So Her Majesty will no longer be laying a wreath at the Cenotaph due to age and

[Burney]

It's the begiining of the end, b. You know what's coming, don't you? His Royal Lunatic Highness the Prince of Making This Country A Republic Inside Ten Years.

I do find the prospect of her going quite horrid, I must admit. I'm more sanguine about Charles than most, though. Not because I think he isn't a bit of a div, but because I think the system will hem him in sufficiently and - if it doesn't - he can if necessary be quietly moved on.

It's going to take a long time to get used to the idea of 'God Save The King', though.

[Sir C]

I do find the prospect of her going quite horrid, I must admit. I'm more sanguine about Charles than most, though. Not because I think he isn't a bit of a div, but because I think the system will hem him in sufficiently and - if it doesn't - he can if necessary be quietly moved on.

It's going to take a long time to get used to the idea of 'God Save The King', though.

I fear that he's worse than 'a bit of a div' and might well become a vocal, proselytising loony for any number of nonsensical causes.

'God Save The King' sounds pleasingly martial to me. I think I'll rather like it.

[Burney]

I fear that he's worse than 'a bit of a div' and might well become a vocal, proselytising loony for any number of nonsensical causes.

'God Save The King' sounds pleasingly martial to me. I think I'll rather like it.

I don't know. I think he's been pretty successfully inculcated with the duties, responsibilities and limitations of being a constitutional monarch over a lifetime. I suspect he'll be less vocal than people think.