Prince Philip, Fashion Nonsense

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Greek Icon (left wing), Greek (Western Islands) School
Photo Credit:The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, Bedford [CC BY-NC]
Prince Philip drives again 48 hours after having been involved in a car crash with members of the general public. We know this because police have had words with him after he was seen driving without a seat belt. What was he trying to do? Anthony Spiro, in a letter to the Times, 21.1.2019, had a suggestion.  



Sir, The nation owes the duke a debt of gratitude for his valiant attempts to change the news agenda.


Three weeks later and the prince voluntarily surrendered his driving licence. Will he be prosecuted for careless driving? What do you think?

A few days later, on the 14.2.2019:

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute the prince as it would not be in the public interest. 

There’s a surprise.

*A woman who criticised the Duke of Edinburgh after a car crash that broke her wrist has been banned from driving for six months for speeding.

Emma Fairweather, 46, was a passenger in the Kia car that hit the duke’s Land Rover Freelander in January near his estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. Fairweather, who called for the duke to be prosecuted if he was found to be at fault, was sentenced in her absence at King’s Lynn magistrates’ court for two counts of speeding and two of failing to identify the driver of a Volkswagen Golf accused of a speeding offence.

(The Times, 29.5.2019)

                        An ironic twist to the story.


Fashion


A Dutch Party, Dirck Hals (1591-1656)
Photo Credit: Nottingham City Museums [CC BY-NC]
This trend of pre-clashed clothes can be a good way to show the different and contrasting parts of who we are. But the uncertainty driven by political and economic situations can create a stronger need for control. The intentional chaos [of pre-clashed clothes] can be a way of coping.

(Kate Nightingale, fashion psychologist, The Guardian, 2.2.2019)

Of course it can, Kate, of course it can.
                                       



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