Royal jammies go missing
There’s a nice teaser on the front page of the Herald-Sun today. Beside a picture of the Queen is text: “Victoria’s royal request: Hand back our PJs, Ma’am.”
Intrigued, I turned to page seven and found it was somewhat misleading, but in a non-offensive way. The story was a beat-up but funny.
The City of Ballarat presented embroidered silk pyjamas to the Prince of Wales (late Edward VIII) in 1920.
Five female hundred employees of a local garment factory each put a stitch into the royal present.
Edward, who was something of a ladies man, might well have claimed to have slept with 500 sheilas in Ballarat.
A group of the city’s historians want the jammies back to put on public display. They wrote to Buckingham Palace humbly petitioning Her Majesty in that regard.
The bemused Royal Archivist wrote back saying they couldn’t find the sleepwear. She thought Edward might have taken them with him when he abdicated and shot through to France.
“They are no longer in royal custody,” Pamela Clark advised.
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
