‘Oo shot the ‘arriers?
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As silence fell after Black Rod issued his demand to the House of Commons summoning MPs into the Queen’s presence, a voice piped up from the backbenches.
“Oo shot the ‘arriers?” it demanded – no doubt a tasteless and ill-timed reference to the recent controversy over whether Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson and a keen sportsman, was implicated in the shooting dead of two hen harriers, a protected bird species, on the royal estate at Sandringham.
The prince was questioned about the incident and police sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service, but it emerged today that no-one is to face charges.
The camera did not show the identity of the speaker who perpetrated such lese majeste, but the voice had a strong northern accent – an accent not dissimilar to that of Dennis Skinner, the irreverent Labour MP known as the Beast of Bolsover.
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