 have little resale value may be safe from liquidation because the trustee may decide it's not worth the time and effort to sell them.
Have we got a general royal arse-licking thread? I couldn't find one.
Anyway, here's the current top story on the Mail site about "thrifty" Kate snapping up a dress for a paltry £160 and then - get this - wearing it more than once. Truly a princess for the age of austerity.
Hope this silences the moaners. Our Royals are the hardest working in the world. Duchess Catherine and Prince William have dedicated their lives to serving the British People. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
Genuine or piss-take?
To be fair the press have a long way to go to match the BBC's state sanctioned sychophancy.
It's like Royal Top Tips.
Members of the Royal Family. Save £££s by wearing a frock more than once. Some heavy coats can be worn up to four times, provided one's lady in waiting gives them a thorough delousing between encounters with the public, before fit only for the bin.
Perhaps she will follow Pippa into the world of publishing. I would love to read 101 Recipes For Leftover Caviar by The Duchess Of Cambridge.
One needs a new carriage and when one needs a new one then one will most certainly get one.
Nice to know we're all in it together, eh readers?
Its only on loan, Katie Price wants it back if she remarries or P Diddy wants to borrow it.
The panelling includes slivers of Scott’s Antarctic sled, Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree, Hut Six at codebreaking centre Bletchley Park, one of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Everest ladders and the beams of most of our great cathedrals.
As she is drawn behind six horses, the Queen will be sitting on a piece of Scotland’s Stone of Destiny, upon which monarchs are traditionally crowned, and surrounded by a bolt from a Spitfire, a musket ball from Waterloo, a bolt and rivets from the Flying Scotsman and a button from Gallipoli.
There’s even a fragment of the bronze cannon from which every Victoria Cross is cast, and a piece of metal from the wreckage of a 617 Squadron Dambuster.
And under one the seats, there is a patch of material from Jimmy Savile's tracksuit.
What utterly pretentious shite.
Nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan then. Do Help for Heroes know about this snub?
And there's Paul Thomas doing another of his cartoons where the message is basically "the royals - they're just like the rest of us lol"
She must be considering a gun carriage for her next ride surely.
As I may have said before, I live in the (probably vain) hope that we'll be rid of these in-bred fuckers before I die.
I sadly doubt it. 
I'm sure it's the same in other countries, but sometimes I do wonder if it is particular to the English (British?) where we feel a need to have to tip the hat to our "betters" so much.
Lucky for me, I had a grandfather who would spit out "freeloading wankers!" whenever the royals were on the box and once (apparently) got in a fight in a cinema for not standing up for the national anthem.
That's our history is it? No peasant's revolt? No relentless, half-starved labour to sustain the ruling classes? No Peterloo Massacre? No Merthyr Rising?

They could have included a built-in hammock made from a pair of Cyril Smith's Y fronts.This afternoon I had the opportunity to visit my old workplace. A friend of mine that works there has taken a new job and the office was throwing her a going away party. It was wonderful to get the opportunity to spend time with her and so many others.
On my way home I decided to take a detour. I had seen ads for a used bookstore, and as I love books, and as their facebook page seemed promising, I decided to check it out.
When I was living in NYC, one of my favorite places to go was the Strand bookstore. Located near Union Square, Strand is the largest bookstore I’ve ever been to, with miles of books. They had an annex location as well, which happened to be near my first apartment. It was hard for me to pass either location without going in, browsing, and buying books.
When I stepped into the bookstore today, for just a moment I felt transported back to Strand. It was not nearly as large, but was very big and had the distinctive smell of old books. Housed in a warehouse, there were countless aisles. I wandered around, getting lost among the shelves, reading titles, and dragging my fingers along the spines. If I had had time, I would have spent hours there, but I didn’t. I settled on one book for the kids, with a promise to myself to visit again when I have the time to really enjoy it.
I made my way home and back to the kids and we ended our evening reading their new book.
On the post office square, a beautiful Art Deco building now houses the restaurant Van, an insurance comp-any and the offices of the AFD (French Development Agency). An inquiring mind will not fail to notice on the gates the presence of little medallions with the initials CBI, which refer to the Bank of Indochina.
This reminds us that among the various changes instituted by the French protectorate regime (1863- 1953) was the creation of the first currency in Cambodia : the piastre.
Jean Daniel Gardère provides a brilliant account of this in his book about currency and national sovereignty. According to him, what is essential to understand in Cambodia is the impressive number of missed appointments between national sovereignty and one of its essential attributes: currency.
Even if the new currency was more Indochinese than Cambodian in order to be used in the three former French Indochina countries, this was the first time that Cambodia had access to a monetary unit used nation-wide.
How did the Cambodian economy work before? What we know for sure is that from the first Indianised kingdoms (Funan, 1st–7th and Chenla, 7th – 9th century AD) to the Angkor=-ian Khmer empire (9th–15th century AD) and beyond, Cambodia never had a currency of its own.
From time to time, foreign currencies were used, but trade was mostly synonymous with a barter economy. It’s hard to believe, especially when we bear in mind the huge size of the 13th-century Khmer empire and its gigantic religious compounds.
If the French protectorate regime initiated monetary modernity in Cambodia, political independence (1953) was followed by the accession to monetary sovereignty with a central bank (1955) and a new currency, the Riel.
The name of the currency is often supposed to have come from a little Mekong river fish named the riel. There is another more serious etymology : Malay, Indian and Chinese merchants made wide use of the Mexican real in mid-19th-century Cambodia, because of its high silver content, and the name Riel almost certainly came from the real. Incidentally, Mexican silver coins can still be bought in the Russian Market.
We have many essential details about the National Bank of Cambodia at the time of the Sangkum Reastr Niyum (1955-1970) in the recently published memoirs of its vigorous governor, HE Son San.
The monetary policy of the Sihanouk years has often been described as remarkable and quoted as a proof that the public sector was not opposed to a realistic and rigorous monetary policy.

Among the heroic deeds Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) achieved was the abolition of currency.
Although a revolutionary currency had been printed in China a few months before the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge banknotes were never used and can still be purchased in the Russian market. As a matter of fact, it’’s diffcult to see a use for currency in a country where the most elementary forms of trade had been abolished.
The People’s Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1992) had the task, rather unusually for a communist regime, of restoring the currency. In the first months of the existence of the regime, dong and baht were used and the first Riel banknotes, printed in Moscow, arrived in Cambodia on March 20, 1980.
The regime that followed the Paris agreements (1991) raises a new and interesting question about the relat-ionships between currency and sovereignty : dollarisation.
Due to the huge amount of US dollars that entered the country at the time of UNTAC (1992-1993), the National Bank of Cambodia could control but a very small portion of the money supply, and this situation still characterises today’s Cambodian monetary landscape.April is Earth Month!
Who doesn’t love the Dr. Seuss classics? “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” “Green Eggs and Ham,” “Horton Hears a Who,” all allow us to explore our imaginations, enjoy read aloud rhyming, and provide admirable life lessons in subtle context. During the month of April we nationally celebrate Earth Month. Earth day was created to make us aware of little changes we can make to save our planet in a big way. It is a chance to celebrate all that our beautiful planet