"What funny little nooses..."

The 85 year-old Thatcher alumnus, Douglas Hurd, has penned a long mash note to his sovereign:

There are one or two eye-openers here. The Queen, we learn, “is not immortal”, despite the fact that her mother seemed to be heading in that direction. On the whole, Hurd claims in his combative style, we should “think of the Queen as a human being, subject to some of the ups and downs of life”. Just like anyone else, she can find that her castle has been burnt down, or wipe away a tear at the scrapping of her enormously expensive ship.