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So. Prince Charles, then.

WARNING: If you’re waiting to see this story in the British media, and you don’t want to know the score, please look away now… (and if you do want to know the score, you can find it here).

So, as I’m sure everybody knows by now, even if they don’t get Popbitch, a “senior Royal” might have been caught in a compromising (homo)sexual situation with a close aide. Allegedly. Or he might not. Well, so what if he was? I’m not sure I can really work out what the fuss is about, to be honest. The last time I checked it was the 21st century, where homosexuality isn’t actually illegal, and I’m fairly sure that most people (at least outside the Church of England) think that what consenting adults get up to in the privacy of their own palace is a matter for them alone. That said, if one of those consenting adults happened to be next-in-line to be head of the Church of England, that might potentially cause a problem for these people (link is to the “Newsday” website story purely for the childish amusement value of the headline: “Split Widens Over Gay Bishop”. Sorry.) However, the question remains whether the rest of us could really care less if the allegation turned out to be true.

An allegation of homosexuality, valid or otherwise, shouldn’t necessarily “destroy the monarchy” ((c) The Daily Mail) any more than infidelity and divorce have done–fodder for the tabloids, yes, but accepting that the monarchy are human beings, rather than God’s representatives bestowed with the divine right of Kings, as I think most of us did several hundred years ago, what, ultimately, is the problem?

Perhaps something that would be a problem, if it were true, would be if the Royal Family could be proven to have perverted the course of justice to prevent their secrets from coming out (if you’ll pardon the pun)? If “a(nother) senior royal” were to remember suddenly a conversation about “dark forces” and the safe-keeping of possessions that was enough to end a court case, it might, perhaps, highlight the absurdity of the Royal Family being, to all intents and purposes, above the law (and in a position to manipulate that law to achieve their own objectives).

I tell you what, though, the Queen’s speech this year should make for interesting viewing. Although I think I might choke on my turkey if she mentions an annus horribilis.

In other news, I did rather enjoy the LNR’s caption competition.

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  1. I’ve just been briefly checking the stats for the website and I noticed an odd spike in the hits for Rob and Julian’s Royal Correspondent piece. Then I looked at the search strings and found things like: “prince+charles+incident+revealed”, and “prince+charles+arse”. Clearly someone is interested in this after all…

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