Camilla to travel world, not Elizabeth
In the ultimate triumph of the royal mistress, Britain’s future Queen Camilla will travel the world instead of her ageing mother-in-law, the current monarch, it’s been announced.
News that Queen Elizabeth II, who will be 80 next April, is to scale down her overseas visits and symbolically hand over the royal reins to Camilla and Charles has sparked off furious speculation that the brand new Princess of Wales is already being groomed to be queen.
The speculation, tom-tommed by the British tabloid press, comes barely three days after Charles married his long-time, live-in love of 34 years in a civil ceremony that broke with centuries of royal tradition.
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Harvey World chief executive Brian May said the group had adopted a combination of organic and acquisitive growth in the UK.
"As has been borne out by our financial results in the southern hemisphere, the progressive HWT (Harvey World Travel) franchise agreement and fee structure substantially improves franchisee trading performance and supports the rapid growth of a franchise," he said.
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