Careful, Don't Fist Bump The Queen
This is the stiff, formal garbage that is anathema to americans, or should be. Protocols and nit picking etiquette that goes hand in hand with the asinine idea of celebrating royalty.
The whole purpose is fraudulent - a never ending ruling dynasty, obscenely wealthy at the people's expense, setting itself up as a superior breed and able to dictate with impunity. With such sacrosanct privilege that Lèse majesté, or insulting ruling snobs, is a crime that can still be prosecuted.
President Obama, First Lady study protocols as they prepare for meeting with Queen Elizabeth
"For the Buckingham Palace grip-and-greet Wednesday, British etiquette dictates that “you may not shake the queen’s hand, only touch it briefly,” so that would rule out the fist bump. And if there’s food around, and the queen stops eating it, everybody else has to stop, too.
Among the big don’ts - don’t act like former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Her Royal Highness was not amused when Bush winked at her in 2007 after muffing his lines to suggest that Elizabeth may have been around in 1776.
Then there was the time in the ’90s when Clinton tried to bring a group of hangers-on with him into the palace.
When they were barred, Clinton aides complained that the queen’s attendants had been allowed into the White House earlier. One of the queen’s staff shot back: “Yes, well, this is the palace, isn’t it?”
The whole purpose is fraudulent - a never ending ruling dynasty, obscenely wealthy at the people's expense, setting itself up as a superior breed and able to dictate with impunity. With such sacrosanct privilege that Lèse majesté, or insulting ruling snobs, is a crime that can still be prosecuted.
President Obama, First Lady study protocols as they prepare for meeting with Queen Elizabeth
"For the Buckingham Palace grip-and-greet Wednesday, British etiquette dictates that “you may not shake the queen’s hand, only touch it briefly,” so that would rule out the fist bump. And if there’s food around, and the queen stops eating it, everybody else has to stop, too.
Among the big don’ts - don’t act like former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Her Royal Highness was not amused when Bush winked at her in 2007 after muffing his lines to suggest that Elizabeth may have been around in 1776.
Then there was the time in the ’90s when Clinton tried to bring a group of hangers-on with him into the palace.
When they were barred, Clinton aides complained that the queen’s attendants had been allowed into the White House earlier. One of the queen’s staff shot back: “Yes, well, this is the palace, isn’t it?”
posted by nolocontendere at 9:10 PM
2 Comments:
mz. first lady herself already made a faux pas. apparently it is also against proper etiquette to rub the queen's back, which michelle did after a photo-op. my answer was to flick the queen in the nose and ask if THAT was acceptable. or send her to a bbq at a redneck gun and beer convention.
How most utterly reprehensible, my dear!
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