Food for thought

Sat on the train home from today's HN Examiner meeting, I've just read in the free paper handed to me at King's Cross this little gem from a recently published collection of the Queen Mother's letters about some South Sea Island:

"The natives are very diseased and are rapidly dying out.  Instead of being strong, healthy cannibals with strange religions and no clothes, they are now half-hearted Roman Catholics, with European clothes.  It seems all wrong but that is what happens."

David Icke probably takes this as confirmation that the QM was indeed a blood-drinking lizard keen on human flesh, but is it an example of anti-Catholic prejudice or an indication that the royal family have a progressive appreciation of cultural diversity just as long as the natives aren't eating anybody you might know?