Leena

Tread gently on our beautiful blue planet we call home. Scribbler, Theatre, Music Bellydance, Travel, Cats. Curiosity, my lifeblood. Love & Light❤️

[Leena @Showcat7]

@cspencer1508 @AlthorpHouse Absolutely magnificent.

[Leena @Showcat7]

@Mike_Fabricant His Majesty has done a great job towards repairing our fractured relationship with the US. Something our atrocious government could never achieve.

[queenofjustice @queenofjes]

King Charles and Queen Camilla meet well-wishers during a community block party and potluck in Front Royal, Virginia today.

📹 maxfostercnn

[queenofjustice @queenofjes]

Proud wife 🥹😍

[Leena @Showcat7]

@LorraineGr44774 @queenofjes Lovely words.

[Leena @Showcat7]

@ScottiSal I pray their Majesties have a safe visit to USA

[Leena @Showcat7]

@EKWINNER3 @chrisshipitv The British public pay around £1 each per annum towards the formal duties of the Monarchy. We do not contribute towards their private lives.

[Chris Ship @chrisshipitv]

CONFIRMED: King and Queen State Visit USA is going ahead
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Palace spokesperson: ‘Following discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day, and acting on advice of Government, we can confirm the State Visit by Their Majesties will proceed as planned.
The King and Queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the Visit getting underway tomorrow.

[Leena @Showcat7]

@lynnbettney @TheRoyalButler Have lovely visit. Its on my to do list.

[Leena @Showcat7]

@queenofjes Lovely picture.

[Leena @Showcat7]

@benonwine @ScottiSal Dedicated

[Leena @Showcat7]

@BumHeid @RoyalFamily The King has voluntarily paid tax for some years. Our Monarchy cost each of us approx £2 per annum.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🪴The Princess Royal has officially opened The Queen Elizabeth II Garden in The Regent’s Park, London.

The space commemorates the life and service of Queen Elizabeth II - and today would have been Her late Majesty’s 100th birthday.

During the visit, The Princess met gardeners and designers involved with the project, before unveiling a plaque to mark the garden’s official opening.

[Imperial Material ♚ @implmaterial]

🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth II at 100

— Day #20/21

Our Platinum Queen. In 2022, Her Majesty reached the milestone of her 70th Anniversary of Accession. This was a historic achievement in many ways — one that no monarch in British history had ever reached. As we touched upon in yesterday’s post, this was not something Her Majesty personally desired; for her Accession came about as a result of the death of her father so young.

The reign of Queen Elizabeth II can almost certainly be characterised by the sense of stability she provided. Amidst the pandemic, in 2020, the figure to whom people looked to as a source of solace was none other than Her Majesty herself. The situation had reached a critical point — one grave enough to warrant a special address to the nation.

From Windsor Castle — just as she had done 82 years earlier, when she was 14 years old — Her Majesty spoke to her people, offering reassurance that things would take a turn for the better, & that we would, indeed, “meet again.”

Following the pandemic, The Queen suffered the most painful loss of her reign in losing her “strength & stay”, Prince Philip. The late Duke of Edinburgh had been ill for a while with Her Majesty deeply worried the entire period & various episodes. Sadly, The Queen was not at his side the moment he died on 9 April, 2021 at Windsor. It has since emerged that The Queen was upset the Duke had left, as he so often did in life, without saying goodbye.

The Queen carried on with duties as much as possible. By this point, it was her body catching up to her age. Although she was as competent as ever, she needed a stick to walk & started to slow her usual daily engagements — she had already given up overseas travel in 2015.

In the summer of 2022, having privately marked the 70th Anniversary of her Accession in February, Her Majesty received congratulations from the nation & the world through several days of celebrations & commemorations. After the separation of the pandemic, the Platinum Party at the Palace served as an opportunity for everyone to gather together, throughout the country, once again & to pay tribute to Her Majesty.

On this occasion, Her Majesty appeared on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace for what would be her final appearance. The Queen’s health continued to gradually decline over that summer.

For today’s ‘Queen Elizabeth II at 100’ is Her Majesty with Paddington Bear for tea marking The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

In his words, “Thank you, for everything.”

[Leena @Showcat7]

@denisesf24 @LeescoLee3 And the contents are more versatile.

[Leena @Showcat7]

@TheTeaWithLee As the saying goes " You cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"

[Leena @Showcat7]

@Elizabe46431051 @LadyColinCampb Yet here you are following and commenting

[Leena @Showcat7]

@queenofjes Beautiful picture

[Leena @Showcat7]

@ArmatradingJoan So beautiful and peaceful. Dawn and dusk my favourite part of the day.

[Lady C @LadyColinCampb]

Unsurprisingly, Harry and Meghan's quasi-royal Australian tour is turning out to be as stomach-churningly controversial as everyone expected it to be.

Not only have they coralled some 70 sick children, parents and carers in an atrium for a photo op despite the threat of infection to youngsters with the suppressed immune systems that are an inevitable part of cancer treatment, but she has posted her wardrobe online for her admirers, with the purpose of obtaining a kickback for her when they buy what she's been wearing.

Harry baldly asserts that they're a part of the Royal Family so hint hint it's a proper royal tour, despite the clear breaches of the Lord Chamberlain's regulations governing the Royal Family and commercial activities.

The Australian public are up in arms. A petition has garnered tens of thousands of signatures protesting at the way the visit is being handled by the authorities.

Meanwhile Harry and Meghan trip (trip being the operative word) with rictuslike determination on their avaricious way as they try to rustle up sufficient commercial interest via column inches to keep their tacky, grifting show on the road.

It's really time for the Lord Chamberlain's regulations to have the force of law. Until they do, Harry and Meghan will continue to make mugs of the institution they claim to revile while doing their utmost to remind everyone they're a part of, while showing us in ever clearer terms what mugs they really are.

Yet the irony remains that amidst the repellence there is an element of genuine entertainment that is also allied to how instructive it is when ruthless advocates of the merits of drug usage perform upon the platforms which are displays for their wares.