Charles Moore observed one Labour MP who crossed his fingers behind his back while taking the oath in an effort to avoid swearing allegiance to King Charles at Monday’s Westminster Hall ceremony where parliamentarians swore allegiance to the new King.
Both the late Labour MP Tony Banks and SNP MP Steven Bonnar avoided swearing allegiance to the Queen in 1997 and 2019, respectively.
Lord Moore rages, “By doing so, he was not expressing legitimate (if misguided) Republican sentiments: he was cheating,” accusing the most recent offender of thinking his gesture was “funny.” Which Charles is the anti-Royalist?
The growing movement to have a statue of the Queen erected in Parliament Square or Trafalgar Square might make Prince Philip chuckle.
He consented to have a statue of himself, adjacent to the Queen, made for the west front of Canterbury Cathedral in 2015. He remarked on his likeness to Boris Karloff when it was first revealed, adding, “I’m sure the pigeons will adore it.”
Kitty, the late actor Simon Ward’s daughter, lets her husband finish her breakfast.
He points to his stomach and adds, “I eat all of her potatoes and her gnocchi.”
Her crust is this. She should have 20 years’ worth of crust on her flat stomach. Her gnocchi boobs are these. Why is Macca’s humour lacking on stage?
The Queen’s love of driving never faded. At Balmoral in 1998, she famously frightened King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia when she grabbed the wheel.
According to former Foreign Office official Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, “Abdullah’s uneasiness only rose as the Queen, an army driver in times of war, sped the Land Rover down the winding Scottish estate roads, chatting all the while.”
The [then] crown prince pleaded with the Queen to slow down and pay attention to the road ahead through his translator.
Was HM implying that women weren’t permitted to drive in the desert kingdom in a subtle way?
Julian Payne regularly shot off rumours that HRH travelled the globe using a toilet seat Princess Anne gave to him while serving as Prince Charles’ communications advisor.
He then addresses the rumoured fussiness of the new King with eggs, opining, “Despite rumours that the King is offered a line of eggs to choose from every morning, I never saw a single cooked egg at breakfast in all the years I worked there.”
The story, which included the eggs that were waiting for Charles when he got back from hunting, was originally told in Catherine Mayer’s biography of Charles. Not at all related to breakfast.
King Charles is reminded by Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney of his promise to visit each of Ireland’s 32 counties.
I’m a little surprised to see that we’ve already visited 15 counties, he remarked.
“I am pretty adamant that I should do the remaining 17 before I drop dead and ultimately lose my marbles.”
How will he find the time to keep his commitment now that he is king?