The furore over the Queen’s Christmas message was so much and fury
Could the gilded piano, rage-inducing star of the Queen’s Christmas message, have been put there on purpose? Even the most fervent anti-conspiracist, aware of the risk of attributing skill or foresight to senior palace advisers and their associates (recall the Paul Burrell theft case, dismissed for lack of evidence, or the fatal neglect of Thomas Markle), may have wondered if mischief, as opposed to fathomless idiocy better explains the appearance of this eye-catching piece, so jarring with the Queen’s homiletic as to overturn, at least for some protesting on social media, her lifelong reputation for thrift. Years of eating from Tupperware, of heating Balmoral with two-bar fires, all erased, in minutes, by a global selfie gone wrong.
Can we ignore the possibility, for instance, that the gold piano, a newcomer to the Christmas message, was included by some unusually cunning republican who’d infiltrated Sky News, the broadcaster whose turn it was, this year, to produce the short film?
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