British Royalty Archives

“BRITISH ROYALTY”. By Des Kelly Now that we hopefully have this latest Pandemic ALMOST beaten, our News-Media around the World starts to realize that, in the not too distant future, they may not have too many more “Pandemic- Posts” to perplex people with, anymore, so where do we go, from here ??. Oh yes, British Royalty has always been around when needed, so why not introduce some blurb on them to start off the post-pandemic prose, if we can call it that. Talking about exaggerating aspects of World News ?, let us look at it, right now. Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is 95 years old now, the longest reigning Monarch, having even overtaken her worthy ancestor, the former Empress of India, Queen Victoria who ruled the Commonwealth of Nations, on her own, after the death of her Prince Albert, at a very early age. Contrary to what ...

“TO SERVE, WITH PRIDE”– BY DES KELLY Yet another documentary on “British Royalty” was aired on S.B.S.Television this evening, and while I do enjoy seeing shows like this, because of the fact that this IS realty T.V., I was not too pleased with the “Content” of this particular “doco”, as it concentrated on what was termed the “Servants of Royalty”. If there is ONE word of the English language I hate, it is Servant. In my book, NO-ONE is the Servant of another. “Domestic-Aide” is a much better word, even looking much better in print. There are plenty of Domestic Aides in Sri Lanka now, as there were, in the Ceylon I lived in, and, to be totally honest about it, my family always treated these aides as simply extensions to the family. I feel sure that most of my readers will agree that the aide who helped ...