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To have had more respect for the Cambridges if...

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Marmiteandjamislush · 05/05/2015 18:37

They had been honest on the baby's birth certificate. We are at my DSis and DBils over the May Day weekend, leaving tomorrow. Anyway, unlike us they have TV, radios, newspapers ect. and my Dsis is royalty mad, so the news has been on the whole flipping time, even on specialist news channels! Anyway, she has just shown me an article about the Baby's BC and it says Mother's Occupation: Princess of UK, now I don't follow the royals or any media, but I did hear a while back that the DoC did not do many duties because she is a SaHM, so why couldn't she put that on the BC? It's like it's not a real thing. This makes me cross for 2 reasons, I am practically a SAHM, as I only work out of the home 3 days a month and I think if she'd written SAHM, it would have given it good publicity. However, I'm also cross irrationally, I know, but I am PG Princess is not an occupation, it's a title, which can't be earned on merit. I get the charity thing, so why not put philanthropist? The same with the husband, he's in the air ambulance, isn't he, last I heard (was told by Dsis), why doesn't he put that? I just think it's laughably old fashioned to have titles as occupations, as if they have to prove they are 'special' or 'other'. What's wrong with writing what they do far a living?

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Mehitabel6 · 06/05/2015 07:32

I would hate to walk even a day in their shoes- the perks are not worth the sacrifices IMO.

Heebiejeebie · 06/05/2015 07:51

OP, would you mind explaining about tv, radio and newspapers being banned but the internet ok? I'm baffled.

shewept · 06/05/2015 07:58

If you have a straightforward delivery then there's no reason to assume you won't feel up to wearing make up and posing for a few photo's later that day.

She didn't pose for a few family shots. she was in front of the worlds press....to be pulled apart by everyone.

Jengnr · 06/05/2015 08:04

For about ten minutes until she retired to her life of fabulous privilege at everyone else's expense.

And in three months time she returns to 'work' and everyone feels sorry for her.

It's a hard knock life indeed.

Morloth · 06/05/2015 08:04

Fuck me, if I was an actual Princess I would be writing it b down everywhere.

I wouldn't mind a go, could really give the press something to talk about.

Hakluyt · 06/05/2015 08:09

"
She didn't pose for a few family shots. she was in front of the worlds press....to be pulled apart by everyone."

Haven't seen much pulling apart- more the usual -OMG- a member of the Royal family does something relatively normal- isn't she utterly amazing and wonderful............Grin

Please let's not forget, people, this is her job! I remember some interviewer asking Jason Isaacs how he managed to portray so many different sorts of characters and he replied "Well, I am an actor- that's what I get paid for!"

Sparklingbrook · 06/05/2015 08:12

I definitely think the AIBU topic should be renamed 'Petty Gripes'. The stuff people find to be unreasonable about is bizarre.

RowRowRowCrocodileScream · 06/05/2015 08:14

YABU OP, for all the reasons pps have said.

RowRowRowCrocodileScream · 06/05/2015 08:15

Yy to Sparkling Brook!

anyoldnameforathread · 06/05/2015 08:20

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formerbabe · 06/05/2015 08:20

I don't care how lovely it would be to have hairdressers and makeup artists around, 10 hours after giving birth, still bleeding, sore, exhausted and emotional, to have to stand there like that, on show for the WORLD, knowing those photos will be regurgitated every decade or so from now until forever, knowing every minute detail of your look and your behaviour will be analysed...no, there is nothing that makes up for that.

I reckon the homes, holidays and staff easily make up for it actually.

Ten hours after giving birth I was back home cracking on with the housework and looking after my toddler and newborn alone...I'd happily swap.

shewept · 06/05/2015 08:23

Hak even just on here, people pulled apart what she wore, what George wore, what she looked like etc not everyone put some did.

Then the press were saying yesterday that she made mums feel bad for looking so good. Can you imagine if she had come out looking like most of us do, 10 hours after giving birth? She would have then still been ripped to shreds. I am not a fan, but she really can't win.

Roseforarose · 06/05/2015 08:39

Yanbu, Princess of the UK? it sounds stupid. Since when was being a princess an occupation. It sounds the stuff of fairy tales. She hasn't got an occupation, her royal "duties" (nice days out getting a free lunch) should never be called work. She's a work shy free loader like the rest of the shower she's married in to.

Roseforarose · 06/05/2015 08:52

To all those saying "it's not a job I would like"
For starters it most definitely isnt a job. She does a very small amount of engagements a month, they're not hard work, just chauffeur driven jaunts to shake a few hands and try and look interested, free lunch, then driven back to your palace, where the hardest thing she'll have to do is play with George and perhaps feed her baby.To call what she does a job is an insult to all the mothers out there who do have jobs out of pure necessity.
It's also a "job" that can be relinquished at any time, but her and William would be a bit reluctant to give it all up. The perks are just a bit too lucrative.

Sparklingbrook · 06/05/2015 08:53

MN is bonkers. It's official.

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Marmiteandjamislush · 06/05/2015 09:03

Internet is allowed, because you have to go looking for things, so you can choose what you see, with TV ect. You can't really, things are presented to you. Sure you can turn it off, but it may not be so before you 'see' it, IYSWIM. Our internet is fitted with strong filters, like they use in schools. MN is OK, because it's like chatting to people in public (have checked this) and I just don't click on topics or threads that look unsuitable to me. My Dsis and DBil are far less strict than we are, so when we are with them, we relax, because we can't impose our views on them. They do however, consider our feelings and our DCs when we are here, which is great.

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shewept · 06/05/2015 09:16

It's also a "job" that can be relinquished at any time, but her and William would be a bit reluctant to give it all up. The perks are just a bit too lucrative.

of course she can give it up. She could divorce him, for starters and people have abdicated before.

I am extremely unwilling to give my job up and its not as cushy as hers.

A job isn't only a job if its hard work.

Jackieharris · 06/05/2015 09:48

The mumsnet monarchists are out in force again!

Bunch of inbred benefit scroungers and they can do no wrong.

shitebag · 06/05/2015 10:07

I'm not a fan of the Royals at all, in fact I'm in support of getting rid of them because I don't think that they are of any benefit to this country in the 21st Century.

However I don't believe for a second that any of you would swap places with KM right now, being scrutinized for every tiny thing you do whether it be having hair/makeup/high heels thrown at you within hours of birth or because of a bloody private document that has absolutely piss all to do with anyone and should never have been made public in the first place! I pressume that you all had an easy time of it after birth because I for one was an emotional wreck for days and wouldve been gutted had anyone been bitching about my parenting or my life so I dread to think the state I'd have been in with the whole world watching expecting me to keep up the perfect act! Have some bloody respect, nor for royalty but for a new Mother who may or may not be struggling with her duties ATM!

Also, "benefits scroungers" I'm pretty sure that William has a 40k job so I doubt very much they'll be raking in benefits of any sort but even if they were so what, do you call the general public "benefits scroungers" for claiming when they fall on hard times? No probably not, because you aren't jealous of them.

HumourlessHarpy · 06/05/2015 10:27

In answer to your original question, OP, I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would respect the Cambridges. Unless, of course, they started dismantling the monarchy one quiet Wednesday afternoon.

Roseforarose · 06/05/2015 11:44

do you call the general public "benefits scroungers" for claiming when they fall on hard times? No probably not, because you aren't jealous of them.
The difference being of course that when the general public claim benefits they generally are on hard times. Not quite the same with William is it.
As for being jealous, do you really think that the reasons for disagreeing with having a royal family are all down to jealousy? There are many multi millionaires in this country who I don't hear any gripes about. Probably because they've made the money themselves.
There are many many reasons why people see having a royal family as wrong, jealousy isn't one of them.

shitebag · 06/05/2015 12:50

Is William claiming benefits now then? Hmm

I would hardly say its his fault that he was born into money, as I say I'm not a fan of the monarch by any stretch of the imagination but I'd be intrigued how many of those moaning because someone happened to be born into a rich family would refuse to be any part of it and give up every penny... I know I sure as hell wouldn't!

Fauxlivia · 06/05/2015 12:58

I'd swop places with her in a heartbeat. She'll never have to worry about paying the bills or stress about funding her kids through uni and whether they will get jobs after. She has access to the best life that money can buy. And in exchange she has to make sone public appearances.

Now, as I said upthread, I do like her and I think good on her - if I could have bagged a prince I would have draw the line at Andrew and Edward though. Can you imagine dtd with either if them. Eugh!

GingerCuddleMonster · 06/05/2015 13:03

I'd fuck Harry, marry him, live in a big posh house paid for, and turn up to posh events dressed nicely and pampered and then go home and shag Harry again...Wink easy....

Mehitabel6 · 06/05/2015 19:09

My freedom is worth far more than that!
I expect Harry is pleased that he has gone further down the succession.

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