Royal wedding: disappointed at all the nasty MN threads

[TwitterQueen1]

I saw two 'positive' threads - one on Camilla, one on Charles. All the others (that I saw) were pretty spiteful and unpleasant, alleging or implying:

• Kate tried to upstage Meghan by wearing cream (which was actually lemon)
  
• Several royals were 'unable' to look at the happy couple whilst they were saying their vows
  
• Kate really wanted to marry Harry herself
  
• Elton looked very rough and his wig was awful
  
• Victoria B is miserable and po-faced
  
• David B - 'nuff said
  
• Harry's outfit looked like PJs and he should have shaved
  
• Meghan was afraid of being upstaged by adult bridesmaids to chose to have only flower girls
  
• Meghan's dress didn't fit well
  
• Meghan is going to get restless in a few years and flit
  
• apparently there's a lot of 'hate' for Meghan
  
• all the guests, including Harry, would be guilty of drink driving after the reception
  

At the risk of sounding like Pollyanna, and regardless of whether you're a royalist, republican, communist, whatever, I think it's a shame that people looked for the negative and nasty on a day of celebration.

Can we have some positives? Here's mine: William looked relaxed and confident and was obviously a huge support to a very nervous Harry.

[Dapplegrey]

Derxa, well said about Polly Toynbee.

[marchin1984]

Anyway I LOVED the wedding! Lovely day - even though I'd describe myself as an armchair republican. As in, if you were designing a system from scratch you wouldn't choose this. But, it's done and better than the alternative.

What is better than the alternative? I'd prefer to have nothing.

[Mabeldidit]

'But he did repeat himself. A lot.'
Yes, it really wasn't the length it was just dull, boring and repetitive. Shouting the same thing over and over didn't make it inspiring or interesting unfortunately. In the end most people watching were probably just willing him to stop.

[LollyLollington]

Yes but church is boring?! 😀🙂

[LollyLollington]

Can anyone really be arsed to design a presidency? Turnouts at elections are low enough as it is. As bonnie Greer tweeted today, this country has proved over hundreds of years, it just prefers monarchy.

[marchin1984]

Can anyone really be arsed to design a presidency?

I'd imagine that a strong government with a population backing it will have a much easier time getting rid of the monarchy than brexit. Yet we chose that.

Although, frankly, you are probably right. We deserve exactly what we get with our apathy in our democracy.

[MistressDeeCee]

There were loads of bitchy, spiteful, racist threads..in whichever order. I mostly skimmed those though, couldn't be bothered to get embroiled in the nonsense

Meghan looked beautiful. Loved the simple lines of her dress. Harry looked so happy.The choir were awesome. Sheku (a neighbour of mine) played the cello beautifully.

I liked that Prince Charles walked Meghan part way down the aisle. It seemed a gesture saying she was accepted and welcomed into the family, in the face of all the spite and criticism levelled at her.

A very "different" royal wedding and a pleasure to see.

Some of the nasty posts were very odd to the point of unfathomable, to say the least.

[SoFake]

YABU

I was disappointed in all the gushy threads about the Royal Wedding.😂

I’ve nothing against the Royals as individuals but i find the hype about the wedding really peculiar. I’d have been happier to see absolute no threads about the Royal Wedding at all.

[headstone]

The fawning mumsnetters are all a bit shallow really, if she was plain no one would be fawning over her, it’s only because she has the good fortune to look beautiful despite having two average looking parents.

[MistressDeeCee]

Like it's not shallow af to be bitchy and spiteful, and act as if it's some kind of non-fawning badge of honour. She and groom looked good, the wedding was good. It's a fact no amount of miaowing can change.

[halfwitpicker]

Nah, bitching is why MN is so popular innit

[halfwitpicker]

Hers my tuppence worth :

Meg looked great, as did Harry
Windsor looked beautiful
They were lucky with the weather
Charlotte and all the page boys, flower girls were fab, especially the cheeky twins
Kate looked great, kudos for her on leaving the house

Posh and becks looked like they hated each other
Eugenie and Beatrice clearly need new stylists
I do not like the Royals at all but am happy that Harry and Meghan had a good day.

[Roussette]

The fawning mumsnetters are all a bit shallow really, if she was plain no one would be fawning over her, it’s only because she has the good fortune to look beautiful despite having two average looking parents

Good grief. I think every bride looks beautiful on their wedding day and I don't think that saying someone looks wonderful is 'fawning'.

I'm no looker really but I felt beautiful on my wedding day, were my girlfriends fawning over me when they told me how great I looked?

FWIW I thought Doria, her Mum, was beautiful too.

Mind you, I see the best in people not the worst.

[traciebanbanjo]

People fawning over beautiful princesses getting married is just so backward.

[Roussette]

I just think she's a strong beautiful woman... if that's fawning, I'm guilty but there again I've never been afraid to compliment other strong females. Weird turn of phrase bearing in mind she isn't a princess

[traciebanbanjo]

"Princess", royal weddings just seem like real life Disney movies where most people are in awe of the slim beautiful woman getting married. Opium for the masses.

[Roussette]

Hilarious.

Gosh, us 'masses' are all so plebby aren't we. I imagine me and the posters who enjoyed the wedding have only got one brain cell between us.

Misguided.

[SusanWalker]

I think you will find any bitterness towards the event is more likely to stem from the tastelessness of a massive display of immense wealth and privilege at great cost to the tax payer at a time when schools and NHS budgets have been slashed, rather than 'jealousy;

I totally agree with this. There are people dealing with the fuck up that is universal credit and not knowing where their next meal is coming from, while people go to a wedding wearing a dress that cost enough to pay for a family's food bill for a month or more. The whole day did nothing more than highlight the huge gap in our society between the haves and the have nots.

Lots of people do charity work. They don't all live in palaces with staff looking after their every need. Lots of people have jobs or serve in the armed forces, it's hardly something to boast about.

On more or less on radio 4 they said that Kate and William's wedding actually cost the economy money rather than boosting it. People visit this country for a plethora of different reasons. I should think the amount of tourists who come here specifically to see the royal family is very small.

[derxa]

Opium for the masses You forgot to say bread and circuses as well

[TwitterQueen1]

Mistress Sheku is your neighbour?! Wow. I'd be glass-to-the-wall at all times if he was mine! do you ever hear him practising?

Tracie "People fawning over beautiful princesses getting married is just so backward." PMSL at this. You have a rock-bottom and very narrow backward opinion of the 2 billion or so people who watched the wedding....

Rousette Yes, absolutely - every single bride looks beautiful and amazing on their wedding day. Fact.

[traciebanbanjo]

For two people who are all about the charity, they managed blow way more money than the heir did. It's almost as if they don't really care about all this make povery history stuff.

I was expecting something modest and they spent 90k on just buying some horns and 300k on hiring a tent.

For someone that's (quite rightly) spent his whole life complaning about press intrusion it sends out a very weird message. I do wonder if it was out of his control, what we got was basically a glitzy advert for the saxx something Windsors.

Once the queen goes it's time to have a serious discussion about their future.

[LaurieMarlow]

Family brings in 400 million a year in private revenue that under the “ sovereign act 2011” the government keeps £360 million of

This is bollocks. Crown estate money does not belong to the house of Windsor, it belongs to the legal entity of 'the crown' and they have no personal rights to it.

From the official website

But it is not the private property of the monarch - it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch.

Family brings in £1.8 billion per year in tourism

This is pure speculation and completely unquantifiable. We have no way of comparing how much tourist revenue we'd get if we had no royal family and were able to fully open up the historical buildings to the public. Versailles is a far more popular tourist attraction than any of the British royal residences.

[Roussette]

We'll never agree on how much they bring in versus how much is spent on them. Never. You can find whatever alternative facts you want depending on which side of the fence you sit.

[TwitterQueen1]

Tracie Whether the horns cost 90k or not, I don't know, but the company that made the horns is a Yorkshire one (www.smithwatkins.com). Their website says: Since 2005 we have been contractors to the Ministry of Defence and have designed, made and supplied specialist brass instruments to most of the British military bands. Our Fanfare trumpets have recently been seen in spectacular form at a variety of prominent public occasions, including heralding the beginning and end of the Grand National (the most famous horse race in Britain), the Royal Wedding (2011), and the ceremonies to mark the Jubilee (2012) and the opening of the London 2012 Olympics.

Personally I don't have a problem in the royals feeding back money into the British economy and supporting companies such as this. That ~90k has probably paid for a few salaries...