Congratulations to the Queen: Elizabeth II's Historic visit to Ireland Fosters a Bold New Course in British-Irish Relations

Queen Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom deserves high praise for finding the courage and moral vision to pay an official visit to Ireland this week.

The Queen's journey to Ireland this week marks the first occasion in either 90 years or 100 years (news media accounts on the Internet offer conflicting information on this point) that a ruling British monarch has paid an official visit to Ireland.

The Queen, in her mid-80s, is proving to be a "Late Bloomer" in the finest sense of that term.

Queen Elizabeth in the year 2011 is hitting her stride as the Reigning Monarch by pursuing a bold new course for Great Britain. Her innovative style as exemplified this week is helping to promote greater harmony in 21st Century relations between The United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

My own "Congratulations to the Queen" is accompanied by my continuing hope that Her Majesty's innovative style this week will continue in another context as well.

As an American citizen of English and Scottish (and German) ancestry, and as the founder of a new religion with very strict membership-eligibility requirements, I remain very hopeful that Queen Elizabeth II will choose to send me a written reply letter on Her Behalf.

That eagerly-awaited reply letter to me from the Queen in England will be in response to the lengthy "Questions for the Queen" letter of more than 50 pages that I had mailed to the Queen by U.S. Postal Service in 2010, I believe it was.

The text of my "Questions for the Queen" Blog from August 9, 2009 (which I later printed out and and mailed to the Queen in England) can be found through a Google search, including at this blogsite.

In that "Questions for the Queen" letter that I had mailed to the Queen several months ago, and for which I have not yet received any Royal response, I politely urged Her Majesty to please consider granting an official Royal Oral History Interview.

That Royal Oral History Interview of the Queen could be videotaped for the sake of posterity, and could feature a variety of politely thought-provoking questions relating to Queen Elizabeth II's multi-decade reign and life.

My hope is that if Queen Elizabeth II through a proposed Royal Oral History Interview chooses to respond to some of the questions that I had posed to the Queen, her Royal Response during that videotaped interview will provide an invaluable addition to the National Archives of The United Kingdom.

That Royal Oral History or Royal Written Response to Questions for the Queen will serve as a very fine inspiration to millions of British citizens of the present and future, as well as to British Studies scholars and admirers of the Royal Family throughout the world.