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Police warned to 'keep their sticky fingers out' of Queen Elizabeth's nuts, court hears By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor
LONDON - British police guarding Queen Elizabeth were told to “keep their sticky fingers out” of nuts laid out for guests around Buckingham Palace because the monarch was irked about how many they were eating, a London court heard Thursday.
A memo was circulated to officers telling them to rein in their consumption because the monarch was miffed about the amount taken before the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, a jury at London's Old Bailey, the main criminal court, was told.
The revelations emerged at the trial of former top editors at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid. They have been charged with phone hacking and other illegal activities, including the payment of public officials.
Prosecutors have told the jury at the UK phone hacking trial has been told top executives of the UK News of the World newspaper, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, had to have known about phone hacking. ITV's Sejal Karia reports
News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman told his boss Andy Coulson about the incident in an email about possible stories he was working on in 2005, prosecutor Andrew Edis told the jury before reading them the message.
“(There is) something about the behavior of the police which has upset the Queen, who are apparently helping themselves to the nuts and the like that are left out at the Palace,” Edis quoted the email as saying.
Andy Coulson later became Prime Minister David Cameron's head of communications and stepped down as the allegations related to his previous job surfaced.
The nuts laid out in advance of the royal wedding had been “scoffed by police,” Goodman added, using a British slang for scarf. This prompted the memo to be sent to officers, he wrote.
“The problem is the police on patrol eats the lot,” Goodman wrote, adding that the notice was “telling them to keep their sticky fingers out.”
When laughter broke out among jurors and in the public gallery, High Court Judge John Saunders was quick to point out, “these are unproven allegations.”
The email was read during the prosecution evidence against Goodman, 56, and Coulson, 45, who are accused of a range of offenses, including corrupting a Royal Protection Officer by paying him for copies of the internal palace phone directories.
The pair are on trial with six other defendants associated with the tabloid, including former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks, who along with Coulson, Ian Edmondson and Stuart Kuttner, denies charges of phone hacking.
Brooks also denies charges of making corrupt payments to public officials and perverting the course of justice, among other charges.
Her former personal assistant, her husband Charlie, 50, and News International head of security Mark Hanna all deny helping her to engineer a cover-up before she was arrested.
The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Also, doesn't she realised the common etiquette around bowls of nuts? a bowl of nuts left out in the open is basically fair game for anyone!
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
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2013/12/13 12:43:47
Subject: Re:UK Police can't stop gobbling royal nuts
I can sympathize as I know I'm pretty particular about who touches my nuts. Of course, I also don't leave them sitting out in a bowl. Well not anymore.
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The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Also, doesn't she realised the common etiquette around bowls of nuts? a bowl of nuts left out in the open is basically fair game for anyone!
Would you care to explain how she has "retired"?
During the Jubilee year she attended 425 official engagements, and 370 in 2011. To say that she lives a "retirement that most folks could never dream of" is false.
The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Also, doesn't she realised the common etiquette around bowls of nuts? a bowl of nuts left out in the open is basically fair game for anyone!
Yes, I'm sure this email from a tabloid editor about possible stories from an informant talking about an email that he received is completely accurate, and, in fact, it was the Queen herself was completely miffed at the police for eating nuts and personally brought the matter up with them, and not, as is far more likely, just some steward or whatever complaining about having to refill the nuts more often.
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timetowaste85 wrote: I thought the royal guard wasn't allowed to move unless danger was present. And I agree-nuts out on a shelf or in a bowl=fair game for everyone.
That is the soldiers who act as the Queen's Guard. They can move but only at certain points and must remain 10 paces I believe by their sentry box. This is the police who guard who operate under a completely different set of rules and are more mobile.
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Also, doesn't she realised the common etiquette around bowls of nuts? a bowl of nuts left out in the open is basically fair game for anyone!
I suspect common etiquette also dictates the hired help keep their hands out of the snacks left out for guests. If the cops are there on duty allowing them access to a break room or something with some snacks left out may be appropriate, having them graze on the chow put out for actual guests should be discouraged.
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Since this was about a "possible story" dating back from 2005, and has emerged almost 9 years later only as part of investigations into the phone-hacking scandal, can we all agree that it's likely BS?
The News of the World is about as legitimate as that rumour-monger at school.
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Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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2013/12/13 17:28:10
Subject: Re:UK Police can't stop gobbling royal nuts
The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Also, doesn't she realised the common etiquette around bowls of nuts? a bowl of nuts left out in the open is basically fair game for anyone!
Would you care to explain how she has "retired"?
During the Jubilee year she attended 425 official engagements, and 370 in 2011. To say that she lives a "retirement that most folks could never dream of" is false.
For some reason I just can't feel sorry for her
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2013/12/13 17:48:44
Subject: Re:UK Police can't stop gobbling royal nuts
daedalus wrote: I was all over my roommate's nuts and berries the other day while his girlfriend was over.
Seriously. He keeps a large bowl of trail mix, and I was hungry while waiting for dinner to finish cooking, so I got into it.
Remember, it's not gay when it's in a three-way.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Also, doesn't she realised the common etiquette around bowls of nuts? a bowl of nuts left out in the open is basically fair game for anyone!
Would you care to explain how she has "retired"?
During the Jubilee year she attended 425 official engagements, and 370 in 2011. To say that she lives a "retirement that most folks could never dream of" is false.
The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Just gonna point out mate, that almost anyone in the Commonwealth (And United States) using this argument needs to take a good, long look at history. We hardly achieved our current "life of ridiculous luxury" by not exploiting someone.
Also, I believe that the Queens relationship with taxpayers is a bit more complex than you are presenting it. It's more a symbiosis than parasitism. Royals get paid a lot of money to be figureheads for the nation; said figureheads draw in a very lucrative tourism trade. Plus I think there is also some complex land-ownership rules in there somewhere...
Anyways, would there be any interest in this if it was "CEO hires security guards for party, is annoyed when they eat the guests snacks"?
The queen lives a life of ridiculous luxury, won by the blood of the toiling peasants a long time ago and now topped up at taxpayer's expense. She has a retirement that most normal folks could never dream of, and gets all wound up over some pilfered pistachios?
Just gonna point out mate, that almost anyone in the Commonwealth (And United States) using this argument needs to take a good, long look at history. We hardly achieved our current "life of ridiculous luxury" by not exploiting someone.
Also, I believe that the Queens relationship with taxpayers is a bit more complex than you are presenting it. It's more a symbiosis than parasitism. Royals get paid a lot of money to be figureheads for the nation; said figureheads draw in a very lucrative tourism trade. Plus I think there is also some complex land-ownership rules in there somewhere...
Anyways, would there be any interest in this if it was "CEO hires security guards for party, is annoyed when they eat the guests snacks"?
As far as I understand, they own a lot of land that they lend to the government so if they were were kicked out they take the land with them and the taxes the government makes off said land.
Actually it would be fairly difficult for the Queen to take her land with her if she got exiled to the colonies.
Anyway, a lot of rich people own an awful lot of land and get paid by the government in agricultural subsidies. Why should the Queen be singled out as an unfair case?
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LordofHats wrote: Call me crazy, but isn't the point of a bowl of snacks, to eat the contents?
Pretty sure the point is to allow guests to eat the contents. Generally you don't want your security and wait staff grazing on the snacks put out for guests.
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2013/12/14 13:59:17
Subject: Re:UK Police can't stop gobbling royal nuts
Pacific wrote: d-usa.. please man, change your avatar.. it's hilarious, but stomach-turning at the same time
For every comment he gets asking it to be changed, it'll stay one day more when Christmas is over.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
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