Earl Gloomy

Watching Ascot on Channel 4 earlier today and Claire Balding (am i right in thinking shes a lesbian?) and that little ex jockie Willie said that some famous horse trainer had died this week, I didn't catch the name; thought one of you might know something about it and his name? Any ideas?

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands,born 31st January 1938, daughter of the late Queen Juliana and the late Prince Benhard, celebrates 25 years of sitting on the Throne of The Netherlands on 30th April 2005. Not about to pop her clogs like her parents, but no doubt she is ageing (you can see how much she has aged in the last 3 years by looking at her face from the beginging of 2002 and now) since the deaths of her husband (Prince Claus 2002) and her parents (2004). Though probably worth while keeping an eye on her. (Doubt if her Silver Jubliee will be as well celeberated as QEII's 25th and 50th Jubillees)

what has happened to Bob Holness (however you spell his name) who used to host my favourite show of all time, Block Busters!!!!! He has dissapeared and so has Roy Walker from Catch Frase. What are they doing now and are they still well, which is the main question.

Raine, Countess Spencer -born september 1929- (nick named "Acid Raine" by the Spencer family and during her time at Althorp it was known as the "Raine of Terror" accroding to wiki) Did you know she is a board member of Harrods?

John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby (August 29, 1917-July 12, 2005) was a businessman famous for leading British Airways from inefficient, nationalised company to one of the most successful airlines of recent times. This success was a flagship of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation programme. King began his successful business career with a ball and roller bearing company which grew to become a major operation spanning several continents and which was sold for £10m in 1968. He became Chairman of Babcock International in 1972. Dubbed "Mrs. Thatcher's favourite businessman" he was chosen to prepare the inefficent, loss making nationalised flag carrier for privatisation. King joined British Airways in 1981. Major changes at the airline included removing 22,000 staff members, hiring Colin Marshall as CEO in 1983, removing older aircraft from the fleet, purchasing more modern and efficient airliners, and axing unprofitable routes. Within two years King had replaced over half of the BA board with his own appointees. BA was privatised in 1987 and the initial share offering was 11 times oversubscribed. King was made a life peer in 1983. King recognised the importance of Concorde to British Airways. In its early years of service with BA, Concorde lost the carrier money and attracted criticism from the press as a white elephant. One thing that everybody agreed was the charismatic value of the aircraft. BA used Concorde to win business customers, guaranteeing a certain number of Concorde upgrades in return for corporate accounts with the airline - a key factor in winning business from transatlantic competitors. I have certianly have heared of him before, not quite sure how i managed to miss this one!

Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte, Princess of Belgium, born in Brussels 27 October 1927, died at Fischbach, Luxembourg on 10 January 2005. The funeral took place in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg city on Saturday 15 January 2005.

Queen Susan Barbra Cullen-Ward (Queen of Albania) born 1941 in Waverly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She married King Leka of Albania and had one son also called Leka. She died July 2004, it wasn't very well reported and no1 on here has mentioned her, i have heared of her but didn't know that she had died, has anyone else heard of her? I did find a very small Wiki link on her though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Cullen-Ward

I mentioned Annika Rice the other day on a thread, does anyone remember Wincy Willis who was also on Treasure Hunt With Annika Rice and Kennith Kendel? She was a weather girl (quite an older one) for years and now she dissapeared, can't find info on wiki about her either.

Thats a bit cheap isn't it?

I see you knew what i was refering to then.

A very unhealthy lifesytle?- are you also refering to his previous teenage tastes? - i do like being controversial.

I supose its too late to consider Robert Sargent Shriver?aged 90, Was Govenor for California and had lots to do with with Kennedys, Married Eunice Kennedy, J.F.'s sister. He is also father-IN-law to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now is in his 90's and has had Alzhiemers for some time. Suppose i am too late with this consideration?

cheers

All politcaly correct politics talk, what if? what for? You daft left wingers ; anyrate is she on next year or not?

For somone who had said farewell to public life in August 2004, not long after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease it didn't take that long for him to die of it seen as Alzhheimer's takes 10 years for it to take it's full course; though it was combined with pneumonia. I would have just told the public it was pneumonia, Alzheimer's usualy takes alot longer than 12 months for the person to die of it or for them to go utterly senile.

Probably through the gritted teeth of the prson who wrote it for her, in the way in which she would have said it.

(Magere Hein Posted on Jul 17 2005, 05:00 PM )

This will please Maggie. She apperently never liked him. Shame it had to be a right winger. We right wingers are becoming a dying breed.

I didn't actualy mean for it to sound the way it does, sorry - if that makes sense?

OH Bugger off Hein and stop spoiling my fun! Trust DL'S smartest arse to point that out to me!

Do you relise that moving the topic to the main forum instead of closing it or merging it with 2005 names forum has resulted in a 0 posts display on the main page and has broken the connection from the main 2005 list page to the "Edward Heath" thread? Yes i am being fussy

No i didn't buy it!

and Sarcasm takes alot more wit than you possess and even then it's the lowest form of humor.

He and The Lady never got on, apparently they hate each other!

why a second page on him? Edit - (to make sense of this positing, this was on a previous page)