Chapter 342, the hypocritical Princess Anne
Windsor Castle at noon is a rare sunny day, the grass is gently rippling in the breeze, and the weather is already quite cold at the end of November, so the royal guards add thick sweaters to their uniforms every day, and the frequency of changing guards is also appropriately adjusted, so that these handsome men can have more time to move. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
A palm-coloured Land Rover is parked at the castle gate.
"Left, left!"
Soldier Duo Ze instructed the driver: "Hit the wheel, stop!" Forward, forward, forward, ......"
"Hey, buddy!"
A beautiful face popped up from the driver's window: "I know how to reverse, if you are commanding, I should crash into it!" ”
Duo Ze's expression tightened, and he instantly remembered the temperament of this princess, and rationally chose to shut up.
"Hmph."
Anne Phillips snorted, and without the command of the soldiers, she divided the car by two in three times, and parked the car in a moment: "Zara? Get out! ”
In the back seat, a young girl who happened to be of elementary school age sat in a child safety seat and shouted, "Okay Mom, but you need to help me open the car door first." ”
"Hey, you!"
Anne was busy unbuckling her seatbelt when she called back the soldier who had been knocked aside by her: "Come here, help me open the door of my daughter's car." ”
Employing people in front of them does not need people to face backwards, but Anne Ke is the existence of the eldest princess, and of course the soldier Duo Ze can only step forward in a proper manner and liberate the little princess Zara from the child seat.
"Oh~ It's here! Where grandmother and uncle lived! ”
The blonde-haired Zara jumped out of the car and immediately lied and ran on the green lawn. This is a scene worthy of the attention of the surrounding guards, the little princess Zara does not like skirts, and is extremely partial to denim and cargo pants, which once gave Her Majesty a headache. I just don't know if there is something important about the family suddenly coming to Windsor Castle.
"Zara, don't run around, walk with your mother!"
Princess Anne, who was not yet forty years old, was still beautiful, and the soldier Duo Ze, who closed the door for her, couldn't help but look at it secretly. I have to say that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess with long brown and red hair is really similar to the queen, but unlike Princess Anne, who took over the position of head of state as early as World War II and has plenty of room to grow, she is still the first member of the British royal family to participate in the Olympic Games!
But what is worth Duoze's curiosity is, why didn't the little prince Peter come with him?
Gossip was not something a small guard was qualified to participate in, and Anne soon took her daughter by the hand and walked into the castle.
Because of the marble floor, Anne's hard-soled cowhide boots kept ringing with a hard sound, and people could hear her arrival from far away at the end of the hallway. The structure of the castle was so familiar to her that without any guidance, Anne led Zara into a common room.
"Zara, baby girl."
Coming into the house, Anne said, "Mom wants to talk to your grandmother about work first, and you let ...... first Aunt Alyssa will play with you for a while? Eliza? ”
With her excellent ability to hear and discern position, Alyssa Rofeld, the chief housekeeper of Windsor Palace, had already followed, and saluted at the door at this time: "No problem, Your Highness." Also, Her Majesty is reading in the study, and you can find her directly there. ”
"Thank you, Elisa, Nazara will be handed over to you first."
The quick-talking Princess Anne didn't talk much nonsense, so she walked quickly in the direction of the study.
Again, the sound of heavy and loud footsteps spread through the corridor, and there were so many people in the castle that when the footsteps rang from one end of the corridor to the other, the people on the upper and lower floors all got the news that Princess Anne had returned!
"Mom!?"
With a bang, she pushed the heavy oak double-open wooden door open.
At this time, who was sitting in a rocking chair by the window, who else could there be if it wasn't Queen Elizabeth? She was flipping through a difficult book, the pages were very thick, and every line of the dense content needed to be carefully understood to read. I don't know when I started reading it, but the queen held it in her hand, and when she looked at the thickness, she knew that she had only read thirty pages.
"Oh, Annie, you're here."
Closing the book with a snap, the queen looked at the door, where her only daughter was glaring at her angrily: "Come, have a cup of tea, where is my precious granddaughter Zara?" Annie, you won't forget to bring her, will you? ”
"Mom!"
Anne wasn't in the mood to drink any tea now, she walked up to her mother in three or two steps, and looked resentful from head to toe: "When did I say that I was going to let Zara learn computers?" She just happened to see Mark playing with that thing, and this kid's future must belong to the horse farm! ”
"Oh, Anna, are you misunderstanding something?" Even though her daughter was shouting loudly beside her, the queen still spoke slowly: "I didn't let Zara learn horsemanship, did I?" Also, I don't think I remember saying that Zara would ever get into the field of computer programmers, right? Children are still young, so it's always right to learn more, right? ”
Quarrels between mothers and daughters may end with a sentence or two, but they often don't stop easily. The queen's answer seemed to have been expected by Anne, and she snorted coldly, "And what are you looking at now?" Isn't that an introduction to assembly language? ”
"Oh, you said it was assembly language!?" The queen obviously pretended to be old and confused: "I remember asking Alyssa to buy the C language!" I said how come this book doesn't read like the C language described by Philip and me, because I bought it by mistake? ”
"Mom......"
Anne wisely chose to change the subject: "Cambridge and Oxford haven't been bought by Japan yet, so it's still ours, right?" Is it necessary to go to the United States specifically to ask a Chinese American to teach Zara? Don't you think...... Don't you think there's a big difference!? ”
"Oh, you said Alice." The queen still spoke in that feeble tone, and she flipped through the assembly language in her hand: "She's not bad." Annie, I've checked what the qualifications of those engineers at Microsoft are. Stanford, MIT, Caltech, their undergraduates, master's students, Ph.D. students, it sounds so scary......"
"But doesn't it all revolve around Alice? Let's not talk about her position in that, that, what NT project, the, technical director, or technical consultant or anything, let's just say that she has developed that window operating system, how many of those high-achieving students have been? ”
Every time, every time, Anne was speechless. An old lady who is usually shrewd, on par with Margaret Thatcher, always likes to play this set in front of herself!
"Mom, it's just a tutor for a six-year-old child, is it necessary for you to invite someone like this who is working with the Pentagon to set up a security company?"
"Oh, yes, Pentagon."
It seemed that at this moment, the Queen's "transient Alzheimer's disease" was suddenly cured, and she said: "Annie, since the US government and military have begun to vigorously build cybersecurity measures, and Cisco is the main or even the only supplier of related equipment, shouldn't we also take action?" ”
"Uh...... You say this? ”
Anne was stunned for a moment, and suddenly seemed to suddenly realize: "Oh yes, when it comes to cybersecurity, could it be that last month's crash has been found to be caused by a cybersecurity vulnerability!?" ”
"Not really." However, the queen decisively denied it: "Who knows what is wrong with this world, even the century-old Rothschild Bank has collapsed, and I don't know when it will recover." Oops......"
"Mom, I was almost taken to the ditch by you!"
To the effect that Anne couldn't hear what she was saying, "Why did you suddenly talk about this economic crisis!?" We're talking about Zara's tutoring, right? I'll have to put that in front of me, it's not impossible for Zara to learn how to use computers, but as her mother, I'm going to have to nurture this girl's hobby of equestrianism, and don't forget, Mark and I are both equestrian riders! ”
"So, you've agreed to make Alice her computer teacher?"
This ability to distort the topic once again made Anne sigh: "Mom...... Again, do we have to invite a Chinese American? ”
This time, the queen did not read at all, and did not pretend to be senile: "Annie? Are you questioning Alice's abilities? ”
"That girl's abilities...... I certainly can't question it. Anne said weakly: "But don't forget, we are the British royal family, even if Anne's succession order is ranked seventh, if we invite a ......"
"Who begged me not to give this eldest granddaughter any royal title when Zara was born?"
Her Majesty dragged out a long voice: "Who said that you want to give your daughter an ordinary and stress-free life?" I thought that the so-called peace and stress-free should be about doing whatever you want, right? Since Zara is interested in computers, and Alice's little girl happens to be studying at Eton, what's wrong with letting them attend classes at Windsor Palace every weekend? ”
The Queen's words one after another had made Anne completely calm down. The blood rush was talking about her previous state, and the thought of what her mother had assigned to her daughter made her resentful. But now that I think about it, it's really necessary.
"But after all, that girl is an American businessman, and now she is still a supplier to the US Department of Defense, and our royal family is not afraid to get too close to her......"
"She's only fifteen, think about it, she won't be able to buy her first car until next year."
In the end, the queen gave Anne a heartfelt reassurance: "Isn't it better to invest in emotions as soon as possible?" (To be continued.) )