Wasn't it Portillo who gave a surprisingly good justification

for her being the Greatest Briton?

Although I generally have little truck with royalty, the speech at Tilbury is a cracker is has to be admitted ("Let Tyrants fear", etc.).

What channel's it on? If BBC, maybe BBC Prime will deign to show it to ex-pats in 5 or 6 years.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on January 29th 2006 at 22:24:16


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