Outside of Hitlery & Buffoon Bubba, Charley & Parker Bowles have got to be the world's sleaziest human beings.
Oh, hell no. You forgot Bubba's close personal friends, Larry Flynt and Denise and Marc Rich.
Then there's the swarm of greenbottles around Kofi Annan.
Saddam.
Most of the princes of Araby......'cept Bandar, who is cool, and a few other quality people in Riyadh, and King Abdullah of Jordan, who is a straight arrow, fighter pilot, and direct descendant of Mohammed.
Anybody French.
Someone who knows more than I do about the Chinese Politburo will nominate a few of them. I'll nominate Kim Jong Il in the dark.
Plenty of folks, in other words, get to march in the sleaze parade ahead of the younger Mountbattens and their girl/boyfriends.
One of these days one of those prim genealogists who worship the royals is going to really rip one and point the finger at the Bad Seed who marked the demarcation between the dignified royals of the past and the scandalous younger generation. Although a case can be made that Edward VII was as bad as any of these -- he was a real rakehell. Upstairs, Downstairs didn't catch the half of it.