DutchDaedalus
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Prime Minister Macmillan goes grouse shooting 1963.
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Supermac in a Somewhatbatteredmac.Prime Minister Macmillan goes grouse shooting 1963.
Several points:
1, The PM is not seen anywhere carrying his gun. He is obviously not old and frail here.
He would live another 23 years dying at 92. British Class System, I guess.
2. He is wearing both Plus twos and spats. Something right out of Those Magnificent Men inTheir Flying Machines,
or Monty Python.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their_Flying_Machines.
See: Terry-Thoms' clothes,
3.He's wearing two or three eyelet suede derbies on the train. I have a pair,
but his were nicer, bespoke no doubt.
4. The hatless older gentleman in the Plus Four- Tweed suit chatting with the PM besides the Land Rover is probably his successor,
Sir Alec Douglas Home, (pronounced Hume) formerly the Earl of Home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home
Several points:
1, The PM is not seen anywhere carrying his gun. He is obviously not old and frail here.
He would live another 23 years dying at 92. British Class System, I guess.
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Loaders carry and reload the guns (gentlemen use a pair) like caddies on golf course.
I'm going to be really pernickety here but it is one my pet hates:
You don't refer to the Prime Minister as 'PM [then name]' - the rational is that the Prime Minister HAPPENS to be a particular individual, the point of that is that the PM is supposed to be the equal, but the first, of Members of Parliament; referring to him as 'Prime Minister Cameron / MacMillan' is an Americanism, and particular, a derivative of Presidential styles of government. I'm being anal but it is one of my pet peeves.