an earthshaking friday question.  did prince phillip let one go?

 

1. Idle curiosity - Can anyone identify the various medals they are wearing and what they signify?

   Posted by Miami Harold       01/28/2011  at  07:51 PM  



2. They were on the jackets when they came from the rental store.

   Posted by Len - KC       01/29/2011  at  01:16 PM  



3. He’s got that shifty look in his eye… I say he let one fly!

   Posted by Christopher       01/29/2011  at  10:25 PM  



4. I’m sure this is a really dumb question, but, L-R I see:

   Queen Elizabeth II,
   Prince Phillip of the Shifty Windy Eye (and, as you can see, he starts leaning left in a vain attempt at the ‘one cheek sneak’ H/T: George Carlin. Only works while sitting…),
   Prince Harry(? Had to look on Wikipedia. He’s gotten a haircut since that photo.),
   Princess ????,
   Prince Charles.

   Who is that ??? next to Charles? Surely not Camilla?

   Posted by Christopher       01/30/2011  at  12:58 AM  



5. Christopher ... That’s Charles’s sister. Princess Ann

   Posted by peiper       01/30/2011  at  01:01 PM  



6. Thank you peiper. I’m really not up on the Royal family. I had to look up the names of Lady Di’s sons! I guessed that was Harry losing it in the back row.

   While we’re on this subject; Do the Royals have any influence on the UK government? Or are they purely figurehead museum pieces?

   I only ask because it came up in some of my sci-fi reading. A disaster struck the Earth and Charles became king, and promptly went all George III, alienating, if not outright executing, most of his closest friends and advisors. But he WAS the ruling monarch. Parliament hadn’t been called since the Change.

   Posted by Christopher       01/30/2011  at  01:49 PM  

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