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“From palace officials, we were told to bow from the neck,” said journalist Mark Steyn. “George the Fifth said only waiters bow from the waist.”
Steyn. Author, radio host, his TV show airs daily in the UK. So I asked what had always been in that omnipresent omnipotent Queen Elizabeth handbag?
“Royals become practical. Edward the Eighth always decreed you never miss an opportunity to do the loo. Go even if not needed. Because at any moment you’ll face some VIP or Fiji prime minister or somebody and then you can’t go. I was actually told a toilet seat cover was always in her handbag.”
Educated in the United Kingdom’s King Edward’s School, Birmingham, it was the same institution author J.R.R. Tolkien had attended. Steyn’s ability with words possibly came from having been assigned the same dictionary used by Tolkien.
About the Firm’s duties, he said: “The job is not ‘glamorous’ like Meghan wanted. Not like being photographed with Oprah. But it’s what the queen did, right until the end. Just days ago Queen Elizabeth sent a message to her Canadian subjects following a mass murder in Saskatchewan which is a part of Her Majesty’s dominions.
