…and Getting Worse

More difficulties are besetting our Head of State and her family. Meghan and Harry have departed for the beaches of California and private lives making allegations of racism; favoured son Andrew, peering over his tortoise-shell half glasses and now excluded from public duties and striped of titles, is about to settle an expensive legal case using family funds over alleged sexual relations with a minor and they’ve got Covid including the Queen herself. Now HM is the subject of significant cover-ups over the status of her mobility. At the memorial service for Prince Philip (died 8 April 2021) in Westminster Abbey with the Caribbean reactions to the latest royal tour ringing in their ears, the large, extended family was together again in celebration of a life of service, never complaining/never explaining etc. The Queen arrived at the service accompanied by Prince Andrew and was reputed to be being spirited in away from the eyes of prying cameras so that no one could see her using a wheelchair and walking by the shortest route to take her seat in a Canada chair, whatever that is. William looked pretty pensive as things begin to fray at the edges.  Meanwhile, we’re bracing for a visit by the Princess Royal around Easter. If nothing else, that should have us waving our Union Jacks!