Friday, August 24, 2012

'Just wild about Harry!'

‘We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality’.
 
Shock…….horror. Young army officer (27) photographed in hotel room without any clothes plus another in the same state of nature, believed to be a young woman. May have committed or be about to commit a heterosexual act.
 
The pink smudges of Captain H Wales plus a young lady’s bottom are to be revealed in the Soaraway Sun (prop: the Dirty Digger).  The media generally has been harrumphing about ‘conduct unbecoming’, ‘HM livid’. ‘shameful behaviour’ and on and on.
 
Come off it! The partiality of the Royals, the aristocracy and the nobility and gentry for bit of rumpy-pumpy has been well-known for centuries. Good Queen Bess was anything but. She was a preying mantis. When she tired of her squeeze he was not long for this world. James I probably bowled from both ends, always banging on about ‘the monstrous regimen of women. Charles 2 had a massive stable. A friend of mine owned the only freehold house in St James, built by old Chuck for Nell Gwynn so that he would not have too far to walk. His dying words were ‘Let not poor Nelly starve’. Here is Nellie’s portrait.
 
 
 
Perhaps one of our current crop of Royal ladies could oblige.
 
Queen Anne so loved a bit of horizontal jogging that she thought it too good for the common sort of folk. Queen Vic knew full well what was worn under John Brown’s kilt. Nothing – it was all in good nick! She is alleged also to have carried out duties as Empress of India with her Indian manservant. Princess Mags was at it like a frog up a pump. She consorted with an actor-cum-gangster who was hung like a grandfather clock. His party trick was to wave it at the other guests. Hutch, the West Indian night-club singer, is said to have pleasured not just Lady Mountbatten but a swathe of royalty and nobility during his hey-day in the 30’s and 40’s.
 
And we think we are so liberated!
 
Now we have the media pontificating about sexual morals. Pass the sick bag, Mabel.

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