To prevent DS channeling Richard III?

[CecilyNeville]

DS is 7. DS likes having longish hair. I like DS having longish hair. However he consented to me cutting his fringe a bit the other day, and now he looks like Richard III as played by Laurence Olivier.

He says he likes the rest of his hair as it is, and doesn't want to cut the length further. Is there anything I can do to kindly, fairly resolve this!? I don't want him to feel coerced, but it really really isn't a good look. We are not Plantagenets.

Joffrey- sorry that came out wrong. I don't mean I would not be your friend, I mean I am not the friend you are talking about.

My DDs have been known to cut each other's hair, a couple of times. So embarrassing! DD2's best friend's mum is a hairdresser and cuts their hair so I think they fancy themselves as hairdressers.
I suppose at least they didn't look like Queen Victoria lol. :)

I love this thread - DS2 was convinced for a while he looked 'surfer' and cool but I used to call him Little Lord Fauntleroy.

I miss it a bit now that my 3 boys look like the Peaky Blinders (we are yam though, not brum just to be clear)

Deformed haircuts seem to be a trait of Dukes of Gloucester.

Sorry to divert from the Plantagenet theme.

There's an 80s revival. He needs a mullet. And he'll set the trend among the 7 year old age group.

This is the best thread I have read on here in many a month.

(I am a genuine Plantaganet!)

"what happened to the boys?"

Henry Tiddler killed them.

Tell us more, ifi!

Best example ever of 'I've namechanged for this thread'

SleepOhHowIMissYou
"[Henry VII] took the crown off him on the battlefield and then married his poor sister to legitimise their children's birthright.” Elizabeth of York was Richard's niece, not his sister.

HH?

1066 and All That is funnier and more accurate.

DS allowed me to cut his hair yesterday. Now he is sporting the 'Grayson Perry' style (as himself, not as Claire).

So that's ... an improvement...

From Richard III to Grayson Perry. I love your ds. And you.

Be thankful his hair isn't like Louis xiv in Versaille or Phillipe

Are you almost at the Blackadder stage with this haircut?

Sometimes a thread comes along that reminds why I love MN . This is one of those times.Thank you Cecily and allegretto for giving me a giggle. I will be tittering to myself all day now - and people already think I'm a bit odd!

I now have this song in my head.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mcocz

Sadly no mention of his hair though.

Mea culpa Rustybear!

Mind you, that does rather put paid to the idea that Richard murdered the little princes. That William Shakespeare's got a lot to answer.

Well, not really, Sleep - Richard took the crown from his nephew Edward V declaring him illegitimate (and therefore Elizabeth of York, his sister, too) due to his father Edward IV's precontract with Eleanor Butler, but he may still have decided it was safer to get rid of them anyway.

If they weren't already dead, Henry VII might have killed them after he seized the throne, so that he could declare Elizabeth legitimate. On the other hand, he was very keen not to give the idea that his claim to the throne depended on his marriage to Elizabeth, so it might not have worried him that there was any uncertainty.