Ben Pimlott, a royal biographer, praises the queen's "extraordinary ordinariness".
Hilary Class, president of the paediatric and child health royal society, praised the scheme: "The biggest challenge in overcoming a problem like childhood obesity is that there isn't a single solution; there are multiple factors at play.
All abridgments and additions are part of their period; we scoff at the eighteenth century for cutting the tragic end of "Lear" and tacking on a happy one, but the recent, much praised Royal Shakespeare production added a gratuitous Grand Guignol hanging of the poor Fool, on the shaky basis of a sideways reference to his death two acts later.
There is no discussion of how the new "sufficiency" policies will differ from Mr Thaksin's—just an uncritical lauding of the new government's five-year plan as "the biggest shift in Thailand's economic orientation in over two decades" and much praise for royal projects.The sufficiency theory talks of "immunising" the national economy against shocks.
In a statement, a spokesman for the State Department later praised the royal pardon.
"They're much better at it than any of us could ever be," she said, before praising the royal family's ability to juggle "their private lives" with "the role they have to play in society, which is very demanding".
While at any other time the tabloids would be shaming a woman for getting up the duff while living off the state, now they will be praising the royal couple's timing.
Much of the scandalous behavior of the king and his court was an open secret and the objects of his affection -- mistresses, actresses and royal brides -- were praised for their beauty, which was immortalized in large full- or half-length portraits.
He never makes the kinds of gaffes that Royal made when she praised the Chinese on the speed and efficiency of their justice system, or smiled politely when a Hezbollah leader compared Israel to Nazi Germany, or told reporters that it might be a good idea for Quebec to secede from Canada.
Among the Lozi of Zambia, senior chiefs or royal persons displayed favour and praise by placing saliva on the commoner's tongue (Prins, 1980, p 96). Lastly, saliva may be used in initiation rituals.
