This photo of Queen Elizabeth II visiting President Bush is from the official White House website... Meanwhile, actress Helen Mirren has snubbed Her Majesty, saying she was too busy to attend an audience in Buckingham Palace on May 1st--a truly Republican rejection of royalty that made headlines as far away as China.That makes Helen Mirren the real Queen, IMHO.
Someone I know--who went to English boarding school--suggested that President Bush might have done better to follow President Franklin Roosevelt's example, than to affect pomp and circumstance. FDR served King George VI Nathan's hot dogs during a 1939 visit to Hyde Park, NY:
The King was so pleased with "this delightful hot-dog sandwich" that he asked Mrs. Roosevelt for another one.
