{"id":7181,"date":"2018-04-21T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2023-05-06T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T13:08:14","slug":"elizabeth-regina-birthday-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=7181","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Regina, birthday girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stills from the BBC documentary <em>Queen: One\u2019s Long Strange Trip<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7186\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBefore she was queen, Elizabeth worked coal from the unforgiving earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7187\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe queen wasn\u2019t officially Queen until she bopped these men in the head with these fancy sticks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7188\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEvery morning the sovereign is required to remind the people that she is still queen and they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7190\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/4.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/4-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/4-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHer role is far from merely ceremonial. Here she examines a request from Stevenage Borough Council for a new sewage line to direct overflow to Welwyn Garden City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7192\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHer Majesty takes aim at a peasant while her instructor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=ralph+waite&amp;client=firefox-b-d&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi33Yb6ko3nAhWeQ0EAHdrtBc0Q_AUoAXoECBIQAw&amp;biw=1136&amp;bih=734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Waite&#8217;<\/a>s British brother?) looks on respectfully if not a little turned on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/6.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7182\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/6.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/6-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/6-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHRH\u2019s SOP is to take a snap of \u2018persons of interest\u2019, who are escorted to her private chambers then sworn to secrecy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7183\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u2018R\u2019 has met many celebrities in her long life, many of whom really open up to her. Angelina Jolie tearfully confessed her disgust with Brad Pitt\u2019s personal hygiene regime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7184\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPope Benedict proudly showed off the Vatican\u2019s braille edition of The Kama Sutra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7185\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHonorary EastEnder for a day\u2026 which was perhaps a day too much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7189\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nComforting Yoko Ono by girlishly confiding that while her advisers recommended public admiration for Paul, she always fancied John for a bit of rough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7191\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYet another \u2018jokey\u2019 birthday death threat sent by her devoted son. Her security detail is very much on top of things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7193\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLittle known fact: When the Queen dies, her beloved corgis will be buried alive with her to escort her to her glorious afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notanothercyclingforum.net\/index.php?topic=2920.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A salute to the duke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stills from the BBC documentary Queen: One\u2019s Long Strange Trip Before she was queen, Elizabeth worked coal from the unforgiving earth. The queen wasn\u2019t officially Queen until she bopped these men in the head with these fancy sticks. 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