Glad to see BBC Wales has got its top news stories right on the day of the Irish referendum and 42 day detention vote aftermath. Yes, the top story is … wait for it … Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards is retiring from his post as Lord Lieutenant on his 75th birthday. My God what a scoop! Deserves a Pulitzer at least!
It hasn’t all been plain sailing though – and the former Lord Lieutenant remembers one time when he made a slight mistake.
He said he met the Queen at the airport and when the group were then embarked on a journey, he and another took their caps off.Sir Norman said it was pointed out to him that, even when you are in the Queen’s presence, you must keep to the uniform.
As for meeting the great and the good, the Lord Lieutenant said he particularly likes Prince Charles.
“Well, I have got favourites – of course I have – but I am not allowed to say,” he laughed.”I must say I get on with them all extremely well.”
I think Prince Charles is an absolutely super man. Some you are very pally with and others you are friendly but not quite so pally.
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This dreadful little man also described how proud he was of another of his “solecisms” (rather a clever word for a dim toff don’t you think!) in the presence of the english queen when she berated him – through a flunky of course – for taking off his hat whilst in a car which was part of her motorcade. One doesn’t do that sort of thing apparently and the eagle eyed monarch wasn’t going to let that one go by. Isn’t it time all these people were cast, with all their cringing, crawling, creeping and mincing, their grotesque fawning, snobbery and pretension – for good and all – into the dustbin of history?
Welshmen and women who accept honours from the english crown are nothing less than traitors to their country, traducing the honour and dignity of those who died defending Welsh freedom – particularly Wales’s own royal family cruelly butchered by the ancestors of Lloyd-Edwards’s boss.
These people are a collective disgrace to the Welsh nation.