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to have loved 'Wonderland: High Society Brides...

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 22:02

ok, I confess I've had a couple of glasses of vino calipso, but I'm still compismentis (God only knows how you spell that word)... I bloody loved that programme. I only caught it half-way through but I really warmed to the women (and men) who were so honest about their position in society. I'm from old working class stock so don't have a vested interest, just loved it as a documentary. I feel strongly that I should share the love.

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SamJones · 20/10/2010 22:42

I was very Shock when one lady (the Duchess I think) said that women should be faithful to their husbands but not expect fidelity in return. And that a woman's role was to support her husband....in a cooking/childcare kind of way...like in the animal kingdom.

Funnys5FootUnderThePatioGarden · 20/10/2010 22:44

was a fab programme, and Camilla and Miles were sooo terribly terribly posh

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 22:45

SamJones, that's what I love about these ladies - their honesty! Let's face it, this is where most of us women are - not me of course. I found it really heart warming. Many of the couples were just nice people in spite of their wealth and the responsibilities they felt that went with their titles.

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 22:47

Funny... I just love their poshness. It's so warming, attractive and magnetic. What nice people most of them were - for me anyway, who often has a little bit of a judgemental attitude to those with a plum in their cheek. I loved how respectful the children were to the responsibilities and privilege that their parents were part of. I loved it.

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Funnys5FootUnderThePatioGarden · 20/10/2010 22:52

I really like actual proper posh....I think that genetically I am actually very posh too Grin

Funnys5FootUnderThePatioGarden · 20/10/2010 22:52

ahhh should have been [hgrin] wanted to do that for ages

Booboodebat · 20/10/2010 22:53

I loved it too.

I feel sorry for the current girlfriend of the one who's inheriting the Cumbrian Estate, but even sorrier for the poor cow he eventually marries.

Lol at those three chinless wonders talking about girls 'trying to make it on their own for a bit' but then wanting to be swept off their feet by some nice chap.

Snort.

I loved the Sackville-West one. Thought she was fantastic.

And the ones who were divorced because of his alcoholism were so lovely. It was so sad.

(I'm not drunk btw - but I'm loving compismentis).

Funnys5FootUnderThePatioGarden · 20/10/2010 22:55

oh god, those 3 chinless wonders were a sight to behold.

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 23:01

Don't make me laugh... no seriously I'm laughing out loud (LOL - can't help thinking lots of love) ... seriously, I've only had a couple of glasses of wine.

Anyhowser.... I actually found the 3 chinless wonders rather attractive and thought, goodness if I were only 10 - ok maybe 20 years younger (I'm still in my 30's forgodsake)!

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Booboodebat · 20/10/2010 23:03

But Camilla would have to APPROVE of you.

Funnys5FootUnderThePatioGarden · 20/10/2010 23:04

I god yes I doubt anyone would live up to Camilla and her caramel flowing locks and gun

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 23:05

I was very pretty in my younger years, but common as muck -with a sense of decorum... Camilla certainly would not have approved but she would have loved my sense of aspiration.

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 23:06

Actually, goddamnit NO! I was not common as muck. Simply common. Camilla would have loved me but thought me beneath her dear boys. I wish I could do that snort higher up.

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bettiboo · 20/10/2010 23:07

Why are 'snorts' so common among those lovely folk? What's that all about?

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Booboodebat · 20/10/2010 23:12

I have no idea.

I think we have the odd Hon floating about on MN - hopefully one of 'em will come along and enlighten you.

I'm a huge Nancy Mitford fan. It's so delightfully archaic - which is what made it odd seeing some of those attitudes and customs still thriving in some quarters.

Off to bed. Enjoy your chinless wonder fantasies...

fairycake123 · 20/10/2010 23:24

Do you reckon Camilla really was 50 though?

blackwell · 20/10/2010 23:27

Oh God, bless poor old Ma Bedford. I bet you anything the late hubby was a tremendous player, and generally a nightmare. So she's created this mindset for herself, the old animal kingdom stuff, to justify having been miserable for 50 years.

hatwoman · 21/10/2010 21:58

just watching this on i-player. really wonderful stuff.

Onetoomanycornettos · 21/10/2010 22:06

I also found the people refreshingly honest about their failings (apart from Camilla and Miles who were the only happy ones out of five...)

The Duchess was soooo beautiful when she was younger, and had the most old-fashioned views when older, but none of it made sense at all, she declared 'all women should do is breed, have children and cook' when it was absolutely obvious she had never been hands on with either, she also declared she was just a support and let her husband make all the decisions, when she clearly ran the entire household from a young age. Her son looked vaguely embarassed, I couldn't imagine having her as a mother in law.

This documentary was in the same series as the boy cheerleader one, I found myself wondering this week to the little working-class boy who tried out for the ballet school and saw himself like a little Billy Eliot. I so wanted him to get in.

HRHCavey · 21/10/2010 22:14

Bugger, I forgot this was on. Will have to catch it on iPlayer.

I've met the Duchess of Bedford as she has been a major player in the racehorse breeding world for many years, though she is now selling off all her remaining horses.

She was Deb of the Year in 1950-something, and was just stunning. Picture here, she looks like a doll.

[jealous face]

hatwoman · 21/10/2010 22:14

yes - the duchess was stunningly beautiful. what struck me was the strange juxtaposition of a life beyond most people's imagining with very ordinary stuff. I liked the sackville-west one (can;t remember her first name) - just getting on with earning her living doing a job she loves. I also liked the one who wasn't the duchess, not S-W, not camilla - she just seemed really nice.

the three lads were terrible - real tim-nice-but-dims

blackwell · 21/10/2010 22:15

She is actually quite strange-looking, very idiosyncratic but very striking.

Effjay · 21/10/2010 22:17

It was a totally fabulous programme, as was last week's 'Wonderland' about the Cheerleading boys troup from Sheffield. I can't wait till next week - hope it is as good. Definitely trumps The Apprentice imo

CMOTdibbler · 21/10/2010 22:22

It was great - and the cheerleading one was just so inspirational. Their coach was really pivotal in giving those boys aspirations