dc2wheel
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Typical take on guns...are the 'Royals' ever going to just go away?
What a waste of money/space/time....
-dc2wheel
[former colonial citizen<---sorry...'subject']
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Queen Elizabeth fumes at police officer's 'bloody gun' in the garden
LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II was not amused when she bumped into a police officer on her private garden patio with a lethal sub-machine gun in his arms.
"She walked straight up to the officer, pointed at his gun, and said: 'You can take that bloody thing away'," the Sun newspaper quoted an unidentified source as saying.
The incident happened when the monarch returned to Buckingham Palace in February after a mid-winter break at Sandringham.
"It is the first time anyone can recall her using that kind of language to speak to a police officer," the source added Thursday. "She clearly was extremely frustrated at the in-you-face security in her own living quarters."
Neither Buckingham Palace nor the Metropolitan Police, which provides close-up security for the royal family, would comment on the Sun's report, saying they never discuss security matters.
But royal watchers said such an incident would be entirely in character for the famously unflappable queen, who turns 78 on April 21.
Last November she put her foot down when the US Secret Service wanted a helicopter gunship to hover non-stop over Buckingham Palace for the state visit of President George W. Bush. Too noisy, she reportedly protested.
Security around the royal family came under review last June after a stand-up comic gate-crashed a 21st birthday costume party for Prince William, the queen's grandson, at Windsor Castle.
The Sun said the police officer in the palace garden had a Heckler and Koch MP5, a black German-made 9-mm sub-machine gun that's popular not only with law enforcement agencies, but also with military commando units worldwide.
What a waste of money/space/time....
-dc2wheel
[former colonial citizen<---sorry...'subject']
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Queen Elizabeth fumes at police officer's 'bloody gun' in the garden
LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II was not amused when she bumped into a police officer on her private garden patio with a lethal sub-machine gun in his arms.
"She walked straight up to the officer, pointed at his gun, and said: 'You can take that bloody thing away'," the Sun newspaper quoted an unidentified source as saying.
The incident happened when the monarch returned to Buckingham Palace in February after a mid-winter break at Sandringham.
"It is the first time anyone can recall her using that kind of language to speak to a police officer," the source added Thursday. "She clearly was extremely frustrated at the in-you-face security in her own living quarters."
Neither Buckingham Palace nor the Metropolitan Police, which provides close-up security for the royal family, would comment on the Sun's report, saying they never discuss security matters.
But royal watchers said such an incident would be entirely in character for the famously unflappable queen, who turns 78 on April 21.
Last November she put her foot down when the US Secret Service wanted a helicopter gunship to hover non-stop over Buckingham Palace for the state visit of President George W. Bush. Too noisy, she reportedly protested.
Security around the royal family came under review last June after a stand-up comic gate-crashed a 21st birthday costume party for Prince William, the queen's grandson, at Windsor Castle.
The Sun said the police officer in the palace garden had a Heckler and Koch MP5, a black German-made 9-mm sub-machine gun that's popular not only with law enforcement agencies, but also with military commando units worldwide.
