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Nice Work!
Relations between Sarah Ferguson and the Royal Family have thawed so much that she has enjoyed a week’s holiday at Balmoral. Sarah was even asked to stay on longer than planned. Good on you, Fergie!

Who Spilled?
The Duke of Edinburgh has drawn up “secret plans” (Daily Mail’s words) for a private funeral at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, and has declined the offer of a State service. A unique feature of Prince Philip’s service – codenamed ‘Forth Bridge’ by Palace officials – is that the Duke, the oldest serving Royal consort in British history, has requested his coffin be borne by the same gun carriage used to carry Victoria at her funeral in 1901.

If it’s code-named and referred to as secret, then why is it in a newspaper?? I’ve never understood why the media does that. Also, I don’t want to think of Philip dying yet. It’s depressing!

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HRH The Princess Royal was both chastised and praised for wearing a dress that was last seen at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

The still-slender Princess Anne was even wearing the same hat she wore at her brother’s wedding! Naturally the newspapers picked up on this immediately. HRH simply responded that the Queen had brought her up not to be wasteful.

“A good suit goes on forever. If it is properly made and has a classic look you can go on wearing it ad infinitum. Economy is bred into me. My parents believe that things are not to be wasted. That lesson does last.”

Which, along with being able to still fit into a 27-year-old dress, does deserve kudos. I’m finding it hard to fit into things that I wore last year, so I can’t even begin to imagine 27 years. Good on her, I say. It’s not as if the Princess has worn it the last five weddings. Let her live!

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has also been noted to wear ‘recycled’ outfits. The dual HRHs are very much aware, I’m sure, that the action of wearing the same outfit, even twice, is a double-edged sword. They are being cost-effective yet fashion declares a new outfit for a different occasion! Either they’re dowdy or they’re spending too much money, down with the monarchy! Boo hiss, etc.

Anyway, Kate Middleton caused another distraction with her pretty outfit and lack of royal boyfriend. Will they be engaged soon? God I hope so. This speculation is killing me.

Ingrid Seward is livid about Anthony Armstrong-Jones collaborating on a book about his life. Well, his love-life, that is. In her monthly letter in Majesty Magazine, Ms. Seward wonders what good it will do the Earl of Snowdon to discuss his private matters with the world, and possibly embarrass the Queen.

I wonder this myself. Is this something trashy, or is it a psychological treatise that the Earl simply must unleash? Stay tuned…

This may shock you, but our eloquent and ebullient president has a penchant for street slang. When’s the best time to use it? During official functions with other world leaders! The occasion was the first day of the Group of Eight summit in Japan. What better place?

A televised clip of the event showed President George W. Bush casually wrapping an arm around Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua and calling for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attention.

“Yo, Harper,” Bush called. “The president of Nigeria!”

Two years ago, Bush famously offered the same greeting to the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Opposition members in the Canadian Parliament suggested this particular friendly greeting to Harper was indicative of close ties between the Bush administration and the Harper government. I think it’s more along the lines of an idiot who can’t grow up and take anything seriously for even five minutes. With all the supposed wealth and breeding in that family, could they not find time to dump junior in an etiquette class?

Only a few more months… only a few more months….

[Globe and Mail]

I was approving some comments to the blog today, and I noticed a few interesting spam posts. For all of you bloggers out there, I’m sure spam can be a huge hassle, but they can also be inadvertently hilarious too.

Here are a few titles of the best ones:

Are greyhounds allergic to amoxicillin.
Yes. They turn bright green with purple stripes. Watch out!

Private Jet
Are you offering?

Ibuprofen dosage dog
This is the greyhound that was trying to avoid the amoxicillin.

Rockabilly clothes
What we know the Queen wears when not in front of the cameras. She secretly enjoys listening to Hank Williams.

From “The Royalist” (thanks World of Royalty!)

Mirren Unmoved By The Death of Diana
Written by Joanne Leyland
Tuesday, 25 March 2008

While the death of Diana, Princess of Wales ultimately presented her with an Oscar-winning role as ‘The Queen’, Dame Helen Mirren has revealed that the tragedy itself essentially passed her by.

Quizzed about her reaction to the car crash which claimed the life of the 36-year-old princess, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul, the actress who in reality had little time for Diana in life has admitted: “I honestly can’t remember where I was when Princess Diana was killed. I was in America but don’t recall where.”

“Everyone I know says they remember that moment, but I do not.”

Dame Helen, who in 1996 referred to the princess as “really nauseating — and half crazy, poor thing”, was equally unmoved by the public outpouring of grief which was witnessed on the streets of London in particular in the week between Diana’s death and her funeral on September 6th 1997.

Says Dame Helen: “I did not see the public reaction as grief. I saw it as people, like addicts, having their drugs taken away from them.”

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Wow, Dame Helen does not mince words. It’s a nice change to see someone publicly speak their mind so clearly and astutely without worrying about being politically correct. This is one of the reasons I love Princess Anne, too.

A tongue-in-cheek look at the Queen’s longevity. This should raise Gareth Robson’s hackles… hehehe.

Courtesy of the Onion: Queen Will Leave Behind Long Legacy Of Waving

Paul, You Need To Get Serious Help When:

You think you’re a celebrity for selling out a dead woman.

You’re a willing participant on a reality show about ‘Princess-making’.

You’re a willing participant on a second reality show.

You make a website all about yourself and your “achievements”.

You have professional photos made of yourself in various “serious” poses.

You go on tour.

You act like your achievements aren’t made on the coattails of a dead Princess.

You lie to a High Court.

You lie to a High Court and then say you were being “naughty” for doing it.

When you are telling others that you hope they can sleep at night, even though you refuse to return to the UK to explain inconsistencies in your testimony.

I do. I need to get clean after reading about Paul Burrell. The Sun newspaper in London has uncovered a video in which Burrell speaks about misleading the coroner, British High Court judge Lord Justice Scott Baker.

Burrell freely admits he knew that he broke the law by lying to the inquest, adding: “I was very naughty.”

I was very naughty!? Now is not the time to be playing the coquette in a matter this serious, Paul. I know it is your deep desire to actually be a blonde, beloved Princess, but right now your life and credibility are on the line.

To read further, take a look at The Times. I wish this inquest would end, but how can it with people like Burrell?!