Had she no presidential palace, Paddy, with its attendant staff &c? Who paid when she had to pay diplomatic or state visits, or receive other heads of state doing so? I have no doubt that she did so with the utmost dignity; but not with nothing but a cup of tea and a custard cream in a 12'square sitting-room, putting on the kettle and laying out the bikkies herself, I'll be bound. I think you are being a bit disingenuous.

And what exactly is a 'royalist by default', and how do you make me out to be one such?

~M~