Charles Rex(otropia)

These new-fangled fivers…

Charles III fiver

look more closely…

Charles III fiver detail

…There’s no polite way of saying this: the Charles formerly known as Prince appears to be wall-eyed. His right eye is looking straight at us, while his left eye is glancing over our right shoulders.

(In the good old days, an observation like this would no doubt have earned me a one-way trip to the Tower. Thank goodness we live in a modern, twenty-first-century democracy!)

Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

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