Right Royal Scandal

How the media love it; a Royal scandal involving sex, drugs and blackmail. I particularly loved the way the BBC's Nicholas Witchell succeeded in combining lip-smacking relish with obsequiousness in his reporting of the story. The thing which strikes me about it is just how lacking in ambition the alleged blackmailers are - you apparently have a video of a Royal taking cocaine and performing some unspecified sex act and you only ask for £50,000 not to publicise it? Jesus Christ! Despite what they might try to tell you, those regal parasites aren't short of a bob or two. Believe me, they can afford a lot more than fifty grand. Mind you, the low monetary demand might reflect the relative unimportance of the Royal in question. Perhaps they're afraid that even if they did release the video, nobody would recognise the protagonist.

Ironically, of course, we're bound to eventually find out exactly who and what is on that tape as a result of this story breaking. Sooner or later the case will go to court and all the details will inevitably come out. Either that or someone in the police will make an illegal copy and put it on YouTube. In the meantime, of course, it's evidence in a criminal case and can't be made public. Or, it is in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions who is examining it with a view to bringing charges of bestiality against the participants. Actually, the whole thing could be a misunderstanding. Those two guys were just presenting their bill of £50,000 for the supply of the cocaine and the Shetland ponies...