...or at least her advisers.
I only caught the last 20 minutes or so of the Queen's Birthday bash at the Palace yesterday on BBC, having been more interested in the Football. From what I saw it looked like it had been an interesting and entertaining show, right up until the climax when the Queen came on stage and did her speech.
What on earth were her advisers/speech writers / pr gurus etc thinking? With an audience of thousands of young children in person plus who knows how many via TV, apart from one sentence at the start, her choice of language and manner of presentation left me thinking more of an address to a particularly dull session of parliament than a kids party.
Reed the text of her speech and I have no doubt a significant percentage of the words used would be challenging for a teenager to understand or spell, never mind some of the adults in the audience.
If one of the reasons behind the event was to "humanise" the Queen more and make her more accessible to the younger generation, then I think it failed miserably.
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