Emergency Meeting at Buckingham Palace Today.

FocusZing

Speculation amongst Buckingham Palace staff was rampant last night as the Queen’s most senior aides called her entire household to an emergency meeting today.

Servants from royal residences across the country have been ordered to London and will be addressed this morning by the Lord Chamberlain, the most senior officer of the Royal Household, as well as Her Majesty’s right-hand man, Private Secretary Sir Christopher Geidt.

Even her longest serving staff were left in the dark about why the meeting was being called but multiple sources said it was ‘highly unusual’ and had sparked fevered talk about an imminent announcement concerning the monarch or her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

orraloon

Maybe Betty has had enough of May's shenanigans and is invoking royal prerogative to Take Back Control?

N0bodyOfTheGoat

All will be revealed in just over 30mins at 0800, apparently. Keep your diary free, this might be a truly historic moment!

slowmart

Don't tell me he's failed with his application for his right to stay in the UK

fat daddy

Slowmart wrote:

Don't tell me he's failed with his application for his right to stay in the UK

surrey_commuter

FocusZing wrote:

Speculation amongst Buckingham Palace staff was rampant last night as the Queen’s most senior aides called her entire household to an emergency meeting today.

Servants from royal residences across the country have been ordered to London and will be addressed this morning by the Lord Chamberlain, the most senior officer of the Royal Household, as well as Her Majesty’s right-hand man, Private Secretary Sir Christopher Geidt.

Even her longest serving staff were left in the dark about why the meeting was being called but multiple sources said it was ‘highly unusual’ and had sparked fevered talk about an imminent announcement concerning the monarch or her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Maybe they will announce that they have realised it is the 21st century and sentences like the one above are ludicrous so have decided to abolish themselves

FocusZing

"There is no cause for alarm about the welfare of Queen Elizabeth or her husband Prince Philip after all senior royal staff were summoned to a meeting at Buckingham Palace, a well-placed source told Reuters on Thursday.

The Daily Mail newspaper had earlier reported that senior aides from across the country had been called to Buckingham Palace for an emergency meeting, leading to wide speculation on social media about the health of the royals.

"There's no cause for alarm," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

The queen, the world's longest-reigning living monarch celebrated her 91st birthday last month, while Philip turns 96 next month."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brita ... SKBN1800HB


""A BBC report suggested the meeting was not about the health of the Queen or Duke of Edinburgh.

Buckingham Palace said such all-staff meetings did occur occasionally.
“Although meetings involving the entire royal household are occasionally called, the way this has been done at the eleventh hour is highly unusual and suggests that there is something major to be disseminated.

“But at the moment, only those closest to her genuinely know what on earth this is all about.”"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 16746.html

N0bodyOfTheGoat

http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/800 ... ace-health

Check the 0810 entry.;)

lettingthedaysgoby

The Russians had the right idea.

FocusZing

Stepping Down?

mr_goo

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

Nice. So you're suggesting that the Royal family should all be gathered in a basement and executed? And have them replaced by a Stalin type despot?

fat daddy

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

yeah ... that worked out well for them didn't it

surrey_commuter

Mr Goo wrote:

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

Nice. So you're suggesting that the Royal family should all be gathered in a basement and executed? And have them replaced by a Stalin type despot?

throwing them into the street would be enough.

The basement and bullets should be saved for people who needlessly change the titles of long running threads :shock:

mrfpb

Parliament is dissolved. Perfect time to impose absloure monarchy. The alternative is inviting May (or outside chance Corbyn) to form a government. "Not in my name" says Liz.

Also a way of avoiding dinner with Trump.

Expect staff to emerge from meeting heavily armed and ready to roll.

bendertherobot

Phil's bunking off then.

capt_slog

That's a bit of an anticlimax.

I wonder if we'll notice the difference?

mrfpb

Capt Slog wrote:

That's a bit of an anticlimax.

The internet age is made for anti-climaxes

bendertherobot

To be fair, he's just setting the bar for post brexit retirement age.

surrey_commuter

bendertherobot wrote:

To be fair, he's just setting the bar for post brexit retirement age.

I see it as an experiment to see how long somebody lasts when living a life of stress free indolence whilst accessing the very best medical care.

ugo.santalucia

bendertherobot wrote:

To be fair, he's just setting the bar for post brexit retirement age.

Where is the like button?

FocusZing

One can only apologise for the anticlimax. I feel like the UK entrant at the next Eurovision song contest.

lettingthedaysgoby

Mr Goo wrote:

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

Nice. So you're suggesting that the Royal family should all be gathered in a basement and executed? And have them replaced by a Stalin type despot?

The execution bit, yeah. The despot, not so much.

fat daddy

oh it wasn't an anti climax .. I feel it was very important to highlight the urgency that everyone be made aware that Phillip will no longer do stuff in the autumn

Garry H

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

Nah, the French had a better one. Turn it into a public spectacle, sell tickets, and Pay Per View on Sky.

So, he's retiring from doing feck all then?

mr_goo

Garry H wrote:

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

Nah, the French had a better one. Turn it into a public spectacle, sell tickets, and Pay Per View on Sky.

So, he's retiring from doing feck all then?

Exactly. Has done sweet feck all his entire life, bar sire another generation of pampered slackers, going on lots of holidays and shooting the odd bit of wildlife.
What a struggle it must have been.

Btw. I don't like the Royals but don't advocate their execution but would rather see them working the tills at Tesco or B&Q.

pblakeney

Mr Goo wrote:

Garry H wrote:

lettingthedaysgoby wrote:

The Russians had the right idea.

Nah, the French had a better one. Turn it into a public spectacle, sell tickets, and Pay Per View on Sky.

So, he's retiring from doing feck all then?

Exactly. Has done sweet feck all his entire life, bar sire another generation of pampered slackers, going on lots of holidays and shooting the odd bit of wildlife.
What a struggle it must have been.

Btw. I don't like the Royals but don't advocate their execution but would rather see them working the tills at Tesco or B&Q.

He's doing a damn sight more work than I plan on doing at 96.
Or 86, or 76, or even 66.

bianchimoon

Surrey Commuter wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

To be fair, he's just setting the bar for post brexit retirement age.

I see it as an experiment to see how long somebody lasts when living a life of stress free indolence whilst accessing the very best medical care.

spot on, shouldn't headline be:
Residents of britains largest council house who rely on private health care to live a long and privileged lifestyle finally decide to stop unveiling plaques for a living

FocusZing

Hold up wait a minute! Don't forget the Royals attract a vast amount of money to this country through tourism. Personally I think the Queen has done a brilliant job (figure head, but stays out of politics), she pulled her sleeves up during WWII as well.

bianchimoon

Palace marketing i'm afraid.. How many tourists get to actually see the 'royals' they come to see buildings/soldiers in funny hats, castles, peter rabbit etc. Other countries without a constitutional monarchy have as much/more tourist visits

fat daddy

I think its an excellent use of money ....... I pay 65p a year for the royal family .... and that gives my 5year old daughter endless amounts of fun knowing that there are real princesses and queens and horses with gold bits on them and carriages and guards etc etc etc.

aint much else you can buy for 65p that gives this much excitement for so long .... well there is a packet of haribo minion sweets, but that doesn't last as long

bianchimoon

fat daddy wrote:

I think its an excellent use of money ....... I pay 65p a year for the royal family .... and that gives my 5year old daughter endless amounts of fun knowing that there are real princesses and queens and horses with gold bits on them and carriages and guards etc etc etc.

aint much else you can buy for 65p that gives this much excitement for so long .... well there is a packet of haribo minion sweets, but that doesn't last as long

there by lies the problem, they give me no excitement/pleasure and am ideologically opposed to being a subject, but i still have to pay the .65p