Princess Pushy's chauffeur 原因（となる）s traffic 大混乱

By TOM KELLY, Daily Mail

Last updated at 23:00 29 June 2006

Not many drivers could get away with parking on a 二塁打 yellow line in central London for nearly 40 minutes.

But then, not many drivers are フェリー（で運ぶ）ing around Princess Michael of Kent.

The wife of the Queen's cousin, 愛称d Princess Pushy, was dropped off at a party in a chauffeur driven Bentley.

After she got out, the 女性（の） driver quickly spun around the 封鎖する before parking outside the 入り口, half on the pavement and half over a 二塁打 yellow line.

The car stayed there for nearly 40 minutes as the 61-year-old Princess enjoyed the bash at the Katharine Pooley 内部の design boutique on Walton Street in Knightsbridge.

Empty parking bays （機の）カム（疑いを）晴らす on the opposite 味方する of the road several times during the wait, but the driver determinedly stayed put. Only when the 王室の現れるd from the shop did the she move off.

In the mean time other cars, motorbikes and cyclists struggled to make there way 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the obstruction.

Tempers ゆらめくd as the Bentley 原因（となる）d traffic to 支援する up, with one woman 運転者 shouting at the Princess's driver - who ignored her and carried on chatting on her 動きやすい phone.

Another 女性（の） driver of a 4x4 怒って waved her 手渡すs at the car to encourage her to budge, but again, to no avail.

With the Bentley taking up a large chunk of the 狭くする pavement, 歩行者s were also 軍隊d to squeeze past the car in 選び出す／独身とじ込み／提出する.

One 証言，証人／目撃する said: 'It was lucky no one in a 車椅子（機の）カム along or they would have been 軍隊d の上に the road to get around the car.

'It's a very busy street to park like that for even a few minutes, let alone over half an hour.

It could easily have 原因（となる）d a 衝突／不一致.'

But - incredibly for central London - not a 選び出す／独身 traffic warden past by during the Princess's time at the party, held on Wednesday evening to 開始する，打ち上げる a 高級な jewellery 範囲 by Lotus Arts de Vivre.

A police car drove past the Bentley, but did not stop to けん責（する），戒告 the driver or move her on.

Last year Princess Michael 避けるd creating traffic 大混乱 by …に出席するing the same party in a humble taxi.

This year's more extravagant travel 手はず／準備（機の）カム as it 現れるd that the Prince Charles's travel 法案 topped ￡1 million last year.

The total 王室の travel 法案, covering the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, their four children and spouses, was ￡5.5 million.

In April pictures 現れるd of Princess Michael with ロシアの大君 Mikhail Kravchenko - a man 21 years her junior - during a visit to Venice. Her 広報担当者 said their 関係 was platonic.