Queen humiliates President Obama at Buckingham Palace by refusing toast - May 24 2011

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One of the tricks of monarchic protocol is to make it obscure enough to catch guests and make them feel lesser beings. That's the idea of monachy! Make everybody else feel lesser beings!

This is also about cross-cultures. Two persons were expecting diffrent things from the same event (check http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052MGKBY).

The Queen gives a cold shoulder to President Obama for breaking protocol offering a toast to Herself while they are playing HER SONG: 'God Save the Queen', of course.

Buckingham Palace entrapped the President by allowing the band to start early but the Queen should not have ignored a sincere offer of a toast by the US president, after all she's the copyright owner of the track.

An insult to all Americans. The Queen allowed Obama to suffer in silence his personal opprobrium. No way to treat a guest.

In the case of the Queen and other lesser royals when you have nothing to do all day pomp, protocol and etiquette becomes the only activity they care about.

So when somebody doesn't follow the 'rule' (their rule) they go cold not knowing what to do. The last time they did something trivial and intuitive was when they were born.

In the case of Obama he probably thought the music was a addition to the great words he was uttering. Like in a Hollywood movie. it was his Oscar bid.

In short, they were both thinking a lot about themselves at the time.

Americans should stay clear of Monarchy. It is stupid to pander to it for votes in America. Americas should feel proud of their history. After all, weren't the 'French-speaking French' that took American's side during Independence?

The best of America is that we are not a bunch of elitist royals obsessed with 'etiquette' - so a few privileged rulers can be separated from the many underprivileged.

A great Queen would've acted swiftly and toasted. A sad moment for democracy. As usual.

The BBC and many networks including US ones at first did not make any mention of the gaffe in their main news programmes. Some did menion it but did not show the president's face after the snub.

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[alwayson09]

I found her to be quite cordial to President Obama.

[Kooriism]

She doesn't refuse the toast at all... she shows respect to the national anthem as it plays, and accepts the toast at the end of the clip... do you not see her raise her glass with Obama?

[arthurpendragonsyt]

LOL! Awkward moment...

[ortizricci]

@twarren20 I don't speak english, so I don't really care if I have some mistakes, but I guess you can't even say hello in my language, or any other.

[benrfc]

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[Factnotfictionpeople]

@cmariej1 Many thanks for your comment, its always good to hear from an expert. However, if you look through the comments on this or any other forum - the ones from US members - you'll find them to be some of the most mis-informed, foul mouthed morons you could never wish to meet. I'm sorry that you feel the need to use profanity in trying to get your point across - you were doing so well too - but I suppose it was to be expected - or am I generalizing too much again? :-)

[mrsuke]

I noticed that the President never drank after the toast. He should have dumped it on the bitch and the whore on his right, lol. I hope the band director was fired for starting the song prematurely.

[tinkerbelljcs]

Yeah that was retarded!

[SalConcrete]

"God save the queen"? WTF!! Are we still in the 18th century?

[SalConcrete]

He talks too much... loves the sound of his own voice. If he had spoken just a bit less, the music would have started not so early as to catch him trying to impress the queen with his "finesse".

[SalConcrete]

He sounded like a butt kisser and nothing more. We could not see him blushing because his cheeks are a bit on the dark side, otherwise, we would have seen the red...