Maybe We'll Do In A Squirrel Or Two

[anarchist_nomad]

On my way to work this morning, I encountered an entourage of royals in the park. At least I assume they were royals; all the pieces seem to fit:

• The park in question was Kensington Gardens, adjacent to Kensington Palace.
  
• The entourage was dressed in very posh clothing, riding in two extremely lavish horse-drawn carriages.
  
• Said party had an escort of four cops, two on horseback and two on motorcycle.

As they say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

I had to pause in my journey until they had passed and the path was clear to cross once again. I had to be careful in my crossing, however. When the royals had moved on, there was a pile of shit in the road, left behind as witness to their regal presence.

Need I say more?

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Were they the only ones not covered in shit?

Did they have chins? It's only royal if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and has no chin (unless it's a Habsburg duck in which case it has a very large chin! :o)

Okay, so I'm in a silly mood, already!

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Didn't they make it illegal to be a Hapsburg? I thought that happened nearly a hundred years ago! :-D

(You're not the only one who can be silly today! *grin*)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Not as such- they only banned them from being monarchs. Otto Von Habsburg was a highly successful MEP for many years so folk in his Austrian constituency must have liked him well enough to keep voting for him.

Dunno if he had a big chin though...........

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Not allowed to be a monarch?? Why... that's simply so undemocratic! They should have just as much right to be a monarch as everyone else! ;-D

I suppose, however, it is fair to say that they took it on the chin...

[blaisepascal]

I take it then you're a Republican?

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Only on this side of the pond, old friend... only on this side of the pond! :-D

Actually, as well you know, I am an Anarchist. Which ultimately means doing away with both the monarchy and any so-called "Republic". As we have ample evidence of from the States (amongst other places), Republics tend to oligarchy as well.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Around here, the horses need be diapered. I wonder that they don't have that reg there in urban areas.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm... Perhaps it was the royals themselves who were responsible, then? *wink*

[dragonmamma.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, you really have no respect in the colonies do you. And you want to make this your permanent home????
Obviously we need to teach you the rules of cap doffing and forelock tugging ,you new world rebel you.

Actually (but dont say it too loudly) some of us over here really like the fact of a royal family - even if we dont like all the members of it over much. Hate to burst your little anarchist bubble and all that, but the RF is generally a good thing for this country generating shitloads of money for the economy. (and no, they dont actually cost us as much as you may have been led to believe.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Plenty of us old world rebs about too y'know. I'm an Anglo born and bred (okay, so I'll admit to Breton, Italian, Scottish, Latvian and Roma ancestry so I'm probably a despicable greasy furriner really :o) and I'm a republican.

I blame it on being a historian of the mid 17th century!

A bas les aristos! Ca ira!

[ms-redcat.livejournal.com]

I LOL'd!

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I thought that you, in particular, might appreciate this little anecdote! :-D