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Post by no1novice on Apr 18, 2022 13:15:56 GMT
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Post by sputnik on Apr 18, 2022 13:48:04 GMT
With Iraqi competitors  meghan looks amazing with dark lipstick, i wish she'd wear it more often. |
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Post by lindsaywhit on Apr 18, 2022 16:10:35 GMT
Anne is simply the boss Charles and William aspire to be. A no-nonsense, reasonable, hard working person. I'm pretty sure she also has the most wit and the sharpest tongue of them all. Yes and she is known to use her sharp tongue. If she was the next monarch, the RF would be in safe hands, but we have Charles & Petulant Bill and his out-of-touch wife. I'll always love Anne because of her encounter with the would-be kidnapper she totally dominated: Ball, who was planning to kidnap the Princess for a £2 million ransom, tried to make Anne get out of the car. In a moment of impressive calm, she famously replied: ‘Not bloody likely’.Mind you, this was after Ball had shot her driver and bodyguard - so she knew the gun was real and he was ready to use it. She was and is a real-life badass, and even after my disillusionment with the royals because they're racists, I admit to clinging to my admiration for Anne. She's the no-nonsense real deal and I love her. I think you are right, Nov - the RF would be safer in her hands. Question: what made William such a petty wanker? He too lost his mother, of course, in a tragic and insanely public way, but did Charles and the Queen not have anything to say or do about his attitude? Charles is also a petulant brat, but Camilla seems to be very good for him. It's my personal opinion that Charles suffered greatly because he had a naturally reserved/shy personality and deeply understood and internalized his mother's disinterest and his father's disappointment with him. Anne, of course, was quite obviously the son Phillip always wanted, which didn't help. Phil had a pretty traumatic childhood as well but his character was positively affected by the very things that damaged Charles further - i.e. the boarding school from hell. I also have a theory that the whiny/petulant/nasty traits in Charles were encouraged by his beloved but not-as-nice-as-people-think-Granny, who was jealous of her daughter and son-in-law. As for Kate, I don't know how she could be any better than she is. She has tremendous self-discipline. She's married to her "prince" but he'd be exhausting for anyone with a brain, and she most definitely has the bulk of the one brain the two of them share. She has been so careful not to repeat Diana's "mistakes." She always tries to make her husband the center of the universe, she smiles too hard and laughs too much in that edge of hysteria way, she pumps out children and appears to mother them with love, kindness, and appropriate boundaries, and she ignores not only Bill's affairs but the unpalatable truth that his Windsor face is fug to the point of no return and the peach fuzz on his head is fooling no one but himself. Of course she doesn't have Meghan's charisma or confidence, but that's just not who she is, and nobody should expect it of her. |
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Post by Sarzy on Apr 18, 2022 16:20:42 GMT
^ Love that Anne quote.
I agree Kate has a lot of self discipline. I think she is good for the Royal family. She gets on with what she has to do and there's no mess or drama. She's one of the only Royals I don't mind.
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Post by no1novice on Apr 18, 2022 16:36:00 GMT
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Post by loftybike on Apr 18, 2022 16:48:09 GMT
Awwww, it's so good to see Charlene agin. I'm just glad that she looks less sick and exhausted.
Like Novice, I think that there was more going on than they'd let us know.
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Post by lindsaywhit on Apr 18, 2022 18:49:10 GMT
I'm surprisingly happy to see her with her family and looking healthier than she has since before her wedding. Children of the Corn need their mother, too. Albert looks genuinely happy as well. crayzeehappee - you made it - good to see you here! |
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Post by Sarzy on Apr 19, 2022 8:08:36 GMT
Harry and Meghan have been invited to appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, according to reports – as the prince breaks his silence on his secret 'olive branch' meeting with the elderly monarch last week. The Duke of Sussex said 'it was great to see' his 96-year-old grandmother during a quick stop-off at Windsor Castle – where he also met his father Prince Charles, reportedly for just 15 minutes – before arriving in Holland for the Invictus Games. Harry, himself a military veteran who founded the event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women in 2014, said the British head of state 'had plenty of messages for Team UK' when he met her at the Berkshire estate last week. He added he had passed these onto the team, telling the BBC: 'So, it was great to see her and I'm sure she would love to be here if she could.' It follows reports that the Sussexes will appear at family events including the traditional balcony appearance and a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral, if they decide to travel to London from their £11million mansion in California to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee – in a sign that the couple's 'clear the air talks' last week were successful. Harry and Meghan reportedly promised the Queen that she will get to hug her great-grandchildren Archie and Lilibet 'in the near future' during the meeting. However, because they sensationally quit as working royals two years ago, Harry and Meghan will not be invited to take part in any official events over the four-day bank holiday weekend, like Trooping the Colour, according to The Telegraph. The moment on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the traditional flypast on June 2 will be a poignant one for the Queen, as it will likely mark the last time that they will all appear together during her reign, which will enter its 71st year this year. Aides believe that Harry and Meghan's presence would mean a lot to Her Majesty, who has yet to meet the couple's daughter Lilibet and who is learning to live without her husband of seven decades Prince Philip after his death last year. However, sources warned that the Sussexes' attendance will have to be carefully managed, and will involve a 'leap of faith' from all sides after the couple made a string of damaging claims, including bombshell allegations of racism against an unnamed senior royal made in their Oprah tell-all last year, since they quit royal life and moved to Montecito. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10729859/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-invited-make-balcony-appearance-Jubilee.html |
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Post by no1novice on Apr 19, 2022 19:30:24 GMT
Operation: Make William & Kate (op names Bill & Cathy) more approachable. Their photographer “opens his hidden files” to show “never before seen” photographs of the iconic charismatic, couple-of-the-people….. Always on the back foot in the popularity stakes, behind the naturally charismatic H&M.  Side-eye  Kissing his hand? Nonononono!  Equality for all princesses!  Don’t forget a luxe holiday at tax payers’ expense.  Bu-bye!  |
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Post by loftybike on Apr 19, 2022 20:55:31 GMT
^^^ That's quite embarrassing and tone-deaf.
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Post by lindsaywhit on Apr 19, 2022 23:54:03 GMT
 Seriously? They seriously released these saying that??? Can't be true... because that would make them appallingly, cringingly, horrifyingly out of touch. |
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Post by Sarzy on Apr 20, 2022 0:07:34 GMT
Seriously? They seriously released these saying that??? Can't be true... because that would make them appallingly, cringingly, horrifyingly out of touch. No, the following is what the photographer said in his Instagram post: It was a true honour to document The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their week-long tour of the Caribbean last month. 'Here are some highlights of the beautiful people, friendly smiles, breathtaking landscapes and pristine oceans we saw along the way.' www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10732021/Behind-scenes-Kate-Middleton-Prince-Williams-royal-tour.html |
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Post by lindsaywhit on Apr 20, 2022 0:11:22 GMT
Oh, thanks Sarzy. It's the DM - and they are that out-of-touch. They probably actually thought they were being helpful. (eye roll)
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Post by no1novice on Apr 20, 2022 3:42:12 GMT
The photos would have been released with permission from the RF though, so my tag stand  |
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Post by lindsaywhit on Apr 20, 2022 5:27:33 GMT
Okay - here's what I would like to know: So, they meet with Charles & Camilla, they meet with the Queen. (A rumored requirement for meeting with the Queen was meeting with Charles. If that's true, it's a smart move because it creates a certain leveling of the tension between Harry & his father.)
After these brief but apparently cordial meetings, they are invited to the balcony for the June 2 celebrations. If they come, with the children, it would be great optics, BUT would they allow that kind of exposure for the children? Presumably, all the Queen's grandchildren & great-grandchildren would crowd onto the balcony - will the Queen allow Andrew on the balcony? You KNOW he's putting the pressure on in any way he can. Awkward, if she allows it, but how likely is it that she would have every other one of her family there, but not Andrew - the clear favorite. It will be a bitter pill to swallow for both of them, of course, but she's more pragmatic than Andrew - to be the only descendant of the Queen not up on that balcony will be agony for him. So of course that's what I hope happens.
But back to my original question - Does the Queen then instruct everyone to play nice? More specifically, does she order Sulky Wills to suck it up and smile at his brother? Because here's the thing about William and Kate - I believe that if the Queen tells them to be friendly, they will indeed try to carry out her wishes. Meghan and Harry have cast that cloak of obedience and duty into a sort-of American/Netflix version of it - which means doing what they want/believe is right and then fitting the narrative to their actions. I'm just trying to figure out whether they will all look happy and at least somewhat friendly, or if we're going to be treated to another church service of tight, furious, faces and deadly cuts.
Fun for us either way, I suppose. Oh yeah, one more thing:
Really, DM? She's not allowed on the balcony after this year? You've decided she's dying this year? SMH.
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