The Queen, Her Sister, and Mick the Knighted Rambler

When The Rolling Stones released the album "Their Satanic Majesties Request" in December 1967, they probably never imagined their oft-busted lead singer would one day hobnob with majesties of a very different sort. Ah, but rock-n-roll is an ever-evolving beast of beauty. And so it went that 35 years later - on December 12, 2003 - Mick Jagger was knighted by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales for "services to music," despite the fact that Queen Elizabeth II never cared for the singing, swinging sexpot and his liaisons with her libertine sister Princess Margaret.

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The Queen’s Speech: The Beatles are Turning Awfully Funny, Aren’t They?

That was the pronouncement of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the transformation of the Fab Four from the droll, cheeky mop-tops of 1964, to the lysergically induced hipster-gurus of 1967. Rumor has it that the Queen voiced this "turning funny" verdict to Sir Joseph Lockwood, chairman of the Beatles' British record company EMI, at a highbrow Buckingham Palace event that took place at the height of the boys' cosmic journey into all things metaphysical.

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