Charles in Cloud Cuckoo Land again

[Elizabeth I]

Do you think if you could somehow trick Charles into becoming a Catholic we'd get a better king when the Queen dies?

Yeah, because Ferdinand and Isabella ("más católicos que el Papa mismo") were such sweethearts. : - P

 

[Thing]

No, he's no great shakes intellectually but he makes up for it with noise level. I'd love to know if he's read a science book in his life.

Steady on, hoss. That there's a FRS you're talking 'bout.

 

[CapelDodger]

I don't know if anyone remembers the UK puppet show `Spitting Image', but there was a marvellous sketch of the Queen singing a spoof of Gloria Gaynor's `I will survive'. My favourite line is:

"As long as Charles is next in line I have to stay alive - I will survive."

Truly must-see TV in its heyday.

Wanna know what the Welsh think of their Prince? Not a lot, that's what. They loved Diana, though, and she loved the Welsh. They had a shared experience.

 

[Thing]

Good piece by Nick Cohen in todays Absurder/comment-is-twee:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/17/monarchy.gmcrops

Last week, he surpassed the Bourbons. Marie Antoinette never said: 'Let them eat cake' to the poor of her day, but Prince Charles was adamant that today's poor should eat organic. Despite all I have read by him over the years, it was still a shock to listen to the recording of the interview he gave the Daily Telegraph. This raging man, who searched for apocalyptic predictions of catastrophe, was not a street preacher at Hyde Park Corner, but our next head of state.

 

[Aitch]

Looks like someone is calling him on it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7566012.stm

"If it has been a disaster then please provide the evidence"