THE RECENT "VISIT" OF PRINCE CHARLES and his concubine Camilla to the London Underground Metropolitan Railway only confirms how out of touch these people are. Charles had no idea what an "Oyster" was as he slipped it into the slot allowing him to go down into the underground. Many people throughout the shires will also not be familiar with the term, but in London it means "your bus and metro pass."
IT APPEARS FROM THE FOOTAGE taken by our good media representatives that our king-in-waiting was not too sure of what to do with his oyster when he went down. One wonders whether people more intelligent than I might wish to come up with jokes about this last sentence. Far be it from me to do so.
OF COURSE, IN MANY COUNTRIES one would be happy to see a constitutional monarchy showing its benign and benevolent side towards the "common folk" as Camilla once described us. But it might have been nicer if she had shown up as a full-time paid-up concubine with her full-time paid-up husband to have a drink in one of the most run-down pubs in Toxteth in Liverpool. Or even if Charles could have had more than a sip of his half-pint of Guinness when he had the chance.
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