Queen Elizabeth has been on a knighting spree ever since she knighted Bono back in 2007. She received so much praise for it that it went to her head a little bit. There has been one problem with it, though; she has been getting a little careless with the sword and just last week, while knighting Normand Freedman, the local baker, she accidentally hacked off his ear.



This isn’t the first time it has happened either. Last month she did the same thing to poor Oliver Williams, a man she met on the street and thought, “Hey, this guy should totally be knighted!” Luckily the doctors were able to reattach Oliver’s ear, but this only prompted the Queen to offer them knighthood. All of the doctor’s declined based on Oliver’s results.

The recent string of botched knightings has caused an outrage in the UK. Many are calling for a removal of knighting practices or writing petitions to confiscate the Queen’s sword. A Kickstarter campaign has been started to make a plastic sword for the Queen to use instead of the harmful, real sword she has been using.

The Queen issued this statement after the incident with Noramnd Freedman:

“I am deeply sorry for what happened with Normand. He is a good man and a dear friend of the crown. His surgery will be fully funded by the government and hopefully nothing else will go wrong when we try this again next week.”

When we reached out to Normand for a comment he did not respond. Perhaps it was because we asked him from the left side of his body, which is the side his ear was cut off of. We didn’t want to be rude and pester him further, so we left.