Although he is perhaps a bit hard on the Queen, Peter Hitchens writes: Prince Charles will be right to speak out once he becomes King. It is true that by doing so he will risk the future of the Crown. But, if he fails to rock the Royal boat, the Monarchy will in any case be finished soon. The present Queen is undoubtedly very nice. But she has badly damaged the throne by failing to speak out when ...

I wondered this morning when I read about Prince Charles giving what was a clearly political speech in Brussels how he could balance the non-political protocols of the Royal Family with the desire to speak out on the defunct global warming platform. Today Cranmer gives us the answer. It is not the answer I wanted to hear but unfortunately the one which I had expected. Our Queen is no longer our Qu...

Happy Birthday to the Queen. I had no idea it was her birthday until someone mentioned it to me just now and I still don't even know if it is her real birthday or the other one. Either way, I reckon the Queen could hold the keys to economic recovery. She should stand down as the monarch. For one, she has been there way too long and Prince Charles seems to be going a little crazy without being...

In a post on Prince Charles saying he will be 'Defender of the Faith', Cranmer speculates that Prince Charles, when he becomes King, will be known as King George VII. It's not the first time I have heard that said. How patently ridiculous. He should be King Charles III and that should be the end of it. I was never quite sure why the Queen's father became George VI when his real...

It had to happen. When President Obama and wife Michelle met the Queen at Buckingham Palace, a Prince Philip gaffe was inevitable. In the small talk when they first met, the Queen and the Prince were sympathising with the President and his wife about their gruelling schedule since arriving late on Tuesday evening. "The time lag," said the Queen, ever the diplomat. "You're just trying to stay ...

A spokesman for the French President said: 'the Queen had been 'naturally welcome all along'. He claimed it was up to the British to say who they wanted to attend the various events, adding: 'It is not for France to designate British representation.' (Daily Mail). Brown arranged an invitation for himself but made no arrangements for the Queen, the Commander in Chief of the United Kingdom's armed f...

At the weekend The Independent ran a piece very critical of the Liberal Democrats in government: The Royal Family is to be granted absolute protection from public scrutiny in a controversial legal reform designed to draw a veil of secrecy over the affairs of the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William. Letters, emails and documents

Which of the two Stamford Schools was visited this afternoon by Prince Charles...? Was it the all-comers state school, the Queen Eleanor - essentially a struggling secondary modern...? Or was it the fee-paying Stamford Endowed Schools which despite being a private school is propped up by me and every other council taxpayer in Lincolnshire...? Answers on a postage stamp please. Footnote: Every stat...

The prince and the pauper Why is it that the "great and the (not so) good" openly criticise rule breakers and yet feel that they themselves are not only above the rules but also beyond criticism? Details of Gordon Brown’s recent weekly meeting with the Queen have been leaked. The Queen has told Gordon Brown she is worried that the scandalous revelations about MPs' expenses could damage Parliamen...

The Daily Mail today screams: "MPs want to ditch oath to the Queen", quoting arch conservative Norman Tebbit as saying, in typically hyperbolic fashion: "This seems to be an attack on the state itself". But it would be a great development for the health of our democracy.