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And the Band Played On

 All these terrible revelations.  They keep coming out - like a never ending clown car.  And, there are supposed to be even more of them when the book is officially released.  And that, is only hours away. Some of this is planned.  Other is an accident (of sorts or so they say).  Either way, these releases always seem to wind up as a flash in the pan before something else (hotter, bleeds better) take that spot.  At any rate, no matter how well planned these things seem to go, they don't seem to achieve how well run a Palace function seemed to go most of the time, for most senior BRFs. Short term gains versus the long haul strategy.  No one is saying "It's only a flesh wound." from a palace but ... man.  It must be tiring to sound like you are smiling as you are saying: "The Palace has no comment." day after day after day. Tiara stories - And yet another slightly different one.  Now we read that she could have worn a Spencer tiara.  ...

A New Year

So often in life at the start of new year, there is this tendency to focus on what changes will be made in the upcoming year.  So we create this list of what we will start to do and what we aren't going to do any more.  This year is going to be so wonderful and better than the last one.  Or so we plan (giggle - like we really have all that much control over external forces which grind forward like a glacier over our intentions?). Apparently January 17th is known as Ditch your New Year's resolutions day.  Oh well.  Carry on. Pivot away from the future: So I was thinking about the past year in general and how crazy it was for myself, friends and family outside of Nutty life.  Great drama.  From that, I started thinking about what this year has been for the Royal Family. The first Christmas without Prince Philip.  The great Jubilee the likes of which we won't see again.  The Queen passed.  That was huge and emotional.  And some in...