| Whacky, devil-may-care,
improvisational, just some of the words never used in describing how Die Windsorfamilie
handle the media. Until this week, that is, when off-the-wall Prince Charles dispensed
with protocol and allowed full media access to his recently deceased Grannie’s
Hielan’ Hame. Accompanied by Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles, Prince
Charles invited local media to the dedication of a seat at the Castle of Mey.
Dressed in standard issue Windsor tartan fancy dress,
Charles and Camilla posed winningly for press snaps, a gesture completely unconnected to
any charm offensive his Royal Waste of Spaceness might be conducting against the Church of
England for its boring rules about divorcees re-marrying. |
As long-term royal watcher Simon
Syncophant helpfully explained: "Only a hardened cynic, or a 5-year-old, could
possibly conclude that Charles is softening up Scottish media opinion prior to getting
hitched in the near future to Equine Woman at some accommodating parish church not at a
million miles from Mey." Moving his lips movingly, Charles recalled
that Grannie would often sit on the seat, enjoying the views out over the Firth and
reflecting on how much she loved all her subjects apart from black people and communist
trade unionists obviously.
It is expected this weekend that Charles will visit a local Highland Games to
hand out a prize for something or other while joy unconbloodyfined permeates every pore of
the collective Scottish psyche. |
