Royals Go Gulfing: Soldiers in Saudi Arabia...

Royals Go Gulfing: Soldiers in Saudi Arabia may have wanted to see Brooke Shields, but will have to settle for Prince Charles, who will be jetting in this weekend to visit British troops. The trip was Charles’ idea, a spokesman for Buckingham Palace said.

Women’s Work: The Saudi kingdom’s newly named guardian of virtue said Saudi women are neglecting their families even though cheap foreign labor has freed them from the burdens of a job and housework. “The woman here does not do any of her duties,” said Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Said, the general president of the Organization for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Al-Said was not in office last month when women protested rules that allow only men to drive. They took the wheels in a 40-car caravan through the capital.

Holiday Spirit?: Greenland says rival countries are grabbing too much of the Christmas trade and enough is enough. The island is building in Nuuk, the capital, a $2-million Santa Claus complex with Eskimo arts and sleigh-rides. A chilly mood is in the air because Sweden, Norway and Finland have their own major Father Christmas industries.

Wasp’s Sting: D.C. is buzzing about former George Bush speech writer Richard Brookhiser’s new tongue-in-cheek book, “The Way of the Wasp,” which offers a list of likes of the maligned majority: the “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” sandwich--turkey roll on white bread; worst WASP sins--debt and losing your temper. Do WASPs eat bagels, pizza and egg rolls? Of course, says Brookhiser, but only with a knife and fork.