Adam Macqueen

And, of course, you know, there was always, as Flunky chronicled in The Pages of Private Eye, a big battle between Prince Charles, as he then was, and his kind of press operation, which was run very, very separately from the Buckingham Palace press operation.

And I don't think, I mean, I think there might be some helpful spin doctrine going on in the king, who really does seem to wash his hands entirely of his little brother and just kind of pushing things in the direction of...

Well, I mean, you did this in the eye quite recently in It's Not Sylvie Crinnism, where it's Dame Hedda Shoulders.

No, no, Dame Hedda Shoulders.

Much, much younger and more with it, novelist.

But, you know, the point that Charles actually probably has a few resentments from childhood, which are kind of coming out now in a kind of public forum.

Maybe Crumplings from the Perishers, which was a cartoon strip in the Daily Mirror back in the 60s.

I never had her down as a mirror reader.

Oh, she was a lifelong socialist.

She called Phil Andy Catt behind his back.

So no more driving a sheep over London Bridge.

What more can they take away from him?

Well, he specifically said that Mandelson and the king were quite good mates at one point in the sort of 90s.

But even his majesty spotted that after the first resignation, maybe this was a slightly dubious person to be hanging around with.

And the second kind of definitely made that concrete for him.

But there you go.

Once again, developed vetting.

Should have had a word.

Yep.

Yep.