More Royal Family News

It never rains but it pours. I just stated in my last blog A Royal Honeymoon In Benidorm (http://expatsmadrid.blogspot.com/2011/03/royal-honeymoon-in-benidorm.html) that I am a Republican. It is one of those things like saying you are Agnostic. It's not a strong feeling, more of a "whats the fuss about these scoundrels" feeling. Anyway, no sooner do I click on submit, than Fiona Govan of the telegraph Online writes, talking about Prince Charles and Camila:

"The couple’s visit to an estate near Granada was met with protests by villagers, who claim that the Duke’s estate encroaches on their land.

The Prince and Duchess began their trip in Portugal on Monday before moving on to Spain on Wednesday and arriving in Morocco next Monday.

The couple have avoided Gibraltar during their first official joint tour of the Iberian Peninsula, skirting the inevitable controversy that a visit to the disputed territory would produce in Spain.

But the decision to conclude the Iberian leg of their tour with a private weekend stay on an estate awarded to the first Duke of Wellington in 1813, in gratitude for helping Spain in the Peninsular War against France, stirred up a similar land dispute.

Although the first Duke never visited the Molino del Rey estate outside Illora, near the south-western city of Granada, it was passed down to his heirs and is now the property of Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 95, the eighth and current Duke and a close friend of the Queen."

It is always refreshing to see village disputes in Spain in the headlines of UK newspapers. I am convinced that the more localised the problem here, the more likely it is to break out into civil war.

There is actually a Spanish saying that badly translated means "The next civil war will start in a residential community". Think about it. Village problems, headlines. ETA a page 3 mention. Being fair to the Telegraph, I was reading the online version, so in the paper (I can't afford it here) it may be in the Royal Section.