Hiking through this World

A few years before her death, Queen Elizabeth and her protection officer, Richard Griffin, were hiking in Scotland not far from her castle in Balmoral. They came across two tourists from America on a “walking holiday.” The Queen always made it a point to stop and talk to fellow hikers, so she greeted the pairContinue reading “Hiking through this World”

Kindness To A Queen (The Queen)

The Queen was a nice little movie that covered much of the same ground as The Remains of the Day or the lesser known Mrs. Brown, in terms of raising questions about the proper sensibilities, conventions, and mores we should adopt and live by. Although the movies were set in different eras and concerned with different circumstances, the plots ofContinue reading “Kindness To A Queen (The Queen)”