Cherie Blair, the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, recently made an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”. Mrs. Blair was there to promote her memoirs entitled “Speaking For Myself”.

Mrs. Blair revealed that her fourth child, Leo, now 8, was conceived at the Queen’s Balmoral residence after she left her contraception at home because she was embarrassed that a maid would find it.

“I thought, ‘I’m 44′, so some things I left out of that bag,” said Cherie.

Apparently she wasn’t  too embarrassed to discuss that fact in front of millions of television viewers and a live audience, though.

Then, while attempting to explain the role of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip, Cherie put her foot in it.

“…The First Lady is the wife of the head of state. So on that basis the spouse of our head of state is actually Prince Philip. So I suppose you could say Prince Philip is really the First Lady of Britain.”

While Prince Philip would probably get a chuckle out of that, I think that it’s pretty sad for the wife of a world leader – former or not -  to try to look “hip” and cool for the Americans by talking about private matters and taking a crack at Prince Philip. I realize that Mrs. Blair was referencing what is written in her book when speaking about her child, but let the public take that bit of information in personally if they decide to buy the book.

Why can’t she just make a quiet exit?

Theodore Harvey of RoyalWorld has written a truly wise post about the differences between an unelected head of state in a constitutional monarchy vs. an elected politician. Theodore says:

For if power tends to corrupt, than surely it is more dangerous to entrust it to the sort of person who has spent most of his life seeking it than to someone who has not sought it at all.

See his post in full over at The Monarchist. For Theodore’s blog, visit http://royaltymonarchy.blogspot.com/

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!

Prince Charles hates bland, and does his best to ensure that his organic products – and the method with which they are created – are unique and environmentally friendly. Mass production and chains horrify His Royal Highness.

Charles predicts with glaring terror that small farmers may be “driven off their land [by global conglomerates] into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness”.

With that mouthful, the Prince proclaims that “If that is the future, then count me out.”

For more, click here for the Telegraph’s article.

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.