At the very least visiting them and providing a proper burial wouldn't be over riding any decisions about their care. They were hidden away due to their blood connections to the royals and the view that their heritage was not pure. Cant believe people think the treatment of them by their relatives is acceptable.
Didnt she keep inviting him around to their after they broke up? Also you have to question a mothers judgement if the stories are true about William calling Kate a mattress when they were on one of their breaks....I have said that of Carol on here and been slaughteredI reckon Carol helped to nurture the relationship and bag a royal for her daughter. *Puts tin hat on and runs for cover*
Wasn't it his Royal Protection officers who called her that, because she would just turn up whenever he wanted a shag, wherever else he had been? I suspect he didn't want someone who would rock the boat like Diana so made sure Kate would put up with anything before he committed.
I dont particularly want yo rave about any Royals, including Harry and Meghan, because they are all entitled and self serving but the vitriol Meghan gets is really out of control compared to what she has done. It's so over the top, it's bizarre.
Blimey I never heard that, but I can imagine Carol getting her talons into him and not letting go.And probably telling Kate to let him shag her as much as possible in case he found another one.
I agree it's obsessive and pure poison.
I think he is getting a taste for being a royal he will be posturing in coat tails and top hat like jacob Rees - Mogg next.
No one is saying that it was acceptable but it was regularly done years ago.
Honestly, it would have put me off - if she wanted to marry wealth there were far, far easier options than William. And after the press coverage over the last 30 years or so, who would choose to be in the royal family? I think she married him in spite of him being a prince, because she knew she was essentially marrying the entire country when she did so and she'd never be private again.
If they weren't being hidden away why was it made out that they had died. You know no more than I do for the true reason they were kept away from public knowledge. Regardless of this aspect that we disagree on I think it is disgusting that the cousins of the queen do not have a fit burial and headstone.
It was common for families to keep it from public knowledge right across Europe and the USA, especially aristocratic families with children to marry off. The Coke-Spencer marriage would not have been the only one not to have happened because of "bad blood". Likewise, the Kennedys did not want the knowledge of Rosemary to affect the family's political and social climb.
I have always thought this. I’m the same age as Kate and grew up in England - I clearly remember all the Charles and Diana press and there is no way I’d have ever wanted to get involved with the royal family. As you say, she could have found a rich man without all the attention and rules and standards and expectations etc etc. Of course not everyone thinks like me, Kate may have been on a mission to go to uni and find Wills!, but she would have had a clear idea what she’d be dealing with and she did it anyway. There must have been love/attraction there or else it’s too high a price to pay for money and nice outfits!
I agree it could be no more than just general appalling attitudes to their disabilities which was commonplace, you make a valid point. But once the queen was made aware they were still alive in the 1960s amends could have been made especially when the first cousin passed away in 1986, there was no need for her to have a paupers grave. The second cousin who died in 2014 has a very simple grave but a little more than her sister was afforded.
Sorry missed original quote but is this referring to Mr Mike Tindall? Thought I was alone in not finding him wonderful. For me he is obsequious around the right people and extremely disingenuous.
Exactly her sister has married a millionaire and would live very quietly with him if her sister hadn’t married the future king.
I think the one were he wrote to apologise about that still survives.
But it's not just money and nice outfits. It's a life of pure privilege where you don't really have to think about money at all. Your job, while boring most days, is meeting people and shaking hands and being generally respectful and that's a lot easier than the average job - and on top of that you get to travel to other countries to meet some possibly amazing people? And even then, Kate has hardly been working anyway
Being a Royal isn't too shabby. The perks in return for a tiny bit of a loss of privacy is astronomical. Never wanting for anything ever again financially not only for you but your children, never having to worry about their education or job prospects afterwards, not having to do anything particularly taxing for the rest of your life, people fawning over you, only cooking and cleaning if you felt like it. They get tons of privacy. Most of the time they have the press at their beck and call. They go on numerous holidays every year where they have completed privacy. They are in no way on show at all times. Diana was in those circles and still went there. They are not hard done by in any way shape or form no matter what they want us to think
