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course. but the queen has final say. even if he went in there and said, look, mom, i'd like to change this, she has the final say and the bottom line is that while she gets on with her focus, and they do have a close relationship, she puts royal protocol first. sadly for sarah, she has done one or two things possibly out of the ordinary that they don't necessarily want to be part of the family. for now, she's not going to be in there. i wouldn't be surprised, though, if she didn't pop up at an evening function. >> what about the royal oversea us tour for will and kate in july? what do you know about that trip? >> i can tell you first that kate middleton loves new york most. naturally, who wouldn't? she's been there many times, of course, for holidays. the reason why they went to canada first is they are going as ambassadors for the queen and prince phillip. this is a testing, how do they respond, how do the fans react to them, as they were?
and they feel like they need a constitutional monarchy there. even know, they are asking for a change of regime, the way these are in egypt and tunisia. >> okay. in egypt, was it as much about cultural differences, you know, tribal differences, or was it just about we have no money, we have no jobs, we can't feed our families? i mean, do you have that similar undercurrent between the two? >> bahrain is a rich country. it's an oil-rich country. yemen is a poor cup. so it's not the same everywhere, but shia in particular in bahrain feel like they want to have a share in the welt of the country. and they don't have a say in the government the way sunni have. >> you talk about this being a small country, which means that the eyes of the world, the cameras trained on pleases such as they were in tahrir square are not necessarily present in
pearl square. do you know that is why the bahrainan authorities feel they can fire on its own people because it's not going to be seen as easily? >> it's partly true. they can see some pictures coming oust bahrain. not the same in libya. we don't see many pictures coming out of libya. bahrain, there is another factor here. it is that the army there is not from bahrainans themselves. they're from pakistan, yemen and other sunni countries because they feel like they give them citizenship in bahrain, they can increase the percentage of the sunnis there to give them a balance. >> that's interesting in this country. bahrainans make up, what, only about half of the palm lagz? >> something like this because the foreigners who are there who work represent a real percentage. but they don't have a say in government, they don't have a say in the way the constitutional rights, there is not provided for people who work in bahrain. so the problem is mainly between