FoodBanter.com - View Single Post

Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2021-03-24 10:53 a.m., wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 9:37:39 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:45:25 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> The guy doesn't impress me. The Queen is certainly on borrowed time now
>>> and Charles is next in line. Personally, I'd like to see him pass the
>>> title on to his eldest son.
>>>
>> There is a line of succession and the crown will pass to Charles. It's
>> the same thing as Meghan whining about her son not being called a
>> prince, he isn't one.
>>
> *APPLAUSE*
>

Funny how some people jump to false assumptions about things. I can't
help but thing back to Lady Di's death and people whining about them not
having the flag at half mast at Buckingham Palace, as if it were
violating British flag etiquette. British flag etiquette dictates that
the flag fly when the queen is in residence. She was not in residence.
She was at Balmoral, and the flag at Balmoral should have been at full
staff because she was in residence.

Half mast flags are really abused these days. There was a time when
they were only lowered for a very select group of people. It was really
abused here when we had troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and when one was
killed they would lower the flags. Sorry, but that not proper. We have
Remembrance Day, a special occasion on which flags are lowered to honour
ALL the war dead, not to honour certain individuals.