The Royal Family #50

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Wandering into armchair diagnostics here. But there are forms of cancer that are incurable but you can certainly go on and live another 25 years with it and die having it instead of dying from it. I don’t think he is getting palliative treatment and is going to die anytime soon. Treatment will take a toll on you though. But I think being the monarch does as well. One thing is his schedule but the other are the boxes, the weekly meetings, the knowledge you are privy too. I imagine there are a lot of things we never hear about. Pretty sure geopolitics and according strategic games let you loose a lot of sleep. Same for the current problems in the UK and how they will and can go forward.
Lots of people seem to age a lot in the first year of office. So I am unsure how much of it is cancer/treatment and how much is the job. And of course he now heads the family. Which can’t be much fun either. HMTQ did a bad job in dealing with them. I mean, he could leave the American Exiles to Wiliam and Andrew will loose a lot of importance when Wiliam becomes king. So there is that. I wonder about the Walses vision for their reign. I am pretty sure there will be a massive cut in engagements to accommodate a slimmer RF. They are pretty much on course with their European counterparts so that’s the future I guess.
 
Wandering into armchair diagnostics here. But there are forms of cancer that are incurable but you can certainly go on and live another 25 years with it and die having it instead of dying from it. I don’t think he is getting palliative treatment and is going to die anytime soon. Treatment will take a toll on you though. But I think being the monarch does as well. One thing is his schedule but the other are the boxes, the weekly meetings, the knowledge you are privy too. I imagine there are a lot of things we never hear about. Pretty sure geopolitics and according strategic games let you loose a lot of sleep. Same for the current problems in the UK and how they will and can go forward.
Lots of people seem to age a lot in the first year of office. So I am unsure how much of it is cancer/treatment and how much is the job. And of course he now heads the family. Which can’t be much fun either. HMTQ did a bad job in dealing with them. I mean, he could leave the American Exiles to Wiliam and Andrew will loose a lot of importance when Wiliam becomes king. So there is that. I wonder about the Walses vision for their reign. I am pretty sure there will be a massive cut in engagements to accommodate a slimmer RF. They are pretty much on course with their European counterparts so that’s the future I guess.
I saw Tony Blair on Richard and Judy in the nineties talking about this. Saying you are privy to things no one else knows, and the weight of it has a telling effect on you.
The kind of things that would cause massive panic on the streets if it got out.
I noticed Blair aged pretty fast and also Obama.
 
I saw Tony Blair on Richard and Judy in the nineties talking about this. Saying you are privy to things no one else knows, and the weight of it has a telling effect on you.
The kind of things that would cause massive panic on the streets if it got out.
I noticed Blair aged pretty fast and also Obama.
On a much smaller scale admittedly but I used be privy to the goings on in an EU institution years ago, I swear to God myself and some close colleagues aged rapidly in a short space of time. Affairs, suicides, assaults (onsite), even black magic allegations it was never ending.
 
The weird thing I find with the British monarchist relationship with the British monarchy is that they genuinely believe they personally know them. They don't, never have, never will, but they get awfully tetchy about things. We don't know what was said, and we most likely never will.

Not really. No one is claiming they 'know' TRF. Part of their appeal was the mystique. I don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility to have an educated guess what would go on between Trump and William given what we know of both of them publicly, especially Trump as he makes up a ton of tit.

For all we know William could have said 'non of your business you orange twit' and Trump has said 'William said his Dad was fighting very hard'.
 
I think every influencer thread has people who think they know the person the thread is about. Saying things like they all know how X would react, if Z happened they would definitely show it etc. people on tattle are super invested in the people they are tattling about in general, even more so than some fans!

I think my super-investment is more like the way my cat hunts mice than a fan follows their favourite. I found this place because I was aghast at the grifting of some shameless characters, and it's not so much gossip as information-sharing, which can show up quite predictable patterns so you can get the sense you know someone - in the way my cat knows a mouse. Jack Monroe was my introduction to Tattling, and there were times it felt like a deliciously bitchy department of MI5.

I like it here because as an outsider I find the British relationship with the monarchy fascinating, and because it's affectionate and a bit eccentric, which I like, rather than the shades of David Icke on the Harry & Meghan one.
 
Were you aware that Catherine and William withdrew their card not long after posting it? It was animated with snow falling - see video (scroll down):

I once again beg them to get competent staff who can manage basic tasks and don’t leave everything to the last minute. The picture is just a screenshot from the video as well. Would have been an idea to do a small shoot at the time of the video to have images for Christmas birthdays etc.

Third year in a row that they haven’t gone to the family lunch. Woeful work ethic. Particularly William.
 
I wonder if regarding Charles treatment there was a discussion around quality of life and being able to carry out as many duties as possible, over quantity.

Regarding the Christmas lunch the last few years it’s been held at Windsor and I was under the impression they did attend there were simply no pictures of them arriving seeing as they live on the estate as were already there. I don’t think they’ve missed it before this year
 
I wonder if regarding Charles treatment there was a discussion around quality of life and being able to carry out as many duties as possible, over quantity.

Regarding the Christmas lunch the last few years it’s been held at Windsor and I was under the impression they did attend there were simply no pictures of them arriving seeing as they live on the estate as were already there. I don’t think they’ve missed it before this year

They skipped it in 2022 and 2023. This is just the first year that it’s getting way more attention, and there’s a reason for that.

 
I know Kate’s been ill but I find it strange they didn’t go especially as the King is ill. It’s tradition and it seems they don’t care about tradition. I don’t think they’d have missed TLQ’s Christmas lunch though.
 
It said on the TV that it was for people who weren't going to Sandringham for Christmas.
I'm confused now 😕 🤔...
ETA it mentioned 70 people in total, and 45 of those are going to Sandringham I think they said.
Yeah it’s always been the case that the one at Buckingham Palace (Windsor recently) is for all the extended cousins, non working members of the family, as it’s big enough to host them all. Sandringham doesn’t have room for everyone
 
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Talks this morning of Eugenie joining now too as she has been advised not to travel abroad.
 
Catherine asked Gabriella Windsor to help her with organising the Christmas carol service. What a genuinely lovely act of kindness.

 
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