HOW NOT TO KILL A QUEEN
Too many clever phrases and witticisms to repeat here.
Just read it and savour.
“It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.” a “little, mean-looking man” striking a ridiculously “theatrical” pose as he took aim. In other countries assassinations were carried out by men of high intelligence, while in Britain, it was “men of weak and morbid minds.” Idiots, in a word. Every village had one. No rational Englishman would want to kill his queen.
“This strange mania of queen-shooting.” So manifestly stupid was he that even the murderous fringe of Fenianism disowned him.
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Thanks for this. I recall after 7/7 there was a get together in Trafalgar Square to show 'we' were together in not letting the horror divide us. I found myself next to a Muslim family. We shook, no clasped, hands. The father wanted to apologise. "Don't be so ridiculous, my friend" He almost clenched my had again "Do you think I want to be British without you?" I said "Impossible". But isn't this so sad - in beloved Greece http://insidegreece.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/charity-begins-at-home/
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