Interesting big picture take on the whole mess.
Could smeg take the RF down?
Well, she and her dimwit helpmeet made PP's and HMTLQ's last years hellish.
Then they started on Catherine and dimwit's dad.
Look what effect that's had.... they've taken down two of the three key members of the RF. And William is bearing a huge mental/emotional burden now, which can't be good for his health either.
They've hobbled the RF. Temporarily, I earnestly pray.
Their MO is like psychological Chinese water torture...a steady drip, drip, drip of acid. Persistent, chronic low grade harassment is very effective in destroying people. It's underestimated because it's under the radar of other people, it's not targeted at them so they don't pay attention to it, they don't have any idea of the actual damage it's silently doing.
Then they lob some 'my truth' bombs into the mix every once in a while. Just to pump up the stress levels
Charles is a ditherer and he likes to be seen as a kind and friendly chap. He should have taken his dimwit son in hand decades ago (yes, as one parent to another I would have said to him 'you should'! Amongst other important things, It's a parent's job to socialise their children, make them acceptable to the world.)
The huge point that Smallbrook doesn't make is that, out here, we don't know what we don't know.
We just don't know what secrets the RF has been hiding all these years.
Hazno and ho might well have some ballistic missile secrets to unleash which could finally scupper the Monarchy. They might be saving 'the best' til last...
Thinking about HMTLQ'S mistakes, I honestly think that her biggest was allowing the marriage between Charles and Diana.
It was an arranged job, the pair were manipulated into it.
They were almost completely mismatched. That was obvious.
They'd met only 13 times before the wedding.
It was insane to think it could work - especially with his lover lurking in the wings! This was the 1980s, not the 1880s!!
Charles could have married any one of the lovely, sensible down to earth, intelligent, suitably aristo women with whom he was consorting (there were about 24 of them I read). Better still, they should have let him marry Camilla first time round instead of interfering with their archaic, rank snobbery. (The RF would be in a real pickle now if not for the commoner women who were subsequently allowed in!)
Strangely enough a lot of those suitable girls turned him down, went off and married other men because, reportedly, he wasn't attentive enough. Even Camilla gave up on him due to his dithery indecision...
If he'd married one of the two dozen other candidates, we'd have had perhaps a not quite so photogenic King and Queen in waiting. But it would have been mostly a more stable, minimal drama match and the woman wouldn't have had Monarchy destruction on their agenda.
Another major benefit is that we wouldn't have had dimwit and ho.
Yes, we wouldn't have had William and Catherine either which, as we know now, would have been an immeasurable loss. Though we wouldn't have been any the wiser if Charles had taken a more decisive, sensible course.
Hindsight is a fantastic thing.... every one of us humans has made mistakes. What matters is how we recover from those mistakes and repair or at least limit the damage.
It appears that the Palace aides have simply carried on advising more glowing PR, more never explaining and more cover-ups instead of proactive damage limitation...and that's the Achilles heel in all this.
dogs are wonderful, as is James
thanks for sharing!
