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

197 replies

FiftyShadesOfBunting · 01/06/2012 20:25

Its so lovely. And so relatively normal.

And bollox to the royal haterz.

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orienteerer · 01/06/2012 21:07

When/how exactly did Alan T make the transfer from Gardens to Royal Correspondent?

Chubfuddler · 01/06/2012 21:08

Love queen with the wedding guest list. Rip it up and start again.

PandaNot · 01/06/2012 21:08

WorrisomeHeart your DH is in for a long weekend if he's all queened out now!

NoWayNoHow · 01/06/2012 21:09

I'm absolutely loving it! So wonderful... So interesting to see a young Philip and a young Charles - so much resemblance between Harry and William respectively.

He's getting really emotional, bless him... Crown

runronnie · 01/06/2012 21:10

loved it, was a fab program

LadyBeagleEyes · 01/06/2012 21:18

It's also a bit of social history.
I was born in 1956 and so not far in age and the old cine films brought back so many memories, my dad used to take them, I'd love to see them again.
They did seem like a happy family.

roundtable · 01/06/2012 21:20

I really don't know, I was thinking out loud really. Similar time period,, same sense of duty-made me wonder.

I would imagine that she was advised not to take the children because of the disruption, but who knows.

I do sometimes wonder though if a king had gone off for that time if people would be so bothered.

QueenEdith · 01/06/2012 21:20

I liked the answer from the Princess Royal, when asked if (as only female child) the Queen was a particularly strong role model, and she said something along the lines of 'I have to e refuel here, as I don't think I've ever fitted in to the expected role'

Kayano · 01/06/2012 21:20

Anne is so like her mother Grin it's lovely

hadagutsfull · 01/06/2012 21:23

That was a lovely programme! Didn't see it all, will have to look at iplayer. Loved Prince Charles' chuckle! Watching ITV now - they seem like a very loving family, not how I imagined them at all.

Kayano · 01/06/2012 21:25

I think I'm going to give myself a QE2 makeover. I have brown hair the right length and a round face shames It's not a pretty round face

digs out rollers

HRHEightiesChick · 01/06/2012 21:26

'There is no strangeness between us, and we behave as if we have belonged to each other for years' just quoted from one of the Queen's letters (to her mother) about Prince Phillip. That's just brilliant. Crown

HRHerrena · 01/06/2012 21:26

I have a sneaking fondness for all the pomp and ceremony of royal gubbins and really enjoyed that programme! DH huffed when I switched to it and said 'just ten minutes then'. We both watched it to the end and he enjoyed it just as much as me Grin

Nice to see Charles as a little baby rolling about on the sofa - our DS could have stood in for those shots!!

cocoachannel · 01/06/2012 21:26

YADNBU- fantastic programme.

Kayano · 01/06/2012 21:28

I might call my firstborn son Philip... totally sucked in

HRH2shoesofMn · 01/06/2012 21:30

yanbu I loved it

Chubfuddler · 01/06/2012 21:31

I have always loved prince Phillip.

How earnest she was in those letters to her mother.

OrfWithHerEduStudent · 01/06/2012 21:33

D'you think the Queen's watching this and cringing at her letters being read out?

hadagutsfull · 01/06/2012 21:35

What's that knitted palace looking thing by the elderly lady that was just speaking? (Sorry, don't know who she is)

SophieLeGiraffe · 01/06/2012 21:38

Yes! Love it, me and DH such Royalists. It's just amazing to see them as a normal family and Prince Charlrs seem so normal. Lovely.

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LentillyFart · 01/06/2012 21:39

What a nice thread!

And may one just say this - A bucket of boiling goat's piss on the Royal haterz Grin. Why don't you all just STFU for five minutes and let everyone enjoy this if they wish. You may resume your ranting on Wednesday. Thank you.

FiftyShadesOfBunting · 01/06/2012 21:41

Yup lentilly.

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MyRoyalLentillyness · 01/06/2012 21:45

Loving the crown there Bunting!

WithACherryOnTop · 01/06/2012 21:47

How shall we fuck off,O Lord?

BustersOfDoom · 01/06/2012 21:54

Loved it!