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I always loved the photos of her on horseback. Impeccable.

She loved her horses and dogs. I like to think she would have had some good photos for our pet thread here.

Last time we were in London we took the Stable Mews tour and saw the carriages up close, as well as met some of her Cleveland Bays, the carriage horses. The groom there said she always came with carrots or peppermints for them.

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The story goes that when President Reagan visited, the two went riding together. When they were going up a hill, her horse let out a loud blast of gas and she said "Mr. President, excuse me!" to wit Ron said "It's okay, I thought it was your horse!"

She reportedly smiled at the joke and they had a great time on their ride. :)
 
The Queen, whilst walking on a public path near Balmoral Castle, once encountered two American tourists who did not recognise her. In the conversation that followed she revealed that she lived in London but had visited the area every year since she was a young girl. On hearing this one of the tourists asked if she had ever met the Queen and the Queen in response pointed to the police officer accompanying her and said that he had.
 
CivAU said:
The Queen, whilst walking on a public path near Balmoral Castle, once encountered two American tourists who did not recognise her. In the conversation that followed she revealed that she lived in London but had visited the area every year since she was a young girl. On hearing this one of the tourists asked if she had ever met the Queen and the Queen in response pointed to the police officer accompanying her and said that he had.
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Even better when you hear the former police officer tell it.

 
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Capt MJ said:
I find myself thinking somewhat nostalgically about those in my past who have influenced me, whose impact still resonates with me today.

I had written a letter to a favorite professor emeritus on the occasion of his 100th birthday last month, when former students were encouraged to share memories and appreciation with him. He is still of vigorous mind. He was the prof, an Army veteran who used his GI Bill to go into academia, whom I respected and enjoyed, and with whom I traveled in a group to Europe for an eye-opening junior year trip. He was the one, who, when I told him I was kicking over the traces of prospective graduate school fellowships and going to Navy OCS, encouraged me to go, that “The Navy will be the making of you.” I caught him up on my Navy career, thanked him for that pivotal piece of advice, and he wrote me the nicest letter back, remembering a discussion we had had in Vienna and then later back on campus, about plans after graduation and the itch I was getting to try something that challenged me in a different way.

For some reason, my thoughts also went back to Dr. Maya Angelou, a resident prof at Wake Forest University, with whom I had a Creative Writing Seminar as an elective I squeezed in. Only 10 in the class. Life lessons, wide-ranging discussions, thought-provoking questions. I went hunting on YouTube for something I heard her talk about often during my student days (I attended every lecture, speech, panel, event, whatever, she gave.) That voice, that diction, that mind that made me think.

I found it. Still one of her themes years later.

Just Do Right.

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Thanks so very, very much for sharing!!! WONDERFUL and poignant advice for all!!
 
Amazing photo while meeting the new prime minister two days before she died. A trooper ‘til the end. What a great Lady.
West Point’s motto: “Duty, Honor, Country” is how she lived her life.

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Unfortunately the introduction of the digital camera is going about as well as the introduction of digital anything else: now it's free to take a shot, but if it doesn't turn out just take a bunch more, there are no negatives, no development, and even if none of yours work you can get a copy of someone else's and take credit for it or just fabricate something in Photoshop. The ubiquity of bad pictures makes everything and nothing important.

(Alas I've been in technology my entire life, so I'm quite comfortable pointing out the other edge on that knife. Some days I miss constraints and limits.)
 
StPaulDad said:
Unfortunately the introduction of the digital camera is going about as well as the introduction of digital anything else: now it's free to take a shot, but if it doesn't turn out just take a bunch more, there are no negatives, no development, and even if none of yours work you can get a copy of someone else's and take credit for it or just fabricate something in Photoshop. The ubiquity of bad pictures makes everything and nothing important.

(Alas I've been in technology my entire life, so I'm quite comfortable pointing out the other edge on that knife. Some days I miss constraints and limits.)
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It certainly killed Kodak where a lot of my college buddies worked.
 
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