The Royal Family #17

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Em_gardener said:
She's so full of tit. It's like she tries to rewrite her life as some kind of cheesy biopic. Imagine comparing your wedding to Nelson Mandela gaining freedom after 27 years. I sometimes wonder if she starts to believe her own lies. She's always spinning her life into a fairy tale.
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I think she thinks she is portraying herself as some victimised hero of the people, but it all comes across as a Lifetime movie.

Maybe some of what she says is based in reality and just exaggerated, but there are now years worth of inconsistencies you just can't believe anything her or Harry says.

And for a man supposedly free of his gilded prison and madly in love, I've never seen him look more miserable.
 
Gym&Tonic said:
Is it true that the Queen is moving into Balmoral permanently? Someone has posted that on another thread this morning,
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I'm not sure but I know yesterday they were keen to say the decision for Boris and Liz/Rishi to travel up to Balmoral was just to provide certainty in everyones diaries.

Em_gardener said:
She's so full of tit. It's like she tries to rewrite her life as some kind of cheesy biopic. Imagine comparing your wedding to Nelson Mandela gaining freedom after 27 years. I sometimes wonder if she starts to believe her own lies. She's always spinning her life into a fairy tale.
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I think she does believe it. It's like watching Roxanne Pallet on Big Brother trying to destroy Ryan Thomas but on a much grander scale. She is literally rewriting everything in her head.
 
FenellaTheWitch said:
I'm not sure but I know yesterday they were keen to say the decision for Boris and Liz/Rishi to travel up to Balmoral was just to provide certainty in everyones diaries.



I think she does believe it. It's like watching Roxanne Pallet on Big Brother trying to destroy Ryan Thomas but on a much grander scale. She is literally rewriting everything in her head.
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The roxanne pallet comparison is perfect
 
Gym&Tonic said:
Is it true that the Queen is moving into Balmoral permanently? Someone has posted that on another thread this morning,
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I don't see anything official but I think I saw they had kitted the place out fully to ease her mobility issues. That might mean nothing though as they would have the funds to kit out all the properties. Saying that maybe she's too old to swap residences with the same regularity. Where she spends Christmas if she makes it will be telling.
 
Boring Monday said:
Who knows, but William and Kate won’t be happy.
PR spin states they moved to Windsor to be next door to Granny and bring her meals on wheels daily. Does that mean they have to relocate the relocation <tongue firmly planted in cheek>
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I am sure Wiliam can fly three meals up north daily himself. Like the royal version of senior meal services (don’t know how it’s called in English, we call it meals on wheels and it’s for old people that can’t really cook for themselves anymore).
 
One of the weird and random things I remember from the day Diana died is that all
sporting events were cancelled, including football matches. The one fixture that sticks in my mind is Liverpool vs Newcastle, well last night I switched Sky on and on the hone screen with Liverpool vs Newcastle!

Obviously a coincidence but a weird one! The exact same fixture as 25 years ago to the day.
 
It will be a slow decline and ongoing frailty at her age. I don't think she has one terminal illness more like ongoing multiple comorbidities which are becoming harder to manage as she gets more elderly and frailer. She's losing weight which is a bad sign for someone so elderly and usually signifies ongoing decline.
 
CuriousCat92 said:
No Braemar games for the Queen. I hope she is ok but the news all feels rather ominous to me.
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There’s that meme that turns up a lot on social media of the Queen and Charles laughing hysterically at the Braemar games. They always seem to really enjoy it, so it does seem a bit ominous but then she’s missed lots of stuff she wouldn’t usually miss over the last year like the Festival of Remembrance, The Cenotaph, State Opening of Parliament etc. It’s hard to know what’s really going on and whether or not she just can’t be bothered anymore. Incidentally my mum said yesterday totally out of the blue that she thought the Queen has gone up to Scotland to die. Balmoral is meant to be her ‘happy place’ after all.
 
I think the test will be if she returns after the standard summer break. If she doesn't then I think that will show things are pretty serious and possibly she has gone there to live out her final days/weeks/even years

She reminds me a lot of my nan in terms od symptoms/looks etc, we had loads of false starts when we thought this was the end and she went on for years after so it's really hard to tell.
 
Is it correct that when Prince Charles becomes King then the Duchess of Cambridge becomes the Princess of Wales? The title wasn’t retired after Diana died? I know Camilla chose not to use it.
Thinking it will be strange to hear “the Princess of Wales” being spoken of again and it not being Diana.
 
CuriousCat92 said:
Is it correct that when Prince Charles becomes King then the Duchess of Cambridge becomes the Princess of Wales? The title wasn’t retired after Diana died? I know Camilla chose not to use it.
Thinking it will be strange to hear “the Princess of Wales” being spoken of again and it not being Diana.
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No, it wasn't retired- technically Camilla is Pricess of Wales and in the normal course of things would use it as it's customary to be known by your highest ranking title, but opted to use Duchess of Cornwall instead as she knew there'd be an absolute uproar.

I reckon most monarchists will be reasonably happy for Kate to take it over, she's seen as a 'suitable' inheritor of it.
 
CuriousCat92 said:
Is it correct that when Prince Charles becomes King then the Duchess of Cambridge becomes the Princess of Wales? The title wasn’t retired after Diana died? I know Camilla chose not to use it.
Thinking it will be strange to hear “the Princess of Wales” being spoken of again and it not being Diana.
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Yes and William will be Prince of Wales. I’ve seen a few people mention it should be retired but I don’t see a reason it should be, there was plenty of them before and will be plenty after.
 
CuriousCat92 said:
Is it correct that when Prince Charles becomes King then the Duchess of Cambridge becomes the Princess of Wales? The title wasn’t retired after Diana died? I know Camilla chose not to use it.
Thinking it will be strange to hear “the Princess of Wales” being spoken of again and it not being Diana.
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Technically Camilla is Princess of Wales, she just chooses not to use it.

I think Kate will use it, as then the stigma behind the title will have long gone by the time George’s future spouse comes to inherit it
 
CuriousCat92 said:
Is it correct that when Prince Charles becomes King then the Duchess of Cambridge becomes the Princess of Wales? The title wasn’t retired after Diana died? I know Camilla chose not to use it.
Thinking it will be strange to hear “the Princess of Wales” being spoken of again and it not being Diana.
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If, or most likely when William is invested as Prince of Wales then Kate will be HRH Princess of Wales … but it’s neither immediate nor automatic.

as the title of Duke of Cornwall automatically slides down to William when Charles becomes King, Kate also becomes Duchess of Cornwall as well :cool:
 
It wouldn't surprise me if the Wales titles don't get used. There is a lot of unhappiness in Wales over them having a prince, so it wouldn't surprise me if it either gets retired or just doesn't get used. When the queen does die there will have to be a lot of sensitive handling of things to ensure the monarchy survives, and titles is one of those. Especially when you look at the issues over Harry and meghan and titles rights. With the scaling back of the monarchy it wouldn't surprise me if titles are also something that get trimmed back
 
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