Queen furious at troop/kit shortages:
"Mr Brown, we are NOT amused."
If this story is factually correct - although the palace staff will never confirm it - Incapability Brown has been given a serious wake-up call.
When was the last time there was a Royal Proclamation commanding a dissolution of parliament before a Prime Minister called an election? Maybe the time is now ripe?
vec-chook-whatever, how dare you make such insulting comments as "she would feel she had the cred to gob off". If you are an officer, which I seriously doubt given your rhetoric, then go and read what is written on your commissioning scroll. If you don't agree with it, resign your commission.