Prince Edward

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There’re threads about Charles, Andrew and Anne, but none about Edward. Why is that? He was in his older siblings shadow, no heir like Charles, no Olimpian like Anne and no dashing was hero like Andrew. Seen as a joke with his tv programs failure. Yet he came up as the most stable out of Queen’s children. The only one, who manage to create happy marriage, stayed away from
scandals, he did his service without holding grunge against his lower royal position. I like his wife Sophie too. I think they both deserve more credit that is given to them.

I think too that their profile is on the up. Yes there were scandals but they were a very long time ago. I think Sophie in particular is a credit to the Royal Family and was famously close to the Queen. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we see more of them and also Lady Louise who I think has just turned 18?

DO't the special forces have about a 70% drop out rate anyway?

I think it took more bottle to accept that he wasn't cut out to be a marine (or whatever it was) and face the Wrath of the Duke of Edinburgh than to be parachuted into the Falklands.

I think he made a good choice of wife - she's made mistakes, but which of us hasn't? I think they're a good, hard-working couple.

*Don't - not "DO't"

As God is my witness, autocorrect . . . 😡

Agree.
Even "Princess Pushy" has quietened down in later years.

Just remembered as well, wasn't there some humphiness about Edward getting into Cambridge with 2 A level Grade Es or something?

Wow, you could house a lot of homeless families in there.

My XH was in the RN, and served in the Falklands. He always maintained that Andrew was kept well out of the way of any dangerous situations.

seem to remember Charles putting David Linley (Lord Snowdon - Margaret's son) in charge of his charitable organisations several years ago

Isnt he a furniture maker? What tf does he know about running a charity and how tf is he the best man for the job?

His wife in particular has stepped up massively in the last years and as I understand, has been a great support professionally and personally to the Queen. I think they have been much closer to HM in recent years too by virtue of having the younger children who still wanted to spend family time in Balmoral. Lady Louise was close to her grandad through her carriage driving hobby.

Cynical me thinks this is media noise and has grown louder since Harry left. She helps fill the void and ppl fawn over here as demonstrated by this thread because she was ‘the favourite’.

The Duke of Gloucester was the 2nd son wasn't he so not expecting to inherit & therefore trained & got a job!

According to Wiki he was 5th in line when he was born & is now 30th!

Met him at an unveiling at our church and he was fab, made light hearted jokes (on himself) about how much training he received to be so good at "unveiling" (pulling a small curtain open).

Outside the church the local infant school all came to see him, around 60 children, and he proceeded to stop at every group of children, squatted down to their eye level and chatted away to all of them. Anyone who has the patience to chat away to 60 or so chattering, irreverent and mischievous children without once losing his very genuine looking smile has my admiration!!! So wonderful.

He built his own business, so knows how that works - and has access to the best advisors presumably. Essentially charities are businesses, which is why the larger ones are run by well rewarded CEO's.

As far as I am aware, it is not a paid position, but one that Charles obviously trusts his cousin to oversee properly.

Someone commented to Sophie that it was nice to see her and Edward supporting the Queen more now that H & M had left, and Sophie's reply was along the lines of 'we're just doing what we've always done, but the Press are interested in us now'.

Good humour, self deprecation and patience go a very long way with these things. See also, Camilla.

no dashing was hero like Andrew

Not sure this is what everyone thinks of when they think about Andrew 😂

They’re going to get busier than ever. Being so much younger than Charles and Anne they’re likely to be the ones that help bridge the gap between Charles’ reign and William’s.

I met Edward years ago at a charity do, just before he married Sophie. He couldn't have been friendlier and there wasn't a hint of standing on ceremony.

'dashing war hero' andrew
don't you mean 'alleged pedo who cost his mum £12 million and a tonne of stress in her final years' andrew

Those random Kent’s and Gloucester’s do more work that people think.

in 2019 the Duke of Gloucester did the same amount of engagements as William, and the duke of Kent did only slightly less.

Even as the peripheral much older royals between them the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra did over 600 official engagements.

The Duke of Gloucester does a lot of the abroad work that the royals do. Especially in military settings. The reason they won’t be disappeared is because the royals know that the Queen needed them back in the day, and just scrapping people who gave up their careers (Duke of Gloucester was an architect until his brother died and the Duke of Kent would have had a longer military career normally) is pretty rude.

None of their children have royal roles or live in royal palaces so the slimming of that branch of the family will happen very naturally over the next few years.

That is what I would expect. It is his job and he has been doing it for years.
I will never understand why some people think a Royal being friendly and relaxed at an event they are attending as part of their job is noteworthy. Are your expectations really so low?

I believe that Edward is going to be the new Duke of Edinburgh.

Having your sexuality questioned by others does not constitute a “scandal”.

Unless maybe you think that being gay is somehow scandalous…

Andrew may have been sold as a Falkland's war hero and it was indeed put out that he was on the frontline but seriously?
If you were stupid enough to believe that a the time and even now , you must be very stupid !!!
My FIL was fairly senior on the frontline at the Falklands and Andrew was miles away from the action. He was something like second or third in line to the throne at that point. You honestly think he would be sent to the front ?
So Andrew is just a sleazy old man who was never a war hero.

His business went business and lost control of it. He then worked for Christie's.
Does he still work for the charity? Not sure. I remember when he was appointed, he was 2nd in command to Michael Fawcett. Remember him, aka Fawcett the Fence, as Charles used him to sell off expensive gifts. He had to be sacked, twice I think. He wad also the Chap who used to put the paste on Charles' toothbrush.

^ That wasn't a euphemism! But do you remember when news came of a blackmail attempt, pics of a royal taking coke and getting ( blown? wanked off? ) and we all assumed it was Charles and Fawcett? But it was Linley.

How quickly we forget these scandals!

I'm not meaning Prince Michael of Kent and his wife. They are of course, awful.

I feel sorry for the Duke and Duchess of Kent as so many people get them confused with Prince and Princess Michael of Kent!