The pattern of royal history, remarked one expert, would suggest that those sovereigns who knew their fate from birth were less effective than those who took the throne unexpectedly and had experienced a period of relative normality.
A 19th century physician in the royal court remarked that bread served as an eating utensil, plate, napkin, and even as baking sheets.
Sarah found life travelling the royal courts difficult, remarking that they were full of dull company.
For all the reform that had occurred in police, prisons, and healthcare services since the royal commission, one supporter remarked, Aboriginal people are still dying in custody.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and a member of the Jordanian royal family, delivered his remarks via a spokesman in Geneva.
A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace declined to comment, but a royal aide highlighted the context of remark, telling The Independent he had been chatting about the sponge cake before making the joke.
More than once, the royal visitors and curators pointedly remarked that these westering mariners had made it to what would be called America 500 years before Columbus.
The Sun ("The Sun and the son") remarked on the royal family's "steady rise in popularity over the last 15 years" and continued: "Britain's love for the Queen has never wavered much in 61 years.
But both see themselves in a similar light, as bluff sons of the soil, surrounded by royalist enemies.Mr Thaksin's critics have seized on his appointment and some remarks about the royal family in a British newspaper to label him a traitor, not for the first time.
As my colleague Robert Mackey reported, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday that Prince Harry must have "mental problems," after the broadcast of remarks by the royal in which he said that killing militants from an Apache helicopter was similar to playing video games.
Ingrid Seward, the editor in chief of Majesty, a glossy magazine that chronicles the activities of the royal family, said Ms. Mantel's remark about the duchess's lacking character missed the point.
