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to not care about the royal baby?

157 replies

carlajean · 03/05/2015 16:33

Apologies if there's already a thread on this (I can't find one) but why do people care about this? My facebook page is full of people thinking it's great news and I just don't get it. Just another royal parasite in my view.

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Mrsjayy · 03/05/2015 17:58

Its finenot to be interested its fine not to be bothered but to call a new born a parasite 7s quote disgusting it isnt herfault i bet you would want all royals sterrilised at birth to stop them breeding

Mrsjayy · 03/05/2015 18:00

God sake typos sorry

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:03

I am anti royalist but to be honest what an absolute relief from all the bloody election coverage this is

I know. An election to decide who'll run the country, what policies there'll be, how the economy will do, what influence the SNP will have.

Why talk about that when the media can discuss a baby instead?

Let's leave politics to the men politicians and discuss babies instead .

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 03/05/2015 18:08

She's an innocent baby, you can't call her a parasite until she's a legal adult. Come back in 18 years, then go nuts. I can understand where you're coming from, even the royals that have worked at some point never do anything other than the armed forces. The likelihood is both children will grow up to live off taxpayers money, if I had a child who's destiny was to live off state benefits forever more, I doubt anyone would be celebrating outside my hospital. All we republicans can hope is that the new generation of royals may grow into actual productive members of society.

Alexandpea · 03/05/2015 18:09

So not interested you need to start a thread about it Hmm

You see a "Royal parasite". I still see the little girl's face in a hospice lighting up when she met Diana. I hope Diana's granddaughter follows in her footsteps and brings a little magic into people's lives.

ChiantiShire · 03/05/2015 18:11

I feel that everyone should take happiness from the birth of a child to two young people who seem in love. That gives me a good feeling, personally.

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:12

I hope Diana's granddaughter follows in her footsteps and brings a little magic into people's lives

They are not magic. We should live in a world without fairytale princesses and princes who we adore and kow tow to. That fairytale world belongs to the past.

I wonder how many people are planning for their sons to marry her?

(which is her role and expectation in life. To find someone and marry)

Alexandpea · 03/05/2015 18:13

even the royals that have worked at some point never do anything other than the armed forces.

FFS Gently are you suggesting that the armed forces aren't a proper job? I'm guessing you've never risked your life for your country?

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 03/05/2015 18:13

even the royals that have worked at some point never do anything other than the armed forces

Of course being in the armed forces is such an easy job Hmm, what on earth do you mean?

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:15

I think that comment refers to the fact that being in the armed forces seems to be the only career available to Princes. Probably for security.

Some are more suited than others. Aren't they, Edward...

OwlinaTree · 03/05/2015 18:16

I should think the armed forces is a great choice for a family that are serving the country. What would you suggest would be better?

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:18

I think that they should be free to choose their career. The armed forces seems to be the expectation.

Being in the RF is all about duty and expectation. I feel sorry for them.

I should think the armed forces is a great choice for a family that are serving the country

That sums it up. They are expected to serve their country. It's the Truman show.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 03/05/2015 18:19

I mean they only join the armed forces because its what the royals do. They don't become nurses or teachers, never send their kids to do work experience. They do some army training for a couple of years before spending the rest of their lives traveling the world. I'm not saying the armed forces isn't a job, I'm saying the royals have no imagination or seemingly any ambition when it comes to actually working other jobs.

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:20

I'm saying the royals have no imagination or seemingly any ambition when it comes to actually working other jobs

They probably have no choice. It is their expectation and duty to serve. Their personal choices are limited. Their life is controlled by expectation and duty.

Didn't Diana describe it as a prison?

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:23

"Locked in a gilded cage" -

This is an interesting article. Royalists and the media lock them in a gilded cage

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/15/royalists-make-royals-life-misery

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:25

From the article:

Unlike Toksvig, Mantel had sympathy for the duchess. Mantel understood how strange and dehumanising her public role is likely to be in the future. She is never going to be able to defend herself, so she is never going to be able to expose herself. And ironically, of course, she will be attacked anyway, precisely because she is obliged to be so passively pleasing.

To a woman such as Mantel – so fiercely curious, intellectual, creative, and driven – this must seem like a life of insidious torture. And that's the great paradox. Those who dislike the monarchy because it embodies aristocratic privilege tend to hold their views at least in part out of resentment and envy.

There are better reasons for disliking the monarchy – such as the horror of locking people in a gilded cage and denying them the most basic freedom of all, the freedom to be themselves

I agree totally.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 03/05/2015 18:28

They have a choice, They choose the money. There have been those who have dropped their association with the monarchy, actually had quiet lives. Most don't. I can understand the core family e.g. the ones in direct line of the throne, having little choice in how they live their lives, but my goodness there are so many hangers on. The daughter of William and Kate didn't need to be made HRH, unless something awful happened to her brother (very much hope not), what is her life expected to be? Just be gawped at, what dress is she wearing today, oh she's visiting some poor people, etc. I truly hope she becomes more than that.

Sistermillyrose · 03/05/2015 18:37

I'm no Royalist by a long chalk but I do like to pop up on these threads and remind people that the Royal Family earn the taxpayer far, far more than what they cost.....
If you mean because of tourism, there is no proof of that. People would still visit the UK with or without the royals as they do in France.
If you mean the profits from the royal estates, this would all revert back to the people of the UK if there were no royal family, instead of them taking a percentage every year.
The royal family do cost a lot of money, far more than the official figures. I'm sure that 40 pence per person quote which we get told is all they cost us could be put to far better use.

LikeIcan · 03/05/2015 18:42

YABU - she's absolutely lovely.

OwlinaTree · 03/05/2015 18:42

I'd rather spend 40p on them than have to endure a US style presidential election. Millions of hours of TV ads. Now that's a waste of money.

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:43

Apparently Kate wore a white dress
George was wearing the wrong clothes.
And there's something about William's head.

All from MN thread titles. Some people are a bit obsessed.

Just be gawped at, what dress is she wearing today, oh she's visiting some poor people, etc. I truly hope she becomes more than that

I think that's her role. Unlikely to become an environmental activist protesting at fracking sites after a year spent backpacking and clubbing.

Writerwannabe83 · 03/05/2015 18:46

All I see is a couple who are in love with each other and in love with their children. They may be Royals but they are still people, just like the rest of us, and they no doubt feel on top of the world after having their baby. Seeing the photos of the four of them together as a family really makes me feel smile. I'm incredibly happy for William and Kate, it's lovely news.

Focusfocus · 03/05/2015 18:51

The entire institution, and all it's members are absolutely irrelevant, in all countries. YANBU OP.

I am frankly disgusted by the fact that any form of monarchy continues to exist. But I wouldn't care enough to create a thread about it.

Sistermillyrose · 03/05/2015 18:54

It wouldn't have to be a US style election though. But even so at least a president has to be elected, unlike the royals, who get their super privileged lives just because of the accident of birth.

OrlandoWoolf · 03/05/2015 18:58

All I see is more positive publicity for the Monarchy, a media obsessed with the Monarchy and many members of the British public who are also obsessed with them.

I'm pleased for them. Who wouldn't be pleased for a couple who have had a baby?

But it's just more positive PR for the Monarchy.