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Philip is Queen Elizabeth the Second's husband, not Queen Elizabeth's second husband, as reported this morning.

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Royalty Watcher

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[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Those damn floating apostrophes! ;)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they're trying to scoop that little-known first marriage. What little-known first marriage? You mean you didn't know? (Heck, I don't think Elizabeth knew! ;)

Should I ask what network?

Here in England, we've been watching the Torch coverage in London and all of the protests that go with it.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

Here's another great Queen Elizabeth typo, this one from Reuters (not live -- it's a screen capture.)

http://ordinary.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/queenbee_1.jpg

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

That explains why Charles and Anne look different from Andrew and Edward. They're the children of the late HRH Archibald St. Pancras Liftgate-Poodledropping, Duke of Nether Nottybits. I thought you knew.

But that's okay. As it happens, I was just checking something on the SCA Northern Shores website, where I found that the Duchy of Edinburgh is a fief of the heir to the throne. Never knew that %^).

And finally, I do hope that at the 275th Anniversary celebrations of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts, the Grand Master gets his forms of address right. Twenty-five years ago, the Pro Grand Master of England (IIRC) was the Earl Cornwallis (overheard: "I wonder if he's related to that Earl Cornwallis"), and was addressed as "Earl". Damn ugly Americans.....

[kimbari.livejournal.com]

*falls on the floor laughing*

[lecil.livejournal.com]

I heard that too! Had to TiVo to make sure she'd really said what I *thought* she'd said. I'm going to be somewhat charitable and figure that she just mis-read the teleprompter....