Basic rule for the Royal Family: DO NOT MARRY AMERICAN DIVORCEES.

[Burney]

Exactly! They have that du Maurier feel about them, but also echoes of wossname, Camomile Lawn.

I listened to a Georgette Heyer on a road trip a couple of years ago. It was a rollicking good yarn! No bodices got ripped, sadly.

Is she slipping hormones into your tea? Have you started growing breasts?

[Sir C]

Is she slipping hormones into your tea? Have you started growing breasts?

What can I say? I have eclectic tastes.

I'm listening to the latest Le Carré. The man is now a tiresomely leftist bore.

[Burney]

What can I say? I have eclectic tastes.

I'm listening to the latest Le Carré. The man is now a tiresomely leftist bore.

Is this the one where he starts banging on about how terrible Brexit is via his fictional proxy? Fúck that. I must admit I read a precis of it and binned any thought of getting it.

[Sir C]

Is this the one where he starts banging on about how terrible Brexit is via his fictional proxy? Fúck that. I must admit I read a precis of it and binned any thought of getting it.

Oh yes, there's Brexit and there's Trump.

Daft old bugger. George would have told him to man up and get on with it.

[Burney]

Oh yes, there's Brexit and there's Trump.

Daft old bugger. George would have told him to man up and get on with it.

Do these people ever stop to consider just how drearily conservative these maunderings are? In essence, they are no different to previous generations bemoaning unwelcome societal change in everything from votes for women to the end of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality. Things change - deal with it.