Royal Gaffe 'no news' shock
Submitted by stuffedpossum on Wed, 28/10/2009 - 10:10
Another 'royal gaffe' by Prince Philip is whizzing its way around the world, to the usual shocked indignation by gloating anti-monarchy groups.
The Consort apparently said, at a dinner attended by many British Indians, "There's a lot of your family in tonight" to a chap named Patel. Patel is of course a very common family name.
Mr Patel said he was not offended by the comment. So surely there is no story whatsoever? Just a chance on a slow news day to rake up all the genuine gaffes over the years - some admittedly embarrassing, some simply too honest.
Yet the halfwits at Republic anti-monarchy action group say "He is out of touch." WELL HELLO - he's 88! I hope I'm in as good humour and fine fettle as he is when I'm nearing 90.
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It makes me laugh, the dunces
It makes me laugh, the dunces who spend so much time and effort being anti-monarchy saying 'it's irrelevant' - well if the monarchy is irrelevant what are you getting so excited about?
One sees increasingly ill-thought out arguments. For instance, recently a Mike Rodwell wrote a letter to the Dom Post (which gives a lot of column inches to republicans, for whatever reason) complaining about an inane comment by a British Politician, and relates that to the British flag and presumably the Head of State, and suggest kicking them out. But a British Politician has no relevance to NZ (except that NZ politicians tend to unfortunately ape British politicians in both policy and behaviour) and it certainly has no relevance to NZ's relationship with the Queen.
I fell an anthem coming on...