I first noticed it when the newspaper had a picture of Camilla standing right behind the queen ... who's much shorter and her hair was all flat in places from her (smaller) tiara. And, yes, Camilla does need her very own spiffy tiara.

(waves back at Hec)

Presumably the Queen keeps custody of the Royal heirlooms while she's queen. Seems fair.

There's the complicated issue of which jewelry is the Queen's personally and which belongs to the Crown. Most of the stuff you see her wearing (barring actual crowns) belongs to her, and to whomever she leaves it to.

Not that he's not probably a champion wheedler, but Camilla doesn't strike me as the type to really give a damn one way or the other.

That too.

Nurse goes to the bank to cash her paycheck. She pulls her pen out to endorse the check and realizes that it's a rectal thermometer. She looks at the teller and says, "Some asshole has my pen."

Emily, you got a package.

Random and off-topic: Does (modern) Greek not use capital letters? flea? raq? others who are better-traveled than I?

Modern greek uses capital letters. Edit: in the normal places you would find caps in English - they don't do any weird German Noun Capitalization.

Loves Empress.

That's what I thought, but Microsoft (or at least its keyboard layout) seemed to be telling me otherwise. Huh.

(edit: Or maybe I didn't happen to type any that look different. Probably the simplest explanation.)

That's funny, Aimee.