Story time:
Prince Philip visited my school on one of his India trips. He was supposed to meet the senior school staff, head boy and girl, prefects, that sort of thing. I couldn& #39;t have been more than 5 or 6 years old at the time. https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1380475865323212800">https://twitter.com/RoyalFami...
Prince Philip visited my school on one of his India trips. He was supposed to meet the senior school staff, head boy and girl, prefects, that sort of thing. I couldn& #39;t have been more than 5 or 6 years old at the time. https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1380475865323212800">https://twitter.com/RoyalFami...
My aunt, senior teacher, decided I should not miss this. She got permission to include me, just to meet and scoot. No one told me I was supposed to be on best behaviour (this is relevant). She came to my classroom and told my teacher she was borrowing me for a few minutes.
As we walked to the reception area, she quickly briefed me. But I could not grasp the whole "Queen& #39;s husband is a prince, no he& #39;s not a king, she& #39;s the ruler, he& #39;s called a prince but also a duke" thing. So with his arrival imminent, she just said "yep, we& #39;re meeting the king"
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We& #39;re all in line, principal downward. A suited gent arrives with a small entourage. Everyone is bowing and scraping, that sort of thing. He finally gets to me, half the size of the others in the room. But I am craning my neck looking for someone that looks like, I dunno, a KING?