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TOG wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:23 pm Which granddaughter and what is her title?

Royal protocol is a pain in the arse, but if you do it, then do it properly.

Personally, I think they are nearly all a bunch of degenerates. The only hope is the House of Middleton.

On April 25, 2004 the body of Adam Shand Kydd, 49, the step-brother of Princess Diana, was discovered by cleaning lady Leng Sang in his $1170 per month luxury apartment in Phnom Penh’s red light district in Daun Penh. He was naked, face-down on the bed. Semen was found on his body, and he had a swollen left ankle. Prach Nhat “Autopsy Police” for Phnom Penh municipality said that "No one killed him", and that he had died after taking “many” sleeping pills. Valium strips with 94 pills missing were found in the flat, along with painkillers and kamagra, a version of Viagra. As were a half bottle of wine and a packet of Marlboro cigarettes.

The cleaner said that two days before his death, Mr Kydd had been behaving strangely. He had been throwing his clothes around his room and repeatedly slapping himself in the head. He had also complained to the owner of the apartment, Seng Nimol, about stomach pains and vomiting. He had moved to Phnom Penh earlier in April 2004 to meet friends and write fiction.

His body was taken to Calmette Hospital morgue and embalmed before being placed into a white casket and repatriated to the UK. Ambulance driver Yim Mongul said, “When I picked up the body I saw blue bruises on his arms and on his whole body. I assumed he overdosed on drugs”. Local newspapers printed photos of his dead, naked body lying face down on his bed and in the morgue. One newspaper, Light of Cambodia (Rasmei Kampuchea), published a picture of the deceased under the headline “Another Dead Foreigner”.

In July 2004, a British coroner delivered an open verdict at an inquest into Adam Shand Kidd’s death. Westminster coroner Paul Knapman said that the Cambodian authorities’ investigation had left “something to be desired”. The embalming process had made it difficult for the British authorities to test drug and alcohol levels. A pathologist said that Kydd “had suffered from high blood pressure, which had given him an enlarged heart”. He also said that he had had coronary artery disease. Dr Knapman said, "It is not clear whether this has been some form of abusive drugs, suicide, accident, or indeed natural causes." He ruled out foul play and said that there was no evidence that Kydd had taken cocaine or heroin.

Adam Shand Kydd was described in obituaries as “tall, striking and humorous, “immensely affable and a brilliant raconteur”, “a person of extraordinary talents who perhaps never quite found his place in the world”. “A voracious reader with a huge knowledge of military history - a lover of good company and conversation", Adam Shand Kydd was a man “possessed of a prodigious, driving intelligence”. He was “a gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante…shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous”.

Adam’s parents divorced when he was in his early teens and after a scandalous affair, his father married Diana’s mother, Frances Spencer. Adam was educated at Stowe until he was expelled for allegedly destroying a church organ with an axe. He worked in a London theatre and in 1984 his novel Happy Trails was published. Receiving mixed reviews, Happy Trails is described as a comedy “about two gay men who live peacefully in East Anglia until they are drawn into plots of religious fanaticism”. Paperback editions can be purchased for as little as $0.11 from amazon.com.

After failing to have a second novel published, Adam became depressed and drank heavily, spending time in rehab. The novel was a comedy about fringe theatre. By his own admission, he spent a lot of time staring out of windows. It is thought that he had become interested in Buddhism in his later years. He never married, but had many girlfriends in his life. It is not known how many he had during his brief stay in Phnom Penh or if any of the women whom he took back to his luxury Phsar Thmei II apartment had any inkling that they were being boned by the future King of England’s step-uncle.