July 31, 2008
As Canadians, we’re grateful for all the Royal Family have given us, namely a holiday in May that coincides with warmer weather, and currency featuring the Queen, whose craggy visage youngsters can fold into creative shapes when they’re old enough to earn an allowance.
We’ve also noted how gratifying it is to find a crumpled twenty in the pocket of a pair of slacks and included only one tale involving royalty in our who’s who of drunks, The Man Who Scared a Shark to Death and Other True Tales of Drunken Debauchery, and that concerned a footman who was adding whiskey to the water bowls of the royal corgis – an offense which, although funny, resulted in his demotion.
According to reports, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall were in Suffolk recently, sampling ‘carbon neutral’ beer (there are conflicting reports as to whether it was flat or fizzy) and arriving by helicopter as befitting such an eco-friendly event. 
Here are pictures of the couple testing the ‘beer goggles’ phenomenon they’ve no doubt heard so much about.
