Actually, I started feeling sorry for them - it makes a third strand of negative genes that we know about - there was a program the other night reviewing the porphyria and haemophilia inheritance. One of my colleagues who's been on a course about special needs said that the tutor had pointed out features of Charles that fit some syndrome or other. Another communication problem, I understand. They can't help being the product of all that inbreeding, and they have been avoiding that situation recently.
It did occur to me that being a royal family is quite a good condition for ASD sufferers. Rigid conformity and timetables, no disorder, everything done in the way that makes for the comfort of the sufferer. It could explain the insistence on peculiar and apparently irrational behaviours being imposed on the staff. If it wasn't them, they would have been identified some time back as having something wrong with them. And imagine being a more normal person, with instincts that lead you to want to do things spontaneously, creatively, to choose to do things without obsessive patterning of your day, trapped in that life?

Penny