18 year old HRH Princess Elizabeth watching parachutists during a visit to airborne forces at Netheravon Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire in England in the run-up to D-Day. Standing next to her is Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill DSO, MC - Brigade HQ, 3rd Parachute Brigade, 19 May 1944. Colour by RJM.
Like I’m open to being convinced otherwise, but “Existence of ceremonial monarchy in wealthy Western democracy” is like 500th at best on the list of shit humanity has to deal with right now, and also getting rid of them wouldn’t fix Britain’s issues, let’s be real. Rich people who own all the land and think they’re above the law and often get proven right? Gee, glad we’ve got nothing like that here in the Land of the Free.
Have to admit, moderately impressed by the one part of the Jubilee I actually watched on TV, which was the queen interacting with Paddington Bear. Like. This woman is in her nineties and they figured out how to get her to interact pretty darn well with a fully CGI character. Well done, effects people.
This was followed by songs from Queen, which despite being called Queen does not have songs that fit the monarchy At All. Those have weirded me out just hearing them from a room over knowing it’s the music for a jubilee event. ESPECIALLY “We Are The Champions (of the world)” being played for the literal monarch of the literal British Empire In Decline.
