New Royal Baby Snaps with The Queen

Our exclusive photographs of Prince George with his parents the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge and his great grandmother HM The Queen

It's more mischief from the British photographer Alison Jackson whose amazing pictures can be seen here. And Prince William ? : he is in fact 30 year old Simon Watkinson who is an Adelaide born engineer living and working in the UK but cleaning up as the best royal impersonator in the business.
Below is an Alison Jackson video of Kate & The Queen at the hairdressers.

Shock Nude Photo of Prince Harry- and he's a Hunk!

Two outrageous snaps of the Royals-the hunky abs of HRH Prince Harry and Mike Tyndall, husband of HRH Princess Anne's daughter Zara Phillips having it off with that blond in New Zealand.

They are of course pics from the brilliant photographer Alison Jackson who has a new book on Royal look-a-likes available here and at her website. Go to Alison's website for more fun.

Prince William Clone Making a Royal Mint

Simon Watkinson

Even as a child in an Adelaide primary school 29 year old Simon Watkinson received comments about his resemblance to the heir of the British throne, HRH Prince William.

Simon says his grandmother looked like William's granny as well.

A civil engineer who has been working in London for 4 years, Simon has struck pay dirt working for an agency as a William look-a-like and is the most successful royal clone in the UK at present. He is commanding fees of up to $4000 a day and is in high demand by corporate sponsors. People hire him and a 'Kate Middleton' just to walk around at parties which is nice work if you can get  a grand a pop.

One of the most gifted artists who specialises in royal look-a-like photo and video shoots, artist Alison Jackson has used Simon several times in books and films. Three Australian TV networks have interviewed him outside Buckingham Palace and he regularly gets swamped by tourists who, if they can't have the real thing, they'll have Simon as the next best thing. The British mobile phone company T-Mobile used him and a bunch of others in a spoof wedding video that has gone viral.

It's an odd thing the look-a-like business.  Jason Thompson (above)from Sydney is making a mint in the USA as HRH The Queen, hosting corporate events. He greets guests on the red carpet upon arrival or arrives with a big entrance singing a song and then wanders the crowd intermingling with guests and chatting. Jason says the number of times female guests courtesy is alarming. (he also does Dame Edna Everage and Steve Irwin).

Jeanette Charles in Naked Gun

Probably the most famous royal impersonator is Jeanette Charles who at 84 has had a lifetime of employment acting as the head of the royal family. Jeanette appeared in numerous films from the National Lampoon series to Austin Powers and the Naked Gun series as The Queen.

She did dozens of TV and newspaper advertisements and was once hired by a Paris based businessman who paid her a small fortune to accompany him in a limousine throughout Europe to get tongues wagging that he was able to get up close and personal with a British royal. The story goes that it worked and he scored  numerous lucrative government contracts in France, Italy and Russia.

Simon Watkinson should be making a very nice living for the next decade or so, even if he does have more hair than the real thing !

Hold my hose: William and Michael Middleton clean the car by Alison Jackson

Breaking news : The Chasers comedy team who scored world-wide fame when they gate-crashed APEC in Sydney as Osama Bin Laden have been banned from covering the royal wedding for ABC TV on orders from Clarence House : Below is the film of the Chasers at APEC:

"Off With Their Heads "! Charles & Camilla Attacked & Diana's Portrait

Video has surfaced of the attack upon Prince Charle's and The Duchess of Cornwall as they headed through London streets to the Royal Variety Performance. Apparently Camilla was poked in the chest with a stick shoved through the window. One protester loudly shouts "off with their heads !". No wonder the pair looked so alarmed. That's precisely what happened to many of their forbears.

Still it should have set them up nicely for the show-Susan Boyle, Robbie Williams and Australia's very own Human Nature currently wowing audiences in the USA with their nightly Las Vegas show.

Meanwhile we have uncovered a covertly filmed scene of Camilla having Princess Diana's portrait removed from Clarence House and replaced with her own.

It is of course, a spoof by the wonderful and talented artist Alison Jackson. Check out more at her website.

exclusive : Prince William Shops for Household Goods

As our  pic shows HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton have been snapped shopping for a new kettle.

Not quite-this picture is just one of the brilliant series by photographer Alison Jackson who is a genuis with her Royal and celebrity look-a-likes. Check out her photos and videos on her website here.

Below-the Shuttle's favourite vid- Camilla pursued by police.

last minute Christmas presents

  God only knows how they did it with the postal workers strike but  tSS was delighted to receive on Boxing Day, 2 books for Christmas that have brought us much delight. One is the 'Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus' by Mario Reading , a weighty tome from which we will bring you some compelling revelations for the future shortly in 2010.




  The other was 'Alison Jackson Confidential', the second publication by this brilliant and very funny photographer. By a remarkable co-incidence Britain's Daily Mail today has run a series of Alison's very funny snaps reputedly of HRH The Queen going about London, one of which we re-produce with no apologies but at least we'll give you the link. Hey, the Mail routinely nicks our stories and pics without attribution but we are perfect gentlemen, if little else.
      Alison's books really are a hoot and feature celebrity look-a-likes with such clever lighting and poses you could never pick them from the real thing.

For the full set of the Daily Mail pics go to the Mail on Line's "Is That The Queen in Tescos?"

As to whether Australia becomes a Republic and with talk of such, expected to ramp up next year with Republican sympathiser PM Kevin Rudd in one corner and Monarchist Opposition Leader Tony Abbot ( a former amateur boxer to boot) in the other, the last word goes to the brilliant editor of the law journal Justinian Richard Akland about the popular choice for our first president, the recently retired High Court judge and world respected jurist Michael Kirby.

         Shuttlers will re-call Kirby, while still sitting on the bench of the High Court of Australia, 'outed' himself in 1999 in his Who's Who entry by quietly naming his long term partner as a Dutch born newsagent, Johan van Vloten.

          The howls of outrage were deafening even with an attempt in Parliament to bring m'learned Judge down via a concocted scandal involving rent boys supposedly picked up at Sydney's infamous under-age prostitute hang-out The Wall, by Kirby cruising about in his chauffeured Commonwealth car. He survived it all to retire this year. As Justinian reports :

"Geoffrey Robertson QC, the plummy barrister, wrote a critique of Kirby's contribution to society and the law: ''Once again, you must be Mr President - not of the NSW Court of Appeal but of the Australian nation … It must be President Kirby, and if homophobes snigger that you have become 'The Queen of Australia', just make the monarchists curtsy to you.''"

     

              Johan van Vloten & and partner Justice Michael Kirby