Royal bank (From Barry And District News)

Royal bank

POOR old Paul Burrell; he certainly seems to have few friends inside, or outside, the media, with the populace baying for his blood. When fox hunting is banned, this could be the new bloodsport: 'Hunt the butler'.

The Royals, of course, would be very happy to lead completely unaccountable lives on our cash and goodwill, while employing (exploiting?) a largely working-class workforce like Burrell (a lorry driver's son from Derbyshire) on meagre wages.

This Royal family of ours is always trying to pull rank on questions of manners, etiquette and breeding, when time after time they fall short themselves.

Oh, and 'horror of horrors', Diana with, not one O-level to her name, turns out to have had quite an appetite for 'relationships!' This is not unusual in the Royal family, nor in the wider world. We pay for these people: they should be subject to the public gaze and scrutiny like all other public servants. They should remember: they serve us, not the other way around.

Christopher Short Redbrink Crescent Jackson's Bay Barry Island