Individual gives handbag to duchess
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January 23, 2015 at 11:24pm
Clarence House and Buckingham Palace have published their annual lists of official gifts received by members of the royal family last year. The list is divided country by country, and the section for Malta delivers to ‘Mrs Michelle Muscat, Spouse of the Prime Minister’ a stark reminder that she has no official position under the Constitution.
The present she gave the Duchess of Cambridge is listed as having been given by “Individual”, and – tsk, tsk – it is down as a handbag not a minaudiere.
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A handbag!?
Le, injurant, HEMBEG.
I don’t think the Queen will ever forgive Joseph Muscat for springing a convicted criminal on her grandson.
A handbag?
All there, in just one word?
Was it not “a sparkling midnight minaudiere handbag by Sunita Mukhi, a Maltese designer who lives in London… decorated with countless tiny Swarovski crystals and a white Maltese cross” from the Wife Of the Prime Minister?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-09-23/news/prince-william-brings-a-gift-from-kate-to-michelle-muscat-6693978112/
The publication of similar lists of items received by Muscat and Mintoff would have been interesting.
Normally the auctioneers draw up that list.
Individual!
Hekk, hu go fik.
So the mayor of Kalkara’s official position is acknowledged but not Meshall’s. Oh dearie me.
They have both been handed their official ranking.
One is a Mayor, a position backed by popular vote, the other is simply an individual married to a prime minister.
These people are so duplicitous it’s unreal.
On the one hand they crave for grand titles and on the other they idolise the man who in 1975 brought in a Bill for the purpose of abolishing titles of nobility. (The law eventually only imposed a general duty to ‘not recognize’ them.)
They are so false.
It will be. It will be one of the proposals in the Constitutional changes: the setting up of a constitutional office for The Spouse of the Prime Minister, as well as a constitutional body for The High Society.
All occasions of State will require a new official protocol which will be called The Presence Of The Wife Of The Prime Minister.
Forget the handbag for a second. Does the ostrich represent the Kalkara Local Council, perhaps symbolizing the Mayor’s head stuck in the sand, or did they run out of presents?
It reminds me of the scene in ‘La Vita e’ Bella’ where one fascist dignitary was presented a series of stuffed animals, representing the Italian conquests in Africa, including an ostrich.
Did this “individual” use taxpayers’ money to pay for this handbag?
in·di·vid·u·al (ĭn′də-vĭj′o͞o-əl)
adj.
1.
a. Of or relating to an individual, especially a single human: individual consciousness.
b. By or for one person: individual work; an individual portion.
2. Existing as a distinct entity; separate: individual drops of rain.
Aww merde!
What bad manners from the British Royalty towards their Maltese ‘counterparts’.
Tst. Tst. They certainly should know better than calling our Reigning Prime Minister’s consort an ‘individual’. Shame on them.
One more reason for our RPM to start stamping his clay feet again.
Welcome to England, where things are seen as they are. It doesn’t mean you’ll be told though.
It would be interesting to find out if she paid for these gifts out of her own pocket.
What gets me is the ostrich egg. Why an ostrich? A decorated egg from one of Franco’s chickens at least would have had a Malta connection.
It is really an ugly handbag. I can’t imagine the Duchess ever using it.
Decorated ostrich egg? Are we living in tsarist Russia?
Ostrich egg? Typical Kalkara souvenir.
Hekk jigrilu min ikun zatat u ma jafx izomm postu.
Something has to be done about this snub.
What about amending the Constitution and creating the official post of Prime Minister’s Consort ?
M’hux xorta.
Now if Meshall really held status on the protocol list, I’m pretty sure the staff at Her Majesty’ s office would have picked it up.
Not that we didn’t know, but this is further proof that she’s nobody on the protocol list.
Get a life, Meshall – you’re a Maltese individual married to somebody who happens to hold constitutional office for now. You’re just the Missus.
And he’s our ‘andycapp
Illalla x’daqqa ta’ harta dik, Michelle.
Oh my. And Michelle thought the princess is going to treasure her stylish choice, wearing it all around the world proclaiming to all that the Princess of the kingdom of Malta gave it to her.
11.99 kollox.
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