SPEECHLESS

I wonder what he thought of her…

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    1. Fact that they hated blacks and Jews.

      What was it Margaret is reputed to have said when introduced to someone in America,

      He’s the three things I have most. Black, Jewish and American.

      Also I saw it before a few years ago… I don’t think it’s fake.

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      1. Sammy Davis Jr., who played golf, was once asked what his handicap was. “Well,” he replied, “I’m black, Jewish, and I only have one eye”.

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          2. As I’ve always heard the story, she was talking about Sammy Davis Jr. But as Tris says……who knows?

            The stories about Margaret’s rudeness and all around despicable behavior are legend. Some stories suggest that some of it was a joke. Margaret would say awful things about Elizabeth Taylor who nevertheless remained a “friend.” When there were news reports about a huge diamond ring that Richard Burton gave Taylor, Margaret was quoted as saying it was “gaudy.” The story is that at the next big party, they met in the ladies room, and Taylor suggested that Margaret try it on…….and she did! Taylor is reported to have immediately said: “Doesn’t look so gaudy now does it?”

            Did it really happen? Who knows? 🙂

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    2. Don’t be daft it’s certainly not fake but it shows times do change , it was common for British people to refer to black people as being closer to gorilla or monkey than white people , paki , wog , etc used a lot in those days

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        2. Niko, it sounds like her, and I’ve seen it before, years ago.

          Her friend and companion, Old Lady Hussey (I mean that’s her name… Marmaduke’s widow) recently got into trouble for being racist and she was punted after a big fuss was made about it.

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      2. I thought not. The royals have always been odd that way. I understand that until very recently there were no black staff in the many palaces above the level of labourer.

        No clerical staff, not personal staff.

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        1. Not a stretch at all niko.

          You said: “Shame on you maligning the deceased”, no caveats; so, by your reckoning, that must apply to all deceased persons?

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        2. They are all dead. If it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead, then it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead.

          Frankly I think that is a nonsense.

          Will you at least admit that, unless the BBC and the royal family themselves conspired… this clip is not created by AI and is, in fact, the truth which seemingly the royals were not ashamed of it.

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          1. Yup; niko needs to learn to let his harrumphs pass, before he leaps onto the keyboard. His fingers were at the gallop before his brain was in the saddle.

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        2. LOL Niko………..you might make a great MAGA Republican. The Trumpies tend to believe that what’s true or false is a matter of opinion. Kellyanne Conway’s famous term from the Trump presidency is “alternative facts.”

          This particular video clip is not AI because….well……it just isn’t!……as a matter of objective reality as opposed to personal opinion. 🙂

          Since the 1969 BBC show is now securely locked up with that Crown copyright thingy, I don’t know where I’d actually seen that awkward conversation among the royal family. Probably a YouTube upload which the BBC had not yet squelched.

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      1. Sorry……hit the send button too soon. Meant to attach the Wiki description of the gorilla comments.

        Wiki: “At the end, the Queen is shown discussing with her family an earlier conversation with the Home Secretary, who had described an unidentified guest at the palace as a “gorilla”, a term she found to be “very unkind”. However, she recounted her meeting with the guest by saying, “I stood in the middle of the room and pressed the bell, and the doors opened and there was a gorilla. And I had the most terrible trouble in keeping — you know, he had a short body and long arms.”

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Family_(film)

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        1. I wonder who that Home Secretary was.

          Was it The Right Honourable The Lord Callaghan of Cardiff KG PC (1967-1970)?

          Or was she talking about some historical Home Secretary from her past.

          That the royals thought that was amusing, and that the BBC passed it for broadcast, is unbelievable now.

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          1. Tris……Wiki says: “The film, protected by Crown copyright, has not been shown since the 1970s, as in later years it was deemed to be “of its time and for its time.”

            Sounds like both the palace and the BBC realized how awkward and phony the royals appeared before the camera. So it was best to lock it up and not show it anymore. 🙂

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            1. What a convenient excuse for not showing it again, Danny.

              Odd when the BBC seems to have no problem in repeating and repeating old programmes, often hideously out of date.

              But royals!

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              1. Tris…..Absolutely! That “of its time and for its time” construction is so wonderfully self-serving for all concerned! It’s embarrassing and they’re not about to show it ever again. 🙂

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            2. This “crown copyright” seems to be something regularly insisted upon.
              Same thing happened with proclamation of accession of Charles III at St James’s Palace,( this was the one where he lost the rag about the pen and took ( imo) a caveated Scottish oath).
              The BBC were given exclusive access to film and broadcast it to the nation, to realms, territories and the world more generally, but they can’t show it again, or clips from it, without permission.

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    1. Wow. That is pretty hard hitting.

      She came over as perfect. She was, in fact, a perfect bitch.

      The two things that made me laugh most of all were:

      She thought Philip wasn’t properly royal.. and in her mind that mattered, but his mother was a princess and his father a prince (albeit foreign ones…but then so was Victoria’s Albert)… and she herself, was the youngest daughter of some minor Scottish aristos. So, in fact, much less royal. Indeed Phil was more royal than the queen in that both his parents were royal.

      She also advocated the marriage of Charlie to Diana, a younger daughter of an obscure English aristo.

      The talk about her massive staff reminds me of an ex- colleague who had briefly worked in London for the royals.

      My friend was interested in flower arranging and befriended the head florist in the palace.

      The QM insisted that every room that she might use in Clarence House on any day, MUST have fresh flowers in it daily.

      Even if it was a room that she would only be in for a few minutes.

      The cost must have been enormous… but it seems that that was Ok because she wasn’t paying. We were.

      Thanks for posting that, Nigel.

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      1. “…youngest daughter of some minor Scottish aristos…”.

        To clarify: her family held a Scottish title, but the oft mentioned claim that “she was Scottish” doesn’t hold much water. She was born in London, as were her parents and all of her grandparents. 7 of her grandparents were born in England, the other in France.

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  4. I describe myself as having “chimp arms”, in that I fit pretty much all motorbikes. The outliers are things like old Guzzis and Ducatis that are a bit long (got a 900 S2), but I’m also quite happy riding things like CD175s.

    But that’s me describing me, rather than a bunch of Germans denigrating Africans.

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  5. If I ever had any prejudices about black people, they were put to rest in 2008 when, in Ayr hospital, my life was saved by two doctors, one Indian, the other West Indian.
    And now my wife, who has Dementia, is being cared for by black support workers, and frankly I couldn’t manage without their help. Wonderful people, doing a difficult job, without a word of complaint.

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    1. It’s never occurred to me that the colour of someone’s skin, or the religion they follow or who they fancy should matter at all.

      It’s personality that matters. Decency and fairness, and a good sense of humour.

      I’ve always been shocked at people who shun someone because of any of these things.

      When I was at uni, my best friend, an English lad, was killed in a sailing accident.

      A lad from the same building whom I had passed on the stairs a few times and nodded to, but no more, and who was studying medicine, got me through the first few weeks of shock and misery (you don’t expect your mates to die at 21) and made sure that I ate, and kept going to classes.

      He was from Côte D’Ivoire. The kindest man I ever knew.

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        1. Very impressive man is Joseff.

          French, English, Italian, German, Swahili, and Welsh.

          Humbling.

          As for the prof. I wonder how other countries where there is more than one language manage.

          In Luxembourg, there are three; in Belgium two, in Switzerland, four. In many African countries there are many more, but signage may be in a local language and in the language of whichever European conqueror they had to suffer.

          If he hates Welsh so much, why not trot off and get a job in England?

          Some people seem to think that Brits are too stupid to manage bi lingual signs.

          Here they are presented in different colours. to make it easy for people who are hard of understanding.

          I see he has apologised and the university is investigating.

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          1. He hasn’t apologised for his remarks, merely the way they came out on Faecesbook.

            The Uni is investigating, but considering it has long been a BritNat institution (they recently dropped the name ‘Glyndŵr’ from their name because they said it wasn’t helpful to their ‘brand’), I don’t hold out much hope of anything of any substance being done.

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    1. Nicely put, Nigel.

      He should trot off to England and live there.

      Freedom of speech works in lots of ways. Not just for Englishmen criticising Welsh institutions.

      If you maintain that you should be able to say anything at all… wait for some things that won;t be so palatable to you.

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