No doubt you have heard, Charlie and his lovely wife, Camilla, are en route to Toronto. It is all part of celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. Yes, she has reigned over us for the past 60 years and she has often graced us with her presence on our soil.
Too bad we got our dose of the Bill and Kate honeymoon show last year. Somehow, Charlie and Camilla do not have the same panache. She is too dowdy by half. And he comes across as a reject from a City of London accounting firm. He does look so at home with a bowler and a brolly!
But this is not to be churlish about it. The Brit royals have a perfect right to travel and tour as they can afford it. They just have the added convenience of having tour guides wherever they go and are most unlikely to get lost or mugged during their travels. And like most Brit tourists, they do like to do it on the cheap. Getting their hosts to pay for everything is a time-honoured tradition.
The monarchists will try to tell you that it costs us nothing to use a Brit royal as our Head of State but not when they or their spawn are visiting. Their cavalcades can certainly screw up our traffic. Mind you, if we let them drive on the wrong side of the road, we would have more than a few traffic jams to worry about.
We hear that Charlie and Camilla will be visiting the Distillery District while in Toronto. Wait until Charlie finds out that all that they have on tap is a home made beer. Even back when Gooderham and Worts was in production there, the company produced Canadian Rye, not that nectar of the Scottish Highlands that Charlie prefers.
Some wit has decided that it would be great fun to have Charlie and Camilla do part of their Toronto tour on a Toronto Transit Commission bus. Hopefully, it will be cleaned before Camilla parks her behind in it. Come to think of it, that is how many of us learned in our youth to find our way around the city. Maybe, soon, the royals can strike out on their own. Just give them some transit tickets.
Every time we get into one our diatribes about the stupidity of having a foreign Head of State for Canada, we always have to make the point that, as royals go, the Brit royals seem like nice people. No doubt, it must be convenient to be born into a life of privilege. There might be a bit of jealousy involved.
But they have to get out of the way of progress.Canada needs a constitutional congress to fix what is wrong with our system of government. The Brit royals are unlikely to make the cut. Pity!
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