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Did the new royal bride get today off work

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EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 16:12

Noted that Harriet Sperling was at Ascot today .... as the press keep reporting she's an NHS nurse do you think someone swapped shifts with her today. Will her roster be flexible for the new jaunts???

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scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 18:04

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/06/2026 17:54

The NHS is a 24/7 service, which means that many NHS staff will get weekdays rostered off, because they are working at the weekend, @EnormousGinplease. I hope this helps you understand.

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Fingers crossed 🤞

Thebigonesgetaway · 17/06/2026 18:03

EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:56

NO !!!! being an NHS nurse and member of the royal family ... geeze it's not that difficult

What on earth are you talking about. What juxtaposition? She’s allowed a day off. As is he. He also works. They can go to the races, or royal events. They are not working royals, neither have titles. And your thread was if she’d got someone to stand in for her. Which was inane. Asking if she’d get flexi shifts for her new “jaunts”

look people would have more respect if you just owned it. You are Jealous of her, a woman you don’t even know, likely as she looks happy, is attractive, has a glamourous life in parts, and is wealthy.

what did you think would happen, we’d all be jealous too so also want to rip her apart. We don’t.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/06/2026 18:02

EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:54

NO !!!! being an NHS nurse and member of the royal family ... geeze it's not that difficult

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Why on earth can’t a member of the royal family and an NHS nurse be married, @EnormousGinplease? Baffling.

scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 18:02

Walker1178 · 17/06/2026 18:00

I generally didn’t realise that only unemployed people can attend the races especially when you have to dress so nicely. I guess everyday is a school day and I just learnt something new 👍🏻

Yes, only unemployed people. Certainly not anyone employed in the NHS.
Oh - isn't the NHS the biggest employer in the UK?
What other events should NHS workers be banned from, OP?

Chuzzwomblitz · 17/06/2026 18:01

Who?

scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 18:00

EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:56

NO !!!! being an NHS nurse and member of the royal family ... geeze it's not that difficult

She's royal adjacent. Peter Phillips has no title and no constitutional role. He does not act on behalf of the monarch.

Walker1178 · 17/06/2026 18:00

I generally didn’t realise that only unemployed people can attend the races especially when you have to dress so nicely. I guess everyday is a school day and I just learnt something new 👍🏻

BatchCookBabe · 17/06/2026 17:59

Bundleflower · 17/06/2026 16:15

What a weird way to try and bitch about a woman you’re jealous of with an honest job.

This. Some people bend themselves out of shape to an extreme level to try and bash and discredit the Royal Family. Some people are really invested in them considering they despise them so much. The Royals live rent free in the heads of these people. 😆 I'm a Royalist, and always have been, and I don't spend anywhere near as much time thinking about them as the haters.

MummyWillow1 · 17/06/2026 17:57
  1. NHS workers get annual leave
  2. Most frontline staff also work shifts, she may have already been scheduled off
  3. What difference does it make to anyone else?
  4. Why are you trying to start an NHS bashing thread?
OrigamiOwls · 17/06/2026 17:56

Nurse takes annual leave shocker

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EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:56

NO !!!! being an NHS nurse and member of the royal family ... geeze it's not that difficult

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/06/2026 17:54

EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:02

Not being snarky or bitchy as accused ... merely pointing out the juxtaposition and my somewhat jaded view of working in the NHS.

The NHS is a 24/7 service, which means that many NHS staff will get weekdays rostered off, because they are working at the weekend, @EnormousGinplease. I hope this helps you understand.

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EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:54

BridportMarket · 17/06/2026 17:05

juxtaposition of the NHS and having time off????

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NO !!!! being an NHS nurse and member of the royal family ... geeze it's not that difficult

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LlynTegid · 17/06/2026 17:52

The OP was watching Royal Ascot. Is the OP on shifts or someone who only works part-time?

People in glass houses...

HelloDaisy · 17/06/2026 17:52

scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 17:51

This thread just gets worse. Imagine nurses having time off and going to an event. I'm writing to my MP.
I may include the word "juxtaposition" 🤣

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🤣🤣

Blueplant · 17/06/2026 17:52

Compared to most working people the NHS has very generous annual leave entitlements....

HelloDaisy · 17/06/2026 17:51

Let’s hope she didn’t bunk off and call in sick as the papers will have ruined her lie 😁

scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 17:51

HelloDaisy · 17/06/2026 17:49

Fabulous reply!

I went to Ascot yesterday with 3 friends who are all nurses in NHS. I should have reprimanded them for taking time off, how dare they!

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This thread just gets worse. Imagine nurses having time off and going to an event. I'm writing to my MP.
I may include the word "juxtaposition" 🤣

PinkyFlamingo · 17/06/2026 17:50

EnormousGinplease · 17/06/2026 17:02

Not being snarky or bitchy as accused ... merely pointing out the juxtaposition and my somewhat jaded view of working in the NHS.

Come off it. You were implying she got special treatment. All NHS staff get days off and annual leave funny enough.

scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 17:49

ginasevern · 17/06/2026 17:27

@Screamingabdabz "She sends her kids to a £££ boarding school doesn't she? I don’t think she’s a regular bed pan and night shift type nurse, if at all…"

Her family are loaded and well connected, even to royalty. Her mother was one of the "girls in pearls" in Country Life magazine, which is basically very high society and debutante territory. She's being marketed as yet "another one of us". She really isn't.

The tabloids just latch on to the "nurse" bit, which is true of course.
Nobody is "marketing" her though! 😁

HelloDaisy · 17/06/2026 17:49

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 17/06/2026 16:15

I have a friend who is a nurse and every time I see them not helping sick people I post about it online. It's bad enough when they are doing housework but if they're out enjoying themself it makes my blood boil

Fabulous reply!

I went to Ascot yesterday with 3 friends who are all nurses in NHS. I should have reprimanded them for taking time off, how dare they!

SleepingStandingUp · 17/06/2026 17:49

This is the kind of crap that will drive her OUT of her NHS job.

scienceteachersarefun · 17/06/2026 17:48

Retunue · 17/06/2026 17:42

I knew a nurse who had a day off work once, I was incensed. I thought they worked 7 days a week. Slackers.

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Outrageous! 🤣

Thebigonesgetaway · 17/06/2026 17:43

ithappenstootherfamilies · 17/06/2026 17:32

I would still rather be tarting around in my finery haha

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Me too, I think lucky her,I think he’s quite attractive, he’s clearly utterly besotted with her and she’s really attractive and looks happy. Good for them. I’d also be dolling myself up and trotting off down the races and quaffing some bubbles. Who on earth would be shouting no no, I don’t need a day off, let me work extra shifts! I’m a martyr to my cause! Let me at that hospital. Only the weak take their actual hols!

ffs. It’s utterly inane. And as said, jealous and resentment at its core.

show my a happy attractive woman and I will show you one standing behind her ready to rip her throat out.

Nessiesfoodprovider · 17/06/2026 17:43

She's maybe on a shift pattern where she does 3 or 4 x 12 hour shifts per week. Or she's taken annual leave or has time in lieu.
I can guarantee you one thing though, she's not just bunked off!!!