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Yourroyalchica said:

I agree with all you said. They are classy. So is Princess Anne. Infact she shows even more decorum than them. Nonetheless, she has an interesting personality which I miss on the two of them. Princess of Wales has nothing on Princess Anne when it comes to intelligence and sharpness.

Neither will she fill her new role like Princess Diana....

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Yes you are 100% correct. Catherine will never fill her role as Princess of Wales the way Diana did.

Catherine won’t be throwing herself down a staircase while pregnant
Catherine won’t be having affairs with married men.
Catherine won’t be slagging off her husband in internationally televised “interviews”

She is nothing like Princess Diana, thank the Lord.

Rozzie said:

While Harry should not publish that book, never mind do it so soon after the Queens death, I have no sympathy for Camilla! Those boys have to have found it hard to accept her after what she did to their mother! Sorry if post unpopular but I cannot stand her & can never see her as "Queen" She permanently looks like a startled rabbit! Not fit for purpose! I'll shut the door behind me.

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I used to dislike Camilla in the 90s. Then we mature and start to see life is not all black and white. Charles and Camilla lived a love story interrupted by RF rules. From all accounts it seems they were very much in love. Charles tried to follow the expected route traced for him and married the virgin aristocrat he was told to. Diana was thrown under the bus here, she was practically a child and had no idea what was expecting her in that marriage. Charles did what royals and aristocrats always did throughout History: had a wife for show and a mistress for happiness. He counted on Diana being obedient, dumb and quiet. Well, that didn’t happen and it was the mess we all know about. Unfortunately, it ended up in tragedy. When Charles and Camilla could finally reunite publicly, she was attacked from all sides, it was ugly but they stayed strong, they were meant to be together since the 70s. I don’t condem Diana, or Camilla, I feel sorry for both. Like the entire world, I loved Diana and time taught me to love Camilla too. IMO Camilla is being a beautiful, dignified Queen Consort and wish her all blessings in this new era of British life.

Just more random thoughts on the whole debacle...

I think this whole thing is mainly based on the fact that Americans just don't understand the culture of Britain and the royal family. That's ok! It's not necessary to know everything about a country you don't live in. But with Meg in particular, she should have bothered to learn about an institution she was marrying into.

She took it personally when she was told she wasn't allowed to use her royal status to campaign for whatever she liked. She took it personally when she was told that Archie wasn't necessarily going to be a prince. She took it personally that she was given a cottage not a palace. She took it personally that she was dragged in the press. She took it personally that she was told how to act in public. She took it personally that she had to curtsey to the Queen. She took it personally that she wasn't allowed to go around Britain doing exclusive interviews with the media. She took it personally that she had to accept that her role in the family was less than William and Kate's.

She doesn't understand that literally all of this is how the royal family is for everybody! She's gone around crying that this stuff is racist, when it happens to literally everybody who is born into or marries into the royal family.

Now she's gone back to America and given interviews acting all shocked about all this stuff, and apparently people over there find it shocking. But in Britain it's our culture, and we see it as lucky and priviledged to be a princess, have a £32 million wedding, be given a free cottage, get to meet the Queen and everything else. It isn't seen as humiliating to curtsey to the Queen, it is known that some of her grandchildren aren't made prince/princess, it is known that the royal family is a heirarchy, it is known that the tabloids drag everybody. Maybe that seems shocking to people who are seeing it from the outside, but it's our culture, and Meg should have learned about a culture she was marrying into.

Wonderful article and some great advice for KC…



Now, Prince Harry. If you resign from your job in a huff, and sell The Firm’s secrets, don’t expect to keep the company car and your salary or be upset when you don’t get an invitation to the Christmas party. That much is clear to any normal person. Not to the Duke of Sussex who caused his grandmother a lot of stress in her final years with repugnant and damaging allegations about her family (“Recollections may vary”). Luckily, Her Majesty’s death gave the Prince an ideal opportunity to reflect on his and his wife’s unkind behaviour and make a full apology to his father and brother.

Just kidding! The Sussexes will soon be back in California where Harry can write an extra bonus chapter in his grievance memoir. Which explains why none of his grieving relatives particularly wanted to talk to him. He seemed surprised.

And lastly, to Princess Anne. Underrated for far too long, the Princess Royal has been a star of this tumultuous time. There can be no clearer example of the difficult dual role she has to play than the deep curtsey she made to her mother’s coffin as it arrived at Holyrood. It was a gesture both beautiful and devastating, personal and formal. The loss of her parent, the duty owed to her sovereign; somehow, those feelings must be reconciled. Similarly, the salute to her brother, now the King, when she left to travel with their mother’s coffin to Windsor. It made many people cry, an emotional release the 72-year-old Royal has denied herself as she travelled every (surely exhausting) step of the way with the late Queen.
“I was fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest Mother’s life. It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journey,” she said in a statement accompanied by the sweetest picture of them together. Anne has the “just got to get on with it” fortitude of her parents. They would be so proud of her. It only occurred to me the other day that the Princess Royal also has her mother’s lovely voice. I hope the new monarch heeds it. King Charles should promote his sister to Counsellor of State, which means she can stand in for him on official duties if he’s abroad or incapacitated.

Absurdly – make that obscenely – Prince Harry, Prince Andrew and his elder daughter Beatrice are all Counsellors of State. As a female, Anne does not get succession rights, bumping the Queen’s third-born child (and his offspring) up the line ahead of her. Let’s face it, the combined wisdom of Princes Harry and Andrew would fit on a golf tee. Beatrice is half her aunt’s age and vastly less experienced. We should hope that one of the first acts of the new King’s reign is to overturn this disgracefully sexist and outdated rule. It insults the Queen’s second-born, a distinguished public servant. The Princess Royal is one hell of a woman, title or no.

Hi all, I’m back. Two weeks ago today my world fell apart when my hubby passed away. I have to give a big heartfelt thanks to all Tattlers for your beautiful messages of sympathy and words of support which, although they reduced me tears, were a great source of comfort to me. To think that none of us know each other personally and yet we are like one big family feeling each other’s joy and grief. Where else would you get this kind of support ……? You are really a fantastic group of people and a pleasure to be part of.

The funeral was last Friday and was a celebration of his life with many happy memories of Mr Wise being shared by his family and friends. He taught himself to play the guitar and loved singing ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ to our children when they were young, and to anyone else who would listen! This became his ‘signature song’ and we had it played at the service - everyone was asked to join in, and they did …. It was wonderful, truly uplifting. I have to show you a pic. of the flowers which were on the coffin, entwined around his old guitar with ‘Puff’ sheet music. Again so beautiful, and so Mr Wise, he would have loved it.

Sorry this post is so long but, just to keep it OT, I am ready to face the antics of the Gruesomes once again and getting prepared for Thursday ….. the day to buckle up and enjoy the ride provided by Tom Bower.

Thanks for the new thread @Cassandra333 and @planetmirth for the brilliant title.

And it seems to me you live your life with a candle in the way

VicksterIcon said:

Statement from Donald Trump

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Regardless of how you feel about Trump, this is a good statement and much more personal and heartfelt than the one the Markles put out. What a disgrace Smeg and her lapdog are.

Just noticed there are some new Mister Men books out.....

Beautiful!

Since Minge has done nothing to advance the cause of women, despite being a self proclaimed feminist; here is a ground breaking woman taking on a traditional male role.

Princess Anne makes history as first woman to 'stand guard' for Vigil of the Princes.

Whoever this woman is - we salute you she wouldn't shake MM's hand and wouldn't even look at her. Brilliant

Have some bad re Zippy unfortunately He was found this morning in a garden down the road My heart is absolutely breaking right now

High speed chase

Can’t remember if I put this in the thread before but my daughter in law has it confirmed that she will be working the funeral. She works at the Abbey. She has to stay over at Westminster School tonight for a 5am start. She’s very nervous, but goodness what an opportunity. . She really will be at the heart of it all

Oh yay! I’ve got my first title!

I FUCKING ROCK!

Off to get a job at Archewell…

Laters Peasants.

posting this again, because it speaks a thousand words...............

I think it's disappointing that Harry and Meghan said that they were unable to publically address stories and rumours about themselves whilst being working Royals but have made accusations and allegations about other members of the Royal Family who are unable to publically defend themselves.

I agree with what Piers Morgan said yesterday that the Sussexes can't summarily dismiss allegations of bullying against them as lies and expect people to believe everything they say.

I dispair that this world that seems to accept that a BAME person cannot be criticised for their behaviour without the person giving the critcism being called racist (unless it is Priti Patel). Race isn't an excuse or an out for shitty behaviour and everyone should be held to the same standards.

Oh dear.

25 years ago H couldn't be bothered to speak to Diana on the phone because he was playing with his cousins. It is said that he's carried that guilt ever since. But, he was just a boy.

25 years on, he refused his Granny's invitation to Balmoral and now she has passed too.

But he's not a boy this time.......just a selfish, cunt of a 'man'.