Queen Elizabeth Wore a Ruby Tiara That Wards Off Evil to the Trump State Banquet

[mopinko]

Per a press release, jeweler Garrard revealed that the queen's iconic tiara includes "rubies gifted to her on her marriage from the people of Burma. The 96 rubies are a symbolic gesture, as rubies in Burmese culture protect from illness and evil, in this case to protect the wearer from the 96 diseases that can afflict humans."

there was much to admire about the old bird. i admit it.

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a27719016/queen-elizabeth-burmese-ruby-tiara-trump-state-banquet/?fbclid=IwAR2vocotrLHUTrtsCNHlrkSFR8PsDK74N8ewMeFpxDOx67pTVeEBk-1QeOA

[dweller]

1. Exactly the way Pisswig

should be regarded … as evil



✌🏻

[Lucinda]

2. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[3catwoman3]

3. By many accounts, the Queen had a wicked sense of humor.

I’ll vote for throwing shade.

[mopinko]

4. yeah the story her body man or whatever he's called told about bumping into hikers at balmoral

had me in tears.

[3catwoman3]

15. Pray tell, what story is this?

I don’t think I know it.

I do remember that she was said to enjoy a good “dirty” joke, and once explained it thusly - “I am over 21, and married to a sailor.” There was a third part to that quote, but I can’t recall it.

[mopinko]

23. found it.

[3catwoman3]

24. Thank you. I had heard the short version...

…but not this longer one.

It would indeed have been entertaining to see the hikers reaction when his friends recognized Elizabeth II. Surely someone must have.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. "From the people of Burma."

[Retrograde]

6. A voluntary contribution, no doubt

In Andrew Morton's book "Elizabeth and Margaret" (I may be an anti-royalist but I do like some juicy gossip, especially if I can get it from the library) he writes about Elizabeth's tour of Africa with her family in the late 1940s. He claims that schoolchildren in what was then Rhodesia (which for that time meant White, moderate to well-off youngsters) were required to contribute their allowances to buy Elizabeth some diamond jewelry for her 21st birthday - as if her family didn't have enough already.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. When you're having dinner with a weasel, ...

And you can't just light up no doobies,

To keep away from such evil

Wear a tiara made of rubies.

Burma save.

[mopinko]

8. duzy. man, i need all the laughs i can get today.

yesterday was my lowest day in a long time here and at home.
and today isnt off to a great start either. and it's early.

ty.

[Hekate]

10. Dear lord, that is a keeper

[Hekate]

9. There ya go. I have one (1) Burmese ruby cabochon in a ring, & didn't know it had mystic properties

… just that I love it for its deep color. It is great when you can make a statement with your jewelry, like Madeline Albright, and apparently, the Queen.

I turned on the tv machine and caught half the march up the church aisle of the elegant fellow with the silver mustache playing The Piper’s Lament. Jeez — instant tears. I hope someone posts that bit online, because I love bagpipes.

Then the fellow who’s changing out our water filtration system showed up and that will be it for the next few hours.

[mopinko]

17. pipes napalm to this homesick ole witch.

prefer irish pipes for music, but i want the bigguns at my funeral.

i have a little ruby, but i have a few other stones i used to convince my asshole neighbors that blowing up shit night and day was not how we were gonna pass the summer in lockdown.
threatened to call on my grandmothers. scared the shit out of 8 armed men.

could use a bigger one i guess.

[Hekate]

19. That trip to Ireland I mentioned was music from one end to the other, including Uillean pipes...

Robbie O’Connell seems to know everybody, and we’d stop off in some village for the night and be entertained by the All-Ireland Pipers or Dancers or whatnot. That was how I got to meet Tommy Sands.

As for threatening the neighbors with my witchy self, I’ve been lucky not to be too tempted. The one with the giant Let’s Go Brandon lights and Trumpy flags — I’d so love to shove a Dark Brandon flyer in his mailbox, but I suspect he’d catch me on camera, and at least he’s mostly out of my sight.

[mopinko]

21. 1 word- disguises.

i just fell in as a singer w an irish pick up band, and lordy do i want to sing in every pub i come across.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

11. Wearing the spoils of colonialism. How awesome.

I mean, it's funny and all until you follow it to the origins.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. But Cuthbert, it came from ThE PeOpLe of BuRma

[mopinko]

13. yeah, there's that. but ftr, this is the 1st nice thing i've said about her.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. ...

[former9thward]

16. If she really wore something with the intention of it "wards off evil"

it does not say much for her.

[mopinko]

18. it shows she knew it was her job to act out the stories.

[Hekate]

20. There you have it -- when your job is as deeply ceremonial as hers was, there's mythology

[mopinko]

22. yeah, it's only like, every atom in her universe.