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Did Lizzie Surf?

Did Lizzie Surf?

or is abdication the pathway to freedom and pleasure?

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Jim Dalling
Sep 09, 2022
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Did Lizzie Surf?
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Lucky Lizzie has left us.

Now, the pictures on some Canadian money gets to change.

Now, our official head of state is an organic farmer forced to marry someone he didn’t love who has dead ex wife an an estranged son.

I’m not a royal watcher and their impact on my life has been inescapable.

All of her life was governed by something much bigger than her. Her agency within her regency was dictated by long held customs and traditions. All of her behavior dictated by the role she was born into.

So the question seems simple: Did Lizzie surf?

A cursory search goes into great detail about Lizzie’s special relationship with the criminals in Oz. She even visited Bondi beach once shortly after her coronation.

Her uncle however?

Dirty Eddie, the divorcee diddler?

He LOVED surfing.

According to the British Museum of Surfing1, Edward Windsor, Prince of Wales, Surfed in Hawaii in the 1920's with the late great Duke Kahanamoku.

However, the future King Edward VIII was so stoked on surfing that he ordered the …

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