Re: Tamsin Greig

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:41:32 +0000
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In article <email-address-deleted>, George
Middleton <email-address-deleted> writes
>Robert Carnegie writes
>> Vanessa Feltz I don't know if she feels entitled to be on, or feels
>>unloved when she's off, but she shouldn't.
>
>There is a really sad story about the Prince of Wales who became
>Edward
>VII. He regularly invited a particular aristocrat to his dinner parties
>just so he (PoW) could humiliate him for fun.
>
>Fun consisted of hitting the guest on the head with a barely padded club
>or ordering the guest to get on his hands and knees under the table and
>accept scraps of food fed to him by the other diners. The victim would
>emerge laughing but I bet he couldn't sleep at nights.
>
>I don't know what the prince's motives were, being a
>Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Windsor he, like a later Princess of Wales, was
>alleged to have an IQ so low that if it were 5 points lower he would
>have to be watered daily, but I wonder about The Fool. How could anyone
>hunger for fame so much that they would be humiliated in this way? This
>chap's descendant was telling some of the story with great delight a
>little while ago. I could never admit to related to anyone involved.
>
>Can anyone find the story on the web? It's not on the Monarchy site.
I can't vouch for it, but I wonder if you've seen,
(1) Paul Merton's series on Channel 4, in which he played that
Prince, and/or
(2) This week's _Never Mind The Buzzcocks_, quite possibly not
your sort of thing at all anyway, in which a young Spanish
musician of the studio-producing sort, who goes by the
professional name of "DJ Sammy", was monstrously patronised
by most persons present, although I think the girls liked him. If he
had any respect for the people abusing him (doubtful, and barely
deserved) then he must have been crying inside, but I suppose he
appreciated the exposure. IIRC it gets a repeat on Sundays or
thereabouts.
AIUI, this is the fellow who has re-recorded the song that goes
"I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone"
- with a female singer delivering the lyric. Perhaps it makes
sense in Spain. Incidentally, tATu are coming back as well,
sounding rather like Eiffel Arbitrary-Integer's hit "Blue" in the
production. Do I know too much about this for a man my age?
Robert Carnegie at home, email-address-deleted at large
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