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AIBU to think that the way the Prince and his new bride are being portrayed as some as 'ordinary' is nauseating and stupid?

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Wamster · 01/05/2011 10:18

This is not about them as people- they may be very nice as people. It's about the propaganda to portray them as some kind of 'ordinary' couple by the press and media. How can they be ordinary? All the hogwash in the press about the bride's mother having a say in the wedding as if it were some kind of nice, middle-class do, now I'm not saying she did not have a say, but does anybody really believe that had the palace NOT agreed with her, her views would hold any water? The nonsense about the new bride's sister and Prince Harry getting together Hmm

I cannot believe people are gullible enough to swallow the 'they are just like us' line. Surely whether for OR against the royals nobody can truly believe this?
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slavewife · 01/05/2011 10:20

because they wanted ordinary wedding, as much as they could, they dont want to be in the public eye, nor do they want chased constantly with the media, etc... looking at the history of "royals" they are a pretty ordinary couple.

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Itsjustafleshwound · 01/05/2011 10:20

In the words of another 'commoner' 'Calm Down dear' !!

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gapbear · 01/05/2011 10:21

They are just like us - people are people.

They just have different jobs and less freedom. I don't think you can even necessarily say they've got more money.

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Hassled · 01/05/2011 10:21

Well they are just like us insofar as they're human, with opinions and feelings and emotions etc. I think it's so easy to talk about celebs as though they're robots - you can say anything and it's fair game.

But I agree, they're far from ordinary.

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Wamster · 01/05/2011 10:21

They are not ordinary. I say this as a republican BUT if I were a diehard royalist, I would say the same thing.

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KarenWalker · 01/05/2011 10:24

Ordinary yet not ordinary.

When they were leaving the palace in that car, they looked just like any couple in love. Albeit, in an Aston Martin that the Queen had given to his father many years ago.

I genuinely don't think they would have felt much different to how I did on my wedding day. (Even though her life has changed much more than the average person!)

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gkys · 01/05/2011 10:25

i think the meaning is that they appear to be more down to earth,

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Beveridge · 01/05/2011 13:50

Actually, I would say the opposite OP, that they ARE ordinary but that it's other people's perception/representation of them that makes them 'different'. After all, they are human beings just like everyone else, but their exalted status is only due to the fact that it's a bizarre human trait that we seem to need someone to tug our forelocks at and bow and curtsey to.

On the other hand, the other school of media thought that tries to convince everyone that Kate is an 'ordinary' royal bride completely misses the fact that her parents are loaded (well, by my standards they are) and she went to a top fee-paying school. It's not like she came from a high-rise on a council estate and did quite well at the local comp...

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Southcoastsarah · 01/05/2011 14:30

of course they arent ordinary, he will be the king one day

but he seems to be more in touch with reality than most of them

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SybilBeddows · 01/05/2011 14:36

what do you mean about them not necessarily having more money Gapbear? the interest alone on William's inheritance is over 300k a year; if anyone else on this thread has as much as that I'd be very surprised.

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forehead · 01/05/2011 14:41

As ordinary as you can be when you are a member of the Royal family.

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FreudianSlipper · 01/05/2011 14:50

yes i do cringe, its like peasants from centeries ago bowing down to their masters giving them special treatment putting them on a pedestal just because of who they are not what they have done

how can anyone on here claim to know how they feel, what they are really like, what they want and do not want all that we know about them is what their very clever pr let us know

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Psammead · 01/05/2011 14:58

breathing Grin

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HalleluiaScot · 01/05/2011 14:59

They are extraordinary people who do ordinary things.

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WearingaSunhat · 01/05/2011 15:02

I thought it's strange the media refered to Kate as the first 'commoner' to marry a prince.
"they are just like us" - It is supposed to make them more endearing to the public?
The royal couple are already perfect as they are! Let us not confuse things portraying them with all that PC-ness crap.

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sfxmum · 01/05/2011 15:02

it made me chuckle the vow of for richer and for poorerGrin

I don't mind them, they are of no consequence to me

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SardineQueen · 01/05/2011 15:06

Am also a bit boggled at gapbear's assertion that they aren't that well off Grin

Of course they aren't ordinary! And I agree it is a bit silly that the press insist on presenting them as that.

Apart from anything else they can't be ordinary, if people actually genuinely saw them as ordinary, it would be the end of the monarchy.

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jesterjangles · 01/05/2011 15:19

We really do not know these people at all. They might be normal down to earth people (as much as they can be) or they might not be. They might be head over heels in love with each other......but they might not be.

I saw a banner that someone had made, saying "Will & Kate, True Love Does Exist". Now they aren't actually wrong because it does but does it apply to Wills & Kate............who knows except the two of them. The fact that the public think they know them because of what they have heard of read from the press, irritates me completely.

I have nothing against the royal family and quite like the fact that we have a monarchy but I do not KNOW what they are like and neither does anyone else who hasn't met them.

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SybilBeddows · 01/05/2011 15:22

Halleluia - or you could see them as ordinary people who do extraordinary things!

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fedupalready · 01/05/2011 15:27

TBH who really actually cares

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exoticfruits · 01/05/2011 15:36

I think they are ordinary in that they know how to queue, can use a supermarket, buy a pizza, clean toilets and I bet that either of them could cope with cleaning up their child's vomit (if they had one) at 2am-not something that most Royals could do.
Just ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Good luck to them-I wouldn't want to do it. I expect they want to be 'ordinary' for as long as possible-it is the best thing to be!
As fedupalready says-'who cares'?

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sausagesandmarmelade · 01/05/2011 18:08

There's nothing ordinary about spending 250 grand on a wedding dress!

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moonstorm · 01/05/2011 18:21

Is that how much the wedding dress cost? It's obscene.

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mumblechum1 · 01/05/2011 18:24

I think Kate comes from a relatively normal background - her parents are obviously grafters and have reaped the rewards for their hard work. Nothing abnormal in that.

William, obv. is another matter....

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