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‘DOES the Queen know? If not, is not telling her tantamount to treason? Will she have to off the heads of the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent?
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Sincerely, we hope not. It is dreadful to think of the blonde tresses of the good lady bouncing along the cobbles at the Bloody Tower to much popular cheering.
In any case, the Queens powers are limited, and these days shes not even allowed to tune into Kirstys Home Videos without first putting her request in a formal letter to Parliament.
Surely, though, she can kick the couple out of the seven-bedroom apartment in Kensington Palace she pays the £120,000-a-year rent on?
We cant be sure, but if the Queen is anything like us, she will be angered by the story in Hello! magazine. We thought the Kents had nowhere else to lay their crowns and were in dire need of charity, but it turns out they own a pile in the country.
We are struck dumb by the couples brazenness in employing Hello! like some upmarket property firm to help flog this other home, a 20acre estate in Bisley, Gloucestershire, for a fee of around £10million.
Marvel at the estates late-17th century grandeur, the magnificent William and Mary staircase and how most of the main rooms are wainscoted in no-expense-spared oak, beach and chestnut.
For good measure, its even got a name. Its not called Dunfreeloadin or Stulag von Reibnitz, but Nether Lypiatt.
What the words mean, we cannot say – but it could spell the end of the Kents…’
Posted: 30th, March 2005 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
