Congratulations, sir and ma'am

I congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the latter's pregnancy, I suppose.


Romanians congratulate me, which is so nice of them, but I don't really know why. It's not like the birth of Prince George of Wales or even his brother, whose name escapes me. Their child will be seventh in line to the throne. It would take a massacre for her to become Queen.


I love the monarchy rather than the Royal Family, who obscure the importance of the monarch, an importance which is very deep and probably for Jungians part of the collective unconscious. This however always happens when a Queen is on the throne. The cult of the royal family began in Victoria's reign. 


Still, we are so very lucky not to have Roy Hattersley, Douglas Hurd or Gordon Brown as our head of state.


There are quite a few ways in which Romania is more civilised than England and quite a lot of ways in which we are better, the first of which is that we have a monarchy.