Comments on: God Save The Queen! http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/04/02/god-save-the-queen/ Forward Movement Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:39:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: RebeccaH http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/04/02/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-79164 RebeccaH Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:28:36 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=12858#comment-79164 Mr. H and I, and our two small children (too small to remember, in fact) saw the Queen, riding a horse in her birthday parade, June 1979 (I don't remember the exact day of the parade, except that it wasn't actually quite her birthday). She was dressed in a red riding coat, a black riding helmet, and black jodhpurs, IIRC, the kind of uniform you associate with fox hunts, and I remember thinking what a surprisingly tiny woman she was. She also had the sourest expression on her face, mitigated by this: She is a dead ringer for my maternal grandmother (or vice versa), and that woman was the epitome of chilly British reserve, despite her (our) family having been native-born southern Americans for some two and a half centuries. At this stage of my life, I no longer fault her (or them) for that: they kept up a tradition of English civility that is sadly lacking in today's society. Mr. H and I, and our two small children (too small to remember, in fact) saw the Queen, riding a horse in her birthday parade, June 1979 (I don’t remember the exact day of the parade, except that it wasn’t actually quite her birthday). She was dressed in a red riding coat, a black riding helmet, and black jodhpurs, IIRC, the kind of uniform you associate with fox hunts, and I remember thinking what a surprisingly tiny woman she was. She also had the sourest expression on her face, mitigated by this:

She is a dead ringer for my maternal grandmother (or vice versa), and that woman was the epitome of chilly British reserve, despite her (our) family having been native-born southern Americans for some two and a half centuries. At this stage of my life, I no longer fault her (or them) for that: they kept up a tradition of English civility that is sadly lacking in today’s society.

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