newsMonarchy after Andrew: Royal ‘watchdogs’ bark – but do any of them know how to snarl and bite?
Andrew, born with a golden spoon in his cot which, as an adult, he found hard to keep in his pocket seen here with his shopaholic ex-wife, ‘Fergie’ Ferguson.
Four weeks after Andrew lost his titles, one of the king’s best friends will this week present a three-part TV documentary explaining how the Monarchy works and why it remains in its central position in Britain.
TREVOR GRUNDY reports –
The three- part documentary presented by David Dimbleby starts on Tuesday (December 2) at 9 pm on BBC One.
- Part-one is about what real power the king and his wife have and how they use it.
- Part two will ask how rich are the ryals and where the staggering sums of money come from.
- Part three is about what the royals must do to change their worsening by the day image as unelected, spendthrifts living lives of luxury that most people can only dream about.
Dream on if you really want to live in a house in the country with 120 rooms.
Royals can’t have it all – just most of it.
The writer and presenter of the series is one of Charles’ s best friends.
“Dimbleby engages in royally lively debate” says a pre-programme BBC blurb.
He covered Diana’s funeral in 1997 and Queen Elizabeth’s in 2022.
As far as the Royal Family is concerned, David Dimblebey has never put a foot out of place.
King Charles with some of his many friends in the Middle East
The documentary comes soon after the release of polls which show how public support for the Royal Family dipped after the latest news about Andrew emerged.
The dip was especially strong in Wales and Scotland.
In a pre-release interview with the BBC, Dimbleby spoke of the wonderful interviews he had with senior members of the Buckingham Palace hierarchy and private secretaries to the late Queen Elizabeth.
He said how open they were and how they admitted they now and again got things “ a bit wrong” – for example how they totally alienated the British people after the death of Diana in Paris,
One of the Buck Pal hierarchy told him that yes, how out of touch with ordinary people in 1997.
“Our Kate ” says hello to admiring fans during a royal tour of the Caribbean
”We were all a bit behind the curve,“ said some un-named court lackey.
When it comes to royal grovellers, there’s no shortage.
But when it comes to asking for money – more and more as the years roll by – the monarchy appears to be well ahead of the curve.
Dimbleby promises that the astronomical wealth of the royals (and where it comes from) will be under the microscope.
All of it?
Republicans will be watching and taking notes.
Time and time again, Buck Pal’s PR machine tells us that the amount the average taxpayer chucks into the royal trough every year is the same as the cost of a bag of crisps.
Try selling that one to people bored with hymns of praise about greedy royals and who love crisps.