Prince will be frowning in his grave

One of the problems with a monarchy is it encourages people to abandon all rational thinking.

Within a couple of hours of the announcement that Prince Philip had left us, there were tributes saying: “He was simply the greatest British person who ever lived. He won the Crimean War all on his own, he invented electricity, he discovered Denmark, he was the first person to make a Cadbury Creme Egg and he saved flamingos from extinction.”

I expect if he could hear any of it, he’d think:

“What a pile of cobblers.”