muriel
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This thread can be used to discuss the forthcoming trip to the Middle East by TRH
What do a Prince and a Duchess do with a day off in Manama? Hang with friends, I'd guess? Spa day?
I greatly appreciate the summary at the bottom of the itinerary.
Do we know why the POW and DOC arrived on different fights? They were together for Day one of the Columbia visit, he was also there on the 2nd and then?
Nothing in the CC about the DOC departing, either. I'm assuming it was family or spa related...
I prefer the über-wealthy Prince of Wales buying something nice for his lovely spouse. After all, to the right or to the left, accepting lavish gifts from despots always include the danger of being drawn into muddy waters.
That the Government of Canada offers a maple leaf, or the City of Paris a box with a Hermès scarf, or the Dutch King two Delft vases, it is another category. Nothing more compromitting than eyepopping bling-bling worn on the skin by a British royal, accepted from rulers with blood on their skin.
I would advice Their Royal Highnesses to accept a roll of wonderful woven silk, or a nice bottle of Muscat wine, or an exclusive handmade parasol, but not those ostentatious, opulent and even provocative jewels which, so to see, are piled in the vaults and remain in the cassettes.
That was the intention - true - but the CC has stopped reporting their official engagements on the 6th so my question was - did the tour end for some reason so that the engagements planned for the 7th to the 11th have been cancelled. They planned over 50 engagements during the week but only about 20 have been reported on the CC - those of the 5th and 6th.
As the CC is up for the 8th - with Anne undertaking two engagements - and no one else doing anything official The Queen obviously didn't regard whatever they were doing on the 7th and 8th - if they did anything - as official as she has the final say as to what goes into the CC.
That is the reason for my question.
The Bolshoi in Bahrain is a pleasant surprise. I think that Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, met with Olga Smirnova and Semen Chudin ..?