Saturday 23 December 2017

Brooching The Subject

You forget that the minor characters are there. Anyway, this is the brooch that Princess Michael of Kent wore to meet Meghan Markle for the first time.



I wouldn't have a go at her, though. Yes, her father was a Nazi officer who joined the party three years before Hitler came to power. But she is small fry, married in, to the extent that she has to use her husband's Christian name. Prince Philip's sister, the Queen's cousin, was married to a very senior Nazi, and another cousin was the Duke of Coburg, Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild, who was a convicted Nazi war criminal.

In any case, this brooch probably celebrates the Royal Family's descent from the "Negroid" Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, after whom the city in North Carolina is named. Meanwhile, there are now more Vietnamese than Germans in Princess Michael's Sudeten home town. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at that.

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