To find the royal family fascinating?

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Don't want to make this a TAAT, so I'll just say I have enjoyed everyone's observations on the royal family and it's made a boring weekend go much quicker

Please continue if you wish to......

Thank you! Don't like the dress myself but great to see it! I know no gossip!

Charles and Diana were the gift that kept on giving in the 1990s .. until well, she died

I dunno Popbitch was unleashing some Di based corkers last year...

Leo was a serial shagger... presumably why Jilly took such a lighthearted view of extramarital games?

I wonder if she did though or just put her game face on and pretended to be lighthearted about it as she knew he wasn't going to stop and she didn't want to lose him. I'd be no good at turning a blind eye to my husband shagging some woman I'd be expected to air kiss at some horse trials.

@BishopBrennansArse hello - your username is brill btw

Historic I presume ....

@Haworthia ahhh, thanks for clearing that up for me.

Cheers
It's only because someone had already had SmallFarAway

Of course historic lmao.

The Will Carling "shaved her growler" boast

I may be wrong but I've preciously seen other allusions to her previous fellas

Previously

@Whizzler

Doesn't Jilly Cooper have some philandering posh husband herself?

She did. He died of Parkinson's disease but a long time before that had an affair lasting many years with, I think, someone in publishing (as was he). Jilly C. was living in the country while husband Leo was spending a lot of time in London. Seemingly, she (JC) found out and wrote a very dismissive piece about Leo havinghad a "dalliance". The other woman retaliated by writing in a different newspaper, basically saying, "Well, if you call an ongoing relationship of x years a 'dalliance'..." and saying she was fed up of reading about the Cooper's supposedly perfect marriage. She turned up ("rolled up" in Jilly-speak) at the country house but, Leo perhaps having realised which side his bread was buttered on, called the whole thing off* and she was packed off the next morning.
*Cue for a song?

I missed some of the later Charles & Di stuff coz we moved to Ireland in 95.

Although I had zero time for her ever I found her death shocking & tragic.

Subsequent public grieving was just outlandish - that's been done to death on here I know but

'I shaved her growler'

How very Chaucerian. I can imagine that charming folk ditty being sung in taverns in ye dayes of yore.

I think Will Carling was extremely ungentlemanly to both Diana and his wife Julia.

Ooooh @LaMarschallin what a way to conduct a spat! Bet horny old Leo bloody loved being part of their public feud. Major pats on the backs from the chaps as the club.

(just as an aside, we got some gerbils from the Coopers - I was about 8, dad knew Leo somehow. I called them Robert and Charles, after his then publishers...)

Allegedly he was in a bar with his rugby mates and she rang asking if she could see him, he said only if you shave your growler. She rang back a few minutes later to say she had done it.

Oh and I completely agree Will Carling was a shit.

I moved abroad just after she died and I thought I would escape the aftermath but no alas NZ were more obsessed about it than us.

Are the Express and the Mail still putting her on the front page at least twice a week?

They must have been absolutely devastated when she died she was their bread and butter.

Growler - yuk yuk yuk

whizzler absolutely yes to JC's game face, but I think - as previously discussed on other threads - absolutely NFN (normal for norfolk, an acronym sometimes used by GPs apparently to explain something which may seem a little 'odd')

@BishopBrennansArse

Actually that's made me a bit sad - she must have been desperate

Rugby blokes can be lovely. They can also be really coarse and uncouth and desperate to impress their pals.

I only learnt of the phrase Normal for Norfolk when I saw that programme about Desmond of the great eyebrows!

I suppose JC and women of her class and generation were told by their mothers to expect and accept infidelity and not be such a baby about it.

I'm getting a tad confused about who actually really really loves Meghan

This is MN remember? So we ALL think MM is the most wonderful person in the history of wonderfulness - an absolute paragon in every possible way

I think some women found it a relief to be spared the bad sex. Men and women were so badly educated in those days. Men were told nice women did not enjoy it. Women told to endure it for the babies. I like to think we are all better educated now. Cosmopolitan was an eye opener for women of a certain generation.