We are amused as Trump's court storms the palace
By Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post
If there was “great love all around” during President Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom, as he tweeted Monday, the participants royal and decidedly otherwise were deceptively discreet.
From the coverage, one might have thought that Madame Tussauds had teamed up with George Lucas to create a charade parade of mechanized wax figures. What a crew of dour sourpusses they were.
But then, what would one expect when New York’s most-famous hillbilly drags his entire entourage to sup at the sumptuous table of the Queen of England as though word had leaked of an all-you-can-eat buffet and free booze over at Lizzie’s Eatery? Donald Trump may have plenty of dough and houses dripping with gold, but his money has that new smell, and his crass behavior is testament to the adage — and more recently Countess Luann de Lesseps’ song — “Money can’t buy you class.” To which I would only add, “honey.”
The countess should know. Marrying royalty won’t get you there, either, apparently. But then, Luann, as in “The Real Housewives of New York City,” perhaps was being ironic.
Queen Elizabeth, as in The Crown, was born to class, of course, and has spent her royal career marinating in irony. As a descendant of generations of royals, she epitomizes the definition of proper behavior, rarely displaying emotion or affection, always stoic in the face of adversity. A far cry is she from the effluvious Donald and his bloviating histrionics. But there she was playing sober hostess to a reality-show president and his carnivalesque courtiers.
The queen has seen it all: Her married son, Charles, galivanting with his then-lover-now-wife Camilla whilst married to the fair Princess Diana; the “people’s princess” shedding crocodile tears for television cameras while sharing her miseries and family secrets; her grandson wedding an American actress who, in an apparent act of defiance, declined to attend the state banquet.
Not even Monday evening’s strawberry sable with lemon verbena cream dessert could be richer than that.
Tis a shame, because Meghan Markle, The Duchess of Sussex, surely would have brought a smile to the Buckingham Palace proceedings. Instead, we saw mostly waxen, strained faces in the dinner procession of mismatched royals and American hirelings. Most expressions suggested that a hair shirt was concealed beneath their finery. There was the queen with The Don. Prince Edward, the queen’s first cousin, marched dutifully alongside Kellyanne Conway, bedecked in silver sequins and affecting a royal air her weary-eyed escort would be loath to approximate.
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I'm usually reluctant to post Kathleen Parker's stuff but this is pretty funny.
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It's a photo of Queen Elizabeth standing beside John F. Kennedy. Have never seen it before. Had to add it to your thread:
More photos at this link:
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/g22142558/queen-elizabeth-us-presidents-photos/
I noticed the Queen wore the same dress when hosting John and Jacqueline Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, when he replaced JFK. It was blue.
Thank you for your article, it was great!
