Alan Bennett and thoughts..

Well, I ran out of steam, lost my puff, or my interest for blogging. And yet I am often thinking things as I walk down the street or lie in bed, thinking I'd like someone else to comment on that or just listen to it. I have just read Alan Bennett's new book THE UNCOMMON READER about the Queen discovering the joys of reading. It is slyly amusing. One wonders if HM has read it in an idle moment, not that HM has many of those. I expect by now she has seen everything and been everywhere although I think not to the former USSR which I suppose makes sense, the commies having executed her relatives, the Tsar, his lovely wife and children, now rehabilitated in a kind of way. Of course as I recall the Brits could have saved the Russian monarchy but did not want to cross the new regime taking over in 1917. I remember Princess Kotchoubey and her husband settled in Paris having been refused entry to the UK. Perhaps the UK should have been a little more selective than it has been in refusing entry to some but who knows. Princess K. and her husband did alright though raising four fair daughters and the Princess herself working hard as a corsettiere. Bet it was hard work putting up with those rich Americans after the second world war flashing their huge wealth around.