WillKat's second honeymoon...

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They've gone to the Maldives without Prince George apparently (it's in the dm)

Seriously?? Think this might turn the tide of public opinion against them...seems its just one long holiday being the D and D of Cambridge....

I've seen the royals talking to wounded soldiers, disabled children, charity workers, people who have turned their lives around, and there's a real pride and frisson on the air as though the royals represent the whole of the country which shows respect and appreciates their personal achievements .

Won't happen Patrick. Best we cam hope for is a dramatic downshifting Or failing that a mass sacking of the PR team

Re: second baby & sickness - did Kate actually have hyperemesis? TBH I sort of thought she had morning sickness and the palace put a more medicalised spin on it to stop another round of Waity Kaity articles.

Crypes that's all lovely but the constant focus on Military and African causes (good causes though they are) highlights, rather than counteracts, the apparent narrowness of their world view.

It would be nice to think the world had got past the point where a rich couple turning up in short skirt and suit, accepting posies, making inane chit-chat, smiling and waving actually gets mistaken for 'help' or 'work' or 'action'.

The politicians can 'represent the country'. That's what we elect and pay them for!

Let's see them in jeans doing some real sustained work in a food bank, for example. Or some flood clear-up work that lasts longer than a photo-call.

It did seem a rather short-lived hyperemesis, didn't it oldius?

Mm... it did! I also thought the shit about "having to tell the press early" because of her illness was a nice bit of media playing savvy, too.

Of course they don't need to go to the Maldives to 'try out the nanny'. Nor do they need to go that far to 'sort out issues'. They're just lazy buggers and it must be very odd for a mum to willingly be separated from such a young baby for such a long time simply for her second holiday within the space of a couple of weeks. it's not normal at all.

fideline and olidusUrsus you're playing a dangerous game. I never saw the result of the final inquest into that poor nurse who died. Did I miss it? (entirely possible), or was it hushed up? Anyhow, that was tragic. Desperate for the poor husband and kids.

What has the nurse who killed herself got to do with this, very tragic most certainly, but nothing to do with any of this.
From what I remember she blamed the Australian chat show hosts for her suicide.
I think she had a lot more going on though and to blame them was a little harsh.

Jacintha Saldantha's death was very sad.

I don't see a connection however.

It doesn't have much to do with it but given that spin has been mentioned, I dislike the fact that because news about the inquest appears to have been hushed up. So it's relevant to Royal spin, that's all.

because

Aussie prats are aussie prats.
Depressive illness is depressive illness.
A mistake at work is a mistake at work.

Oh I see. Well, speaking for myself, I wasn't alluding To Mrs Saldantha's death in anyway at all. Probably best steered clear of.

I used to feel quite sorry for Kate Middleton before she got married. I thought she was in an impossible position. If she had worked and done anything commercial she would have been criticized for getting business mixed up with the royals or have a potential minefield of other problems cropping up. But if she didn't work she was called lazy.

But I thought when she got married she would start pulling her weight a bit but she doesn't.

She does hardly any royal engagements, she has a nanny so she's not looking after the baby. I suspect all she does is go to the gym, beautify herself, shop and plan the next holiday.

She just seems so vapid too. Like she's constantly valiumed up to the eyeballs. You look in her eyes and there's nothing there, no sadness, no happiness, just an emotionless automaton.

A mistake at work is indeed just a mistake at work. As I say, I never saw the full inquest reported, which it may have been, so I wasn't aware it had been established that the nurse had been suffering from a depressive illness prior to the tragic event.

So what is the dangerous game then?

I think the inquest still hasn't been concluded Ventura (multiple adjournments it seems) but I don't think the fact of Mrs Saldantha's depression is contested.

Very sad series of events, whatever the details. I hope she is at peace now.

gertie the dangerous game is even making the suggestion that Kate Middleton might only have been suffering from ordinary morning sickness. A thread at the time was absolutely adamant that any who doubted the severity was an absolute cow and not capable of sympathy for any other woman in the world. It was hysterical, not in the funny sense either.

Oh sorry, my mistake, I didn't see you refer to Kate Middleton's morning sickness, I assumed you were referring to the Nurse who killed herself and I didn't see the relevance.

They can do whatever they like without it denting their popularity. There will always be idiots willing to camp out all night in the rain for the chance to wave a plastic flag as they drive past.
They have a life of privelage - why would William and Kate be the ones to rail against it.
And if anyone dares to take a photograph of Kate they will have William to deal with. Just because we pay to give them a life of luxury doesn't mean we should be sticking our nose in their business. I'm sure George will get used to their absences - and whenever they feel their popularity may be slipping a bit they can always produce him in public.

The new modern corporate RF must do opinion polling though, or at least look at polls, chocolate. They won't be under the impression that every adores them and approves of their actions just because the pavement-clogging, face-painted crazies seem to.

that *everyone adores them....

William Doolittle-Middleton is vapid, wet, workshy and lazy. As is his wife. I resent our money being paid on the doubled up security for them and their baby back in England. Lets just hope she keeps her clothes on this time and doesn't get papped walking around naked in full view of the fleet of protection officers (and any long lensed cameramen).

They need to take a leaf out of the queens book. I'm no royalist but at least she appears to work hard.

DM appear to have updated quoting liberally from this thread. I hope they are paying mumsnet for the use of the material.

Just saw it Crazyspaniel and Frogwatcher are now famous royal pundits