_.St Andrew's Day
Ally had a dreadful night and spent the day in bed. I phoned Mum, which I probably shouldn't have done, and they came at 6:30 driving Pete's car. Ally didn't want any fuss. I phoned the AHA to hear the panic, and Welsh panic at that, of Derek Jenkins. Gillian is also missing from the office and the filing cabinets are all locked, both girls having the keys, and subsequently he can do no work.
I have written to the Times about a remarkable piece of rubbish published in this morning's edition penned by the usually reliable Philip Howard. It's all because a pathetic and misguided MP is to bring a private member's bill this week in an attempt to make the first child, regardless of sex, heir to the throne, displacing male primogeniture, as in the case of boring Sweden. [Philip] Howard, in a lengthy Times article, says that if such a law had been applied to earlier scions of the House of Windsor that the late Princess Mary, the Princess Royal 'as eldest child of King GeorgeV' would have succeeded her father as Queen in 1936, and that Lord Harewood would now be our sovereign. It's all very amusing I'm sure but for the fact that Princess Mary was not King George V's eldest. She was born in April, 1897, and was the King Emperor's third sprog. Edward VIII, and George VI came before her.
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