[Bones McCoy]

I see that the government is now apparently considering removing Mountbatten-Windsor from his place in the “line of succession” - a theoretical league table in which various undeserving individuals are ranked in order of their chances of being crowned King or Queen should all of those above them in the league table suddenly die or become otherwise unexpectedly and permanently indisposed. And just typing that out drives home what a farcical, absurd charade the whole fucking set up is. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is at number 8 in the league table behind Prince Willie and his three offspring and Prince Harry and his two sprogs. Which means in reality that the 66 year old paedophile’s best friend is never going to become King. I’ve probably got as good a chance as he has, and I’m not even on the fucking table.

Not really sure why they’re bothering with that.

Let's hope he hasn't watched Kind Hearts and Coronets, eh readers?

[Bones McCoy]

The royal team are looking somewhat threadbare, Anne's getting on a bit like the King which has left Edward 'Zeppo' Windsor having to step up.
I understand Harry and dad have had an exploratory reconciliation meeting. This is a notoriously pragmatic family.

They have a lot of Zeppos and at least one Fredo.

[Abernathy]

William and Kate seem to be good at photo-opportunities but are not great at doing regular work.

For a given (rather unique) definition of the word "work", of course.

[Oboogie]

Jonathon Pie doing what he does...

[Bones McCoy]

William and Kate seem to be good at photo-opportunities but are not great at doing regular work.

For a given (rather unique) definition of the word "work", of course.

When you're a posho, work doesn't involve regular things like:
* Fixed hours.
* Timesheets.
* Productivity metrics.
* HR asking you to rate your 'impactfulness' based on five buzzwords they just invented.
* But mostly - doing anything that vaguely resembles work.

[Oboogie]

When you're a posho, work doesn't involve regular things like:
* Fixed hours.
* Timesheets.
* Productivity metrics.
* HR asking you to rate your 'impactfulness' based on five buzzwords they just invented.
* But mostly - doing anything that vaguely resembles work.

When you're a Royal "work" is any activity which doesn't involve eating and drinking too much, blowing the heads off the local fauna or fucking people you shouldn't.

[Andy McDandy]

I'm not linking to it because it's the fucking Spectator, but Andy Batts has a champion. Can you guess who?

Any takers?

Yeah, as you may have guessed, it's Brendan O'Forehead.

[Abernathy]

Just wondering whether Andrew Windsor has denied all wrong-doing. I haven’t heard whether he has or not for at least 3 hours. Does anyone know ?

[AOB]

Man arrested over intimidating behaviour near Andrew's home

A man has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and possessing an offensive weapon close to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's home in Norfolk.

[Youngian]

Just finished the Andrew Lownes book Entitled which chroncles four decades of greed, vanity, grifting and unarguable criminal activity by Andrew and his wife.
Lownes is a seasoned establishment respected biographer who is the antithesis of a tabloid muck raker so god knows what he left out that he couldn't double source.
A remarkable investigation and even the most devoted royal would be hard pressed to debate Lownes's conclusion that this couple should be banged up.

[davidjay]

Just finished the Andrew Lownes book Entitled which chroncles four decades of greed, vanity, grifting and unarguable criminal activity by Andrew and his wife.
Lownes is a seasoned establishment respected biographer who is the antithesis of a tabloid muck raker so god knows what he left out that he couldn't double source.
A remarkable investigation and even the most devoted royal would be hard pressed to debate Lownes's conclusion that this couple should be banged up.

Him definitely but what laws has she broken? I ask because I genuinely don't know.

[satnav]

I think the main focus of the police investigation are claims that he passed on market sensitive information when he was trade envoy. Apparently a lot of the details of his wrong doing were passed on to the palace 6 years ago but they did nothing about it.

I'm very sceptical about the police bringing charges because prosecuting a member of the royal family is probably a sure fire way of ensuring that you won't get a gong upon your retirement.

[Youngian]

Just finished the Andrew Lownes book Entitled which chroncles four decades of greed, vanity, grifting and unarguable criminal activity by Andrew and his wife.
Lownes is a seasoned establishment respected biographer who is the antithesis of a tabloid muck raker so god knows what he left out that he couldn't double source.
A remarkable investigation and even the most devoted royal would be hard pressed to debate Lownes's conclusion that this couple should be banged up.

Him definitely but what laws has she broken? I ask because I genuinely don't know.

Unless Sarah Ferguson wishes to sue Lownes than she's a fraudster who has been dipping into charity funds for years to spend on her extravagant lifestyle.

[Abernathy]

Unless Sarah Ferguson wishes to sue Lownes than she's a fraudster who has been dipping into charity funds for years to spend on her extravagant lifestyle.

AKA “Doing a Murrell”.

[Andy McDandy]

If we really want to go back to the start, she ripped off Arthur Baldwin's "Hector the Helicopter" books.

[Youngian]

Unless Sarah Ferguson wishes to sue Lownes than she's a fraudster who has been dipping into charity funds for years to spend on her extravagant lifestyle.

AKA “Doing a Murrell”.

Without trying to sound sympathetic there is something similarly needy and pathetic about the greedy antics of both these characters.

[satnav]

I'm not sure that many of the allegations against Fergie prove that she committed fraud but they certainly suggest that she claimed some outrageous sums of money for doing very little for very worthy charities. Which begs the question why did these charities keep indulging her? If she was an asset to these charities who attracted lots of rich donors to attend events you could understand why they met her demands, but Fergie has never been the kind of person who would pull in people with money and influence.

Hopefully the charities who did indulge Fergie have learned their lessons and changed how they operate so that this kind of stuff doesn't happen again in the future because if they haven't donations to these charities will quickly start to dry up.