Royal Visit diminishes us and them

Late afternoon and, thankfully, another tedious royal visit ends.  The colonials have been inspected for six days by Charles and Camilla! Quite bizarre, especially the six scrubbed merinos in a pen atop the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney for a gig promoting our wool industry – Charles wore a suit made of Australian wool and, presumably, at a similar event in New Zealand, a Kiwi grown ensemble. Actually, WfaAR feels quite sorry for them as they looked as if they wished they were anywhere else, like at home with their feet up, both the Cornwalls and the sheep. The “crowds” were underwhelmingly small, mostly royal obsessives clutching dogs or expat and visiting Brits. The Canberrans, who get it, stayed away in droves from the opening of Queen Elizabeth Terrace. PM Gillard gave another woefully fawning speech to mark the occasion (she’d been out of the country all week). That was full of mistakes and embarrassed us all.  Another costly royal visit ……and we aren’t just talking about the money.