Did Princess Anne somehow secretly slip into the country last week to attend Auckland’s Diwali Festival? Patently, that’s a preposterous notion; she was likely opening a hospital or feeding her horses. Still, you could be forgiven for thinking Her Royal Highness was in attendance given a voice at least as booming as hers was heard encouraging a member of the media to “naff off”. Anne, rather famously, said exactly this to a hack pack after falling off her high horse at the Badminton Horse Trials in 1982.
This naffer-offer was no haughty royal but our haughty new “kingmaker”, the leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, who was attending the Festival of Light, though
