The Queen has never put a foot wrong , it is claimed When did she ever do anything to put a foot wrong?

Question

The Queen has never put a foot wrong , it is claimed When did she ever do anything to put a foot wrong?

Answer 1

She has been and still is a wonderful queen and this country would much worse off without a monarch.  The cost to the tax payer is very small indeed compared with the people who just sponge.

Answer 2

the queen lives in a fantasy world.  She knows nothing about the real world.  she knows nothing about how UK citizens live in the 21st century.  She is totally unable to function without an army of servants following her around.  She might not have actually put a foot wrong, but she isn't exactly a good example to us all is she????

Answer 3

She has done her job efficiently enough as a queen, and is admired no more than many old people are, for the way they have lived.

It is easy `not to put a foot wrong` if your pathway is cleared for you at every step through life.

Answer 4

Her reaction to the death of Diana,Princess of Wales was not her finest hour. But,otherwise,The Queen has done her best. She takes her job very seriously.

Answer 5

The Queen in her eighties has an engagement schedule that would exhaust many half her age. Whether one is a royalist or a republican, she has discharged her duties as head of state with great commitment.

Edit:-

"prob reason the taxes are so high in this country is because she bet a 8million on a horse race and lost"

She didn't. The Queen Mother was reputed to have spent around £6 million in accounts with certain bookmakers, but the Queen Mother's expenditure was not part of the Civil List and therefore not funded by taxpayers.

The notion that the Queen doesn't put a foot wrong because her 'pathway has been cleared' is not particularly convincing:  after all, she treads the same path as Prince Philip, who has something of a reputation for putting a foot wrong; and previous monarchs and heirs have had more than their share of ill-trodden paths too.

Note also that the original decision not to fly the flag at half mast at Windsor was not a "calculated snub". Flags, by constitutional tradition and practice, are only flown at half mast from royal residences when a member of royalty is deceased. Diana was not royalty, and it would have been constitutionally incorrect to have lowered flags for her from royal residences. This is not a matter of respect or disrespect to Diana, but entirely one of protocol. Although she was called Princess Diana, she was not a royal princess, which is why her official title was 'Diana, The Princess of Wales', not 'Princess Diana'. Only the press called her Princess Diana, and many people followed suit. For the Queen to have had flags flown at half mast was a result of public pressure, and a mistake.

Lest this be misinterpreted, Diana was far better than the ragbag of minor royalty, during her short life, and performed far more in the way of public service than most of them. From a purely meritorious perspective, she was worthy of having flags lowered for her in a mark of respect.  Her embracing of a sufferer from AIDS, in public, was one of the most significant things ever achieved by a public figure, being done at a time when AIDS sufferers were seen as 'unclean' in the worst of senses. It was moments like that which endeared her, in a very genuine sense, to the British, and indeed world, public. Unlike many, I do not think the public outpouring of grief at her early death was a kind of stupid public hysteria, but was heartfelt. Many, including the royal family itself, will have miscalculated or misunderstood the genuine affection and regard in which she was held.

However, the original decision not to lower flags was not a calculated snub. Sadly, it was left to Earl Spencer to do that.

Answer 6

They didnt order the flags to fly at half mast (at Windsor and Buckingham Palace etc) when Diana died.  That was a calculated snub to the people's Princess.

Only one person could have ordered that not to happen.

It is also well known that Philip detested Diana.

Answer 7

she was wrong in how she acted when diana died.

Answer 8

I'm British through and through, but I can't see the point in having a silly old lady as head of state.  Does she really represent a 21st century modern country?  I do not think so.

Answer 9

All this rubbish about her reaction to Princess Diana's death. She was doing her best to protect Harry and William. The Queen hasn't put a foot wrong.

Answer 10

it would never been known to public if she had done something wrong but prob reason the taxes are so high in this country is because she bet a 8million on a horse race and lost....just a theory!!!!!

Answer 11

she is the queen she could of told them to lower that flag