Vox:
The death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has brought considerable debate over whether he should be remembered as a “reformer” or the very opposite of one; whether his legacy will be that he preserved Saudi Arabia’s future or limited its present.
But as this story from a former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia makes clear, there is one thing he will never be: as much of a stone-cold badass as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
My Queen is definitely a bad ass.
Thank you for sharing this, Shawn. The image of the Abdullah yammering at Queen Elizabeth II to forgodssakesslowdown sent me into fits of giggles.
LOL There was a TV special many years ago that showed QEII driving her Range Rover around that Scotland estate. She was banging through the gears so I can definitely imagine this as a true story. 🙂
Eddie Izzard was right; I’ve seen some pictures of her when she was kind of sexy in an not-quite-sexy-but-stuffy sort of way.
She’s a right good Sheila and not at all stuck up.
Well said Bruce.