Quis Separabit

A well-placed old friend and regular reader emails to ask how I had missed Prince William's failure to marry in his RAF uniform, as clear an indication as one could wish that the longstanding neocon scheme to abolish that service was reaching its culmination, recalling the ban on German air forces in the Treaty of Versailles.

If the Royal Family will not hold the High Tory line against this plot, an integral part of the stated aim of a single EU defence "capability" under overall American command but the day-to-day direction of either the French or the Germans (depending on who was in favour at Neocon Towers at the given time), then who will?

Who, indeed? But His Royal Highness was wearing his wings. And the uniform on which he was wearing them was that of Colonel of the Irish Guards, the regiment that was first to salute him and his wife as they emerged from the Westminster Abbey into and out of which it had carried the coffin of the Queen Mother. Holding the High Tory line against the neocons, indeed.

The last use of Strathearn was by Queen Victoria's son, Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and very briefly by his grandson. Without going into the difference between Kingdoms and Principalities, the new Duke remains in any case Prince William of Wales. What a pity that he was not also created all three of Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Strathearn, and Duke of Connaught. Now, that really would have made the point.