I suppose there are those who think if the monarchy were abolished, the duchies would be parcelled up and everyone in the country would get a personal plot of land in cornwall or somewhere? Some hopes!

I'll stick to paying my 67p a year. She is good entertainment, after all, and that's less than you'd give to a busker (provided they weren't amplified).

Anyone know what Cameron, and cronies (or any previous bunch of rogues) cost us a year? Just what's on the books, not counting the cost of the increase in stress due to punitive uncaring legislation and reduction of services that we've paid for?

My only wish is that she'd send at least one bill a year back to the house, refusing to sign it till it made sense. But she'd break the mould doing that. And maybe, so the books say, provoke a constitutional crisis, whatever that is.

Incidentally - and this was my first thought when MIL put the telly on - did you notice they've pinched all the tunes that we play in the pub?