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| Queen Elizabeth to Honor Chiraq in her Home |
| 2004-11-21 |
| INSULT ART: Can anything top a British snub? Consider the reception planned for French President Jacques Chirac on his arrival yesterday in London: After alighting at Waterloo station, the Toronto Globe and Mail tittered earlier this week, Mr. Chirac was to watch "Les Misérables," the "musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel so disliked by French elites." The venue? Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber, "specially built by King George IV as a secular shrine to the defeat of the French, where large portraits of the Duke of Wellington and other British victors will glare down at the French President." |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #3 Chirac, the great diplomat, showed up late for a reception by the Queen? That's too rich. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-11-21 12:56:09 PM |
| #2 That's not all. Chirac arrived half an hour late (he blamed the London traffic) and the Queen didn't wait for him. She went off to greet other guests leaving Philip to do the dirty deed. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-11-21 12:30:04 PM |
| #1 Oh, well done Your Majesty. I like a woman with a classy way of making a point. |
| Posted by: too true 2004-11-21 11:38:40 AM |