Rare Good News, Up To A Point

This lady, Her Majesty's subject and a Briton's lawful wedded wife, has now been "permitted" to remain in the United Kingdom. "Permitted"? How dare she be accorded less right of entry to and abode in this country than a Luftwaffe pilot or someone who, as late as 1991, was a senior Latvian, Lithuanian or Estonian official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!