So on and on it will all be true. >> Greetings from Castle Goring, from Mickey Aurora and from me. Without further ado, I am going to plunge in with what Joan Bonnet or Bonet, don't know which one it is, says, "Lady C just saw the wonderful news about Thomas Mar Senior's new love. If he gets married, will Megan attend the wedding, invited or uninvited? You're very funny. It's always wonderful when people find someone whom they love and who loves them, isn't it? It's always wonderful. I gather that it is sincere love. Thomas Markle is actually a very loving and a very lovable man. Also, he is in a country where human relations are in some ways more straightforward, I'm choosing my words carefully, than on the North American continent. I don't want to say too much at this juncture because you know speculation in the early days is not necessarily fruitful but it's wonderful. Caroline Graham broke the story and Samantha has been in touch with well she's been in touch and done a through Dan Wooten who did uh a very lovely piece on her feelings about the whole thing and of course she and I are in touch as well. She's actually not been well if the truth be known. She's had a bad case of flu, which as we all know can be a real killer. But I don't want to repeat what Dan said. If you want to know what Dan said, go and look at on Dan Wooten outspoken to see what he said and what she said. But basically to summarize, everybody's happy except Mexi baby. Mickey, can you believe it? Mexie baby is missy. She's absolutely missy. She thinks she's going to get a stepmother of her own age. Poor Mexie baby. Oh, it's all about messy baby. And isn't it terrible? So you ask the question, will Megan attend the wedding, invited or uninvited? Well, I think it would take a miracle for Megan to be invited. And even she wouldn't have the brass neck to appear uninvited. and she wouldn't want to go uninvited in any event and she wouldn't want to go invited either. So I think it's a nobrainer. So I hope that answers the question. I'm very pleased for Thomas Markle Senior. You know, a lot of people in that part of the world are very loving. And also, not only does Thomas Martin have many personal qualities that appeal to less cynical and less sophisticated people than he might hither to have come across on the American continent. I'm trying to be diplomatic about this, but they are genuinely very loving and I have no reason to disbelieve that it is a genuine human connection. And of course from Rio's point of view, that's the name of the young woman in question. Well, not so young anymore, but to me young. Uh I don't because I don't want to emphasize the age difference too much. But there's absolutely no reason why she would not find Thomas Markle lovable. And the age gap wouldn't matter that much to the reals of this world who go more by the heart and the practicalities. You know, this is the real situation. She's a nurse. He's an older man who's ill. They have a click. they develop a relationship. There's no reason to for anybody to think it's not true. I think Thomas Marl deserves to be happy. And if he gets happiness with this lady in question, I think great. I'm very happy for both of them. And In many ways it's a clean slate and in many other ways he would be prestigious in her eyes which is really nice for him because he is deserving of respect and I will leave it at that and go on to what Val man's templeman says. Greetings lady C. Prince Phillip died on the 9th of April 2021, one day before my husband of 52 years passed away. So many other people also said that thank you very much for that Val man's templeman. I was quite frankly so had so much going on and I did the math and of course I was only out by a year but if I'd stopped to think of course it was after the well after the Oprah interview and so that had to be 2021 not 2020. But I've also always said math is not my strong point. Sorry. But thank you all of you for pointing out my error and omission. Uh because when I did the math, I knew he died at 99 and I actually knew he died shortly before his 100th birthday. So rarely. It was very sloppy of me and I confess sloppy and rarely silly. But I hope that you agree with my attitude which was it was basically sufficiently trivial that because I just did the math and got it wrong. Naughty me. Mickey, are you going to discipline Motty? Mickey says she'll give me love later. Marsha Bass says, "I love that William called Harry's bluff and said, "Yes, bring the kids. All the royals will be there to meet them." Imagine Harry and Megan having to face all the people they lied about and all those they haven't yet lied about because let's remember there have been significant omissions that well I suppose now that amid scabies has been marled there might be a vacancy in the ministry of propaganda but yes William called his bluff. I mean, nobody really seriously believes that Harry and Megan were going to show up with those two children and that Harry and Megan were going to be able to corner his father and make a mince meat of him. Aside from the fact that well I went through it the other day so I don't think I really need to go through it again but the fact of the matter is Harry will not have expected to receive a positive outcome. Let me put it that way. And therefore it's yet another kite to fly for yet more column inches on a Monday or a Tuesday and by the Thursday or the Friday the caravan has moved on to something else. People are starting to make the point that it's all so predictable and it's all so tsome and it's all so boring. And so William called his bluff. There was no way that the situation as presented by Harry was ever going to materialize. I think I made that quite clear. So I don't think I need to belabor the point further. Do you? Beverly Rich says, "Lady C, I am American, so forgive me if I don't get everything right. I seem to remember that Diana was afraid the crown would keep her children." Could you explain that? I seem to remember the crown has ownership of children in the line of succession. Therefore, if that is the case, could Charles and or Harry get the children to England and use that to keep them with Harry in England? Thank you and take care, Beverly Rich. First of all, uh the word ownership is not particularly appropriate in this circumstance because nobody owns chattles with spirits and souls anymore. That's surfdom and slavery. You are actually referring to George II declaring that the elder children of I think it was the three eldest children I should say because there were two lots of children that Frederick, Prince of Wales and his wife had and they had the three elder children if I remember correctly were effectively seized by George II who absolutely loathed his son and his son loathed him and he actually booted him out literally and they had to rent a house in London and he seized the three eldest children and the parents were not allowed to have anything to do with the children except with the king's permission and there were long periods when neither the prince nor princess of Wales actually had any real interaction with the children. They weren't allowed to do anything about their education. They didn't live with the parents. They etc etc etc. George II claimed that as monarch he had the right to determine the fate of the heirs to the throne and the three children were the three immediate heirs after their father. that was the basis upon the but it's it was a declaration. There's never been a law passed by parliament. It's not on any statute book. It's just a declaration made by King George II. Even if such a declaration had any validity in the United Kingdom because Harry and Megan's matrimonial home is in Monteito, California, English law would not apply under the HEG convention to which both the United Kingdom and the United States are signitaries and the HEG convention deals with rarely where children should be brought up in the event of a divorce etc. And one of the cornerstones of the H convention is that the matrimonial home becomes the jurist at the time of a separation or divorce. That is Monteito. So, California law, California state law, and United States federal law, and United States treaties within the international community, namely the HEG convention, would necessarily trump any claim that the monarch had, even if it for English law, which it is not. So, of course, if Harry and Megan establish residency over here and they then break up, then English law kicks in. and if she took the children to the United States of America, they could be returned to England as a result of the Hague Convention. So, I hope that answers the question. Joe A says, "Harry is treating the king, his father, as he did his grandfather and grandmother, praying on the old and ill and vulnerable. Despicable behavior. Yes, I actually do not think that Harry is the instigator or creator of these game plans. Not only do I think Megan is, but I understand from people in the know who know her and him well that she is the brains behind the whole operation. And as we all know, Harry doesn't have any brains. Well, I take that back. He definitely has one brain cell. It's quite a large brain cell. I think it's when I think when it's unfurled, I think it's quite impressive. So, I'm told. Uh, but he doesn't really have the brains. Megan also, as she has shown in her treatment of her father, is cold, callous, and cruel. She has absolute ice in her veins. She doesn't have blood. She has ice. Harry by going along with it. And Harry by playing these games, you could say, is praying on his gr his father the way he did on his grandfather and grandmother. I think they didn't care about Prince Phillip or the queen. I think they cared only about the money they could make. Harry and Megan are in desperate financial straits, desperate reputational straits, desperate lifestyle straits. Nothing that they have tried recently has worked. The only things that actually worked and they worked only initially were the JP Morgan speech better up which he even managed to get the palace to be involved with. Uh then there was the Oprah interview which did I understand benefit them financially to the tune of if I'm not mistaken it was $10 million. So it said when you're dealing with Harry and Megan you have to be really careful what you accept as fact. But the story was spread that they did Oprah for nothing and that it was not a financial deal. Shall we have Mr. Piggy flying? Oh no. Mr. Piggles says he's very put out that he's not flying. He's going to fly, Mr. Bigles. Sorry, silly me. They don't care that Charles is ill and vulnerable. They only care that this will get everybody talking. This will get column inches. This will get attention. They will be able to do whatever they want. Uh and they always do whatever they want. And tomorrow it's a different story. But they would rarely love to be able to have those photo ops with Charles. Remember, they tried to have the photo ops with the late Queen and didn't. So, they would like photo ops with Charles. Do you seriously think that Charles is so naive that he doesn't see what is going on and that he doesn't understand? that happy families would be played while Megan was playing everybody else financially and that it was all really a business transaction being preented as something else. I just say that for what it's worth. But yes, you're absolutely right. Harry is cruel and he is irresponsible and he is heartless. But if you think he's pressing his family's buttons, the electricity was disconnected some time ago. Let's leave it at that for the moment. Muriel Griffin says, "Has Harry forgotten he's trashed the royal family? Has he got amnesia? The public haven't got amnesia? What a shame." Harry is drugaddled. Harry and Megan both are so delusional that they actually believe the rubbish that they spout while they're spouting it. And the following day they believe the opposite. Has he forgotten that he trashed the royal family? Well, he's brazenly denied it. You need to remember that when Tom Bradby asked him because Tom Bradby was obliged to actually ask Harry one or two awkward questions. And this, if you recall, was at the time of Harry's memoir, Spare Me. Sorry, my mouth slipped. Spare. I forgot the MI wasn't there. It should have been, but it wasn't. Harry was asked by Tom Bradby and he denied that he and Megan had accused the royal family of racism. Yet they very clearly did on Oprah. Not only did they clearly do it on Oprah, but they then were given an award by Kerry Kennedy as a result of the broadcast of their show. And it really was a show. Megan and Harry, do you remember? Or Harry and Megan, I forget which one it was. the Netflix six-part series that they asserted that there was institutional racism in the royal family and they were given an award specifically for fighting racism in the institution of the monarchy. Then he has the unmititigated goal to spin around and say uh when Tom Bradley asks him about it, "Oh no, no, no. We never accused anybody of racism." The press did. Interesting that one, isn't it? Are you aware that the press looks like Megan Markle and it looks like Harry? That's a really interesting one. But Harry and Megan either don't know or don't care about what they said yesterday and nothing adds up. And that's very classically drug adult behavior. It's also very classically seriously disordered personality behavior and sometimes the two go hand in hand rather like salt and pepper Megan and Harry the two trees that are intertwined forever. Just like H&M we saw those trees and we didn't even bother to look at the house. We just thought those trees are us. We've got to buy the house. And sorry. Got to have a pig flying again. Got to have a pig flying again. Well, they have amnesia, but we don't. And the bombardment of the public with desperate stories has rarely reached the point where people are commenting on how fed up they are with the barrage. So Joanna Davis says, "Hello, Lady C from the US state named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I. Virginia is very beautiful. Is Hugo Vicas as great a writer as Victor Hugo? Interesting question. Uh they are totally different writers. Uh, Victor Hugo was writing about social issues and using the novel as a basis for his books on social issues. At the time that Hugh, Victor Hugo was writing, France had been and continued to be in considerable political turmoil. And he was describing the social condition and the realities of the social condition and the consequences of really many of the evils within society. Because remember the 19th century was the age of industrialization and the breakdown of the agrarian society which had hither been the norm throughout the whole of history meant that there was tremendous poverty, tremendous social conflict, tremendous disaection and tremendous political upheaval, great suffering, suffering economically that was unheard of in the agrarian world. Because in the agrarian world, the Lord and Master was responsible for the fate of those who were less well off. And of course, there were always abuses, but they were far fewer and further between than became acceptable when you didn't know the people around you. The Lord and Master would have known if not personally he'd have certainly known and his family would have basically known the people in their community and they were responsible for the people in their community. And most people actually unless they were truly very irresponsible already rather evil, they took their social responsibility and the of and the social contract that was inbuilt in society sufficiently seriously that it continued for thousands of years. All have got that got thrown out with industrialization because once the world ceased to be an agrarian world and it became an industrialized world. the jobs in the country dried up and people moved into the towns and while the lord and master had been and I keep on using that expression because that's the expression that used to be used and it had meaning because they might have been the master of people's fates but they also understood if they didn't master their responsibilities, their edifice would come crashing down. Well, it came crashing down as a result of industrialization which then introduced huge poverty because the shop owner, the factory owner, the businessman didn't have the social contract with his employees that the landlord, the great landowners, again I just use the proper term lord and master had with those in his orbit. That's what Victor Hugo was writing about and wrote about it very well. Hugo Vicas is a biographer. He's not a novelist. He's written one or two novels, but he's not a novelist. He is a biographer. I would have said he is a good biographer. Or will he go down in history as as great a writer as Victor Hugo? Well, you can't compare apples and oranges, but will Hugo go down in history as one of the great biographers of all time? Because Victor Hugo is going down in history as one of the great authors of all time. I don't think I would like to actually enter into a judgment because I think it would be unfair to Hugo who is a good biographer and also I am aware of the fact that royal biography is a very specialized field and it's not necessarily regarded with the gravitas that other fields of biography are which hampers any royal biographer full stop. And if you then have a royal biographer who is successful and achieves great recognition in terms of their literary ability, you have to effectively do it as a work of fiction, which is what Hillary Mantel did with Wolf Hall and her books on Henry VII and all and uh Thomas Cromwell. It has to be said I thought she was a fine biographer. I didn't think she was a fine writer. And ironically enough, her failings as a writer are what commended her to the literati nowadays because some of them are so obscurantist that they think if you can understand it, it's no good. It's got to be unintelligible. And in fact, her first book was, and I've said this before and I'll say it again. I'm sure people will disagree with me, but that's fine. To me, it needed to be another draft. And when the book came out, uh the criticism was that very often people didn't know who she was speaking about because she would her language was so opaque that who which he is she speaking about or which she is she speaking about it wasn't clear. So then she upped the auntie thereafter. She is acknowledged now as a great historical writer. I actually think Hugo is a better biographer in terms and and as a writer because Hugo's writing is very clear. And I like clarity. I don't think clarity is something that you should be condemned for. It's something if you lack that you should be condemned for. But that of course is because and not at the forefront of the modern taste in literature which is if it's understandable and intelligible it must be condemned only if it is totally unintelligible and totally can't be understood. Well, then there's a genius there somewhere. Let's try to find it. The genius. Of course, the genius doesn't exist. But so, I hope that answers the question and thank you very much for asking it and I hope that you will keep in the questions and comments. Let me know what ground you would like us to be covering and let's open up the world that so much is going on. Let's have other stuff that is topical and relevant like anything. I mean, it's up to you, but let's open the floodgates and see what where where the water washes us up. So, please, anything, any subject. Thank you so much. Take good care. Godspeed. And if you have truly enjoyed this, would you care to like, share, subscribe, press the notification bell, and take good care. Bye-bye.