I stay, says royal row BBC boss

Source: BBC

BBC One controller Peter Fincham has said he is not planning to resign over the Queen documentary blunder.

Mr Fincham spoke out after journalists were allowed to see a television trailer which appeared to show the Queen storming out of a photo shoot.

The programme trailer showed the Queen in an exchange with photographer Annie Leibovitz, followed by a clip of her apparently walking off.

The BBC said the trailer was never intended to be seen by the public or the press and was shown to journalists "in error".



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I had posted the fact in the Lounge yesterday, just for fun and curiosity. I never thought the English could make so serious a thing out of that!
"Papers feast on BBC royal apology", it's a news title from BBC! Here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6896871.stm

My post, yesterday, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6710322&mesg_id=6710322

You know what? It was a good chance for the Queen to appear in a different light. She failed.

What mostly surprises me is that UK media and Windsor, with a current diplomatic crisis with Russia and a thousand problems at home, find this royal "accident" so devastating.

Jesus, the world is exploding! Does anyone want to tell Her Majesty?!

"Lèse majesté (French expression, from the Latin Laesa maiestas or Laesae maiestatis (crimen), (crime of) injury to the Majesty; in English, also lese majesty or leze majesty) is the crime of violating majesty, an offence against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.

This behaviour was first classified as a criminal offence against the dignity of the Roman republic in Ancient Rome. In time, as the Emperor became identified with the Roman state (the empire never formally became a monarchy), it was essentially applied to offences against his person.<1> Though legally the princeps civitatis (his official title, roughly 'first citizen') could never become a sovereign, as the republic was never abolished, emperors were to be deified as divus, first posthumously but ultimately while reigning, and thus enjoyed the legal protection provided for the divinities of the pagan state cult; by the time it was exchanged for Christianity, the monarchical tradition in all but name was well established (an example of the way the Roman religion was made to serve the political elite).

Narrower conceptions of offences against Majesty as offences against the crown predominated in the European kingdoms that emerged in the early mediaeval period. In feudal Europe, various real crimes were classified as lèse majesté even though not intentionally directed against the crown, such as counterfeiting because coins bear the monarch's effigy and/or coat of arms.

However, since the disappearance of absolute monarchy, this is viewed as less of a crime, although similar, more malicious acts, could be considered treason. By analogy, as modern times saw republics emerging as great powers, a similar crime may be constituted, though not under this name, by any offence against the highest representatives of any state ( e.g. all heads of state, regardless of their title, as in Belgium)."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lese-majeste>

a superfluous, antiquated drain on the people of the U.K, serving no real purpose other than to hold on to a ludicrous tradition that should have died out long ago. They've lost all touch with reality and should go the way of the buggy whip. That pretentious old woman should be put out to pasture to fend for herself. My guess is she'd perish within days with no one to wait on her hand and foot.

They think they're entitled to treat others like shit just because of who their parents were. Let me assure her royal hyena-ass that her shit DOES stink and she's no better than the lowliest rag-picker on the streets of London. That woman and her inbred family need a heaping dose of reality smacked right in between their eyes.

As you can probably tell I'm not a big fan of that disrespectful, dried up old hag and that gaggle of inbred leeches she calls "The Royal Family". :puke:

Misery loves company but such eloquent abhorrence for the establishment makes me almost want to pop in that sci-fi classic Braveheart :rofl:

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or at least thought you could.

But now not even Blue Peter is to be believed....

The end is nigh...I tells ye....!

:toast:

:hi: from Italy