purejuice

I like the way queens dress. There's no shuck or jive. And Queen Margrethe, tall, pretty, artistic, has always been bold in her choices in a way that Queen Elizabeth, for all her wearing odd colors for videogenic and diplomatic reasons, has not been.

QE2 gets her Hindu on laying a wreath at the site of the Amritsar massacre.

Then there is the way they wear clothes as armor -- QE2's handbag is famous for its ceremonial role. And the jewels. Ohhh grrrl. One of my favorite pix of QE2 was taken when I was present, QE2's eyes practically bugging out looking at some enormous rock, earned on her back, that Elizabeth Taylor had on her neck, especially for the shootout at the Stone Stone Corral.

So it's Margrethe's 70th birthday, and if you're the queen you can wear red lipstick and half the pearls in Denmark and not cover your sundamaged skin and smile and toast the people of Denmark for being so kind to you for 50 years.