The Random Thread and The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2

[MickeyisBeast]

Che sarà sarà
(What is to be, will be)

 

[DisGirlAllie]

In September 1939, with the outbreak of the Second World War, Elizabeth and her younger sister, Margaret, stayed at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, from September to Christmas 1939, until they moved to Sandringham House, Norfolk. From February to May 1940, they lived at Royal Lodge, Windsor, until moving to Windsor Castle, where they stayed for most of the next five years. The suggestion by senior politician Lord Hailsham that the two princesses should be evacuated to Canada was rejected by Elizabeth's mother; she said, "The children won't go without me. I won't leave without the King. And the King will never leave." The princesses remained at Windsor, where they staged pantomimes at Christmas in aid of the Queen's Wool Fund, which purchased yarn to knit into military garments. It was from Windsor in 1940 that the 14-year-old Elizabeth made her first radio broadcast during the BBC's Children's Hour, addressing other children who had been evacuated from the cities. She stated:

"We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen, and we are trying, too, to bear our share of the danger and sadness of war. We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well. "

In 1943, 16-year-old Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards, of which she had been appointed Colonel-in-Chief the previous year. In February 1945, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, as an honorary Second Subaltern with the service number of 230873. She trained as a driver and mechanic, drove a military truck, and was promoted to honorary Junior Commander five months later. She is the last surviving head of state who served in uniform during the Second World War.

During the war, plans were drawn up to quell Welsh nationalism by affiliating Elizabeth more closely with Wales. Welsh politicians proposed that Elizabeth be made Princess of Wales on her 18th birthday. The idea was supported by Home Secretary Herbert Morrison but rejected by the King on the grounds that such a title belonged solely to the wife of a Prince of Wales, and the Prince of Wales had always been the heir apparent (usually the Sovereign's eldest surviving son) while Elizabeth was only heir presumptive (and could be supplanted in the line of succession if the Sovereign had a son). In 1946, she was inducted into the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

At the end of the war in Europe, on Victory in Europe Day, Elizabeth and her sister mingled anonymously with the celebratory crowds in the streets of London. She later said in a rare interview, "we asked my parents if we could go out and see for ourselves. I remember we were terrified of being recognised ... I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief." Two years later, the Princess made her first overseas tour, when she accompanied her parents to Southern Africa. On her 21st birthday, 21 April 1947, in a broadcast to the British Commonwealth from South Africa, she pledged: "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

 

[MickeyisBeast]

ti voglio bene

Anyone know what that means? It's my favorite thing to say in Italian (besides Ciao)

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Elizabeth met her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, in 1934 and 1937. After another meeting at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in July 1939, Elizabeth – though only 13 years old – fell in love with Philip, and they began to exchange letters. They married on 20 November 1947. The couple are second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through Queen Victoria. Before the marriage, Philip renounced his Greek and Danish titles, converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and adopted the style Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, taking the surname of his mother's British family. Just before the wedding, he was created Duke of Edinburgh and granted the style of His Royal Highness.

The marriage was not without controversy: Philip had no financial standing, was foreign-born (though a British subject), and had sisters who had married German noblemen with Nazi links. Elizabeth's mother was reported, in later biographies, to have opposed the union initially, even dubbing Philip "The Hun". In later life, however, she told biographer Tim Heald that Philip was "an English gentleman".

Elizabeth and Philip received 2500 wedding gifts from around the world, but the country had not yet completely rebounded from the devastation of the war. She still required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown, designed by Norman Hartnell. In post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for any of the Duke of Edinburgh's German relations to be invited to the wedding, including Philip's three surviving sisters. Ronald Storrs claimed that another notable absentee, Elizabeth's aunt, Mary, Princess Royal, refused to attend because her brother Edward, the former king, was not invited; she gave ill health as the official reason for not attending.

Elizabeth gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles, on 14 November 1948, less than one month after letters patent were issued by her father allowing her children to enjoy a royal and princely status to which they otherwise would not have been entitled. A second child, Princess Anne, was born in 1950.

Following their wedding, the couple leased Windlesham Moor near Windsor Castle, until 4 July 1949, when they took up residence at Clarence House in London. At various times between 1949 and 1951, the Duke of Edinburgh was stationed in Malta (at that time a British Protectorate) as a serving Royal Navy officer. He and Elizabeth lived intermittently, for several months at a time, in the Maltese hamlet of Gwardamanġia, at the Villa Gwardamanġia, the rented home of Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten. The children remained in Britain.

 

[DisneyRockstar]

I am currently partying to this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYSqSicV_U

 

[DISKATER69]

back!

 

[MickeyisBeast]

I've got to go in 55 minutes.
In that time period I've got so much to do...
-pack
-do my hair
-feed the dog
-take the dog out

I should really get started.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Елизабет II (Елизабет Александра Мери, роден на 21-ви април 1926) е управляващ кралицата на 16 независими суверенни държави, известни като области Британската: Обединеното кралство, Канада, Австралия, Нова Зеландия, Ямайка, Барбадос, Бахамските острови, Гренада, Папуа-Нова Гвинея , Соломоновите острови, Тувалу, Сейнт Лусия, Сейнт Винсънт и Гренадини, Белиз, Антигуа и Барбуда, и Сейнт Китс и Невис. Освен това, като ръководител на Британската общност, тя е мутра на член 54 на нациите и в зависимост от британски монарх, тя е върховен управител на Англиканската църква.

Elizabet II (Elizabet Aleksandra Meri, roden na 21-vi april 1926) e upravlyavasht kralitsata na 16 nezavisimi suverenni dŭrzhavi, izvestni kato oblasti Britanskata: Obedinenoto kralstvo, Kanada, Avstraliya, Nova Zelandiya, Yamaĭka, Barbados, Bakhamskite ostrovi, Grenada, Papua-Nova Gvineya , Solomonovite ostrovi, Tuvalu, Seĭnt Lusiya, Seĭnt Vinsŭnt i Grenadini, Beliz, Antigua i Barbuda, i Seĭnt Kit·s i Nevis. Osven tova, kato rŭkovoditel na Britanskata obshtnost, tya e mutra na chlen 54 na natsiite i v zavisimost ot britanski monarkh, tya e vŭrkhoven upravitel na Anglikanskata tsŭrkva.

 

[DisneyRockstar]

I Love Saying "thats your business" to someone when it isnt your problem.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

ti voglio bene

Anyone know what that means? It's my favorite thing to say in Italian (besides Ciao)

It means I love you!
Haha, I tell my friends that alll the time, they've caught on recently

 

[CowboyErin]

 

[CowboyErin]

 

[marypops!]

Elizabeth was the first child of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), and his wife, Elizabeth. Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was born by Caesarean section at 2.40am (GMT) on 21 April 1926 at her maternal grandfather's London house: 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair; and was baptised in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace by the Archbishop of York, Cosmo Lang, on 29 May. She was named Elizabeth after her mother, Alexandra after George V's mother, and Mary after her grandmother. Her close family called her "Lilibet". George V cherished his granddaughter, and during his serious illness in 1929 her regular visits raised his spirits and were credited with aiding his recovery.

Elizabeth's only sibling was Princess Margaret, born in 1930. The two princesses were educated at home under the supervision of their mother and their governess, Marion Crawford, who was casually known as "Crawfie". To the dismay of the royal family, Crawford later published a biography of Elizabeth and Margaret's childhood years entitled The Little Princesses. The book describes Elizabeth's love of horses and dogs, her orderliness, and her attitude of responsibility. Such observations were echoed by others: Winston Churchill described Elizabeth when she was two as "a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant." Her cousin Margaret Rhodes described her as "a jolly little girl, but fundamentally sensible and well-behaved".

Our friend used to bodyguard Princess Margaret. He got an award from the Queen after saving Margaret when she slipped in the bathtub and broke something.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

I must be above average (or under average...) because it can take me hours to fall asleep!

There are at least 12,000 tigers being kept as pets in the USA. Only 19 states have banned ownership of a tiger, and 15 require a licence.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, née le 21 avril 1926) est la reine incontestée de 16 États indépendants et souverains connu sous le nom royaumes du Commonwealth: le Royaume-Uni, Canada, Australie, Nouvelle-Zélande, la Jamaïque, la Barbade, les Bahamas, la Grenade, la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée , les îles Salomon, Tuvalu, Sainte-Lucie, Saint Vincent et les Grenadines, Belize, Antigua et Barbuda et Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis. En outre, en tant que chef du Commonwealth, elle est la figure de proue de l'élément 54 du Commonwealth des Nations et, comme le monarque britannique, elle est le gouverneur suprême de l'Église d'Angleterre.
Elizabeth a fait ses études à la maison privée. Son père, George VI, devenu roi-empereur de l'Empire britannique en 1936. Elle a commencé à exercer des fonctions publiques pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans laquelle elle a servi dans l'Auxiliary Territorial Service. Après la guerre, et le titre indien indépendance George VI de l'empereur de l'Inde a été abandonnée, et l'évolution de l'Empire dans le Commonwealth accélérée. En 1947, Elizabeth fait la première de nombreuses tournées à travers le Commonwealth, et épousa le prince Philip, duc d'Édimbourg. Ils ont quatre enfants: Charles, Anne, Andrew et Edward.
En 1949, George VI est devenu le premier chef du Commonwealth, un symbole de la libre association des pays indépendants comprenant la Communauté des Nations. A sa mort en 1952, Elizabeth est devenue chef du Commonwealth, et le monarque constitutionnel de sept pays indépendants du Commonwealth: le Royaume-Uni, Canada, Australie, Nouvelle-Zélande, l'Afrique du Sud, le Pakistan et Ceylan. Son couronnement en 1953 a été la première à être télévisée. Durant son règne, qui à 58 ans est l'un des plus longs pour un monarque britannique, elle est devenue reine de 25 autres pays au sein du Commonwealth que de leur indépendance. Entre 1956 et 1992, la moitié de ses royaumes, y compris l'Afrique du Sud, le Pakistan et Ceylan (devenu Sri Lanka), sont devenues des républiques.
En 1992, Elizabeth, qui appelait son «annus horribilis», signifie «année horrible, deux de ses fils séparés, sa fille divorcée, et un grave incendie a détruit une partie du château de Windsor. Révélations sur l'état de l'aîné de ses fils Charles le mariage a continué, et il a divorcé en 1996. Après la mort de 1997 de sa belle-fille ex-beau Diana, princesse de Galles, la famille royale est resté au château de Balmoral, pendant cinq jours à un moment de deuil national, pour lequel ils ont été attaqués dans les articles de la presse. Elizabeth et sa famille retourne à Londres la veille de l'enterrement de Diana, apparaissant en public et apaiser une grande partie de la controverse publique. La popularité personnelle d'Elisabeth est depuis resté élevé. Sa Silver et Golden Jubilés ont été célébrés en 1977 et 2002 respectivement, et la planification de son jubilé de diamant en 2012 est en cours.
Elizabeth était le premier enfant du prince Albert, duc d'York (futur roi George VI), et son épouse, Elizabeth. Son père était le second fils du roi George V et la reine Mary, et sa mère était la fille cadette du Scottish aristocrate Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14 e comte de Strathmore et Kinghorne. Elle est née par césarienne à 2h40 (GMT) le 21 avril 1926 à la maison de son grand-père maternel de Londres: 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, et a été baptisé dans la chapelle privée du palais de Buckingham par l'archevêque de York, Cosmo Lang, le 29 mai. Elle a été nommée Elizabeth après que sa mère, Alexandra de la mère de George V, et de Marie après sa grand-mère. Sa famille proche a appelé son "Lilibet". George V chérissait sa petite-fille, et pendant sa grave maladie en 1929 ses visites régulières soulevé ses esprits et ont été crédités d'avoir aidé son rétablissement.
seul frère d'Elisabeth était la princesse Margaret, née en 1930. Les deux princesses ont été éduqués à la maison sous la supervision de leur mère et leur gouvernante, Marion Crawford, qui a été négligemment connu sous le nom "Crawfie". À la consternation de la famille royale, Crawford tard publié une biographie d'années d'enfance d'Elizabeth et Margaret intitulé Les petites princesses. Le livre décrit l'amour d'Elisabeth de chevaux et de chiens, son ordre, et son attitude de responsabilité. Ces observations ont été reprises par d'autres: Winston Churchill a décrit Elizabeth quand elle avait deux comme «un personnage qu'elle a un air d'autorité et de la réflexivité étonnante chez un nourrisson.." Sa cousine Margaret Rhodes l'a décrite comme "une fille joyeuse petite, mais tout à fait raisonnable et sage".
En tant que petite-fille du monarque dans la ligne masculine, style plein d'Elisabeth à la naissance était Son Altesse Royale la princesse Elizabeth d'York. Elle a terminé troisième dans la ligne de succession au trône, derrière son oncle, Edward, Prince de Galles, et son père. Bien que sa naissance a suscité un intérêt public, elle ne devrait pas devenir reine, que le prince de Galles était encore jeune, et il était largement admis qu'il serait marier et avoir des enfants de la sienne. En 1936, lorsque son grand-père, le roi, est mort et son oncle Edward réussi, elle est devenue le deuxième en ligne pour le trône après son père. Plus tard cette année, la famille d'Edward et le grand public ont été choqués quand ses projets de mariage (à divorcée Wallis Simpson mondaine) a provoqué une crise constitutionnelle, et Edward abdiqué. père d'Elizabeth devint roi, et elle devint l'héritière présomptive, avec le style de Son Altesse Royale la princesse Elizabeth.
Elizabeth a reçu des cours privés dans l'histoire constitutionnelle de Henri Martre, vice-recteur du collège d'Eton, et a appris le français à partir d'une succession d'institutrices de langue maternelle anglaise. Une compagnie des Guides, le 1er Buckingham Palace Company, a été créé spécifiquement pour qu'elle puisse socialiser avec des filles de son âge. Plus tard, elle a été inscrit en tant que Ranger mer.
En 1939, les parents d'Elizabeth en tournée au Canada et a visité les États-Unis. Comme en 1927, lorsque ses parents avaient fait des tournées en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande, Elizabeth est restée en Grande-Bretagne que le roi trouvait trop jeune pour entreprendre des visites publiques. Elizabeth "regardé larmes», comme ses parents défunts. Ils correspondaient régulièrement, et le 18 mai, elle et ses parents ont fait le premier appel téléphonique transatlantique royale.

 

[CowboyErin]

 

[DISKATER69]

There are at least 12,000 tigers being kept as pets in the USA. Only 19 states have banned ownership of a tiger, and 15 require a licence.

That's crazy. I know a guy that owns a cougar and I refuse to go in his house xD

 

[CowboyErin]

 

[DisGirlAllie]

On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration. It was the evident will of' Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties.
I have already completed the most important part of this task.
A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labour, Opposition, and Liberals, the unity of the nation. It was necessary that this should be done in one single day on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events. Other key positions were filled yesterday. I am submitting a further list to the king tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of principal ministers during tomorrow.
The appointment of other ministers usually takes a little longer. I trust when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed and that the administration will be complete in all respects. I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today. At the end of today's proceedings, the adjournment of the House will be proposed until May 21 with provision for earlier meeting if need be. Business for that will be notified to MPs at the earliest opportunity.
I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government.
The resolution:
"That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion."
To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are in action at many other points-in Norway and in Holland-and we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.
In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if 1 do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.
Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.
I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Through one of the marvels of modern Science, I am enabled, this Christmas Day, to speak to all my peoples throughout the Empire. I take it as a good omen that Wireless should have reached its present perfection at a time when the Empire has been linked in closer union. For it offers us immense possibilities to make that union closer still.

It may be that our future may lay upon us more than one stern test. Our past will have taught us how to meet it unshaken. For the present, the work to which we are all equally bound is to arrive at a reasoned tranquillity within our borders; to regain prosperity without self-seeking; and to carry with us those whom the burden of past years has disheartened or overborne.

My life's aim has been to serve as I might, towards those ends. Your loyalty, your confidence in me has been my abundant reward.

I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all. To men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them; to those cut off from fuller life by blindness, sickness, or infirmity; and to those who are celebrating this day with their children and grand-children. To all - to each - I wish a Happy Christmas. God Bless You!.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

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