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To think Prince William and his wife are lacking appreciation of their position

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fideline · 02/03/2014 21:16

and good fortune?

He just seems a bit of an over-privileged posh boy?

I know everyone says he has lovely manners, but we can expect a bit more than that, surely?

They have just hired a 'forrin' nanny a) after making an enormous PR fuss about not having one b) at a time of high UK unemployment.

The list of god-parents for their baby was a bit multi-barrelled and Hmm No foreign royals, as is traditional, but Not the slightest whiff of any demographic diversity either.

There seem to be a LOT of luxury holidays going on with these two.

The uni course he is doing has been especially designed for him and seems designed to prepare him for inheriting the enormous (private) Duchy of Cornwall. Not exactly public-spirited?

In the much-hyped first post-baby interview, he was keen to promote a charity saving Kenyan Rhinos. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that, but the line between animals he shoots for fun and animals he wants to save is unclear and anyhow a charity for under-privileged (UK?) children would have been the nice, publicity-shrewd thing to do, maybe?

For a couple with a great deal of expensive PR expertise at their disposal they seem to be slightly missing the mark a bit too often.

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gertiegusset · 12/03/2014 20:07

I'd say he has a choice, he can abdicate.
He can carry on being a Gentleman farmer on his vast estates and wile away his spare time lobbying writing to the government and being a Grandfather.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 12/03/2014 20:08

You know you've lost the argument when you resort to criticising people's spelling and grammar. Hmm

Onesleeptillwembley · 12/03/2014 20:08

Errr Kim - remember Diana? And I doubt they'd publicise anything unless they had to. But to be fair there seem to be a few unstable people in the family.

gertiegusset · 12/03/2014 20:10

I seem to recall reading that the Duchess of Kent has had MH problems, particularly with depression.
Might be wrong though.

fideline · 12/03/2014 20:12

Kim You will never catch me defending the principle of Monarchy, but it is just not true to say he has a free choice. Abdication is not a small administrative matter. He is under huge structural pressure to bucke down and get on with it.

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gertiegusset · 12/03/2014 20:14

I agree it's not a small matter Fide but if he really wanted to pass on being King then he could.
His Great Uncle did it.

diddl · 12/03/2014 20:16

I think that she had depression after having a stillborn baby.

fideline · 12/03/2014 20:19

Quite. I think he could easily have cracked and done the same. His choice not to was, I believe, a result of the struggle to do the dutiful thing.

If he had abdicated in the 80s/90s the monarchy would not have survived it well. He understood that.

He was never likely to be a republican was he?

I admire him as a man, that's all. For similar reasons as I admired Bob Crow, bizarrely enough.

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gertiegusset · 12/03/2014 20:21

Do you think he should abdicate Fide?

kim147 · 12/03/2014 20:29

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fideline · 12/03/2014 20:29

I think he should do whatever he wants to do now. He's already retirement age.

W & C are making themselves unpopular already. They lack substance. I am satisfied with my conviction that the Monarchy won't survive this century in its current size and format.

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gertiegusset · 12/03/2014 20:36

www.facebook.com/republiccampaign/photos/a.10150119111352727.284177.39195572726/10151973127287727/?type=1&theater

This is the stuff I find so hard to swallow.

gertiegusset · 12/03/2014 20:38

I hope you're right fideline.

BoffinMum · 12/03/2014 20:57

Duchess of Kent had rubella whilst pg and had to have a termination, if I recall correctly. Turned her RC.

Cariad007 · 12/03/2014 21:57

No, it was a still born child in the 70s and she fell into severe depression afterwards, poor woman.

BoffinMum · 12/03/2014 22:13

No, baby number four was rubella, baby number five stillborn.

BoffinMum · 12/03/2014 22:14

Met her once whilst out shopping. She's pleasant but you do get the sense of her being terribly sad.

charmschool · 12/03/2014 23:43

Kate didn't have that baby. She got a surrogate. There are no stretch marks WE SAW THE PHOTOS OF HER STOMACH!! There are no stretch marks....

Onesleeptillwembley · 12/03/2014 23:49

I had no stretch marks you silly person. How lacking in basic knowledge do you have to be to assume everybody gets them? You poor thing.

charmschool · 12/03/2014 23:51

What did you give birth to? A hamster?

Onesleeptillwembley · 12/03/2014 23:55

And before you pull out the 'got her figure back' argument I went home a day later in my pre pregnancy ladies 501 jeans (mentioned the make because they had small waists). In fact the midwife commented on my stomach going straight back down. I literally had a flat stomach immediately afterwards and had the tone in it back within a couple of days.

Onesleeptillwembley · 12/03/2014 23:56

No, a 7 pound 6 healthy 38.5 week baby boy.

fideline · 12/03/2014 23:57

All gone a bit weird on here

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Onesleeptillwembley · 12/03/2014 23:59

Nope. Absolutely not something I could control. You can control yourself though. Shall I scream twat alert?