16 Apr 2015

DAILY MAIL: Yesterday at Windsor Castle Biennial luncheon of Order of Merit. incl Rt.Hon J .CHRETIEN

The Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien 81, was Canada’s Liberal PM from 1993 until 2003. In 1995, he did the Queen a favour by helping stop Quebec becoming independent.
A less welcome memory will be how a Canadian DJ involved her in one an infamous hoax call by pretending to be Chrétien.
The prankster spoke to the monarch on-air for 15 minutes and elicited a promise for her to influence the Quebec referendum. The Queen fell for the ruse, with the Palace describing the incident as ‘irritating and regrettable’.

Comment:

Canucks are not allowed to be UK Dames,Knights or Lords.

Order has to be returned to the Palace when the holder dies. 

ONE MD


Egyptian-born Prof.Sir Magdi Yacoub 79, carried out Britain’s first heart and lung transplant at Harefield Hospital in 1983 and is thought to have performed more heart transplants than anyone else. He is professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London.
He was inspired to take up his career after his aunt died of a heart condition while giving birth.
Last year he caused headlines by recommending that everyone over the age of 40 should take cholesterol-busting statins. The benefits of taking the controversial drugs ‘massively’ outweigh the risks and to not make them more widely available is ‘lunacy’, he said.


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