Her forebears might have dusted the nuts and sweetmeats with arsenic, after having built up a tolerance themselves, to flush out the traitorous nibblers.
Today, all the poor woman can do is pad down the corridor to her sitting-rooms muttering "Off with their heads" under her breath.
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The same thing happens in the staff lounge where I work....
Monarchs used to be happy when other people tasted their food.
The Queen needs a footmen to carry her nuts and nibbles, like they used to do back in the day.
Her forebears might have dusted the nuts and sweetmeats with arsenic, after having built up a tolerance themselves, to flush out the traitorous nibblers.
Today, all the poor woman can do is pad down the corridor to her sitting-rooms muttering "Off with their heads" under her breath.
She's only a bird in a gilded cage.
Today, all the poor woman can do is pad down the corridor to her sitting-rooms muttering "Off with their heads" under her breath.
Or "Off with their nuts."
Anybody check corgi breath for nuts?
Chocolate coated Ex-Lax. With raisins.
That should fix the problem.
Corgi breath
Perhaps distraction is in order. Put a plate of donuts beside each bowl of nuts.
"Did those coppers eat my nibbles again? Those wankers!"
Isn't hunting in the King or Queen's wood punishable by death? Or at least a trip to the Tower of London for a stretch?
She needs to hide them under the bed or in her file drawer like normal people. ;)
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