A Response from Buckingham Palace

[ArtJourney]

Eric has listed Buckingham Palace as an address for writing to for InCoWriMo and asked if anyone received a reply to let him know.

Well... here we go...a response from Buckingham Palace... http://youtu.be/HsFy-wFw5JE

[fountainpenkid]

lol!

[joelchan]

LOL !!!!!

[Tracy Lee]

That got two snorts from here! :-)

[manoeuver]

lookin goood.

[dajhek]

Okay, so I got a real letter back from Buckingham Palace... Haven't opened it yet. 1935

[TheRoXFiles]

Okay, so I got a real letter back from Buckingham Palace... Haven't opened it yet. 1935

Wow, that's awesome! :D I'm curious...so are you going to do anything special with your letter, like frame it?

[Saintpaulia]

Of course it is the wrong last name and the wrong address, but heck! she's only a Lady-in-Waiting, not The Queen. The Queen would have gotten everything right! Btw the Lady's name is Jennifer Gordon-Lennox. Real person. Saw a picture of her online greeting Hillary Clinton.

http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s599/Breck22/New%20Album/envelope.jpg

http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s599/Breck22/New%20Album/envelopedetail.jpg

http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s599/Breck22/New%20Album/letter-med.jpg

[woosang]

That's amazing. Close enough to the Queen

[fountainpenkid]

Awesome!!!

[TheRoXFiles]

I wonder if this is as close as the rest of us will get to a written response to the Queen if we wrote to her. Not really liking the way Jennifer picked one letter, tacked on "and friends" and addressed everyone with it, though. I understand not being able to personally respond to each letter, but I'd think there would be a better solution than this?

[menunes]

Wonderful. I wonder if it would work with European prime ministers, famous CEO's and all kinds of "unreachable" people...:jaw:

[KrazyIvan]

Very cool.

[vhr5]

That's Very Cool!

1941

The letter came from one of these ladies in the photo attached. If you want more information go here: http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/RoyalHouseholddepartments/ThePrivateSecretarysOffice/LadiesinWaitingandEquerries.aspx

[Tracy Lee]

Very cool. :cool:

[Barbara]

Close enough? Very cool.

[Barbara]

That's Very Cool!

1941

The letter came from one of these ladies in the photo attached. If you want more information go here: http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/RoyalHouseholddepartments/ThePrivateSecretarysOffice/LadiesinWaitingandEquerries.aspx

Did you happen to notice the job vacancies at that link? You too could be rubbing elbows with Royalty. :)

[Bogon07]

They must come across some very interesting and bizzare correspondence.

[chaimann]

Jennifer (Mrs. Michael) Gordon-Lewis (http://www.thepeerage.com/p3329.htm#i33288) has been on the job for 39 years. No doubt she has some tales to tell... but won't.

[fountainpenkid]

Yes...I can only imagine what she experiences...

[Electric Pilot]

It's bad form to write directly to the Queen (or other members of the Royal Family) unless you're personally known; you write instead to the Queen's Private Secretary - the ladies above. :) If you're important enough and the Queen does correspond with you then you'll get a letter written (or at least signed) with avery hard-working burgundy Parker 51...

[jbb]

Wow! That's cool.

[Saintpaulia]

It's bad form to write directly to the Queen (or other members of the Royal Family) unless you're personally known; you write instead to the Queen's Private Secretary - the ladies above. :) If you're important enough and the Queen does correspond with you then you'll get a letter written (or at least signed) with avery hard-working burgundy Parker 51...
Oh gosh sorry! I guess you'll just have to chalk it up to an ignorant colonial. But at least Her Majesty's Lady-in-Waiting was more understanding than you.

[Bogon07]

It's bad form to write directly to the Queen (or other members of the Royal Family) unless you're personally known; you write instead to the Queen's Private Secretary - the ladies above. :) If you're important enough and the Queen does correspond with you then you'll get a letter written (or at least signed) with avery hard-working burgundy Parker 51...
Oh gosh sorry! I guess you'll just have to chalk it up to an ignorant colonial. But at least Her Majesty's Lady-in-Waiting was more understanding than you.

You learn something new everyday here. Shows how sadly lacking our traditional education is down here in the Antipodes, then again I didn't do history at highschool so that may explain it. I think those from the US could excused for not knowing after all they did go to war to avoid putting up with monarchical malarkey.

Is there any record of what colour ink Prince Charles tends to reply in ?
I would like to think he favours a bright green or perhaps a violet.

[Electric Pilot]

It's bad form to write directly to the Queen (or other members of the Royal Family) unless you're personally known; you write instead to the Queen's Private Secretary - the ladies above. :) If you're important enough and the Queen does correspond with you then you'll get a letter written (or at least signed) with avery hard-working burgundy Parker 51...
Oh gosh sorry! I guess you'll just have to chalk it up to an ignorant colonial. But at least Her Majesty's Lady-in-Waiting was more understanding than you.
Oh - I wasn't having a dig - sorry...? :) It was just a little factoid, that's all. I very much doubt you've offended the Palace. :) Nowadays proper forms of address, even in traditional ol' England, are kinda a lost art. It's a bit sad, in some ways, I think.

Now you've written to the Palace, why not try writting to No. 10? :D (http://www.number10.gov.uk/contact-us/ http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/professions/government/ministers.aspx)

As for the Prince of Wales's choice in stationery I think it would all be rather traditional with a colourful twist here and there - Prince Charles has a famous dislike of (some aspects of) modernism whilst also being known for being rather forward-thinking (on matters such as the environment, healthcare, farming, religion, etc).

[Electric Pilot]

Is there any record of what colour ink Prince Charles tends to reply in ?
I would like to think he favours a bright green or perhaps a violet.
(Bright) green ink has a bit of a stigma here in Britain: it's seen (outside of its specialist uses) as the ink colour of choice for those a few sandwiches short of a picnic - green ink is the go-to for rants to one's newspaper of choice. The Guardian state (in jest?) that they'll ignore any letters written in green.

The Queen from what I've seen uses black; most likely Quink Permanent Black. The Queen has to be quite the pen user: everyday - apart from Christmas Day and Easter - the ministerial boxes ('red boxes') - boxes full of documents pertaining to the running of the country - have to be checked and the contents signed. :)

[woosang]

I deliberately write in green sometimes just because it has that stigma :-)

[Bogon07]

I deliberately write in green sometimes just because it has that stigma :-)

It can also indicate a high rank in the armed forces or police force.

And you can start of your correspondence off with " this is a letter ill-written in green ink" (-Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim)

[woosang]

I deliberately write in green sometimes just because it has that stigma :-)

It can also indicate a high rank in the armed forces or police force.

And you can start of your correspondence off with " this is a letter ill-written in green ink" (-Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim)

I have actually written something similar to a friend :-)

[Bogon07]

I suppose if you were to send HRH, Prince Charles or any other Royal a letter addressed ink green ink it would go straight into the bin.

[woosang]

Most likely

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