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The Devious Divas - 9 April

Dear Lulu,

Well, the devious divas are about to wed, but not after The Grand National had to change its starting time and we, the tax paying public saw at least £2,000,000 slip from our tightly-held grasp for extra security.

A wedding of need and greed rather than the projected great love match of the western world. I don’t know about you and the coverage there, but with all the opportunities, Charles hasn’t once professed his undying love or looked anything other than abjectly miserable.

Could it have something to do with Pre-Queen Camilla having had him sign over part of his fortune to her children, installed her father in Clarence House and is taking her family on the honeymoon? Now, how could you not be ever so slightly suspicious, even as a tolerant Brit?

Artist Alison Jackson, using photography and video, creates these brilliant, totally irreverent, rude and witty scenes of royal look-alikes, often featuring C & C. She thinks that Camilla enjoys her triangular relationships (does this include the one with the Queen?) that she is a manipulator that she is not at all the jolly, guileless horsewoman marrying her true love that we are being asked to accept. ’Just look at the way she chose Diana for Charles and then befriended her…’ and we add the obvious – betrayed her rather royally. Even all that acknowledgement of their misdoings and their repentance for their manifold sins and wickedness in accordance with the 1662 Book of Common Prayer ploy can’t alter the cruel reality.

A few facts as reported: not one celebratory event is planned in Windsor, the Queen had refused fireworks, champagne – only a few canapés and all out by 6:00, so far the BBC hasn’t found one inhabitant of Cornwall willing to show any recognisable display of enthusiasm for the new Duchess of Cornwall (aka the Princess of Wales, really) - in fact, they have been either dismissive or rigorously hostile. Hmmm. I don’t think she will be making it her first post-wedding stop, do you?

TTFN, Maggie

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