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No cameras please, we're British.

Are Prince Charles and wife Camilla playing a little hard to get?

The VRC has emailed around this stern warning that the Royal couple are not to be filmed by any TV network during their appearance at the Melbourne Cup today - the exception is the Seven Network, which can go for broke because it owns the exclusive TV rights.

As for the other networks which may dare to seek to cover the race that stops the nation, "no live coverage is permitted of any vision".

When it comes to the Royals, no filming is permitted at all at any time, except for "as the Royals leave the Racecourse". Seven will make some footage available to other networks.

To be fair to the Royal couple, this is not their call - it's a media rights issue, and just the latest in a series of increasingly restrictive rules and regulations cramping what the media can do.

fizzing royals...

royaltour

The current tour of a few Australian states by our next king and queen has been a real fizzer, a waste of money and, for the couple themselves, surely a waste of time, writes senior [IA] correspondent Barry Everingham.

IF IT WAS MEANT to make the foreign monarchy more relevant – as claimed by the baby faced ACM front man Jai Martinkovits – it just hasn’t worked.

Charles, as usual, made a thorough dork of himself and will remembered only by his remark:

“I am so jet lagged, I’m one sausage short of a barbeque!”

I was at Flemington on Cup Day and had a bird’s eye view of the gaggle of mainly young women who were vying to shake the royal hands as they made their way through the crowd. Incidentally, the couple demeaned themselves by agreeing to arrive at the Course in a Lexus, one of the AJC’s main sponsors.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/australian-identity/republic/the-royal-fizzer/

 

The gift, a writing compendium, was handcrafted from the timber of a massive North Queensland Figured Butt Maple tree.

Ms Gillard and Mr Abbott held separate meetings with Prince Charles at Government House before mingling with guests.

Mr Abbott, a staunch monarchist, said it was ‘‘a real thrill’’ to be meeting Prince Charles and the Duchess.

Ms Gillard told the Prince she only lived six minutes away at The Lodge, which allowed her to do some paperwork before arriving at the vice-regal residence.

The royal couple left the luncheon at 3pm to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before they fly this evening to New Zealand.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/prince-charles-pays-tribute-to-marvellous-culture-20121110-294yd.html#ixzz2Bnz4LuJA

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