{"id":32482,"date":"2022-09-08T22:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32482"},"modified":"2022-09-08T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:23:24","slug":"my-favorite-photo-of-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32482","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Photo Of Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2738,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.royal.uk\\\/statement-king-following-death-queen&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260219122255\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.royal.uk\\\/statement-king-following-death-queen&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 03:45:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 15:49:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 15:49:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2739,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mirror.co.uk\\\/news\\\/uk-news\\\/queen-used-churchills-tommy-gun-14997130&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231211103448\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.mirror.co.uk\\\/news\\\/uk-news\\\/queen-used-churchills-tommy-gun-14997130&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 03:46:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 23:43:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 23:43:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2740,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pbsinternational.org\\\/programs\\\/d-day-the-king-who-fooled-hitler&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As most people know by now, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/statement-king-following-death-queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Queen Elizabeth II passed away today<\/a><\/strong> at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. She was 96 years old. She met with US presidents starting with Truman and up to Biden. She had 15 Prime Ministers in her reign starting with Sir Winston Churchill and ending with Liz Truss whom she met on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All that said, this remains my favorite photo of QE2.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"827\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1.png 827w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-640x426.png 640w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-440x294.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>She is out in the rain firing a L85 variant of the SA80 rifle. I don&#8217;t know if she is firing it semi-auto or full-auto. The photo was taken in 1993 when she was 67. I have no doubt she would have done it in her 90s if given half a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was not her first time first time firing a full auto firearm. Her father King George VI refused pleas by MI6 to evacuate to Canada in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/queen-used-churchills-tommy-gun-14997130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Mirror<\/a><\/strong> on a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pbsinternational.org\/programs\/d-day-the-king-who-fooled-hitler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Channel 4 Documentary<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Warwick University\u2019s Prof Richard Aldrich adds: \u201cHe says everybody is going to stay and going to fight. He says, \u2018I want to get my German. I want to at least kill one of the invaders and we will all fight to the last.\u2019<\/p><p>\u201cWhen Churchill hears of this he says, \u2018You need to be able to kill more than one German.\u2019\u201d<\/p><p>So he sent the King a Tommy gun and the Queen Mum, Elizabeth, 14, and Margaret, ten, also learned to use it.<\/p><p>Describing the wartime scenes Prof Aldrich says: \u201cThe royal family and equerries are all practising with pistols, rifles and Churchill\u2019s Tommy gun. The Queen Mother enjoys taking pot-shots at rats in Buckingham Palace\u2019s gardens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most people know by now, Queen Elizabeth II passed away today at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. She was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6160,500,6159,6161],"class_list":["post-32482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-l85-rifle","tag-machine-guns","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32485,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32482\/revisions\/32485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}