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Saturday, June 08, 2024

Jeannette Charles, who transformed a portrait rejected by a royal art show into a career as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in movies and on television, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, England. She was 96 -- the same age as the monarch when she died two years ago. ... She played the queen in films like The Naked Gun, National Lampoon's European Vacation and Austin Powers in Goldmember. She appeared in character everywhere from an episode of Saturday Night Live to supermarket openings.

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Charles never met the queen, but, she wrote in her autobiography, "The Queen and I" (1986), they once gaped at each other through the window of the monarch's Rolls-Royce.

The queen "froze, staring, hand immobile in the air as our eyes met from a distance of a couple of feet," Charles wrote. "When you see your doppelgänger, the effect is cataclysmic."

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Now they can look even more alike.

#1 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-06-08 09:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Clownshack is OK?!?!

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-06-09 01:39 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Interesting. Never actually heard of her but she did look like Queen Elizabeth and had a very interesting life as a result. Truly luck of the draw, somewhat like my own advanced intellect.

#3 | Posted by Robson at 2024-06-09 11:04 AM | Reply

@#3

Not really luck. England is an inbred little island and they only have two dozen faces they share between both sexes.

#4 | Posted by s1l3ntc0y0t3 at 2024-06-09 01:03 PM | Reply

"they only have two dozen faces they share"

My maternal Grandfather had ancestors from Alsace-Lorraine. When my older brother and my SIL traveled into the German portion, he noted EVERY old guy looked exactly like our Grandpa.

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-09 01:23 PM | Reply

My ancestral heritage prior to 1720s I am told is Black Forest region of Germany. After that Phil PA etc and USA. My wifes direct paternal ancestors came over on Mayflower. Most lived in NE and then scattered as ancestors do. Biden would like to destroy our national heritage and the rest of America and give it to the world.

#6 | Posted by Robson at 2024-06-09 08:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

My ancestral heritage prior to 1720s

Of course it is.

My wifes direct paternal ancestors came over on Mayflower.

Of course they did.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-06-09 09:01 PM | Reply

#6

Now do Italians, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, the folks ----- like your wife's so-called ancestors brought over on slave ships, you know, the people who actually BUILT this country. You ----.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-06-09 09:39 PM | Reply

Robson is like a waddling billboard for the dangers of dementia.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-09 09:45 PM | Reply

As many old timers likely remember I would once make extended and very informative enlightening posts on this forum. I got tired of the adulation because I became aware that most suffer from abbreviated attention spans. Anything more than a word or two is beyond their grasp.

Take note how Democrat hacktivists and leftists cousins typically thrive on making us ashamed of our country and our heritage and of our national heroes. Why? Is it simply because so very few on the left in leadership can tout anything that they've actually accomplished as individuals except wasting lives and our country . They want group victims! They adore group think so they can claim all French, Italians, Indians, LGXYZWGY, Irish, transxyz, purple, females etc are victims..... but all dads and men are toxic. Commies are toxic because they hate individualism and freedom.

Democrats (ie commies) thrive on group think. It is their obsession. They dont want you even contemplating individual accomplishment. They are obsessed with tearing down our country and those individuals who made a difference. Their only obession is damaging and putting down our heroes and history. It truly is a damaging destructive corrupt ideology that has taken us more time than it should to understand why.

The only way our country will ever again recover and once again become what it once was and a country of good and respectable people is purge those unwilling to become accomplishers and instead wish to become a victim of others. MAGA, MAGA MAGA.

#10 | Posted by Robson at 2024-06-10 06:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#10

That was hilarious!

Do you do dance parties?

Bar mitzvahs?

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-10 06:36 PM | Reply

"Take note how Democrat hacktivists and leftists cousins typically thrive on making us ashamed of our country and our heritage and of our national heroes."

You're ashamed of our country and our heritage and of our national heroes?

Why?

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-10 06:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Take note at how Trumpers are SO sad that Trump's hand-picked DoJ leaders threatened to resign in mass when he wanted to bring in a nobody loyalist to lead the Dept and to help him overthrow the election.

Because they were more loyal to the Constitution and America than to him.

But that won't be the case next time, if he gets the chance.

No, the new leaders of the Justice Dept will be loyal to him, not to their Oaths.

Just the Robson wants it.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-10 08:11 PM | Reply

way

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-10 08:51 PM | Reply

As many old timers likely remember I would once make extended and very informative enlightening posts on this forum

Tedious walls of text. I used to think Robson was really George Will.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-06-10 09:22 PM | Reply

Robson is the pathetic cuck who shows his support for the demented orange pedo by wearing a diaper.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-06-10 09:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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