I have never read "Hello" magazine. Reading the diatribe above, I don't need to.

I wonder if Prince Charles and his equerry muse on how Bill Kennedy looks awfully like the milkman, or if he bears an uncanny resemblance to that bloke who used to hang around school gates?

I am not exactly a Monarchist, and whilst I have been pleased to have had the opportunity to meet a few of them through different roles, I accept that it is better to have a head of state that has it and lumps it rather than someone who seeks the status... That we can retain a tradition, however tenuous, is a nice icing on the cake. Like anybody else, I have no idea of the cost versus what they bring in, but one will balance the other to a degree.

The hurtful aspects of living in a goldfish bowl must be bad enough, but to have intelligent people wish you ill and say things in the public domain with no foundation and no regard for feelings, I just think the poor buggers deserve better.