Queen Elizabeth II was in New York today, making her first speech to the United Nations since 1957. To give you an idea of how long ago tat was, Prince Charles was still too young to be contemplating marriage.
The queen spoke about the importance of the United Nations achieving peace and aiding humanitarian efforts and found that, while progress has been made since the last time she addressed the UN, she emphasized that more needs to be done.
One would laugh at the idea of the queen taking a short time out to visit New York after having spent a week in Canada and acting like the kindly old matron we Americans know her as, but bear in mind, Canada's in the British Commonwealth and we're not. Besides, the queen, who turned 84 in April, has witnessed so much history from her position as head of state that it wouldn't hurt to take her advice on achieving world peace and combating terrorism, just as it didn't hurt her to deliver it in person - for greater effect.
Rock on, Your Majesty!
But please, don't require American tennis players to bow to you - we can go only so far.
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