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Queen Elizabeth leaves COVID bubble to visit top-secret military lab https://www.cbsnews.com/news/queen-elizabeth-britain-leaves-covid-bubble-porton-down-secret-chemical-weapons-lab-today-2020-10-15/
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Are you expecting Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, to become ill as a result of this visit?
-Laelth
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I found it curious too.
Cosmo Blues
(2,490 posts)She acquiesces to Boris Johnson, she has made some grave missteps lately, not that Charles hasn't, but politically is much better
Wounded Bear
(58,682 posts)I believe he is only a prince.
magicarpet
(14,160 posts)magicarpet
(14,160 posts)This Russian inspired Brexit fiasco and possible tampering with the voters intent is destabilizing enough.
They should focus their attention on sorting out and investigating that mess and nailing the Fascists of the British government who played a role in cheerleading this treasonous scheme.
Then investigate the dismantling of NATO to the benefit of Putin's Russian Mafia Oligarchy.
magicarpet
(14,160 posts)Moved here from another thread,.. credit goes to,...DavidDvorkin
Russia trying to discredit Oxford vaccine
Russia is waging a disinformation attack on Oxford University and Astrazeneca's coronavirus vaccine, according to an investigation by British newspaper The Times. Russia's flagship Vesti News programme called it a "monkey vaccine". "Russia and middlemen are now seeking to 'seed' ... pictures, memes, and video clips" on social media, saying the vaccine turns people into monkeys because it uses a Chimpanzee virus. Russia has a competing vaccine called Sputnik V.
(That's the whole report. Most EUObserver articles are very short.)
https://euobserver.com/tickers/149776
Freddie
(9,272 posts)And give her 71-year-old son some time on the throne. Her mother lived to 101 so he may be in his 80s by the time he becomes King.
I read somewhere she may step down when Prince Philip dies.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Charles has some might big shoes to step into.
phylny
(8,383 posts)She knew from the time she realized she was first in line to the throne that she had a lifetime commitment to the people of the United Kingdom.