Friday, May 04, 2007

Lilibeth Moment of the Day


From today's tour of Jamestown......
"Visiting the Jamestown museum, the Queen was shown iron spatulas used by the settlers as a gruesome cure for constipation, which according to an early 17th century inscription was "a disease that killeth many" in the settlement.

Turning to her personal physician, Commander David Swain, Elizabeth remarked: "You ought to have something like that!"

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