Month: February 2005
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Liz Windsor To Command Prayers For Charlie’s Wife
Britain’s hereditary head of state, Liz Windsor, intends to issue a royal warrant instructing members of the Church of England to say weekly prayers for her son’s new wife after they marry in April. Prayers are already said for Windsor, her husband and son. The Church of England, (aka the Anglican Church) is the state…
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Charlie Boosts Australian Republic Support
Ten per cent more of Australians would want their country to become a republic if Charlie Windsor, son of British hereditary head of state Liz Windsor, became “king” on the death of his mother according to a Roy Morgan International opinion poll. Fifty-one per cent of those polled supported a republic at present. However, sixty-one…
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BBC Gets Green Light On Extortion
The Financial Times has reported that the BBC is “relieved” that the government has decided to extend for another ten years its licence to extort billions of pounds from TV viewers. The newspaper reported that a green paper to be published soon will recommend that the state media giant should be able to continue to…
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Labour Government Protects Class System
Britain’s official class system should be left largely as it is, the labour party government has decided. It has rejected a recommendation by MPs that knighthoods and Orders of the British Empire (OBEs) be abolished. Instead the committees that recommend who should get such awards will be open to members of the public in the…
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Windsors Accused of Fiddling
The National Audit Office and Parliament’s public accounts committee have asked the Windsor family to make public the financial records of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall. The property and investments managed by the duchies provide hereditary head of state Liz Windsor and her son Charles with total incomes of £20m a…
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Windsor Waste Continues
The National Audit Office has reported that Andrew Windsor, who is third in line to be Britain’s hereditary head of state, spent £2939 of taxpayers’ money flying from London to Oxford for lunch by helicopter instead of taking a train at a cost of under £100. Another time he chose to spend £4645 of other…
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Windsor Cancels Ireland Visit
Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state and head of the Church of England, has called of a visit to Ireland after Irish president Mary McAleese claimed that Protestant children in Northern Ireland had in the past been taught to hate Catholics. According to the Daily Mirror Ms. Windsor considered president McAlesse’s comparison of Protestant…