Please note that your patron, Earl Spenser,
Will not be admitted to Mensa.
His Lordship’s IQ
Is quite startling, it’s true.
We have never met anyone denser.

This rhyme concerns a fictional Earl Spenser, not to be confused with the orator who on 6 September 1997 – while eulogising ‘the most bizarre-like life’ of his late sister – shared with a grieving nation the ironic insight that ‘a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.’ In a further proof of sagacity, the real Earl resisted any temptation to dilate upon Diana’s other attributes … goddess of chastity / fertility / the moon, sometime consort of Lucifer, etc etc.