How do I write to the Queen or a member of the royal family, or behave when I meet them?

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I am amused by the contrast between

There are also no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family. Many people wish to observe the traditional forms. For men this is a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual way

and awkwardly deep curtsy and ingratiating expression of the lady in the photograph.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

So you don't say "Alright, Liz!" then.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're Bez. And that may well happen.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"hey chuck, how they hangin old chap"

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Warum haben Sie Ihr berühmtes deutsches Erbe, Dame verlassen?"

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

also, please do not adjust your crotch in the Royal Presence

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I just had an image of Kingfish scratching wildly at his dangly bits underneath a Christmas Tree at Buckingham Palace when I realized he'd not written 'presents'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit, i'll tell you what i told that Senate Special Subcommitee. It was dry that day, and i wasn't about to steal away to readjust myself just before i received that honoray knighthood, so that's why things happened the way they did. How was I to know that Her Majesty was having heart troubles at that exact moment?

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

now, it's possible that i went a little overboard when i felt the need to re-enact that scene for the benefit of the CSpan cameras, while informing the viewer to the location of some nutz that they could perhaps sup upon.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I met the Queen years and years ago, with cub scouts. I was sixer of blue six (BLUE SIX ALERT!). My friend, head of a rival six, had a broken arm and asked her to sign his pot. She said no because she was carrying to many flowers. Rotter.

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Prince Harry last night received the backing of former military chiefs after he called for the return of National Service.

The prince, 30, said a decade in the Army had kept him ‘out of trouble’ and Britain should bring back compulsory call-ups to the military.

Conscription could transform the lives of young men and women, he said, adding: ‘I dread to think where I’d be without the Army. Bring back National Service.’

― This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 May 2015 17:11 (ten years ago)

'It was good for me, therefore it would be good for everyone else, because everyone else is exactly like me, raised in luxury and indolence and perpetually coddled as a child.'

― Aimless, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:22 (ten years ago)

Never mind all that, remind me of the trouble he didn't avoid by being in the army....

― Mark G, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:25 (ten years ago)

I bet when he was serving in Afghanistan the Army absolutely kept him 'out of trouble' as well, it is like going on a paint-balling holiday for this fucker.

― xelab, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:24 (ten years ago)

Would be more impressed if he'd spoken up in favour of the National Health Service.

― djh, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:55 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

Someone is selling this near me on facebook marketplace. Kind of want to see if they'll take $5 for it and save it as a future joke gift

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p720x720/139368216_10216817779628891_6294438854440487021_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=2&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=-UTuFqEmE9EAX9px8m3&_nc_oc=AQnwwPfH_hcxsbUYW11leQJ4qOiljCbGqmYcRc3YvGhmjSKLzFzgJHWq29J8JWCku6o&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&tp=6&oh=e12827ec1060c97ea42a710c2d544900&oe=602DC5C6

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 03:29 (five years ago)

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