That's absolutely priceless, and I so hope one day a film will include that sequence of Besser kickboxing the Venetian ambassador while keeping eye contact with James II. and delivering his congratulations speech.
James: for once in his life, not the most status conscious person in the room!
Lol. I guess Leuthen was his chance to shine in more ways than one!
No kidding. And good lord, yes, he'd have loved to give speeches. As it is, he was the King with the most modern PR work anyway, with all those articles he launched in the press.
Catt: My real job title is Royal Listener!
The other readers: So say we all!
but early modern monarchs were trained to be pithy and make short observations that would not risk their dignity.
Lord Hervey: Pity the training never seems to hold for Germans, then. Of course, I learned to tune out G2 a lot of the time, but not enough not to satirize him on that count, too, in my memoirs.
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Re: F1's master of ceremonies
Date: 2021-01-30 03:17 pm (UTC)James: for once in his life, not the most status conscious person in the room!
Lol. I guess Leuthen was his chance to shine in more ways than one!
No kidding. And good lord, yes, he'd have loved to give speeches. As it is, he was the King with the most modern PR work anyway, with all those articles he launched in the press.
Catt: My real job title is Royal Listener!
The other readers: So say we all!
but early modern monarchs were trained to be pithy and make short observations that would not risk their dignity.
Lord Hervey: Pity the training never seems to hold for Germans, then. Of course, I learned to tune out G2 a lot of the time, but not enough not to satirize him on that count, too, in my memoirs.
Re: F1's master of ceremonies
Date: 2021-01-30 05:35 pm (UTC)Lord Hervey and G2: LOLOL.