Queen Elizabeth II
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16 JUNE JUNE 17 03-09, 2012 centrespread centrespread 03-09, 2012 Sheikh Hamad Royal History bin Hamdan The Mad League al Nahyan Royally Weird Cars Apart How can a billionaire royal make a mark when he is based out of Abu Dhabi? The formula includes lots of women, thousands of cars, buckets of paint and truckloads of sand Princess Alexandra ● Has built a museum — Emirates of Bavaria National Auto Museum — of his Obsessed with cleanliness, Alexan- car collection which includes dra always wore white clothes. She Who gets to do anything for 60 years, leave alone wear a crown and wave to subjects? the biggest jeep in the world also believed she had swallowed a and a Mercedes in each colour glass grand piano in her childhood. But Queen Elizabeth II’s long reign (and Prince Charles’ long wait) is hardly the most of the rainbow So she turned sideways while pass- ● Name “Hamad” has been ing through doors lest she got stuck bizarre thing about royalty. ET on Sunday does some digging around to find out that written on the sands of his island Al Futaisi in such large the royals, British or otherwise, are one batty lot letters — one kilometer high — that his name can be seen Text: Kamya Jaiswal from space. Apparently, the first two letters have been filled with water so that he can bring his yacht in Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip George III of UK Not Horsy Enough Feet-Stuck-in-The-Mouth Once was so in love with the word ‘peacock’, he insisted on ending The “Man of the Year” for Time magazine every sentence with the word. He Buckingham Palace sighs in relief each time in 1952 has a rather modest list of quirks even tried to include it in the speech Philip makes a public appearance and does not to parliament: “My lords and pea- considering the length of her reign and her make a colossal faux pas. Such opportunities cocks…” Another time, he started blooper-king husband. It seems little of are very rare though, therefore vinaigrettes are wearing a pillowcase on his head as Prince Philip’s ways have rubbed off always kept handy he thought he was dead on her (no puns intended) ● Sometimes hides a radio in his top hat ● Carries a lavatory seat every Sarah Ferguson while attending the Ascot to listen to where she travels cricket commentaries ● Last curtsied in 1952, to Suck-er for Scandal ● Rumoured to be the “man in the mask” who her father’s body in St George’s only wore a tiny lace apron while serving Chapel, Windsor Mswati III guests at a party hosted by Stephen Ward, an The Brit Royals are a magnet for quirky souls. ● Morning read is not a general newspaper osteopath and artist charged with providing And who is a better example than the wife of Always Horny or the Bible. It is the Racing Post. She prostitutes to British government officials a duke, indiscreet enough to get papped ● also insists all horse races be recorded Has a penchant for choosing Charlotte of Belgium, ● Regular verbal gaffes has spawned many top while a financial manager sucks her toes as so that she can watch them at the end of wives during the annual Reed Empress Consort of Mexico 10 lists. Everyone has their favourites. Here she sunbathes topless? the day. Rumour is her racing managers festival where topless women During a visit to the Vatican, she are ours: and trainers are allowed to interrupt any ● Tried to sell access to her former dance to catch his eye rushed to the Pope insisting his staff time and call her on the private line “I thought it was against the law for a woman husband, Prince Andrew for which she ● 12th wife Mswati Nothando was trying to poison her. To prove to solicit” — To a woman solicitor her point, she put a finger in the ● demanded about $820,000 from an Dube was caught in bed with Has her dresses for public events Pope’s chocolate and licked it. Later, “You look like you’re ready for bed!” — To the undercover reporter masquerading as an his law minister Ndumiso entered into a spreadsheet with the she pushed for permission to sleep time, date and name of the event. The president of Nigeria, who was wearing Arab businessman Mamba in 2010. Dube was in the library and is officially the dresses are given code names (a national dress ● Accepted she was “flawed” but blamed it kicked out of the palace, and only woman to have spent the night favourite is a yellow outfit called “If you stay here much longer, you will go to childhood abuse that her sister doesn't Mamba was charged with “tres- at the Vatican Buttercup). All this to prevent any home with slitty eyes” — To a British student recollect: “When she [her mother] used to hit passing into another man’s repeats of her ‘looks’ studying in China me because I didn’t sit on my potty or home” which can result in a wouldn’t eat, a little vein would come up on death penalty the centre of my head near my red hair… ● First wife Inkhosikati LaMbik- It’s just the way I was brought up. No wonder iza wore shoes worth $1,559 I’m so flawed” to a lunch with Queen Elizabeth II that marked her Diamond Jubilee. 70% Swazis would have to work for three years to Carl XVI Gustaf earn that much money Caligula, Roman Emperor (Coco) Nutty Dreamer Was it ego or eccentricity? Caligula Prince Charles Poached Ambition claimed to be divine and appeared Sheikhs of Qatar in public dressed as Apollo, Mercury, What could the grandfatherly king of Sweden have Venus and even Hercules. He intro- It is not just his choice of women that can seem bizarre. done in his lifetime that is queer? According to the Burning Blue duced himself as Jupiter during pub- Charles has more eccentricities to his credit. Alas, they go book, The Reluctant Monarch, by Thomas Sjöberg, lic events and even signed the name They have been bingeing on unnoticed before his father’s notorious list. Doomed to be Tove Meyer and Deanne Rauscher, a hell lot more on public documents high-end art and properties in always second? than presenting Nobel Prizes Britain. But al Thani family is Alfonso VI of Portugal ● Carries two things with him at all times: loo paper and a hip flask ● Had an affair with Camilla Henemark, a Swedish- known most for its fleet of cars. His attire said it all: six to seven ● His 42-year-old Aston Martin runs on bio-fuel which is actually English Nigerian pop singer and model and wanted to live Nothing spectacular there, except coats worn on top of one another wine. He has converted several other vehicles to run on cooking oil with her on a distant island like Marlon Brando in that all cars are blue, a specific and three to four hats. Alfonso had Tetiaroa, French Polynesia, and live on coconuts a thing for nuns and had sex in nun- ● Has boiled eggs and muffins for tea every afternoon. The eggs must be shade called al-Thani Blue. You’ll neries. The priests were told to come boiled for exactly four minutes. In fact, his cook boils six of them to ● Alleged to have attended parties hosted by Serbian recognise it as baby blue and its to his bedroom for masses, while he gangster Mille Markovic, at an underground club in painted on all models, even ensure at least two are perfect. He is so fond of eggs, he likes a couple snoozed between the sheets of poached ones on all dishes, including atop fillet steaks Stockholm, right below the police dept. Rooms had Ferraris and Lamborghinis name signs of partners going to sleep together haven’t been spared.