Changing Clothes and Charles..!
“…Gordon Brown has been urged to abolish many of the Queen’s remaining powers ….as part of a wide-ranging new constitutional settlement….”
The Independent, UK, 11 th June.
“Distressing!” said Prince Charles.
“What is m’dear?” asked Camilla.
“Everyday,” whispered Charles as he looked at her with woeful eyes, “I feel like a circus performer, sometimes a clown, oftimes trapeze artist, doing stunts, dancing with the bears, putting my head in lion’s mouths, wearing silly costumes and entertaining the people of England!”
“Oh my darlin’ said Camilla.
“Sometimes I feel like a mannequin in a shop window, standing still, dressing in different costume everyday, not being able to say anything, do anything, but peered at night and day by public outside!”
“Oh you poor dear!” said Camilla.
“And today they want to cut my powers!”
“Oh my darlin’
“What power does a clown have? What a plastic statue?”
“You’re really upset Charles!”
“Distressed!” said Charles, “Distressed! There’s a big difference my dear, a big, big difference between being upset and being distressed! You’re upset when something goes wrong for you, you’re distressed when something goes wrong for your subjects!”
“You feel sorry for the people?”
“Yes!” exclaimed Charles. “Who will they talk about, write in their tabloids, gossip at their parties if we disappear from circus or…”
“Shop window!” said Camilla.
Charles walked over to his wardrobe and chose a silk shirt with a grey tie, which he brought out and started to change into.
“You just got dressed a half hour ago!”
“Yes but I’m going to stand at the window again!”
Down below, outside Buckingham Palace, the people, tourists and locals clapped and cheered as Charles appeared at window in silk shirt and grey tie.
“We urge you Mr Brown to remove his powers!” shouted an MP from the treasury benches next day.
“I was there yesterday when he first came to the window in a tuxedo!”
“And later in a shirt!”
“I saw him change his tie twice!”
“Take away his powers!” shouted all the MP’s together.
Mr Brown nodded and raised his hand, “Gentlemen! In a months time I will be your Prime Minister and I promise to see that another Magna Carta like settlement will be signed, disallowing royalty from changing their clothes more than once everyday!”
There was a cheer inside the House and everybody agreed t’was a historic day for England..!
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