“THE FURORE OF FAMILIES’-FIASCO” – By Des Kelly Royal Families, all around the world are ordinary families such as your’s or mine, the term “Royal” enhancing them for no other reason except history.   Kings and Queens come out into existence in exactly the same way as anyone else, propagated by a Father and delivered by a Mother. There are numerous Kings and Queens around this world of ours, but let me start with the “Royals” of Serendib, as the Island of Ceylon was originally known.  When we studied history at College, I clearly remember the names of King Dhutu-Gemunu, a proud Sinhalese King,  and an equally proud King Elara, a Tamil King, who “migrated” to the tiny Island from India, the “Mother-Country”, of which Serendib was once a part of,  separated much later by the Palk Strait, named after Governor Robert Palk (an Englishman) who ruled the Indian State ...

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