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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:33 PM Dec 2013

The Queen Goes Nuts Over Nuts

Yes, indeed, the rich are not like common folk:

(London) Queen Elizabeth was so incensed by royal police officers eating nuts from bowls left out in the corridors of Buckingham Palace that she drew lines on the sides of the bowls in a bid to catch them out.
A memo from Her Royal Nuttiness had been revealed in the ongoing News of The World hacking trial.

Reuters

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The Queen Goes Nuts Over Nuts (Original Post) Fred Sanders Dec 2013 OP

The queen of anywhere in particular? Retrograde Dec 2013 #1

Those aren't the only nuts in Buckingham Palace 1000words Dec 2013 #2

Retrograde

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1. The queen of anywhere in particular?

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 02:53 AM

Dec 2013

There is more than one queen in the world at the moment. </anglocentrism peeve>

That said, isn't she one of the wealthiest people in the world? And how fresh were the nut anyway if not one was eating them?

1000words

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2. Those aren't the only nuts in Buckingham Palace

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 03:02 AM

Dec 2013

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