that the Queen is 90. I don't want to see a hundred photographs of her with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. I so don't want to see a nauseating film show of pictures taken since she was a baby girl. I don't want to read letters that she wrote in her childish hand to Queen Mary – about whom I don't want to know anything either.
I am sure that she has done the bit – opened factories, christened ships and visited other countries. I am sure that she has been assiduous about her red government boxes but wonder if it would have made one jot of difference if she'd tossed them out the window, rather than reading their contents.
I am uninterested but also somewhat fed up with this archaic hereditary monarchy but do appreciate that the present queen has tried hard to do the right thing as she saw it. Unfortunately she is an old woman, shaped by another time, who has outlived her usefulness and left a bunch of unutterably pointless and incapable family members who still believe that somehow they are entitled to their privileged existence.
What was directly across the road from the school you went to?
