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anybody watching? can see it live on the bbc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18234049
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anybody watching? </div></div>
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ok.
there's a historic feel to this thing that's kind of nice. watching all those boats, makes you realize how closely water/navy/england are linked thruought the ages.
with 1,000 boats, this is the second largest flotilla in british history. the largest was in 1622, for charles the second.Comment
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there's a lively bunch of indian bagpipers in a boat just going by.
and to think i didnt know there was such a thing until i did that bagpipe thread a few weeks ago.
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the dame of honour. elizabeth alexandra mary. 60 years ruling, second i think, only to the king of thailand.
she's wearing a diamond white studded coat.
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she and the love of her life walking a step behind her. philip, duke of edinburgh. her babyfather. recovering nicely from surgery, it seems. he's in his 90s, she's 86.
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kate, wearing alexander mcqueen. in patriotic red. lots of british pride on view today.
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anne, the princess royal, looking quite butch in her military gear, naval i think.
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i think these guys are from new zealand. they were among the hundreds of man-powered boats in the first part of the flotilla.
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the canadian canoe, with the rowers dressed in the french habitant costume.
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Re: Diamond Jubilee Royal Flotilla
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anybody watching? can see it live on the bbc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18234049
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de bettar qwestian iss y yuh intarested?Comment
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i keep switching channels but its on all the regular stations i dunno why it's on down here
<span style="font-style: italic">the studs on the coat are swarovski crystals is all mi manage to pick up</span>Comment
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Re: Diamond Jubilee Royal Flotilla
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anybody watching? can see it live on the bbc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18234049
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de bettar qwestian iss y yuh intarested? </div></div>
Like it or not, Jamaica is still part of the commonwealth and the British have been part of our history. I am chilling with my Mom in Montreal for a few days after a hectic few weeks of travel. I caught the last part of the flotilla this morning. When the London Philharmonic Orchestra played, while some of the music was not familiar to me, my Mom was singing right along with the choir. She pointed out that she learned all of these songs when she was at school. Much as it pains me to acknowledge this, many Jamaican country grandmothers had a picture of the queen beside a picture of Jesus. My grandmother thought it was a sign that the world was about to end when the Queen was taken off Jamaican money. My mom has always watched the Queen's Christmas speech when it comes on the television.
Frankly, I don't think a White Queen is the appropriate head of state for a country in which the overwhelming majority of the population is Black and I think that Jamaica should become a Republic. But, I do enjoy watching some of these British events....you can't beat the pomp, ceremony and pageantry. You must admit, they do know how to put on a good show.Comment
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Camilla is looking good
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Kate love dah shoes deh eeh??? Flippin heck...Comment
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