As a matter of recorded history, monarchs and their offspring the world over have long been a very unsavoury lot. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is no exception.
As events unfold, the late Queen Elizabeth II's perceived saintliness is suffering a mortal blow and quite rightly so. We have never believed anything other than that she was highly typical of the breed and a cunning and conniving woman, just like her mother Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, better known in later years as the Queen Mother. That the late Queen Elizabeth chose to marry that appalling man, Prince Philip, and the closeness of the Royal Family to the ghastly Lord Mountbatten, tell us really all we want to know.
British newspaper proprietors and editors over the past 150 years are to blame for this dreadful state of affairs. Instead of investigating and publicising the outrageous conduct of the Royal Family over those years, and instead of taking a discerning and critical view of the whole Goddamn lot of them, those proprietors and their editors turned a blind eye to some dreadful misbehaviour and chose the fawning sycophants' way in anticipation of becoming associates of the royal tribe. Utterly shameful. No wonder no one can trust or believe a word written in the Press to this day and no wonder newspaper sales have dwindled to a trickle.
Both the Royal Family and the Press are reaping what they have sown over a great many years.
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