Why Princess 'Royal'?

Just another thing I don't understand

On the radio news: a memorial was unveiled by the Princess Royal.

Why does the 'princess' have to be qualified by that 'royal'? Is there a non-royal princess? Apart, that is, from those identified by those rear window stickers? Isn't a unroyal princess just not a princess? Wouldn't that just mean the memorial was unveiled by Anne? (It is Anne, isn't it?).

Assuming that there isn't an unroyal, non-royal, anti-royal, ex-royal variety, or a princess without-royalness, then that 'royal' after the 'princess' is absolutely redundant.

Bet in play...nah (now)

“Ray Winston' 'ere. Bet 365 'as over a fashand in-play markets. Whaz da latest? Dey're comin' up nah, in da nex' five seconds.

Dere: nah more bettin' on da archbishop fing.

Nah, get onna ya laptops an' phones. Dere's a new archbishop app ya can dahn-load.”

The new archbishop of Canterbury is...

...drumroll...

The old bish of Durham.

I knew that. If you want religious insider information, try Ladbrokes.

Disappointing photo of the day...

...is under the headline Woolly Mammoth Found Near Paris. The photo shows the guys digging up the remains of the mammoth.

Wouldn't it have been much more exciting to see the beast strolling down the Champs-Elysees, swinging it's trunk into tables of Gauloises in ashtrays, espresso in tiny cups and absinthe, sending people rushing for the cameras and phone video applications? Surely a photo editor on his last week before retirement and with some photoshop ability...

Obama's back in...

...and that has to be good, but I suspect that nothing much is going to change.

The tory paedo list...

...Google was worse than useless. Apparently it's not trending on twitter. No clues. Just Google Leon Brittan.

Gravity's Rainbow

On Ernest Pudding:

“His greatest triumph on the battlefield came in 1917, in the gassy, Armageddonite filth of the Ypres salient, where he conquered a bight of no man's land some 40 yards at is deepest, with wastage of only 70% of his unit.”