​​We gear up for an historic week ahead as our Royals dust down their Crowns

I keep telling it this is not the time to crash out on me as a new one is bound to be twice the price given the special event a week ahead. But TV operates to its own agenda. I had my last one at least a couple of decades before it conked out. This one is a mere baby by comparison.

Maybe it’s decided to go on strike as it knows it will have to perform the entire day and beyond without a break.

Or maybe it’s telling me it doesn’t want another dog in the house like the last one who often barked at it. Yes, a new fluffy, four-legged angel is joining us within days, a rescued creature who has stolen my heart.

How anyone could mistreat such a beautiful animal is beyond me. Thanks to the staff at the animal shelter south of Belfast who took her in she, hopefully, will have a long life ahead and I hope she won’t mind having to listen to the big Royal event, assuming the telly behaves.

She has a lot of misery to put behind her so I’ve been getting everything ready for her. Even my sons, both dog lovers and both living abroad ring home to make sure I’m doing it right.

As I await my new offspring, the week past has been one of those odd ones where well known women have not been having an easy time of it and where the world’s richest genius Elon Musk –

the Space X. Twitter and Tesla boss - also a dog lover - has been making the television appearances he has always tried to avoid. In his t-shirt and jeans he just looks like a builder on site keeping an eye on the skivers.

Then there’s Michael Gove, a Tory MP since 2005 and currently Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing whose wife says he’s desperate to take part in Strictly Come dancing.

Seems he is an `enthusiastic dancer in nightclubs in his native Aberdeen’. When you are an MP it’s surely always good to have something else on the side in case you don’t get re-elected.

It makes a change from the well-known women who always seemed to hog the headlines. This has not been a great week for them. Take Diane Abbott who seems to think that `Jewish people are not all their lives subject to racism’. She was quickly denounced by the party leader Sir Kier Starmer.

And then there is the Duchess of Sussex who has declared her intention not to attend the big do in London. l don’t blame her. Did the Royals not know it was going to be her and Prince Harry’s son Archie’s fourth birthday that day? Taking a four-year-old to a big Royal event like the Coronation was not an option. Nor was leaving him with his Nanny.

Who wouldn’t say that a Coronation was no place for a little boy? Losing your Dad to such an historic event would be bad, losing both parents to it would have left them open to criticism.

My favourite `telly woman’ Edna Everage, alias Barry Humpheries died aged just 76 this week. My mother had she still been alive would have been heart-broken at that news.

So, while this hasn’t been a great week for women, surely we can enjoy the battle ahead between President Biden and wannabe president Trump.