Queen facts you never knew before yesterday/today

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I had no idea she birthed (the now King) Charles via C-section, at home, IN Buckingham Palace... Imagine!

Oh lord, can you imagine if they were getting a petition up about something? Would she say, 'I'm not here, roight' and tap the side of her nose and grin?

My mum had us about the same time the Queen was having hers. We born at home, my mum said she had no choice. Also my mum said the baby was just put on the breast. "Here, feed your baby" the midwife would say.

My dad raced off on his bike to call the midwife (phones were unusual in people's homes at the time) and while he was gone my sister was born. My mum was only 21 and all alone. Good times!

Are you my niece? The same thing happened to my sister, it was her second child, her husband had gone to the phone box but was stopped by a policeman doing his rounds on his bike. On discovering why BIL was out in the middle of the night the policeman cycled off to fetch the midwife and told BIL to go home, when they all got there and dashed upstairs my sister had delivered the baby on her own, with my nephew, aged two watching, wide eyed from his cot.

During her early Queens Christmas speech she was very nervous. Phillip was clowning around behind the cameras to make her smile.

He supported her so much in taking on such a huge roll without much time to learn the ropes.

Yes I think she almost lost the will to live without him by her side. Even if they did spend a lot of time apart they were together when they needed to be.

Not about the queen, but I learned yesterday that Edward and Sophie’s son is ahead of his sister in the line of succession despite being younger than her. This is because she was born before the queen changed the rules so that succession followed order or birth not sex. So that is why Charlotte is ahead of Louis in the line of succession. And also I suppose, Zara’s 2 DDs are ahead of her baby son.

Order of birth that should say.

... and not so near....

That Queen Victoria was the first Queen to have lived in Balmoral Castle And first stepped on its grounds on the 8th September 1848 and Elizabeth 2nd died there 174 years later to the day.

My favourite also has to be when she took the King of Saudi Arabia for a spin in her Land Rover.

Two more today that I have read about…

When she was told on the phone that the Queen of the Netherlands had abdicated, she responded with ‘typical Dutch’ and hung up.

And when Vladimir Putin kept her waiting for 14 minutes, David Blunkett’s dog barked at Putin and his entourage. The Queen remarked that dogs have ‘interesting instincts’ 😁

Bereavement apparently has a huge effect on the aged. You often hear of couples that have been together many years dying not long after each other.
The images of the queen at her Dukes funeral breaks me it's heartbreaking.

What I’d thought was Holyrood House is, in fact, Holyroodhouse Palace.

It is the same place some people just call it Holyrood house ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyrood_Palace

Here you go

Zara’s two girls are indeed ahead of her son.

My useless fact of the day is this - the grandson of the Duke of Gloucester, Tane Lewis, was the first to be shuffled down by it. When he was born in 2012 he went ahead of his older sister. When the act came into force in 2015 it applied to anyone born after a set date in 2011 so his sister Senna moved up a place above him.

That she oversaw the colonial administration in Kenya until 1963 which at the time carried out extreme acts of torture, including castration and sexual assault, in detainment camps where as many as 150,000 Kenyans were held.

That she never apologized for slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism or pushed the royal purse to offer reparations for the millions of lives taken in her/the royal family’s name

It's more long winded than that it's The Palace of Holyrood House hence often call Holyrood House.

Apparently she had more Scottish royal blood than English.

she is a direct descendent of Robert the Bruce

she had a plastic duck with a crown on it, christmas present.

i heard that story today about the american hikers but didnt hear about the photo! amazing

She certainly had more German blood than English, though not as much as Charles does! In fact lots of the crowned heads of Europe are almost entirely German by blood. Except maybe for the Swedes - they're French!

i did post on a now deleted post, about Queen Caroline, she was only married for a year, her and the king hated each other, and were estranged, and then she died

Not this old chestnut again

What German blood, her family were English on her father's side since Victoria, how long does it take before someone living here, born here, with a parent who was born here, with grandparents who were born here to be 'English'?

Quite. It's just so ridiculous, isn't it?

That the Queen's first Dorgi was the result of an accidental mating between Princess Margaret's dachshund, Pipkin and a corgi of hers named Tiny. And apparently she facilitated further matings by giving the shorter dachshunds a brick to stand on during the 'encounter'.