English Queen is offended by T-shirt

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday June 20, 2002 14:33 by Mags

The Queen of England has lost the rag because members of a BBC camera crew at Ascot were not wearing 'morning dress'.

Elizabrit complained to the BCC about the dress of a camera crew at Ascot being 'too casual'. While inspecting her runner in the paddock she noticed that one man was wearing a t-shirt and two others lacked ties. The crew were asked to leave (which they did) and the BBC grovellingly apologised to to royal parasite for any offence she suffered. Yesterday the camera crew appeared in morning dress, some having hired them at a cost of £150 each.
Apparently the rules, made by Liz, state that in the 'Royal Enclosure', 'gentlemen' must wear morning dress, including a top hat. In the paddock the mere plebs can get away with wearing suits.
A sound technician from the BBC, sweltering in ludicrous 19th century formal wear, said that the offending camera crew were wearing suits in the correct area, but apparently this wasn't good enough for Her Bone Idleness.

At (most) times you can laugh at the silliness of such pretensions. The fact that the BBC and the workers involved pander to it all is pitiful. I suppose Lizzie was dressed in an appropriate antique outfit involving bustles and whalebone corsets, etc.
No, I thought not.