Reply to: Queens Speech

[BoredBloke]

"Now the colleges will just be full of chavs like the schools are... nice one Gordon"

But from his point of view they won't count in the unemployment stats - they are being trained and so not unemployed.

[realityhack]

Ooh, I say. Oo-er. Ooh matron etc. etc.

Ah, he's clearly a commoner - pass One the Beretta Jeeves.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Gosh, you're terribly serious young man - what you need is a few Valium and a trip to the stables for a damn good thrashing. Here - hop into One's armoured Landy and One will drive...

Ooh, I say. Oo-er. Ooh matron etc. etc.

[realityhack]

"Our Liz", please, that really is vomit-inducing royalism.

Gosh, you're terribly serious young man - what you need is a few Valium and a trip to the stables for a damn good thrashing. Here - hop into One's armoured Landy and One will drive...

[TheFaQQer]

In those royal documentaries she seems to drive the landrover a lot, I guess at Balmoral there is a little bit of road driving especially if she goes to the church.

I read somewhere Phillip has a black cab he drives around?

I though Phillip had a fleet of motorbikes, so that he could hound speeding, drunk, French chauffeurs around Paris?

[Charles Foster Kane]

I've still got the image of Our Liz ramming passats off country roads while tooting the horn, swerving madly and shouting 'Get orf One's Highway!'

"Our Liz", please, that really is vomit-inducing royalism.

[oracleslave]

I've still got the image of Our Liz ramming passats off country roads while tooting the horn, swerving madly and shouting 'Get orf One's Highway!'

[realityhack]

I've still got the image of Our Liz ramming passats off country roads while tooting the horn, swerving madly and shouting 'Get orf One's Highway!'

[Churchill]

I doubt that - if that is the case I'd be very surprised.

Normally whoever drives the queen would be trained in evasive driving techniques and the like.

I can't see Queenie pulling a J-turn, or lamping other cars off the road.

Actually - I can. That's a good idea for a Punch/Private Eye cartoon...

The Queen finally got her driving licence back on Friday, almost 60 years after she last saw it.
The World War II document, signed just 'Elizabeth' is one of the exhibits at the Adjutant General's Corps Museum in Peninsula Barracks, Winchester.

It was given to the then 18-year-old Princess in 1945 when she was a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

It was kept by the Queen's driving instructor after the war, before making it into the hands of a private collector, who recently sold it to the museum.


From the Women at War exhibition, Imperial War Museum, London
A Buckiham Palace spokesperson said the monarch still regularly drives herself around on her estates at the age of 77.

The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, unveiled a plaque to officially open the museum, which houses the history of regiments such as the Royal Military Police and the Army Pay Corps.

They then travelled to Winchester City Centre to unveil a jubilee sculpture outside the Great Hall.

War families

They also met families and service personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan at the headquarters of the Adjutant General's Corps, at Worthy Down near Winchester.

The commemorative sculpture in Winchester, a jubilee monument, was designed by Rachel Fenner and commissioned by Hampshire County Council, close to the city's 13th Century Great Hall.

The Boy and Girl Choristers of Winchester Cathedral then sang for the Queen in the hall itself.

The Queen is also due to plant a tree at the 180-acre Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey.

Prince Philip will visit the Royal Marines Museum and Royal Naval School of Music at Eastney, Portsmouth.

Courtesy of the BBC and Google "The Queen Driving"

[realityhack]

road driving especially if she goes to the church.

I doubt that - if that is the case I'd be very surprised.

Normally whoever drives the queen would be trained in evasive driving techniques and the like.

I can't see Queenie pulling a J-turn, or lamping other cars off the road.

Actually - I can. That's a good idea for a Punch/Private Eye cartoon...

[Bagpuss]

isn't that on private land as opposed to public roads ?

The bit between the church and the estate is a public road

[Bluebird]

In those royal documentaries she seems to drive the landrover a lot, I guess at Balmoral there is a little bit of road driving especially if she goes to the church.

isn't that on private land as opposed to public roads ?

[Bagpuss]

In those royal documentaries she seems to drive the landrover a lot, I guess at Balmoral there is a little bit of road driving especially if she goes to the church.

I read somewhere Phillip has a black cab he drives around?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

[QUOTE=Charles Foster Kane;334973]

Doesn't have to hold a valid UK driving license to drive! Your friend cannot legally drive without one. However, you know I meant this, and are just being pedantic.

A real pedant would have pointed out the correct UK spelling is Licence

[oracleslave]

The Queen does drive, more frequently than you'd think too!

So how often is it?