Royal Wedding.......

[horseshoes]

........ of Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to the future King George VI; how times change.

A request by the BBC to broadcast the wedding ceremony was turned down - due to concern that working men might listen to it with a glass in their hand and might not doff their caps at the National Anthem.

[classylady60]

Crazy wasn't it but perhaps nowadays things have gone just too far with "anything goes".

[classylady60]

In their vests???? Orff with their heads!

[Barmaid]

OH bugger. So the fact that I cracked the Pinot at 11am means I am off to the tower?

[welshlibranr]

Barmaid!...............if you're off to the Tower, then so am I!............and thousands of others too!........will there be enough room for all of us?.............lol..........

[welshlibranr]

Steve!......................I knew it!....................lol.................

[ClareA]

I believe it wasn't just with a glass in their hand, in their vests, and with their caps on, but they might be listening In The Pub <gasp!>.

Mind, no beer at today's reception, apparently. As The Times' columnist Carol Midgley said, how does that leave all those unused to wine, drunk so quickly b

[ClareA]

(Don't know what happened there)
...because they are accustomed to pacing themselves with a longer drink?
Do you suppose there may have been any fights?