《バッキンガムパレスがスタッフを全員招集！！！》

《バッキンガムパレスがスタッフを全員招集！！！》

5 / 4 (木)

いやあ〜〜〜びっくりした！！

英国はGWじゃないし、
ロイヤルに休日も関係ないんだけれど
それでも気分だけは、、
とのんびりしてたら
電話がなり知った、、、

英国のメディアが大騒ぎ

バッキンガムパレスが
なんと、
全スタッフに招集をかけていると言う。
そして、何やらミーティングが行われると。

何事？！？！？！？！

だって、
ウィンザー城に
サンドリンガム、
スコットランドのバルモラルからも！

もちろん異例の出来事
（でも、前代未聞ではないらしいが）

エリザベス女王に近い
シニアの側近が、
集めたスタッフを前に
ミーティングをすると言うので、
もう推測が飛び交いまくり。

もちろんトップに浮かぶのは、、、、
”死亡説”

どうやらエディンバラ公死亡説が浮上し
英国メディアもワサワサ

当然日本のメディアにも
その情報が入っていて
どうなんだ、と。

昨日拝見しましたよ
エディンバラ公お元気そうに公務に。。

エリザベス女王も、
メイ首相が訪問されてたし。。

しかし現在95歳のエディンバラ公
何があってもおかしくはないけど、、、
ひえ〜〜〜！！！！
と急いで調べたら、なるほど、まさにその通りのウワサが。

しかもライブで、少しづつ状況がわかり始めた。。

そうやら健康面の問題ではなさげ。
ほっ

でもまだ油断は禁物。

しかも
ミーティングが行われている気配もない。。
なんなんだ、、、

スタッフ集めなきゃいけない問題って何？？
もしや、
以前から言われてる
バッキンガムパレス改装の件
とか言わないよねえ〜〜

皆がモヤモヤな中
そして
追い続けること
数時間後
ついに、大体の予想通り時刻に発表が！！

エディンバラ公リタイア！！！！

なんだよ〜〜〜
が正直な感想

いや皆んなでしょう、追ってた関係者
むしろ心配してた人たち

いや、良かったですよ、
お元気だし。

これも重要案件！！

だけどさあ〜〜〜

大層になりすぎた、、、
そもそもどっからだ？

ミーティングがバレたからでしょうが。

それにしてもなんで呼ぶ必要あったの？？

ってか、呼んだのか・本当に？！？！
とさえ。

しかも、
"The Sun"なんて、
”エディンバラ公死亡”
って投稿しちゃったから、、、

日本じゃ考えられません、ってかありえないが。
あり得るのも英国。

ふつーにDeathとかの単語が飛び交ってたもん。

英語に”不吉ワード”なんてないのよねえ。

しかもワタシ予測では
もしやこう言うChaosも、
エディンバラ公はお見通しだったかも？

サプライズ好きの王室
しかもご当人は、失言・暴言がお得意のエディンバラ公

これもサプライズ演出じゃあ？って気が。

話はそれまくったが、
発表はこれ☆

公の場から引退
でも
いくつかの公式イベントには出席される見通しのよう。

例えば、
来月行われる、恒例の
女王の公式バースデーパレードもでしょうね。

何と言っても現在95歳
来月10日には96歳に。

昨年の公務数は 219

780以上もの組織のメンバー、
パトロン、プレジデント
となられているわけですしね〜

女王を支えると言う重要なお役目は変わらないので、
少しのんびりお身体を休めて頂けるといいですね〜


こんなリサーチも。
（from BBC）
1952年のご結婚以来、
ソロでの公務数は、
なんと22191 ですって！

このアナウンスメント後
エリザベス女王と公務に出席された
エディンバラ公

会った方がエディンバラ公に、
「残念です、リタイア」
と話した返しがこちら

さすがだ（笑）

MOMENT OF THE DAY:
Guest to Duke: "I'm sorry to hear you're standing down"
Duke: "Well I can't stand up much longer" *laughs* pic.twitter.com/ULkNwTLn3t

— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) 2017年5月4日

それにしても、
こう言うことが起こり得る、
と言うか
頭でわかってましたが
いざとなるとビビります。

そして、出演依頼なんぞが来ちゃうとは、、、
それで分かりましたが、
まだ無理だわ、、、

まだまだ知識は偏っているし
王室全体を語るなんてまだまだ早い。

そして何より
ワタシのキャラ的に、
喪は不向きだ、と。

お葬式でも笑いたくなってしまうタイプなんです、、、
困ったことに(~_~;)

The Sun online posted a story with the headline: 'Prince Philip dead at 95, how did the Duke of Edinburgh die, etc etc.'

『エディンバラ公の失言・暴言』

British women can't cook' (in Britain in 1966).

'What do you gargle with, pebbles?' (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).

'I declare this thing open, whatever it is.' (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

'Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed' (during the 1981 recession).

'If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.' (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).

'It looks like a tart's bedroom.' (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988)

'Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.' (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).

'We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it.' (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?' (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).

'If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?' (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).

'Bloody silly fool!' (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).

'It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.' (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).

'Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.' (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school's steel band).

'They must be out of their minds.' (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%).

'You are a woman, aren't you?'(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

'If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.' (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).

'Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world.' (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).

'Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.' (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a Koala bear).

'You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.' (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).

'Aren't most of you descended from pirates?' (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).

'You managed not to get eaten, then?' (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).

In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as 'Reichskanzler' - the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.

'You're too fat to be an astronaut.' (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).

'I wish he'd turn the microphone off.' (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).

'Do you still throw spears at each other?' (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).

'You look like a suicide bomber.' (to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002).

'Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?' (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral, 2002)

'Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?' (to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009).

'There's a lot of your family in tonight.' (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009).

'Do you work it a strip club?' (to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub in March 2010).

'Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?' pointing to some tartan (to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010).

'Bits are beginning to drop off.' (on approaching his 90th birthday, 2011)

'How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?' (meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012)

'I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress.' (to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent, in May 2012)

'The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS.' (on meeting a Filipino nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013)

'Most stripping is done by hand.' (to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013)

'(Children) go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.' (prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013)

'Just take the f***ing picture.' (losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - July 2015)

'You look starved.' (to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men - February 2017)

Other quotes:

• 'I'm just a bloody amoeba.' (on the Queen's decision that their children should be called Windsor, not Mountbatten).
• 
  
• 'Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out.'(to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain's inefficient industries in 1961).
• 
  
• 'Are you asking me if the Queen is going to die?' (on being questioned on when the Prince of Wales would succeed to the throne)
• 
  
• 'If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity.' (On a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974).
• 
  
• 'I hope he breaks his bloody neck.' (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree)
• 
  
• 'If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she's not interested.' (on the Princess Royal)
• 'When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.' (on marriage).
• 
  
• 'It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people.' (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).
• 
  
• 'Where did you get that hat?' (supposedly to Queen at her Coronation). 

• ＋
• http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39806145

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4472736/Prince-Philip-retire-royal-duties-95.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4472736/Prince-Philip-retire-royal-duties-95.html

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2017050438646/prince-philip-stepping-down-95-years-old/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4472700/Twitter-memes-Queen-s-Buckingham-Palace-announcement.html?ito=social-facebook



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