Did The Queen Mother Receive A Telegram?

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Did the Queen Mother receive a telegram from the Queen when she reached her 100th birthday?
 
I've looked everywhere I could think of and I don't think she received one.

I hope I get one.

Krizon, do you remember getting one all those years ago? :D
 
The answer to the question posed is that she did get the Queen's congratulatory telegram as every centenarian does. She had been quoted on a number of occasions as saying that that was what she was looking forward to most on reaching 100
 
Poor old Phil, his brain's overtaxed by looking up paralegal terms in the dictionary. I'll send you a copy of that lovely photo of us together on the Palace steps, dearie, the day I received it. You looked very smart, I thought, in your best Black Watch kilt, and well-brushed sporran. I'm glad it came in so handy as a toupee years later!
 
Diminuendo,
with reference to you "about to get one" remark.

I do hope that you logged off,before the event took place. :D
 
THIS WAS QUOTED IN THE SAID YEAR..............
Each year crowds camp outside Clarence House, the London home where she lives cosseted in Edwardian splendour, to see, and maybe even talk with the "Nation's Favourite Grandmother", on her regular birthday walkabouts.

This year, like all the nation's centenarians, she awaits a telegram from the Queen which will read: "I send my warm congratulations and best wishes to you on celebrating your 100th birthday. I hope you have a wonderful day."
 
"Each year crowds camp outside Clarence House..." I'll say they did, sweetie! The Queen Mum was a gay icon, much loved by Palace flunkies who she well knew enjoyed 'the love that dare not speak its' name'.
 
I guess you've heard the (true) story of when she phoned down to wherever the Clarence House butlers and footmen lurk and said "Tell one of those old queens down there that this old queen up here wants a gin and tonic".
 
Yes, indeedles, Brian. In fact, one can hardly mention 'Queen Mum' without one's gay pals reminding one of it. Interesting, really - she and the Princesses Margaret and Diana seem to have been extremely 'gay friendly'. And I wonder if the Queen knew that Anthony Blunt, apart from being a Ruskie mole, was also a camp follower? They seem to be very well tolerated by royalty, at least by its' female members.
 
It was hard not to have known that Sir Anthony (whose name, incidentally, quickly entered the rhming slang lexicon at the time) was a friend of Dorothy.
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Jan 19 2005, 12:38 AM
Sir Anthony (whose name, incidentally, quickly entered the rhming slang lexicon at the time) was a friend of Dorothy.
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What would that one be then - the only one that I can think of that might work is Blunt - Coco Shunt(er)
 
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