The royal family is being drafted in to a European charm offensive. The Queen will do the charm, Prince Philip will do the rest.
Forget negotiating strategies and non-tariff barriers, apparently the thing that is going to secure Britain a better red, white and blue Brexit deal with the EU is a battalion of royals fanning out across the Continent to point at things and ask, “Have you come far?” in two dozen languages.
They will be dropped from Spitfires, set sail on the new vellum-hulled Royal Yacht Britannia and ride into Europe’s finest capital cities on Red Rum, with Magna Carta in one hand and the collected works of Shakespeare in the other. Needless to say, a certain type of Brexiteer is beside themselves