Royals and their privacy plea

It's understandable that the Royal Family have had a gut full of pictures taken with great big telescopic lenses, but confiscating cameras from the merry band of pensioners and well-wishers who turn out in all weathers to greet them when they attend church services over Christmas is going a bit far.

Police have apparently admitted they weren't acting on the Monarch's orders when they did this last weekend at Sandringham.

The media have been quick to report the fall-out of the privacy plea but less eager to look into the reasons behind it. Smacks of hypocrisy to us.