Buckingham Palace

Confusion lingers and the Sussexes are not helping by displaying this quasi-regal behaviour.

Ideally, the king would now address the nation on television from Buckingham Palace.

Like an early king's speech reminding us that sometimes the enemy comes from within, signing off with, I ask you to stay vigilant and remember, not all princes are real working royals.

But since that's unlikely to happen, here's a short list of ways to spot a real working royal from a fake royal.

oh so you're both from flint i've known eddie since i was about four or

five years old what he at a very young age as a toddler he was traveling the world playing in arenas he's played at buckingham palace for crying out loud yes with stevie wonder yes

is he the same age group

He's two years older than me.

The Duke of York, Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, has always denied all charges made by Miss Roberts.

Buckingham Palace previously issued a statement saying, It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts.

Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.

Like my English accent? I know it's pretty terrible, but there you are.

I mean, really, Buckingham Palace? That's what you put out? The Prince of England is being charged with these heinous crimes against a child, and that's the canned statement you put out.

Oh yeah, sure, I'm sure everybody's just so pumped up about that statement.

You guys really put your foot down there.

All right.

But I hope you enjoyed it because I doubt there's going to be more of those coming.

Buckingham Palace denounced last year that Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor would no longer be known as a prince and would leave Royal Lodge, instead taking up residence at the family's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

King Charles stripped his brother of titles after weeks of pressure to act over Andrew's relationship with the late financier and convicted pedophile Epstein.

Too little, too late.

And I'm the center for the Knicks.

Ms. Roberts said Maxwell hired her as a masseuse for Epstein, but the couple effectively made her a sexual servant, pressuring her into gratifying not only Epstein, but his friends and associates.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement last October that the King's moves against Andrew were deemed necessary notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

The statement said, His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles, and honors of Prince Andrew.

out a closed lantern was put in my hand i was led stooping along a short

yellow-bricked passage and down a few steps as if going into a wine cellar until i found myself standing knee-deep in the flowing sewer the tunnel here is about six feet high and four feet broad growing gradually larger except near the canal in the park road as it descends in a winding course towards the thames all main sewers may be described roughly as funnel-shaped the narrow end being at the source in the hills the broad end being in the valley where it discharges into the river the sizes of these underground tunnels at different points of their course are constructed so that they may convey the waters flowing through them with no prospect of floods and consequent bursting and yet with no unnecessary waste of tunnelling here it is that the science of hydraulic engineering is required turning our face towards the thames we waded for some time in a stooping posture through the sewer three of my guides going on first with lanterns and two following me we passed through an iron tube about three feet high and two feet broad which conveys the sewage over the regent's canal through the crown of the bridge it was not until we got into some lower levels towards baker street that the sewer became sufficiently large to allow us to stand upright before we had arrived at this point i had experienced a new sensation i had had an opportunity of inspecting the earthenware pipe drainage i am bound to say the very defective pipe drainage of a house that once owned me as a landlord i felt as if the power had been granted me of opening a trap-door in my chest to look upon the long-hidden machinery of my mysterious body when we got into a loftier and broader part of the tunnel my chief guide offered me his arm an assistance i was glad to accept because the downward flood pressed rather heavily against the back of my legs and the bottom was ragged and uncertain i could not deny myself the pleasure of calling this chief guide agrippa because agrippa is a roman name and the romans have earned an immortality in connection with sewers whatever doubts the sceptical school of historians may succeed in throwing upon the legends of roman history they cannot shake the foundations of the roman sewers roman london means a small town bounded on the east by walbrook and on the west by the fleet you cannot touch upon sewers without coming upon traces of the romans you cannot touch upon the romans without meeting with traces of sewers the most devoted disciple of nibur must be dumb before such facts as these and must admit that these ancient people were great scavengers if they were not great heroes agrippa took a real pleasure in pointing out to me the different drains private sewers and district sewers that at intervals of a few yards opened into our channel through the walls on either side we've nothing to do with the government of any of these he said they're looked after or had ought to be looked after by the parochial boards you look after branches i replied only when their branches are properly construed main sewers we he continued and he spoke like a chairman are the metropolitan board of works and we should have enough to do if we looked after every drain-pipe in london what's the length of those drain-pipes all over london i asked leaving out the sewers no one knows he said they do tell me somewhere about four thousand miles and i should say they were all that we went tottering on a little further with the carriages rumbling on the roadway over our heads the splashing of the water before and behind us as it was washed from side to side by our heavy boots and those of our guides added to the noise and when our above-ground followers let the trap-door of some side entrance fall a loud booming sound went through the tunnel as if a cannon had been fired the yellow lights of the lanterns danced before us in front and when we caught a glimpse of the water we were wading in above our knees we saw that it was as black as ink the smell was not at all offensive and agrippa told me that no man during his experience in the london sewers had ever complained of feeling faint while he moved about or worked in the flood the danger was found to lie in standing still for all this assurance of perfect comfort and safety however my guides kept pretty close to me and i found out afterwards that they were thus numerous and attentive because the amateur sewer inspector was considered likely to drop there said agrippa pointing to a hole at the side down which a lot of road sand had been washed that's a gully trap people get a notion that heavy rains pour down the gutters and flush the sewers for my part i think they bring quite as much rubbish as they clear away at different parts of our course we passed through the blue rays of light like moonlight that came down from the ventilator gratings in the highway above under one of these we heard a boy whistling in the road and i felt like baron trenck escaping from prison some of these gratings over our heads were stopped up with road rubbish and a gripper who carried a steel gauging rod like a sword in his hand pierced the earth above us and let in the outer light and air they're nice things he said alluding to the ventilating gratings generally set in the top of a shaft hole cut in the crown of the arch i remember the time when we'd none of these improvements no side entrances no nothing when we wanted to get down to cleanse or look at a sewer we had to dig a hole in the roadway and sometimes the men used to get down and up the gully holes to save trouble you must have had many accidents in those days hundreds that were suffocated or killed by the gas but since mr roe brought about these improvements and made the sewers curve instead of running zigzag we've been pretty safe footnote the late mr roe for many years surveyor to the hoban and finsbury commissioners of sewers the gas alluded to by agrippa is carburetted hydrogen sulphuretted hydrogen and carbonic acid gas the first is highly inflammable easily explodes and has frequently caused serious accidents the second is the gaseous product of putrid decomposition it is slightly inflammable and its inhalation when it is strong will cause sudden death the third is the choke damp of mines and sewers and its inhalation will cause a man to drop as if shot dead these are the unseen enemies which agrippa and his fellows have constantly to contend against more or less as we staggered further down the stream it was evident that agrippa had his favourites amongst the district sewers some he considered to be pretty sewers others he looked upon as choked winding channels not fit to send a rat up to cleanse much less a christian man looking up some of these narrow openings with their abrupt turns low roofs and pitch-black darkness it certainly did seem as if sewer cleansing must be a fearful trade the sewer rats so much talked of above ground were not to be seen and their existence in most of the main sewers is a tradition handed down from the last century they only abound in what are called the blood sewers those under slaughter-houses and meat markets but the proportion of animal matter which they consume is probably not more than one-twentieth of that which finds its way down such channels though the surveyors try in every way to prevent the offal from slaughter-houses going into the sewers it is nevertheless often thrown in and the channels become obstructed in consequence hair often clogs up those sewers which are deficient in fall and proves one of the most serious obstructions with which sewer cleansers have to deal since the improved supply of water however which gives to every dweller in london man woman and child a daily allowance of thirty gallons per head the rats and the hare have been largely washed away by the increased flood although underground we passed over the metropolitan railway in the new road and then along the line of baker street under oxford street and through berkeley square this aristocratic neighbourhood was loudly announced to us by our above-ground followers down an open manhole but there was nothing in the construction of our main sewer or in the quality of our black flood to tell us that we were so near the abodes of the blest looking up the manhole an opening in the road not unlike the inside of a tile-kilned chimney down which some workman had brought a flushing gate i saw another butcher's boy gazing down upon us with his mouth wide open the flushing gate was an iron structure the exact width of the sewer and about half its height these gates are fixed on hinges at the sides of all the main sewers at certain distances from each other and when they are closed by machinery they dam up the stream producing an artificial fall of water and so scouring the bed of the sewer as we got lower down our great underground channel the roof became higher and higher and the sides broader and broader but the flooring i am sorry to say became more jagged and uneven the lower bricks had been washed out leaving great holes down which one or other of my legs kept slipping at the hazard of my balance and my bones we peeped up an old red-bricked long disused branch sewer under some part of mayfair that was almost blocked up to the roof with mountains of black dry earthy deposit not even here did we see any traces of rats although the sewer was above the level of the water in our main channel the king's scholar's pond so a gripper told me has had five feet of water in it at this point during storms but this was not its condition then or we should hardly have been found wading in it the bricks in this old mayfair sewer were as rotten as gingerbread you could have scooped them out with a teaspoon in piccadilly we went up the side entrance just to get a mouthful of fresh air and a glimpse of the green park and then went down again to finish our journey i hardly expect to be believed but i must say that another butcher's boy was waiting with open mouth watching every movement we made with intense interest we had not proceeded much further in our downward course when agrippa and the rest of the guides suddenly stopped short and asked me where i supposed i was now i thought the question quite unnecessary as my position in the sewer was pretty evident we don't mean where are you in the sewer said agrippa but what's above your head i give it up i replied well buckingham palace was the answer of course my loyalty was at once excited and taking off my fan-tailed cap

i led the way with the national anthem insisting that my guides should join in chorus who knows but what through some untrapped drain that rude but hearty underground melody found its way into some inner wainscoting of the palace disturbing some dozing maid of honour with its mysterious sounds and making her dream of guy fawkes and many other subterranean villains

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the village of tyburn the brook had its source at west end hampstead and after receiving many

tributary streamlets it ran due south across oxford street near stratford place by lower brook street and hay hill through lansdowne gardens down half moon street and through the hollow of piccadilly into the green park there it expanded into a large pond

from whence it ran past the present buckingham palace in three distinct branches into the thames

rosamond's pond in st james's park filled up in seventeen seventy was partially supplied by its waters when tyburn church was rebuilt it was dedicated to the virgin by the name of st mary le bourne because it stood on the borders of the stream and hence we get the present corrupted names of marylebone marrowbone and marie la though the conduits were supplied freely by these country brooks the public had not free access to all the conduits one citizen a wax chandler in fleet street who had secretly pierced a conduit within the ground in fourteen seventy nine and so conveyed the water into his cellar was tried and convicted and condemned to ride through the city with a conduit upon his head the rules and regulations concerning the conduits with the prices of water are preserved

Do you think, though, they are enabling Trump as well, Philippe? And if so, which leaders, you know? Keir Starmer, or apart from Mark Carney, who's been pretty brave, Macron, Starmer, have they all capitulated? I

think they all thought they could play him, didn't they? I mean, they felt that if they invited him to Buckingham Palace and this kind of thing, he would behave and he would treat them well.

But Keir Starmer learnt the hard way that it's quite the opposite.

Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.

When you give in to a bully, the bully demands more.

I think when you're thinking about someone like Keira Starmer, it's not a bad strategy to try to appease Trump with things that don't matter.

If it's a second invitation to Buckingham Palace or some gold trinkets, you know, Tim Cook, the head of Apple, gave him a gold statue.

If that's all you have to do... fine.

Now, from a PR perspective, the timings could not be worse for Meghan Markle to announce that she is off to Australia to judge Junior Masterchef, which will be filming in Melbourne next year.

It's really from Buckingham Palace to banana bread, it seems.

Good grief.

What a career trajectory Meghan has had.

I care about Tamara deeply.

And I have come as my North Star, Princess Diana, specifically Princess Diana post-divorce being papped on the way to the Buckingham Palace gym because she did have it written in her divorce agreement that she would still get access to the Buckingham Palace gym.

Period.

That's fucking awesome that she did that.

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