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Britain’s hereditary head of state, Liz Windsor, intends to issue a royal warrant instructing members of the Church of England to say weekly prayers for her son’s new wife after they marry in April. Prayers are already said for Windsor, her husband and son.

The Church of England, (aka the Anglican Church) is the state church in Britain. The head of state is also head of the church. A minority of Britons are members of the Church. Most of these are nominal members only and attend services rarely if at all.

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Ten per cent more of Australians would want their country to become a republic if Charlie Windsor, son of British hereditary head of state Liz Windsor, became "king" on the death of his mother according to a Roy Morgan International opinion poll. Fifty-one per cent of those polled supported a republic at present. However, sixty-one per cent said that they would do so if Charlie became head of state. Britain’s hereditary head of state is also head of state for Australia.

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The Financial Times has reported that the BBC is "relieved" that the government has decided to extend for another ten years its licence to extort billions of pounds from TV viewers. The newspaper reported that a green paper to be published soon will recommend that the state media giant should be able to continue to finance its empire by refusing permission to watch other TV chanels to those unwilling to pay it £112 a year.

Enforcement agents for the corporation use the threat of £1000 fines to intimidate TV viewers who decline to pay the broadcaster for permission to watch TV broadcast by other channels.

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Britain’s official class system should be left largely as it is, the labour party government has decided. It has rejected a recommendation by MPs that knighthoods and Orders of the British Empire (OBEs) be abolished. Instead the committees that recommend who should get such awards will be open to members of the public in the name of "transparency".

Knights expect to be addressed as "Sir" so and so. Unlike Lords, who are above them in the class hierarchy, they are not entitled to a seat in the legislature. The continued award of OBEs is despite the loss of the British Empire some years ago.

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The National Audit Office and Parliament’s public accounts committee have asked the Windsor family to make public the financial records of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall. The property and investments managed by the duchies provide hereditary head of state Liz Windsor and her son Charles with total incomes of £20m a year.

Members of the committee questioned the managers of the duchies on 7 February and criticised them for "lack of transparency". John Bourn, head of the audit office, told MPs that he would like to examine the books of both duchies and report to parliament on what he found. MP Gerry Steinburg told the manager that "It looks like you’ve been doing a bit of fiddling" to increase the income of Charles Windsor.

The Duchy of Cornwall has capital of £463m. The increasing values of its properties allowed Mr. Windsor to increase his income last year from £9.9m to £11.9m. No corporation or capital gains tax is paid by the duchies. Unofficial estimates suggest that Mr. Windsor has benefited from this to the tune of £20m in the last ten years.

Both duchies belong to the people of Britain although this is disputed by the Windsor family.

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The National Audit Office has reported that Andrew Windsor, who is third in line to be Britain’s hereditary head of state, spent £2939 of taxpayers’ money flying from London to Oxford for lunch by helicopter instead of taking a train at a cost of under £100. Another time he chose to spend £4645 of other people’s money on a charter flight instead of £254 on a train ticket. Mr. Windsor spent a total of £315,000 on air travel during the 2003 - 2004 financial year, £150,000 of which was within the UK. Much of the travel was to do with a golf club where Mr. Windsor is captain.

Mr. Windsor holds no elected office or public employment. His travel expenses are paid for by the taxpayers simply because he is a close relative of Liz Windsor who is hereditary head of state and head of the Church of England, the state Church. Britain’s unwritten constitution provides no way for the people to prevent him becoming head of state.

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Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state and head of the Church of England, has called of a visit to Ireland after Irish president Mary McAleese claimed that Protestant children in Northern Ireland had in the past been taught to hate Catholics. According to the Daily Mirror Ms. Windsor considered president McAlesse’s comparison of Protestant treatment of the minority Catholic population of Northern Ireland with race hatred as a "slap in the face" for what were described as her Protestant "subjects" in Northern Ireland.

In 1933 Basil Brooke, later to be Northern Ireland Prime Minister from 1943 to1963, told a Protestant rally that "There was a great number of Protestants and Orangemen who employed Roman Catholics. He felt he could speak freely on this subject as he had not a Roman Catholic about his own place (Cheers). He appreciated the great difficulty experienced by some of them in procuring suitable Protestant labour, but he would point out that the Roman Catholics were endeavouring to get in everywhere and were out with all their force and might to destroy the power and constitution of Ulster. . . . He would appeal to loyalists, therefore, wherever possible to employ good Protestant lads and lassies."

The visit would have been Windsor’s first to the twenty six counties of Ireland that are free of monarchy.

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