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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Richard Kay
19:26 EST, 16 May 2012
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05:40 EST, 17 May 2012
The Queen was dealt an extraordinary and calculated snub last night that threatens to tarnish her Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Just two days before Her Majesty was due to welcome the crowned heads of Europe’s royal houses to an elaborate Windsor Castle lunch, Spain’s Queen Sofia dramatically pulled out of the event.
A spokesman for the Spanish royals snootily declared that Sofia’s presence would be ‘inappropriate in the current circumstances.’
Snub: Royal insiders say the Queen will be dismayed by Queen Sofia’s (left) absence
The 11th-hour cancellation, engineered by the Spanish government, came just a week after it made a formal protest to Britain over Prince Edward’s visit to Gibraltar.
The Prince and the Countess of Wessex are due to make a three-day visit to the fiercely British rock on June 13 as part of a Commonwealth-wide effort to mark the Jubilee with royal events.
Last night the decision was still being digested, but royal insiders say the Queen will be dismayed that what should have been a joyful celebration for her royal kinsmen and women has been hijacked by political machinations.
It is not the first time Spain has jolted the royals — in 1981 King Juan Carlos stayed away from Prince Charles’s wedding to Lady Diana Spencer because on their honeymoon the Royal Yacht Britannia was to stop at Gibraltar.
But this time it seems somehow more personal.
Like the Queen, Queen Sofia is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria — she is a great-great-great-granddaughter – and the two are cousins.
Her brother is the exiled King Constantine of Greece, who lives in London and is close to Prince Philip and the Prince of Wales.
The decision is going to strain family relations.
Queen Sofia was due to attend tomorrow’s lunch alone because her husband Juan Carlos is recovering from a fall following a controversial safari.
The lunch for sovereign monarchs – plus the Emperor of Japan – is the biggest royal event since the funeral of the Queen Mother in 2002 and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.
- The Queen’s former orthopaedic surgeon, Sir Roger Vickers, was yesterday an enthusiastic attendee at the preview of the National Portrait Gallery art and image exhibition, where more than 50 paintings, photographs and sculptures of the monarch were on display as part of the Diamond Jubilee. Sir Roger, who operated on both the Queen and her mother – he famously lost the Queen Mother’s medical records when his briefcase was stolen from his car in Mayfair – retired in 2010. Says my man at the NPG: ‘Sir Roger borrowed a guide and took a forensic interest in the images. I suppose he is more familiar with the Queen’s physiology than most.’
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Spain won’t be wanting any money from us for their next bail-out, then? Oh. Hang on.
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they lost gibraltar in a fair fight and now they qhibble, they are as bad as the spanish speaking argentinians. About time these people got real
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I much prefer to spend my holiday money in Portugal where the food is better, the beaches among the best in the world and great people. The row over Gib means I will be giving Spain a miss until the row is over. If we all did likewise they would see the sense in it all.
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Good, and I’m not going either.!
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Maybe the Sspanish should put a ban on all exports to the Uk if they are really serious about this snub to our Queen. But of course they will not as they need us as a market for their exports. Just another load of cobblers and posturing by Spanish clapped out politicians that are taking their citizens down the toilet.
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Remind me while we’re at it, what part of Britain is Northern Ireland in again?
– Deirdre, Dublin, Ireland, 17/5/2012 14:42
—————-no one is claiming Northern Ireland is part of Britain, (though there is some claim to Ireland being one of the British Isles), it is part of the United Kingdom.
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2012 is not going well.
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There is a well-founded suspicion here that all is not entirely well between the King and Queen, so it could well be a ploy to avoid having to be seen together at such a high-profile event.
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When we talk about the Gibraltarians and the Falkland Islanders wanting to remain British we are really talking about Brits wanting to remain Brits. Lets not kid ourselves that those islanders are actually from a different nation. One solution (probably not popular with DM readers) could be to let all those that want to remain Brits return to the UK and hand over those islands to their rightful owner i.e Spain and Argentina.
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Spain is trying to make it sound like some grand diplomatic controversy but in fact they just can’t afford the air fare.
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