Kissing [ka'mila]
28 Jun 2001 09:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iad58‘Mrs—what's the name of them wild beasts with humps, old chap?’When bTV's narrator announced that Charles had kissed [ka'mila] in public for the first time ever (one of their top news stories), it took me about five minutes to realise that it hadn't been one of them wild beasts with humps after all.‘Camels?’ said I, wondering why he could possibly want to know.
Joe nodded. ‘Mrs Camels,’ by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, ‘she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.’
—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
You never know with the Windsors.
(What was that doing being a top story in the world news anyway? I did wonder why anyone could possibly want to know.)
