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‘It’s no laughing ed in your lifetime’

‘I can’t iine their lordships will readily fall in with your proposal’

‘And that’s why they’ll be next in line, because once the Commons realizes there are votes in it, another sacred citadel will collapse under the weight of its own absurdity’

‘Hoill you go about it?’ asked Marjorie

‘We’ll start at the top, with the Royal Faeniture bill to the House, which would allooman to succeed as monarch if she was the first born, and not be pushed aside by a younger brother No one has ever suggested that Princess Anne wouldn’t do as good a job as Prince Charles And we’ll cite Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II to prove our case’

‘It will never happen’

‘In your lifetime, Dad,’ Grace repeated

‘But I thought you disapproved of titles, Grace,’ said William

‘I do But in this case it’s a matter of principle’

‘Well, I’ll support you I’ve never wanted to be Sir William’

‘What if you becaht?’ said his father Willia his shoulders

‘Did that poor young woet off?’ Marjorie asked Grace, hoping for a break in hostilities

‘No, she got six months’

‘And will be out in three,’ said her father, ‘when she will no doubt go straight back on the street’

‘Don’t get me onto that subject, Dad’