Step Off, Buddy: Arizona Mayor Warns Harry To Behave

Ron Henry, mayor of Gila Bend, Arizona, has put Prince Harry on notice: dalliances with our daughters is a no-no.

“It is a very quiet town with a lot of good Christian people. This isn’t a party town,” cautioned Mr. Henry.

It would seem that Prince Harry’s reputation has preceded him. He was last linked with underwear model Florence Brudenell-Bruce, and since his arrival in the U.S., Harry had his fling with a waitress widely publicized.

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Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has announced that he will stand down as Britain’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. After 10 years in the role, the prince is leaving behind a mountain of scandal.

As the evolution of my role continues apace and in order to reflect the changes I have outlined, I have decided that the label I gave myself when I began this role of Special Representative has served its purpose and is no longer necessary to the work that I do today and, more importantly, in the future,” Andrew said in his 2011 annual review.

Wikileaks revealed unsavory details of the Duke’s business meetings and other various dealings with foreign leaders. When his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was revealed, that was the breaking point. There were calls for the Duke to step down long before today’s resignation, but Andrew attempted to weather the storm.

Controversially, the Queen invested her second son with the titular honor of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. It is an honor that is given personally by the Sovereign for distinguished services to the monarch. People were agog that Her Majesty seemed to be awarding Andrew’s scandals. We will never know the Queen’s reasoning behind the move – perhaps she awarded it on purely impersonal grounds. Andrew was honored because he was, officially, the Special Representative for Trade and Investment. Anything other than that, the Queen will not acknowledge publicly.

Happily, the Queen’s grandson and granddaughter-in-law will be stepping up their public roles representing the UK. Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expected to take a larger role in promoting UK trade interests after the success of their North American tour.

Thanks to CNN

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Ok, I admit that a few of those look-a-likes are pretty darn good:

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In the 1980s, he was boisterous “Randy Andy” and a hero in the Falklands. Now the Duke of York is propping up a delusional ex-wife who is eating through their daughters’ inheritance, taking money left and right, is accused of associating with autocratic regimes, and is palling around with pedophiles.

So what is going on?

First, the foreign regimes. Richard Palmer’s article in his Daily Express blog doesn’t defend the Duke of York, but he does note that the politicians calling out the Duke are completely hypocritical.

Politicians and business leaders, whether their country is a monarchy or a republic, court regimes whose nations have oil. Why? They have the oil that our countries use. It’s as simple as that. That the royals are also doing it is just another government figure getting us our portion of the supply by keeping good relations with them.

Next: Sarah Ferguson. Though they are divorced, I think “Randy Andy” and “Fergie” are made for each other.

Sarah claimed that Andrew had no knowledge of her wheelings and dealings last year, caught on camera in an undercover operation. The Duke has shown, however, that he is perfectly happy to accept favors and money himself.  Plus, the pair still live together and are said to be very good friends (or “bestest friends”, in Sarah’s words). So was he really that much in the dark? They are as thick as thieves, so deep down I doubted it.

Then Sarah blurted out that her ex-husband was involved with helping to pay off her debts. How? Through his billionaire pal – and pedophile – Jeffrey Epstein. Of course, Sarah has (again) admitted to a ‘terrible, terrible error of judgment’ after accepting £15,000 from convicted sex offender Epstein.

‘I am just so contrite I cannot say. Whenever I can I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again.’

Right.

In short, she got her money, and that’s all that mattered. That he is a convicted sex offender made no difference to her or to the Duke. Epstein was a walking wallet, and he had what they wanted. You’re known by the company you keep, that’s all I can say.

Their actions are made even more painful with the release of the film “The King’s Speech”. The noble and inimitable Yorks on screen serve to remind us – and must remind the Queen – that the former Duke and Duchess were once the family-oriented, reliable pair the monarchy could rely on in dark days. It truly is tragic that Her Majesty’s own son should bring such shame to the institution, and to the family personally.

I find the Yorks reprehensible and their actions are highly unbecoming. So I pose it to you, readers: Should Fergie finally lose the Duchess of York title? Should Prince Andrew not only be removed from his post as UK trade envoy, but also have the title Duke of York revoked?

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CITIZEN PARKINSON

The divisive comments of Citizen Michael Parkinson (surely a true knight and a Commander of the British Empire) would not be so churlish as to incite the removal of the Crown within one of Her Majesty’s Realms?) are sorely misplaced at a time when all Australians are uniting behind the thousands of those who have suffered in the floods which are still affecting vast parts of Australia.

As a foreigner, Parkinson was accorded the distinct honour of addressing us on our national day. He may be a celebrity, but in this task he failed miserably. If the situation was reversed and an Australian spoke similarly on a British national day, there would be a justifiable howl of outrage, probably including from Parkinson himself. The fact that some Australians watched his programme does not give him the right to involve himself in the internal politics of a country in which he is a visitor.

In assuming that Australians want a republic (probably because this is what his café-set friends are telling him), Parkinson is ignoring the enormous groundswell of support for our system of Constitutional Monarchy as proven by the fact that more Australians are trav

elling to the United Kingdom at the time of the Royal wedding, than from any other commonwealth country.

Parkinson is reported as telling reporters: “Why should Australia not be a republic? It’s its own country, its own man …. I find it, in a sense, incomprehensible that it’s not that now.” He is obviously totally ignorant of our own democratic system of governance, If Australia was not truly independent -“its own man” – how then could the Australian people themselves – not Britain, not the Queen nor anyone else, but the people themselves – have been able in 1999 to vote upon and decide whether we would be a republic or, as occurred, remain a constitutional monarchy?

In 2009 Parkinson wrote on the tragic death of Jade Goody so cruelly describing her as “barely educated, ignorant and puerile,” adding, “When we clear the media smokescreen from around her death, what we’re left with is a woman who came to represent all that’s paltry and wretched about Britain today”.

In 2011, we say, rather more politely to Parkinson. ‘People that live in glass houses should not throw stones.’

As the Queen always so wisely comments: ‘the matter of constitution change in Australia is a matter for AUSTRALIANS alone to decide upon.’

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Charles and Camilla Attacked; Questions Asked

A mysterious man was able to sneak through the Palace into the Queen’s bedroom and wake her up; another nearly kidnapped Princess Anne out in the Mall; and someone dressed as Osama bin Laden crashed Prince William’s 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle.

Fears over the royals’ safety have been few and far between, thankfully, but after such blatant security failures, it’s a wonder that the Royal residences and automobiles aren’t locked down White House-style.

In this day and age, it is fair to start wondering – when will security tighten up for the British Royal Family? What is it going to take?

Communication Breakdown

Criticism from security experts is raining down upon officials and personal protection officers since Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were attacked in their car on their way to the Royal Variety Performance.

The mob was so close that a protestor was able to jam a stick through the window of the car – which was either down or broken – and was able to prod the Duchess of Cornwall in the ribs.

In the photos that emerged of the event, both Camilla and Prince Charles were visibly upset and confused. Dozens of people surrounded their limo, smashing a rear window and splashing it on one side with white paint.

Alan Johnson, the former home secretary, has said he was “amazed” that royal protection officers were not
communicating properly prior to the car making its way through the area.

The riot had started because of a vote on the Government’s plan to cut higher education funding. Parents and educators, as well as students, turned out to protest in front of Parliament. Things got out of hand – Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, was arrested for swinging from the Cenotaph on a Union flag. Others vandalized similar monuments, including a statue of Winston Churchill.

We can only hope that security will be vastly improved before Prince William’s wedding this spring. Anarchist groups have already made their intentions to strike during the wedding widely known. If a vehicle containing members of the Royal Family is allowed through a rampaging riot mob, what will happen to an open bridal carriage?