When the Queen demands an answer, she gets one swiftly, judging by how urgently the royals worked to solve the crisis over the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Buckingham Palace’s unprecedented statements reveal she’s very much still in charge while giving us a hint of her hurt at a grandson and his new wife relocating to North America.
By agreeing the couple can keep their royal titles, although they must not use them, the monarch has been very skilful.
She has left open the door to a return should life not work out quite the way Harry and Meghan hope in Canada and the USA.
Isolated from most of his friends, Harry in particular may discover the change isn’t as wonderful as he imagines.
Important questions remain unresolved, such as which commercial deals are acceptable and the use of the “Sussex Royal” brand.
There is also the potential cost to British taxpayers of security for a couple making a conscious decision to leave our country.
But people will still wish them well. Only time will tell if this is a permanent goodbye.
HS2 has 2 work
HIGH-SPEED HS2 is key to Britain’s future prosperity as it will reduce journey times and provide badly needed extra trains to connect the country.
Cancelling or curtailing the line would waste billions of pounds already spent and hurt the Midlands and the North.
These regions desperately require better public transport links to share the prosperity of London and the South East.
Other railway routes badly need investment, but this is no excuse to derail HS2.
Celebrate Zigi
Holocaust survivors are living proof hope can triumph over hate.
No one proves this better than London great-grandfather Zigi Shipper, enjoying a 90th birthday the Nazis denied to so many.
We celebrate Zigi’s landmark so that the evils he defied never return to our continent.
