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Come fly with me

Victoria Mather

Wednesday, 25th April 2007

How very common to think that Carole Middleton is common. The crucifixion of the former air stewardess, mother of Ex Kate, for allegedly chewing gum and saying toilet has revealed an extraordinary mean-spiritedness in Britain. Or has it? Nothing excites newspaper columnists more than an opportunity to wheel out the national tease of class. It is supposedly our unique elephant trap; the name of your dog says more about you than cash ever can: dukes have Labradors called Purdey, dustmen have pitbulls called Tyson. Hyacinth Bucket has serviettes, the duke to whom silver napkin rings had to be explained as a 19th-century form of recycling said, while wiping his mouth and tossing down his linen square upon the ancestral Chippendale, that he did not know such poverty existed.

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