God Save the Queen

Via BrothersJudd, another home run from Mark Steyn who is finally out from under the libel suit the Canadian government initiated against him for expressing an opinion contrary to the CW in an article in MacLeans. A disgraceful episode in Canadian jurisprudence.

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The Queen stands on ceremony and she has a lot of ceremony to stand on. But on Thursday, for the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, she ordered the Coldstream Guards to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" — the first time a foreign anthem had been played at the ceremony. The following day something even more unprecedented happened: At Britain's memorial service for the war dead of last Tuesday, the first chords of "The Star-Spangled Banner" rumbled up from the great organ at St Paul's Cathedral, and the Queen did something she's never done before — she sang a foreign national anthem, all the words. She doesn't sing her own obviously ("God Save Me"), but she's never sung "La Marseillaise" or anything else, either; her lips never move.

And at that same service she also sang "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic," for the second time in her life — the first was at the funeral of her first prime minister, Winston Churchill.

Reading this brought a tear to my eye. It's long past time for the queen to use her bully pulpit to bring some home truths to her subjects.

God Save the Queen!