to be quite touched by Prince Charles's delight with his home movies?

[FiftyShadesOfBunting]

Its so lovely. And so relatively normal.

And bollox to the royal haterz.

[GitAwfMayLend]

I saw a job advert on the monarchy website the other day - the role is something like Programme Coordinator (so some kind of admin) for the Duke of Gloucester (iirc) based at kensington Palace paying 22k a year. 22K! In central London.

I did enjoy the programme - I am certainly not a royalist but the footage of the Queen on the aeroplane when she had just heard her father had died was very touching imo.

[OhNoMyFanjo]

I've just watched this, or was fab, you could see tge joy and sorrow in his face and eyes.

[midori1999]

That wasn't why it was lovely to me seeker. it was lovely to see parents and cildren having such a lovely time together and that would apply for me no matter who the people in the video were or how posh they were. It was even lovelier though because I have always got the impression that the Royals were quite cold people and not loving and that's certainly the impression the media has been trying to give of the Queen for years. It's nice to know the children had some love in the 'normal' sense of the word growing up.

[seeker]

(resists the urge to shout)

Of course it was lovely! It was old fashioned film of a posh family! What's not to like?

We like that sort of thing- that's why Downton Abbey is so popular.

[midori1999]

I haven't seen all of it, but what I have seen was lovely. I think the whole Jubilee celebrations have changed my opinion of the Royals a little bit too.

I thought Charles' speech at the end of the concert last night was lovely and it's actually the first time I've ever really heard him speak, as I usually turn over. I thought there was a tiny glipse of what his and his Mother's relationship may be like in private and I thought he was pretty open and 'human' about his Father's illness. (for a Royal!)

[BalloonSlayer]

Snort at "Takes a devoted parent to film and then archive all that!"

There is probably a post Keeper of the Queen's cine film paying £10,000 a year. (Royals are notoriously stingy employers)

[SoupDragon]

Or, of course, the public documentary was scripted and directed and the home movies, being private, were natural. They were not made for the public to see.

[iceandsliceplease]

Maybe seeker, but the footage of Queenie with Charles aged around 15mo where he's toddling/clambering and she's giggling at him, then pushes him over and they giggle together is exactly the kind of memory I have of my PFB DS. That's what parents do - that silly kind of play. Her joy and the then toddler Charles's enjoyment of that moment show that it wasn't just a one off.

[seeker]

Did you? I'm more cynical than you- and I am also old enough to remember an incredibly stilled documentary about the royal family in the late 60s/early 70s.

Stage managed and scripted- as, I suspect many of those "home movies" were.

[FashionEaster]

Yes, I thought that was rather touching actually

[seeker]

Seemed to come as a bit of a surprise to HRH as well......

[FashionEaster]

I just got the impression they were remote and formal parents and so it was a surprise, to me at least, to see the amount of play.

[seeker]

Hold the front page- parents love their children and take pictures of them!


That alone makes them worth being on the Civil list- it's such unusual behaviour.

[FashionEaster]

It was very revealing QE & PP's re love for their children. Takes a devoted parent to film and then archive all that!

[looks at dust gathering on camera]

[slartybartfast]

in fact at one point charles sounded quite embarrassed by how much of a character philip had been

[slartybartfast]

i loved this programme, saw it after reading this thread.
loved all of them. sweet childrne, and philip was a character

[seeker]

But wasn't supposed to be about the Queen rather than about Charles?

[gazzalw]

Yes, Princes Andrew and Edward were born in the early 1960s so that's why they're not in the films!

[BalloonSlayer]

The Queen basically put her family life "on hold" when she became the Queen, not having any more children till things had settled down. Charles was born in 1948, and Anne in 1950 - she became Queen in 1952 (obviously!!) then had Andrew in 1960 and Edward in 1964.

[TalkinPeace2]

Ten year age gap between Anne and Andrew.
By the time Andrew was toddling, Charles and Anne were away at boarding school

[lolaflores]

I actually said "oh well done Ma'am" out loud when she greeted the dignitaries at Dublin castle in Irish. Her pronunciation of a chairde was very good.
And the point where Charles said that they would simply pull over the yacht at the coast of NI and pop in for tea with friends, amazing. Very touched as well that despite the murder of his uncle, that the ground thaqt has been covered restoring links with Eire and the UK is amazing to note.
can I also say that Lord Mountbatten was a total ride, the wife a bit of a swinger and I would so have had a go on Prince Philip as a younger man.
he was evacuated out of greeced in an orange box, family did not have a pot to piss in so Lord Mountbatten took him under his wing.His mother (Princess Alice I think)retired to a convent (greek orthodox) and became a nun later in life believe she lived the rest of her life there. Dear old Phil had a very tough childhood.

[thatisall]

I thought that but there is quite an age difference...also perhaps they decided they didn't want their childhood movies to be aired??

[diddl]

"Why was it only Dharles and Anne in all the home movies? Where were Andrew and Edward? Very odd indeed."

Because it was his childhood memories & due to the age difference, A&E probably weren´t born at that time.

(I think Andrew is at least 10yrs younger)

[thatisall]

I thought he was very sweet, and Princess Margaret was so gorgeous. It her Maj was all smily until she reached the publiv=c and then put on the stiff upper lip....soooooo English.

I wish I HAD A BOAT WITH A SLIDE!!

It did open my eyes a little bit and made me consider all the amazing people who she has met/knows and the insights she must have.

[seeker]

Why was it only Dharles and Anne in all the home movies? Where were Andrew and Edward? Very odd indeed.