Queen Mother National Treasure??

[puddicat]

Not from the war years so i cant make comment but i dont think she a national treasure what exactly did she do apart from the war years showing her face but loving her gin!!

[Mr Veritas]

Yes she is a National Treasure~
Buried Treasure! !!LOL

[cab]

Youd have thought with all their money she would have had her teeth sorted out.

[puddicat]

Hi Sir how u keeping and to you cab!!!

[Everhelpful]

Treasure? Where did they dig her up from.!!

[afcjan]

think they are all a waste of money.....hope I dont get carted off to the Tower now

[Postdog]

Well I'm not old enough either, but I remember my mum saying things.

They stayed in London during the blitz, even though the palace was a bomber target and - I believe - got hit a few times.

She visited those bombed, gave moral support, and was basically an inspiration to the public during a bad time.

No comparison with the latest so called national treasure then! Famous for getting her kebab out on telly and slagging off Indians.

[tiggerblue10]

Looks like I'm in the minority but I quite liked her.

[puddicat]

hi post dog that was to a degree credible out with that nothing in fact fed off off that for years until her death!!!

[cab]

Hi puddi xxxxxx

[tamborine]

Vindictive b1tch.....she didn't have to be so harsh on Wallis Simpson.

She was jealous of WS sophistication & catching the heir to the throne. She drove a huge wedge into the two brothers - Edward & George, and into England & France.

[puddicat]

hi cabx

[Barmaid]

I suppose I shall be executed for this with the rest of any monarchist sympathisers (I can already see at least one Mme Defarge sitting by the scaffold!)

Out of touch snob she might have been, but I actually rather liked her. She was a total **** head in her later years who like to watch horses and drink gin and dubonnet (but then at 90+ I am inclined to let her get on with it).

A couple of quotes I loved:-

�The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.� on it being suggested that the RF should vacate BH and Britain during the war.

On her grandson's palatial home Sunninghill, she is said to have said "If you have spent half of your life on a warship, you would not know about taste".

And the fact that Adolf Hitler described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe" in my view means she must have meant something.

[puddicat]

sorry doesnt wash barmaid pampered without notable speak!!!

[dot.hawkes]

I adored the queen mother and will not hear a word said against her or any of her family and we are a better nation for sticking with them, one day we will be glad we have.

[Barmaid]

I accept she was pampered, I accept she was a snob. Nonetheless, her moral boosting during the war is still remembered by some of those who lived through it (I didn't, but my grandparents did and they talk about her with fondness).

Whether it "washes" or not Puddi, it is still my opinion.

[Barmaid]

for "moral" read "morale"! Dumb moment.

[LingShen09]

do you like anyone or anything puddicat? you are always moaning and complaining about everything

[Mr Veritas]

I am sorry but all this talk of her aiding morale in the East End (and elsewhere) is completely overated.
I was stationed near the palace during WW2 and so am aware of the situation.
Usually when there was a bad raid on London the King and Queen were where they usually were (all week),at Windsor! as were Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
They only returned for photo opportunities,and then were whisked off to Windsor again.
They couldn't have stayed at Buck House as it was completely mothballed for the duration of the war.
When the bomb fell on Buck House Chapel,they were at Windsor.
As regards Charles and Dian's break up, far from the Queen Mum being involved in it,she tried to keep them together.
Why?
Well, Lady Fermoy (Diana's Grandmother) was QM's Lady in Waiting.They had hatched a plot to wed Diana to Charles.Mainly to preven Lordt Mountbatten getting Charles married to his(Mountbatten's) Grand~Daughter,and thus making the sucession to the throne pure Mountbatten!
So when he died in August 1979 at the hands of the IRA,the field was left wide open. As we know Charles and Diana were engaged in February 1981 the QM & Lady Fermoy's plans had come to fruition.
Of course we all know the sad train of events that followed.
I don't like the QM, but it was apparent she tried her best to keep them together.
Sounds more like Dallas doesn't it?