We are in danger of entering the same territory as the country plunged into 1997, when most of the nation took leave of its senses under herd instinct, when some nutty, self-indulgent, expensive ex-princess managed to wipe herself out in the company of the dilettante son of a rich, but dubious Egyptian, in a car piloted by someone who seems to have had more than a smell of the cork.
Still, on the basis of the family's longevity record in recent times, it will be some seventy years before we have a King æthelstan.
Now it is all done, can the media please stop.
ReplyDeleteWe are in danger of entering the same territory as the country plunged into 1997, when most of the nation took leave of its senses under herd instinct, when some nutty, self-indulgent, expensive ex-princess managed to wipe herself out in the company of the dilettante son of a rich, but dubious Egyptian, in a car piloted by someone who seems to have had more than a smell of the cork.
Still, on the basis of the family's longevity record in recent times, it will be some seventy years before we have a King æthelstan.