Now I know …

 

I always wondered who it was that modelled the hats Princess Beatrice of York wears to formal events …

I’m presuming that the bowl is a prototype of a punk metal brassiere accessory to match the hat. Well done him I say, but I bet he wouldn’t squeeze into one of Bea’s dresses!

Can we have a royal-free, Pope-free day please?

It is bad enough that we have to suffer Popes and Princesses, as if most care for either and their outdated institutions, but must we have this level of obsequiousness for both?

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First the Pope resigns and we have the BBC (and others) going into overdrive to celebrate this peddler of mediaeval morals swiftly followed by Hilary Mantel’s criticisms raising the Duchess of Cambridge’s newsworthiness yet again (is it even possible to have a Kate free day?).

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If I hear Nicholas Witchell or Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawning with one more slavishly respectful, pitiful prattle session about a religious or royal personage I will scream (I will!)

Newsflash! Queen denies maternity of illegitimate house elf …

Well, well, Prince Dobby it would seem …

I was watching ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1’ the other day and it occurred to me that there is something of a resemblance between Prince Charles and the nation’s favourite house elf. Well, he is cute and adorable – Dobby that is! – but has a strange Windsorish look about him.

Has anyone else made the connection between Dobby and our wonderful Prince?