So Sarah Ferguson was taking money from rich businessmen who wanted to meet Prince Andrew?
So what?
Good on you, girl!
The British Sunday papers are full of words like ugly and desperate. Pathetic. Grubby. Shoddy. Lynne Featherstone, equality minister, finds the whole thing upsetting.
You have to admire the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Here's Prince Andrew, the descendant of a family of robbers who gained their vast wealth by terrorising all of Europe for a thousand years and who presided over tyrannies well into the twentieth century. He himself, like his father and grandfather before him, is maintained in luxury by the British taxpayer and accorded a huge degree of public respect based solely on the circumstances of his birth.
Thanks to those circumstances, he's fourth in line to the thrones of sixteen separate countries. Like the rest of his family, he has never worked a day in his life. He has never known hardship. He has never gone short of anything and never will. He has never had a single minute's worry about money and never will, thanks to the generosity of a British government that guarantees all these blessings solely because of his birth.
He currently has a job as a trade representative, also due entirely to the circumstances of his birth, and this job involves travelling around meeting other pampered, privileged people, unelected royalty like himself and fawning politicians who wish they were as unaccountable as he and his family are.
Andrew's job is to help carve up the world's resources among the ultra-wealthy, and yet they're calling Sarah Ferguson grubby? Just because she asks for a few shillings to introduce these billionaires to a man who gets it all for nothing.
I am constantly amazed at your ability to get straight top the nub of matters and with unerring accuracy; putting before us facts not generally known. Probably why I log in here every day.
I wish more people would learn to think like you do; I don't exclude me in that either.
Serves him right for marrying one of the staffs kids, filthy peasants.
Wasn't she also letting the rich business men suck on her toes.. dirrty dirrty ginger minger. Some how I don't see Andy doing that to her.
It's all cause of her red hair.. they just don't like um over there at all for some reason.
Should have stayed with Koo Stark, the silly boy.
Ah now. Im reliably informed they've both done wonders for the developing world. Colombia in particular.
"Ah now. Im reliably informed they’ve both done wonders for the developing world. Colombia in particular."
I'd make a joke about cocaine, but I don't want to end up in a London Libel court.
You wouldn't. I would.
That's why your following comment didn't appear.