The Queen Meets 188-Year-Old Tu'i Malila, the Oldest Living Animal

[purejuice]

Tonga, 1954. I think I detect a glint of empathy in her eye.
http://www.tongaturismo.info/rt/index-e.htm

Her hostess is the 6'3" Queen Salote, the only royal at Elizabeth's coronation who did not have the top put up on her carriage in the procession to the ceremony. It was raining, and Salote said if the people can come out and stand in the rain for this, so can I.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Fasi_fakafonua.mid

Comments

[tuscendi]

Long live Queen Salote.

[tigerflower]

Queen Salote is fabulous! Such a marvelous smile, and I adore her shoes. Regal clodhoppers.

[purejuice]

what i love best about her, beyond her smile and that wave, is that her forearm is four times bigger than elizabeth's. and her head, twice the size of phillip's. etc.