If Your Name Aint On Le List….
Comment gêner une nation entière dans un mouvement facile.
Basically by not bothering to invite Her Majesty to the 65th Anniversary of D-Day. The French have admitted not “personally” inviting the Queen but should she feel like turning up at the side door and taking her place in the queue then she would be “naturally welcome”.
Instead Sarkozy’s spokesweasel Luc Chatel said “There will be other June 6“. What? With the brave ranks of our WW2 veterans thinning by the month then it’s really fantastic to be told “There will be other June 6” when for many there won’t be. This year’s anniversary of the Normandy landings was according to Chatel “first and foremost a Franco-American ceremony given the recent election of…” some half-black jug-eared weird bloke in the U.S.
Yes, and also recent General Elections installing elected Prime Ministers in other D-Day nations…Canada, Australia, the U.K…okay scrap that last one. Is every other Prime Minister going to queue for spare tickets with Her Majesty? If so then they’d better ask Gordoom for advice as he allegedly has experience of penetrating the tradesman’s entrance.
France, he said, had sent an invitation to the British government, after receiving a request for one, but that it was not up to Paris to “designate British representation” at the D-Day event.
“The Queen of England, the head of the British state, is naturally welcome”. Buckingham Palace has confirmed that it did not receive an invitation to the event, according to the normal protocol.
Presidents Sarkozy and B Hussein Obama are to take part in a D-Day ceremony at the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha beach on the Normandy coast. The two leaders will then hold a bilateral summit for which the press release has undoubtedly already been drafted and agreed.
Undoubtably Sarkozy will get a better present than 25 DVD’s from WalMart. Maybe a Kenyan cookery book.
What with “Savign Private Ryan” and this little fisaco, I see that some are trying to re-write history, one in whice D-day was an all american affaire, or “Zut-allors” a Franco-American one.
Not Happy about this.
But, I thought Her Majesty was The Duke of Normandy?
St C, as you know but readers from afar may not know there are many obscure variations of the Loyal Toast – the Navy for example may remain seated because of the low oak beams of times past.
A Channel Islander will always not say “The Queen” but mutter straight afterwards “Notre Duke” as the islanders don’t have Her Majesty as ‘The Queen’ but as The Duke of Normandy as the ultimate head of State in the CI.
So you are entirely correct. Technically the British monarchy hasn’t ever surrendered that title so maybe a decent second row ticket might still keep that awful Michelle Obama’s ego intact.
Sorry for two posts in a row but wasn’t there some dreadful movie 10 years-ish ago (St C post 1)when a US pilot who came within a hair’s breadth of knocking back the Japanese at Pearl Harbour was posted to England and on his own with an (apparently) clapped out Hurricane turned the entire course of the Battle of Britain?
Personally TheEye is slightly more impressed by the Lancaster pilot who called his dog Nigger and dropped gadgets dreamed up by Barnes Wallace or with the blokes who used submersible bathtubs to stick limpet mines on a great big battleship in a Norwegian fjord.
Stuff Mel Gibson or whoever it was…can’t be bothered to look it up on imdb.com.
they are doing a re-make (the fat New Zealand bloke, who did LOTR) of the Dam Busters. I wonder of the dog will get a PC makeover??
There was a rumour that they were either going to drop the name entirely (just “Here boy!”) but there was a backlash from history buffs (of which TheEye includes himself) and that “Blackie” was being ‘considered’ as an option.