Sunday 3 June 2012

MUG-SHOT SHOCK!

In case you missed Ian's comment on yesterday's Queenly Quiz blog post: here's the ultimate collectible souvenir of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

Why?

Er, well ––  right name, wrong queen...


Click on the image above to read the wonderful description of the noble source of inspiration for this ghastly geegaw!

5 comments:

  1. oh. my. stars.

    How could they make that sort of mistake? I suppose it was made somewhere off-shore, possibly Mars, where they're not quite cognizant of the fine gradations in the royal generations.

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  2. The write up is actually funnier. It reminds me of the golden age of Monty Python publications :-)

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  3. Oops - someone has made a grave error there!

    Wonder where it was made...

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  4. "The entire world"????

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  5. These are the same people who got it wrong with the Royal Wedding last year. Smacks of a deliberate mistake!

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8385415/Kate-Middleton-marries-Prince-Harry-on-souvenir-mug.html

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