I was just leaving when a brief teaser appeared on the morning news saying something about the Royal Family, or one of them, and eggs. I couldn’t stay to watch, but the announcer said the issue wouldn’t go away soon, and the text at the bottom of the screen said “Egg-Centric”.
Anybody know what this is all about?
It’s about Prince Charles being picky about his boiled eggs. Must be a really slow news day.
If you realy must, searching Google News for ‘eggs’ supplies the relevant non-news.
According to the story, he is fussy about the way his boiled eggs are cooked, so he is always given seven boiled eggs; each one cooked for a slightly different time; he opens them in order until he finds the one that is cooked to his liking, then eats that one.
Not sure if it’s actually true though.
Not true, according to this article.
You may judge the quality of the Palace denial by noting that Charles has a valet for every little thing:
This is the second time that Mr Fawcett, famed for his ability to put the toothpaste on the royal toothbrush to Prince Charles’s satisfaction, has survived an attempt to oust him.
I think that this also has something to do with Jeremy Paxman’s launch of a book about the Royals.
Is this a euphamism? The Teeming Millions should decide 
Well yes, it was originally quoted as an excerpt from Paxo’s book.
Here’s my theory: new royal cook sets this up for Charlie just the once, then thereafter repeats the exact timing of the egg that Charles chose.
Story gets exaggerated, Paxo gets on the gravy train, and Charles has egg on his face.
And in other news, something actually happened.
Possibly, but eggs are tricky to get right; how about: royal cook presents Charlie with an egg that has been cooked as near to specification as possible, but covers his ass by cooking a couple to either side of the same specification, just in case the first one is unacceptable.
Given that we’d be talking about a few quids worth of eggs at most (assuming they’re the most expensive organic free range happy chicken eggs money can buy), and given that this is the heir to the throne, I wouldn’t find it at all surprising that such culinary precautions were taken. Who cares, really?
Yes Jimm, that sounds exactly right to me, although it might have been a new egg cooking device rather than chef (I’ve never seen them in the UK, but was really impressed by an egg steamer in Germany 30 years ago).
I’ll bet that the eggs get sent up from Poundbury.
So the Russians just gave Iran 80 tons of nuclear fuel, and the British Royals are on the front page over eggs? :rolleyes:
Let’s get breakfast over, then we’ll invade, OK?
I know you meant it as a joke 
, but there were rumours of an entirely different story:
‘The allegation that Prince Charles was found in a “compromising position” with one of his manservants resurfaced yesterday amid claims that the former Royal valet who made the accusation was willing to retract the story for money.’