The last half of 2022 really was a wild time. History was being made all over the place, especially in the UK. Queen Elizabeth II passed away just hours after meeting Prime Minister Liz “Handshake of Death” Truss in Balmoral. Truss, just days into the job, then had to oversee QEII’s funeral arrangements and meet with the newly-acceded King Charles III, whose first words to Truss as king were “oh dear.” The entire time, the Tory government was falling apart and one of the British tabloids asked the obvious question: can Liz Truss’s prime ministership outlast a head of lettuce? The answer was a definitive “no.” She resigned in October 2022, 44 days after she became PM. Well, Truss opened her dumb mouth this week about the Windsors and the Sussexes. Frankly, they should have asked the head of lettuce.
Liz Truss, the last British prime minister to meet with Queen Elizabeth before her death, has nothing but praise for the late monarch but some less complimentary remarks about other members of the royal family. Truss met with Elizabeth in September 2022, as is the custom when a new prime minister is appointed. Two days later, the beloved queen passed away at the age of 96 following a 70-year reign.
“In my last meeting with her, even though she was very ill, she still wanted to stand up and greet me properly and do her duty,” Truss recalled.
Asked what Elizabeth might think about the deepening scandal and legal problems for the former Prince Andrew, Truss said the queen always put duty first. King Charles has stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his royal titles and privileges over his younger brother’s ties to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“She would always do what her duty was to the country. That was her priority, and I’m sure if she was still around now, that’s exactly what she would do,” Truss said.
Elizabeth’s grandson, Prince Harry, also continues to draw attention. Recent reports suggest he and his wife, Meghan Markle, may be feeling the financial pinch living in Los Angeles and that the royal couple may be contemplating a return to the U.K.
Relationships are believed to be strained between Harry and his brother, Prince William, over racially charged allegations made about Markle’s treatment.
Said Truss: “That’s really a matter for the king and the other members of the royal family, but as far as I’m concerned, you’re very welcome to keep them in California.”
Truss, a Conservative Party member, talked with “Katie Pavlich Tonight” on Thursday while attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in the U.S. She criticized incumbent PM Keir Starmer of the Labour Party for his reluctance to support the U.S. war in Iran. Truss resigned as prime minister after 45 days in office amid financial market turmoil.
Truss would likely be surprised by the fact that QEII did not actually put duty to her country ahead of protecting her degenerate son. Just months before Truss’s handshake of death, QEII authorized (alongside then-Prince Charles) an eight-figure settlement to Virginia Giuffre, one of the girls trafficked to Prince Andrew by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. As she lived, QEII’s choices were not “duty to her country, first and foremost.” As for what Truss says about the Sussexes… it continues to fascinate me, to see Harry and Meghan being used as political scapegoats by right-wing politicians in the UK and America. It’s bizarre.
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- Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government.,Image: 719993309, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jane Barlow / Avalon
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- Queen Elizabeth II waits in the Drawing Room before receiving Liz Truss for an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government.,Image: 719993378, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jane Barlow / Avalon
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- King Charles III receives Prime Minister Liz Truss in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace in London.,Image: 723825323, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Kirsty O’Connor / Avalon
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- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is driven down The Mall after the funeral for HM Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London, United Kingdom. 19 September 2022.,Image: 724176085, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Tom Jenkins for The Guardian / P / Avalon
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- (left to right) The Duke of Sussex, King Charles III and the Princess Royal follow the State Hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign’s Orb and Sceptre, as it arrives at the Committal Service held at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Berkshire.,Image: 724270306, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Kirsty O’Connor / Avalon
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- (front row, left to right) The Duchess of Sussex, the Duke of Sussex, Princess Charlotte, and the Princess of Wales during the Committal Service for Queen Elizabeth, at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Berkshire.,Image: 724425806, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Victoria Jones / Avalon
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- 14/10/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Liz Truss Press Conference. Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a press conference at No9 Downing Street announcing Jeremy Hunt as her new Chancellor of the Exchequer.,Image: 730772080, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: This image is for Editorial use purposes only. The Image can not be used for advertising or commercial use. The Image can not be altered in any form., Model Release: no, Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Avalon
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- 14/10/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Liz Truss Press Conference. Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a press conference at No9 Downing Street announcing Jeremy Hunt as her new Chancellor of the Exchequer.,Image: 730772094, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: This image is for Editorial use purposes only. The Image can not be used for advertising or commercial use. The Image can not be altered in any form., Model Release: no, Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Avalon
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- Downing Street, London, UK. 19th October 2022. British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, departs from Number 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) session in the House of Commons.,Image: 731762904, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Supplied by AVALON – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Madrid: +34 91 533 4289, Model Release: no, Credit line: Photo by Amanda Rose / Avalon
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- 19/10/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Liz Truss leaves No10 Downing Street to make her way to the House of Commons for PMQ’s. 10 Downing Street.,Image: 731785215, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: This image is for Editorial use purposes only. The Image can not be used for advertising or commercial use. The Image can not be altered in any form., Model Release: no, Credit line: Rory Arnold / Avalon
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- London, UK, 25th Oct 2022. Liz Truss, British Prime Minister, during her final statement in Downing Street before going to Buckingham Palace to see King Charles III. Later today, Rishi Sunak will then become the new British Prime Minister.,Image: 733089722, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Imageplotter / Avalon
Putting the sussexes in the same category as Andrew is vile. Plus Andrew should have been turned In To authorities instead of being protected
Liz Truss is a con artist and a failed Prime Minister for like 2 minutes, and now have police security for life. Poor Harry 😔
Liz looks like she was there to bury charles!
This woman’s comments, like the other article where they called Harry a traitor who needs to put a sock in it, show how despicable a large portion of the population reay is. Their inexplicable hereo- worship of royalty makes them blame the victim for reporting a physical assault, rather than the bully who committed the assault. Its no wonder Andrew was protected for so long, and Truss and all the other royal worshippers contributed and share in the blame.
And what exactly does ‘duty to the country’ even mean? A follow-up question for clarification would have been good; something like, and that means she paid for Andrew’s settlement to his sexual-abuse victim? Is that duty to country?
She knows nothing of what QEII would have done with the pedo had she lived. I suspect that the Queen would have done what she always did with the pedo and that’s to protect him! “Duty to her country “ be damned!! Sit down Liz nobody wants to hear your delusional thoughts so keep them to yourself!
Just a gentle reminder that a 60p Tesco lettuce outlived Truss’s prime ministerial tenure
Yes she will always be a joke, the dead lettuce prime minister who didn’t even make it past a 90 day probationary period.. but she still gets full security and a pension.
Sort of like Andrew, eh?
What????? FULL pension & security for life? For a less than 90 day job??
I can’t believe she has the gall to offer an opinion on anything. Liz Truss is a world-wide joke.
Liz, you couldn’t keep your job as PM a little past a month. Have several seats.
Also, Liz, you delivered the “handshake of death” to QEII.
Consider the timeline WhizzyLizzy: 9/6/22 QEII appoints you PM; 9/8/22 QEII dies – what did you do to her anyway?
Whatever it was you did to QEII, you couldn’t manage a reversal like you did with your stupid “mini-budget” of £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts, where you fired Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng a mere 21 days after he implemented your infamous ‘Growth Plan’, the “Liz Truss mini-budget” because your ‘Plan’ caused the pound to fall to record lows. After you axed Kwarteng, you appointed Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor 10/14/22 and within 3 days, Hunt has reversed almost all your stupid “mini-budget” tax plans. Still doesn’t explain what you did to QEII, but you are almost surely the most recent outside visitor to see her alive. So why aren’t people questioning her about that?
How does the boot taste, Liz?
Can someone British shed some light? Is every journalist in the country under the royal thumb? I am constantly amazed there are no journalists point blank asking questions like “so you consider Andrew’s alleged crimes of sex trafficking and pedophilia to be on par with Harry moving to the US?” Just to see what the interviewee says. Do the British public at large actually seem to believe these things are the same?
Liz Truss has started a YouTube show since she lost out to the lettuce. You can dump her in the same category as Morgan and the rest of the haters. I’m guessing she’s using H&M to drum up interest. And no like all right thinking people most Brits despise Andrew and were rooting for the lettuce.
I definitely rooted for the lettuce! That was awesome. If I were in the uk I’d have placed a bet on the lettuce. I dislike the tabs in general but that was brilliant.
This was at an American conservative event attended by all the grandees of the Republican Party and she was asked this by a notorious right wing American grifter.
Lol, lady you can’t keep your job past 6 weeks no one is taking your advice about anything. Also, they’re in California because they want to be not because they’re being forced. That’s what really gets these people’s goats honestly. They haven’t been exiled they left you.
And it’s something deep in these right wingers psyche whether Brit or American that they cannot stand people that they think are lesser than them saying, nah I’ll pass.
As for what the Queen would have done, I really wish they would stop mythologizing this woman. She was a human being who looked the other way because it was too difficult for her to face the catastrophe that was her family very often. She may have been a nice grandma, but people can be nice parents, siblings, spouses and suck at their job.
It’s funny how they all pretend as if they have ultimate say over where the Sussexes live.
The Queen put herself first not duty and country. She is partly to blame for the mess that the Royal Family is in right now. I would love for people like Liz Truss to come face to face with Harry and Meghan. They’ll be as quiet as a church mouse just like when Lizzy Cundy went to Childrens Hospital gala a few years and never once went up to Meghan while she was there.
QEII’s sense of “duty” was always transactional. She knew she needed to be seen as doing her duty in order to keep her royal privileges. William’s too dumb to realize this.
The fact that she’s at CPAC tells me everything about Liz Truss.
So she couldn’t outlast one. At this point, she just is a talking head of lettuce.
Liz can go sit her irrelevant behind back down. No one cares what you think Lizzy Lettuce Head. And everyone high key thinks you’re the reason QEII kicked the bucket when she did.
Liz Truss, the most laughed-at, half-witted clown of a prime minister any country has ever been cursed with.
How she ever managed to get the job despite being essentially an empty vessel parroting MAGA is still completely baffling.
These days her name only means her witless disastrous mini-budget, which drove up mortgage rates for everyone in the UK for a decade or more, and prolonged a painful cost-of-living crisis for consumers with no end in sight.
The only reason she’s still getting any airtime (in the right-wing nutjob media including pathetic NewsNation) is because she’s an obsessive Trump / Musk *ss-licker.
She was PM for 2 whole minutes and she thinks she gets to say something? Lady, sit down somewhere.
Wow, so she lasted four Scaramuccies, huh? If Anthony Scaramucci lasted 11 days as Trump’s White House Communications Director, then I guess old Liz lasted four Scaramuccies. Hey, that could be an SAT test question in a Southern state that voted for trump.
Even worse she has security for life and amazing benefits all for being PM for a very short period of time.
The audacity to comment about Harry when she’s getting far more benefits form the taxpayer than he ever will is disgraceful.
This really is the worst part. Harry had a high security risk when he was still in the womb, and this absolute waste of space gets taxpayer funded security for the rest of HER life, but he doesn’t. I do not know how the U.K. reckons any of this.
We know what QEII would have done, because we already saw her do it — she’d shield her pedo son from the consequences of his horrific conduct.
And Liz Truss is the JD Vance of British politicians — the harbinger of death for prominent world figures.
Aaah yes, the continued Harry and Meghan are about to be broke and are looking to crawl back to the UK narrative.
If H&M managed to blow through a couple or hundred million dollars in 5-6 years, I guess that would make Harry fit the being dumb narrative.
From where I sit in the cheap seats, neither Harry nor Meghan are that dumb, and they certainly don’t appear to be pinched financially.
Poo’ ol’ liz begging to be remembered. How many minutes did she last as pm again?
What moron solicited this useless hag’s opinion? If she wants to spout one, I suggest she tell the left behind Royals to stay out of the USA.
I’m fanning myself whilst trying to recover from the momentary hilarity and disbelief prompted by an article speculating that Meghan and Harry “may be feeling the financial pinch living in Los Angeles” ….whilst consulting as an authority figure the woman who destroyed the admittedly fragile British economy in less than one school term. My gawd. First: Montecito is not in Los Angeles. It would be like describing the MIdlands as a section of the Home Counties or just outside the green belt. Ooooooh no. Get in a car and drive two hours due north on an eight-lane freeway. You’re halfway to Yorkshire. Okay. Second, not to be crude, but, Harry & Meghan have more money than Truss will ever see. They left the UK before the crack-up triggered by the triple whammy of Covid-19, Ukraine, and Truss, to say nothing of the closure of the Straits of Hormuz. Prior to these serial exogenous shocks, truly global crises, the UK had experienced two entirely self-inflicted economic crises, in the form of the banking meltdown in 2007-8, and, Brexit. So by my reckoning anyone who made landfall in California and decided to purchase property there half a decade ago did quite well. We know one family — from my son’s cricket club — whose father told me, in a mix of disbelief and surreally sanguine lucidity, that his mortgage payments were doubling between July and August, that summer, a couple of years ago, largely owing to the effect of Truss implosion in the bond markets, which had a massive impact on interest rates. I mean. This woman can suck a crate of eggs. What a second-rate, vile, non-entity. Egads.
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Liz should Have been a parsnip , I hate parsnips. Lettuce is more useful and tasty unless she is the bitter one . She probably is .
This dead-head-of-lettuce-walking couldnt get a headline on her own. She had to mention the real King and Queen of england. She knows it, the interviewer knows it, the poor listeners of whatever show that was, know it and the world knows it.
The dead queen with the 70-year reign couldnt do it and neither could any other member of that decaying mafia “family.”
In fact, I can reveal that after begging to be interviewed, Lettuce-Lizzy agreed with the interviewer to mention H&M dismissively so that she would be guaranteed a soundbite in the next day’s news cycle.
[insert bored, yawning emoji here]
😂😂😂 “dead-head-of-lettuce-walking” 😂 and ITA she “couldn’t get a headline on her own.”
Love your writing style, “I can reveal…”
She looks permanently uptight. Like she swallowed a rod and has never been able to dislodge it. No wonder she is jealous of Meghan and Harry.
Is this B still in highschool? Are there any adults left in the royal realm that have any rational thought, humility, or shame? Touch grass, get a life..
Dangerous idiot says what?
Lettuce is ignore this woman.
Okay, Liz “head o lettuce” Truss.
My mind reader has been in the repair shop for years now awaiting hard to get spare parts. How lucky are the brits to have their mind readers all working in top form. Can you brits help me find the parts for mine?