The phrase “ash heap of history” figuratively refers to the “place” to where a person is “relegated” upon losing his “value of importance.”
End of April President Obama “corkscrewed” on Air Force One into London to give a “speech” to UK citizens “warning” them not to “Brexit,” then made himself available for “photo ups” and sharing a “royal meal” with the Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the “Windsor Castle” gardens.
Barack Obama may thought he was the world’s “most” powerful man but Queen Elizabeth II “forced” him to the “dustbin of history” by slashing the number of “choppers” his Secret Service could land on the Windsor Castle “gardens” when he and Michelle came over for “dinner” with the 90-year-old monarch.
The Queen called Obama’s “bevy” fleet of choppers “over the top”, meaning the Secret Service had to “rethink” their plans to land about “six” aircraft in the 300-year-old “gardens” of her main residence.
“It was a write-off and the Queen was not amused,” quoted a royal source.
“Her Majesty refused to back down and said, ‘three helicopters only’. The Secret Service had to go away and think about their plan. The President’s officials were told that the Queen regarded Windsor Castle as her family home and the most important of all royal residences,” the report said.
“She rarely imposes her will but when she does people listen – it just took the US Secret Service agents a little time to realize that,” the source added.
The Queen, whose “90th birthday” was celebrated recently, said there was “no chance” Obama’s extensive “security” backup would be “accompanying” him to Windsor Castle.
Her “insistence” came after Obama’s helicopters “wrecked” her garden when “half a dozen” of them landed during his “last” visit in 2011.
The engines’ heat “scorched” the grounds and the wheels left “divots” in one of the UK’s oldest “lawns,” planted during the reign of “Queen Anne” in the early 1700s.
The Queen said only “three” helicopters, including the president’s personal aircraft “Marine One,” could land on the “lawn” when Obama, 54, and his wife, Michelle, 52, came for “dinner” with the monarch and Prince Philip to “celebrate” her 90th birthday, the report said.
“They said they needed to be within reach of the president at all times. They also wanted guards posted inside the dining hall when he had lunch with the Queen,” the insider said.
An insider said US aides “refused” to change their plans on “security” grounds but came around to the Queen’s “wishes” eventually when she “refused” to back down.
Obama also addressed the Queen as “Your Magnificence” instead “Your Majesty” while posing for photos.
Privately Queen Elizabeth II referred to the Obama’s as “pitiful, isolated lame duck individuals whose role has played out. They should go where they belong from now on – into the dustbin of history.”
Obviously, the lesson here is clear: “A woman never forgets a man whose vanity destroyed her garden.”
The London U. S. Embassy “honored” President Obama’s visit with the thinly veiled “bourgeois” effort in posting his “portrait” between two antiquated Presidents at a “central spot” near the entrance area.
Later at the Windsor Castle “residence” of the Queen they displayed a more “familiar” portrait with Obama’s “trademark” finger in his face.
Finally the icy “demeanor” of the Royal couple “melted” away when Barack and Michelle “performed” a flawless Argentina “Tango” for entertainment of the invited guests.
EU? Brexit? “He came, He saw, He went. “
In a speech to the British House of Commons on June 8, 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan said that “freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.”
