Totally agree with you Tharg, I am not a royalist either. I must have been elsewhere when the cow-towing and excessive genuflection jabs were being given out. Yes as with most individuals I can empathise with this families loss but as usual the hysterical outpourings of grief are way over the top.
He had a privileged life and lived to 99 but on the same night that Boris’s botched Brexit has started to unravel the fragile peace in Ireland we have far more important matters to deal with.