American papers lap up Boris and Carrie like they do Harry and Meghan

The serious newspapers in the US such as the august New York Times, one of my favourites, love hoovering up all the gossip and tittle-tattle about our two Big Families - the Royal Family obviousy, especially the Queen, William and Kate, Harry and Meghan and Andrew, and the Downing Street family, Boris, Carrie and Wilf, their son. The Queen, bless her, has been hugely in the American news following the sad death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh at the age pf 99. Harry and Meghan...well the least said the better. And Andrew because of his past friendship ties with the late Jeffrey Epstein, a story that won't go away until the prince sits in the same room as an FBI interrogation team which is never likely to happen. Right now it's all about Boris and Carrie and the refurbishing of the Downing Street flat and who paid for it, if anyone else other than Boris did out of his own pocket which he claims is the case. There's a good, quite respectful piece in the New York Times today part-written by their London bureau chief which examines whether it is fair of the British tabloids to blame her for everything that has gone wrong for Boris in the flat refurbishing department. It's a nice piece and is pretty fair to Carrie, pointing out the tribulations she has had to endure, including nearly losing her fiancee from Covid-19, giving birth to a son and attempting to make the Downing Street accommodation into something worth living in. To be honest, Boris himself is far too busy, or should be far too busy, to worry about the decorations of the flat, so all that would have been left to Carrie who has a good friend who is an interior designer and turned to her for help and advise. That's when the cost started to ratchet up, and Boris may have said, "don't worry, darling, I know someone who can help on the funding side, you go ahead," or words to that effect. The trouble is in the political world everything has to be scrupulously audited and authorised and if Boris did it all by the book Carrie would have got an Ikea makeover rather than an ooh-lala designer-heavy remodelling. As for Carrie whispering political advice into the ear of her Downing Street beloved, that's something which has always raised eyebrows and blood pressure among official advisers and civil servants who believe they have the exclusive right to tell/advise the prime minister what to do. As the New York Times pointed out, that's pretty sexist these days. Carrie is an avowed conservative with her own political views and she is the First Fiancee and has every right to say what she thinks. But you can see why the Grey Suits are wary of her. I say good luck to her. Being the partner of the prime minister and living in a flat in Downing Street is no cushy life. It's pressure pressure pressure. Those who hate Boris or politically oppose him say his flat decoration troubles are symptomatic of a leader who lies and doesn't care about the rights and wrongs of political life. And therefore shouldn't be prime minister anymore. I say enough already! Leave the man and the woman alone and let them get on with their life, public and private. As for Keir Starmer, Labour leader, posing in a John Lewis furnishing store - taking the mickey out of Carrie for allegedly complaining about the John Lewis furniture left by Boris's predecessor Theresa May in the Downing Street flat - get a life! That was undignified and pretty pathetic.