To be excited by the Royal Birth

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I just love the pomp and ceremony of it, and the added extra that the commoner Middleton s have by fluke such a starring role.

Its so silly but also something lovely happening in the world when so much misery comes out of the news every single day.

I wouldn't be so excited if it was another royal but the fact Kate is a commoner...I don't know...I just love this angle! Also I feel so happy for William who had a decimated family that now he will be able to make his own family.

Wouldn't say I'm excited, but I quite enjoy the gossip in a nosey kind of way. I really just hope that mother and baby are healthy and that they have long, happy years as a family. I really think Kate will make this baby grounded and loved in a way not all royal babies have been and Wills looks like he will be a besotted father. Good luck to 'em.

Sorry I got that wrong, her full title is Princess William, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Stratheam, Baroness Carrickfergus.

She'll be Princess William of Wales when Charles is King.

I find it weird how they all have different surnames even though they're from the same family. It's weird.

yes twinkle - when I saw the doc about William as a search and rescue bod I thought it was odd to hear him called William wales - you'd think William Windsor would be more likely ?

TSSD: Some of them might be there to gawk at funny, eccentric relics. All the history and palaces will still be there for people to visit/read about should they wish to, even if monarchy is abolished. Monarchists must either be royal or upper class themselves, or the kind people who enjoy having someone "superior to them by birthright" patronising the hell out of them. I really cannot get my head round the fact that someone would object to a democratically elected president and choose a bunch of unelected, entitled, undeserving people instead.

They are all unspeakably revolting. Kick them out now, that's what I say.

there's a shit load of em happy to do it though Toys

I fall into none of your categories, thankfully, I just like the RF.

Vive la republique!!

Ok, sorry, I forgot the last category: The poor brainwashed.

Why wouldn't you want to strive for societal equality for yourself and your descendants?

The last category is in fact: happy and unclenched

TSSD: Enjoy! I don't suppose you'd then mind paying for our share of all the wealth and pomp they require?

Well if I could do that single-handedly I suppose I'd be one of them. Or at least rich enough to replace them with me. Which I'm guessing wouldn't be the equal society you speak of either.

I always wonder why people come on a thread like this only to get all frothy.

It's Friday. For Gods sake have woman, and let those of us who joined the thread to say we're excited harmlessly get on with it.

Don't send cards, toys and presents for the new baby. All it does is take up the time of staff and public revenue to send a standard response signed by an admin. person. They're probably dreading the deluge already!

Kate, William and the new baby won't even see or be aware of any of the presents.

I'm always ready to come and at the fawning people in these threads, and sometimes even say something, because it really is very strange to me. But, yes, I suspect I will be having a later. I'll still feel the same about the monarchy though.

And, sorry, but it's not harmless. It's worrying..

[Shock] they checked if Di was a virgin?! How isthat even possible?

Presumably with an internal vaginal investigation to check her hymen, I'd have thought. That's the way it's usually done.

What, exactly, is worrying about it?

Thing about the old hymen check is, hymens are very easily broken.

So was Diana banned from doing high jump or hurdles at school, riding horses or using tampax throughout her teens to ensure that she was virgina intacta on the off chance that Charles would stop mooning after a married woman and decide to marry her?

Cor.

What isn't worrying about the fawning over random child deemed superior to every other child in the country just for their breeding? Not something I ever wanted to have to explain to DS.

ToysRLuv exactly my thoughts.

Will now leave this thread, and start planning my total withdrawl from the media during July

Well, nothing is "worrying" about it. And being excited about it isn't the same as fawning.

Yes, Lady Diana Spencer was a commoner. The clue is in the name. She was not a royal princess by birth. Nobody is making any value judgements, the word has a very precise meaning, has nothing to do with her status as an aristo within that classification, her job, accent, connections or level of education.

Actually if you look at the qualifications she gained despite a first class and expensive education she'd be bloody lucky to be employed by Asda...

People are also fawning over the Karashadians child, I would find explaining that one more worrying....yawn

Anyway....Yes Pooka, the details the cream paper, the easel......

Cudn't give a monkeys tbh. But if you are excited, knock yourself out! Get your knitting needles out!