This was in The Falklands, of course, I forgot to state!

>>That doesn't seem to apply to theh GB royal family. Prince Andrew was out in his helicopter on picket, even as a decoy tareget to protect the carrier.
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>>Mind you, Charles is the heir - Andrew only the spare :-)
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>Spare the heir or is that air? :)
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>"Spare the air" is a term used when weather conditions will be ripe to create smog.

Well you'd know all about smog in your part of the world, wouldn't you :-)

They reckon Princess Diana was only "kept on" till she'd dropped "an heir and a spare" then they got on with their separate lives.