Comments on: A right royal boycott: Britain’s Royal Family is banned from official visits to Israel

By: Joel G.

Joel G. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:13:40 +0000

I know that Prince Charles attended Rabin’s funeral and that Prince Edward paid a private visit to Israel. However if I were Israel I would take the attitude “If you do not want to make an official visit then we are the last people who would want to officially invite you”.

By: Beryl Dean

Beryl Dean — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:48:53 +0000

Jaws dropping and hilarious elucidation are all fine fodder for intellectual blogs.
For my part, I plan to write to Her Majesty. Perhaps she does not know. However, she will soon know that the world knows.

By: Shlomo

Shlomo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:36:54 +0000

Andrew Roberts was likely adhering to the British protocol of respect for the sovereign. The Windsors bear some responsibility here, too.

By: J. Isaacs

J. Isaacs — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:02:57 +0000

Well done Robin Shepherd for helping to spread the word about the perfidious FO camel corps control of Royal visits. Must have been truly riotous to see the jaws dropping in real-time. The internet is really helping to show up more widely the camel corpsers’ responsibility for the catastrophe of Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East. But, as Andrew Roberts implies, one should not bet on anything changing under failed Tory leader and election loser Hague.