The Royal Family have a sense of irony and mischief

Its been good to watch our Queen on telly today, They seem to have the publics interest at heart.

They also have a sense of mischief not always fully apparent when other visiting heads of state come to see them at Buck House

The video is of the marching band at Buckingham Palace

They played the same theme when King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia a land of human rights abuses and where women do not even have the vote, when he arrived at Buck House


Darth vader is the one that is usually played into this march

It is a very good sign of their neutrality that they were able to play this as a fitting silent way of protesting about him

Good on the Royals

Hat tip to John Trenchard

Her Majesty today

First Royal Diamond Wedding Anniversary

Only the fifth time a double portrait on the Coins...

Now all the Queen and Prince Philip have to do is a Diamond Jubilee and a Platinum wedding anniversary plus a Platinum Jubilee and then she'll be virtually unbeatable

She is after all only six years away from Queen Victoria's record of 61 years on the throne