The Chateau Diaries #178 The château is a dream that hides an ugly truth..

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Fanny hurt her back from carrying all her grifted money to the bank !!!!
 
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Why do the Maker and Manor duo kiss Fanny’s ass so much and do all sorts of favors and work for her? Do they not see who she really is, a shifty grifter? Or do they not care?
 
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What a day. First, paying respects to QEII--may she Rest In Peace and may God grant all who loved her comfort. What a life she lived--I have nothing but respect for her. Several have mentioned that Prince William is now the Prince of Wales... doesn't he have to be invested? I was under the impression that it is not a title that is automatically inherited, nor is it one handed out to every heir to the throne. Please enlighten me on this. Next, I have to agree that my fellow American, Julie Montague, is annoying as hell. I can't stand the exaggerated speech and the "Lit-rally" that comes out of her mouth non-stop. Bad job representing us honey. People seem to find the constant interrupting between her and her husband charming--I can't stand it. It's rude and ridiculous. They act like children. She also needs to stop with the breathless speech. Shut up already, Julie, American Whatever. You make me cringe.
 
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Can you imagine a room with Meghan, Fanny, Julie Montague AND Ollie's Camilla all at the same time?!? Dear lord, 57 bottles of LaGorce's finest swill wouldn't do justice!
It would be a yoga standoff, Fanny would come in last be default.
 
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So she is a bit annoying although I do like some of her house tours very informative.
But again you buy a little house in Italy you go on trips, Kids are all in private school boarding school etc. and you’re begging money from strangers
 
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Why do the Maker and Manor duo kiss Fanny’s ass so much and do all sorts of favors and work for her? Do they not see who she really is, a shifty grifter? Or do they not care?
I do not think it is Sarah so much as Shrek. Sarah is just going with the flow, but Shrek has always been enamoured with Fanny and her life. SMH. This is probably why I like Sarah so much- she just puts up with her husband's shenanigans (no, Shrek, Fanny is never going to bed you, let alone run off with you, but keep dreaming pal, while Sarah dreams of running off with the likes of Robert Redford- she has a far better chance!)
 
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Patrons day was the usual crappy, last minute, screwed up rush job by Fanny. She had months to plan the extravaganza but, as usual, waited until the last minute, and created chaos.

She didn’t plan for a place for the Patrons to eat or gather after she rejected the idea of them dining inside her main dump. She rejected Dan’s idea of renting outdoor structures for the Patrons because she is cheap as hell.

Who knows where she got the table and chairs. I wonder if she had them stacked up at the Dump and used them previously at the wedding and for the musical groups who stayed and ate at the Dump. Of course, she couldn’t wash and use her good china, so she scrounged up Davy’s parents china to use. She couldn’t iron the tablecloths, and couldn’t even dive into her collection to provide tablecloths, instead foolishly grabbing expensive quilting material to get someone to hastily make a tablecloth for a table.

Fanny has loads of vases. What do the Patrons get? Scraggly flowers jammed into left over empty wine bottles grabbed from the latest party weekend at the Dump.

She has the Douche Lord frantically driving hour and hours to get free wine at the last minute.
The garage was half assed partially cleared at the last minute for a lunch area for the Patrons.
Fanny relied on everyone else to do all the heavy lifting with the crappy Patron Days celebration. It is just another half assed effort from Fanny the little orphan princess. How pissed would she be if she was offered the same accommodations when she visited the other chateau owners?
 
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So she is a bit annoying although I do like some of her house tours very informative.
But again you buy a little house in Italy you go on trips, Kids are all in private school boarding school etc. and you’re begging money from strangers
Agreed @mrsp67!
 
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Glad to hear that the emphasized "T" speech affectation annoys someone else besides me.
 
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Glad to hear that the emphasized "T" speech affectation annoys someone else besides me.
I feel compelled to slap her across the face every time she states, "LiTerally." Julie Montague, you are annoying as fork and give Yanks a bad name.
 
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According to what I read , I believe it was in the patron video that was post none of the patrons were staying at the chateau, that they had to find there own accomodations.
Yes, they wanted all of BnB rooms to be available for the tours. This is why they did the visit during the days the BnB would have normally been inactive. She didn't skip a beat and didn't lose any money.....

I feel compelled to slap her across the face every time she states, "LiTerally." Julie Montague, you are annoying as fork and give Yanks a bad name.
Oh no! She married a Brit....we don't have to claim her anymore!
 
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The fabric was gifted in return for some free advertisement from the company itself, they can just write it off as an expense. You know the saying about gifts, once you give it away, it's no longer yours. At least she used it instead of just stashing it in the attic, and the Sewist did a fine job finishing the edges. The wine was probably almost free, the cost of gas to get it probably was about the same or more than the wine itself, and it gave everyone a break from Phyllis. The entire charade went off like everything else at the shitoo, no surprises. Lack of planning, lack of taste, lack of quality, etc. The group photos were awful, very unflattering for everyone. Potts did a miserable job, so many other ways to take group photos other than something that might be done at an elementary school picnic. I don't think that most of the patrons really expected much more considering how most of them were dressed so casually in T-shirts and flip-flops with funky handbags that didn't match anything they were wearing. As a matter of fact, they WERE dressed for an elementary school picnic!
 
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-Alcohol and painkillers… so Lalande!
 
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According to what I read , I believe it was in the patron video that was post none of the patrons were staying at the chateau, that they had to find there own accomodations.
There were a lot of people there besides patrons that needed beds, aunt and uncle shrek and sarah, marie, scotman, potty, chloe, pavlina, kat, ideas somewhere Dana and goat cheese man were there too.... how many bedrooms are useable?
 
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Jeeves…… I am an American. , and claim to be an Anglophile…….. I am sad for this end of an era and fear for the UK. I have always been amazed at the way HRM gave her life to the throne. So, albeit not from the UK, my heart is sad.
 
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I haven’t watched any of her videos in so long- and it’s rather refreshing!!! So after reading here tonight, I don’t think I need to subject myself to this video- as I worked a long day today myself- but I can’t just claim “back pain”. Lol!!! I am going to bed soon to get up and go to work again tomorrow. I’m not meaning to sound whiny- I’m just saying that some people have to keep on keeping on! I’d rather stay busy anyway.
Just hearing the reviews is rather nauseating. I’ll just watch Chateau Chat- and see what Jules has to say about all this.
Nitey nite y’all!
 
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I am very familiar with what is wrong with her back. It’s basically caused by a great deal of stress and lack of any physical exercise. I’m going through a bout of sciatica right now. It’s all from stress. The stress of all these people coming and all of her lies and all of the work to be done and her mother being there.

Her back didn’t go “out”. Her stress levels reached critical mass.
 
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Kentucky was lucky to have been a place where Queen Elizabeth visited twice in the 1980s and for the 2007 Kentucky Derby. Each time she stayed at Bill Farish’s Lane’s End Farm in Woodford County. I remember seeing a horse named 'Kentucky' in the Royal Mews in the late '90s. May she Rest In Peace.
 
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