Princess Anne
Sir: With regard to the article on Princess Anne, you should not be too hard on her escorts, or put ideas into their heads.
Am I not right in thinking that it Is still an act of high trernon to have carnal knowledge of the King's (or Queen's) eldest daughter unmarried? Or has this permissive age repealed the Statute of Edward HI (1357)?
I think that I am also right in saying that high treason is still punishable with death. They may well think twice and then say: Post me, Satanella.
A. H. Ormerod Burhill, Grange Court Road, Harpenden
Sir: Tony Palmer's intentions towards Princess Anne are certainly a sort of treason, and therefore probably punishable by death. It occurs to me that he might be dealt with according to some Plantagenet statute contemporary with the one used to hang Sir Roger Casement. (The Plantagenets were not so careless of their heirs as to let Palmer's sort near them.) The effort of searching out such a statute is so obviously worth the trouble I have no doubt the DPP is busy at it already.
Meanwhile, would it not be as Well to clap Palmer in the Tower and see to it that, when he is sentenced, execution be performed in the manner traditional to the offence, that is to say, that his head be cut off and spiked at Temple Bar (the new London Bridge being inappropriate for aesthetic reasons).
It might be objected that trial is unnecessary: comider, however, that the entertainment value would be infinitely greater, than that of the Oz business, and the advantage to the tourist industry con
siderable.
These are vicious times. No doubt Palmer will in any case be forced to suffer a fate worse than death (but not so dreadful as the fate he had in mind for Her Highnes3). No doubt the whole of his article will be reproduced word for word in Pseud's Corner.
Stan Gebler Davies London Ni
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