

[FloatingFatMan]

7 minutes ago, Nefarious Trigger said:

It was pretty much expected.  While he was a cantankerous, sometimes unwisely-spoken old git from a previous age, he served his duty and despite what many will argue, it IS a life of duty.  Fair play to the guy, he did his job and deserves what remains of his twilight years.

I'm still really hoping he's around and active when Trump visits the UK... I would looooove to hear the results of a Prince Philip vs Trump conversation!  

22 minutes ago, seta-san said:

okay. prince Philip is preparing to die. I'm guessing the queen is also going to be handing down more of her duties to Charles over the course of the next year.

He's no more "preparing to die" than any other senior citizen retiring from work, and a darn sight more hardworking than pretty much anyone else his age.

[xendrome]

Guess they haven't heard of electronic communication.

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

8 minutes ago, xendrome said:

Guess they haven't heard of electronic communication.

Because actually having a meeting to make an announcement is a thing of the past?

[PsYcHoKiLLa]

Who will they get to swear and insult people on engagements?

 

Let's look back on his best gaffes and funny moments.

 

1. "British women can't cook" (in Britain in 1966).
2. "What do you gargle with, pebbles?" (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).
3. "I declare this thing open, whatever it is." (on a visit to Canada in 1969).
4. "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" (during the 1981 recession).
5. "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).
6. "It looks like a tart's bedroom." (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988)
7. "Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on." (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).
8. "We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).
9. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).
10. "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).
11. "Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).
12. "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).
13. "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school's steel band).
14. "They must be out of their minds." (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%).
15. "You are a woman, aren't you?"(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).
16. "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).
17. "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).
18. "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a Koala bear).
19. "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).
20. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).
21. "You managed not to get eaten, then?" (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).
22. In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as "Reichskanzler" - the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.
23. "You're too fat to be an astronaut." (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).
24. "I wish he'd turn the microphone off." (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).
25. "Do you still throw spears at each other?" (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).
26. "You look like a suicide bomber." (to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002).
27. "Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?" (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral, 2002)
28. "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" (to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009).
29. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009).
30. "Do you work it a strip club?" (to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub in March 2010).
31. "Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" pointing to some tartan (to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010).
32. "Bits are beginning to drop off." (on approaching his 90th birthday, 2011)
33. "How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?" (meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012)
34. "I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." (to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent, in May 2012)
35. "The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." (on meeting a Filipino nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013)
36. "Most stripping is done by hand." (to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013)
37. "(Children) go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." (prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013)
38. "Just take the f***ing picture." (losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - July 2015)
39. "You look starved." (to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men - February 2017)
40. "I'm just a bloody amoeba." (on the Queen's decision that their children should be called Windsor, not Mountbatten).
41. "Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out."(to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain's inefficient industries in 1961).
42. "Are you asking me if the Queen is going to die?" (on being questioned on when the Prince of Wales would succeed to the throne)
43. "If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity." (On a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974).
44. "I hope he breaks his bloody neck." (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree)
45. "If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she's not interested." (on the Princess Royal)
46. "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." (on marriage).
47. "It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people." (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).
48. "Where did you get that hat?" (supposedly to Queen at her Coronation).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/

[FloatingFatMan]

^ Aah, good old Philip. You can rely on him to raise an eyebrow or two at public events...

 

I can just imagine him on being introduced to Trump... "Oh, you're that ghastly bugger that likes to grab women by their privates..."  

[xendrome]

1 hour ago, dipsylalapo said:

Because actually having a meeting to make an announcement is a thing of the past?

"senior aides reportedly ordered all staff from royal residences across the country to London"

 

Seems like a waste of time and money honestly. They could have called in all local staff an then issued an internal memo and press release for the rest of the staff.

[exotoxic]

2 hours ago, PsYcHoKiLLa said:

Who will they get to swear and insult people on engagements?

 

I don't know why but 27 was brilliant. 

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

32 minutes ago, xendrome said:

"senior aides reportedly ordered all staff from royal residences across the country to London"

 

Seems like a waste of time and money honestly. They could have called in all local staff an then issued an internal memo and press release for the rest of the staff.

Senior Aides....we're not talking a huge number of people here. 

[Dick Montage]

1 hour ago, xendrome said:

"senior aides reportedly ordered all staff from royal residences across the country to London"

 

Seems like a waste of time and money honestly. They could have called in all local staff an then issued an internal memo and press release for the rest of the staff.

Heaven forbid that the Royal Household do things in person, with all the respect and courtesy that dictates.

[FloatingFatMan]

1 hour ago, exotoxic said:

 

I don't know why but 27 was brilliant. 

22 is clearly the best one, and I remember it well, too! Oh my that was totally hilarious, and best of all, it wasn't even an English guy that said it! Philip is Greek!

 

[xendrome]

5 hours ago, dipsylalapo said:

Senior Aides....we're not talking a huge number of people here. 

read it again "senior aides reportedly ordered all staff from royal residences across the country to London"

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

12 hours ago, xendrome said:

read it again "senior aides reportedly ordered all staff from royal residences across the country to London"

Ah my bad!