Sixty years today; hard to imagine it, doing that job, day in, day out for 60 years. Let alone doing it so very well. Say what you will, she has a marvelous smile.
Her mother, of course, was famous for hers. I've always found it a rather practiced smile, determined to charm, at its least successful verging on the fixed.
No, I think the Queen's is more like that of her grandmother, the redoubtable Queen Mary. It's altogether a less predictable phenomenon, but all the more endearing for it.One can't, I suppose, wish her sixty more. You know what I do wish, though? That she's with us for a good long time, long enough to see her first-born's first-born have his first. And that that child is a girl, the first ever British heiress apparent. She'd have a thing or two to learn from her great granny...
A cocktail mixed together of gin and champagne is called the French 75. I think it's the perfect drink for today, despite its name.
ReplyDeleteBased on her benevolent expression, I have a feeling that's exactly what Queen Mary has in her tea cup!
ReplyDeleteHer daughter-in-law would like it, too, although she'd probably add a drop of Dubonnet...
Truly royal tacks on each and every one of those gals.
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