To find the royal family fascinating part 2

[MagicKingdomDizzy]

Hello everyone, here's thread 2.

I'd be very grateful if someone could do a clicky link to the last one. Still can't figure it out.

Thanks!

MarkleSparkle

Possibly you're right and they got upgraded. The Northumberlands were always very important even in Tudor times. I think your theory about the lands and border is correct. Had their lands been elsewhere, they wouldn't have been so important.

Puzzledandpissedoff

I agree with you. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see the marriage lasting, it seems a little like PC and Diana, not a great match, and done too quickly.

PW and Kate on the other hand, their relationship has a different vibe and despite the rumours I think they'll be together until the end.

Bloody scarves - they're a nightmare!
All you want to do is have a nice chat with your beloved - and not at all, in your opinion, woo-woo - sister-in-law and the wretched thing just will not lie down and stay nicely tucked in your coat.
Oh hang on...

LaMarschallin

I don't think I've ever seen anyone faff so much with a scarf in my life

Imagine if one of the princes had fallen for a medical student with a vocational desire to become a consultant. A lifetime of working long hours and night shifts while also studying for exams. It wouldn't really work, would it?

I think one of the younger male Kents or Gloucesters is married to a consultant but then they're not exactly terribly royal that far down. There was a bit of frothing in the press about a model Lady Something Windsor not being invited to the weddings but would you necessarily invite your grandparent's cousin's grandchildren to your wedding?

I were the type to prioritise my children marrying well over being successful themselves - well I would go for a nice billionaire rather than a Prince. Who would want all the criticism? And I know their life is privileged but I wouldn't want ir

Hence Isabella Calthorpe turning down Prince William

Harry gives Meghan access to an.Alist world. I guess we take the love; desire for a family for both as given. But at that age and level of society, I'm sure there was a(n unconscious) set of scales. We all do it when we've got some life experience behind us; what do we sacrifice for what we gain?

Don’t know if it was about not talking to her or not wanting to talk to her in front of press. I think perhaps he didn’t want to give her his royal endorsement, perhaps.

• Just my own opinion -

I also agree @Puzzledandpissedoff.

I don't doubt that they love each other to bits and what we are seeing is very much the honeymoon phase of their relationship. It could turn out to be a lifelong love story, but it's difficult to ignore all the red flags frantically waving around them.

I have my own theory which is that they have woven a fantasy narrative, in which they are both fully invested, that together they were going to do great things for their pet projects using their combined status to full effect.

The problem is neither of them have factored in the restrictions that royal life places on them. I think this will become increasing frustrating to Meghan in particular. I would so like to be wrong.

The thing is, what's the worst that could happen? They get divorced. Hardly unheard of in the RF. Harry is an adult and he's made a decision. If it's the wrong one, it's his mistake to make. If he's so stupid as to be manipulated by an evil social climber, that's his look out. The 6th in line to the Throne getting divorced is hardly going to bring down the monarchy when the previous generation have a 75% divorce rate and the one prior to that a 50%divorce rate (compared to 40%in the general population) Some people seem to think the Royals should be made to marry 'suitable' brides, because that's worked out so well in the past

Although Harry is not as close to the throne as he once was, he isn't quite out of the woods until George is 18, or so I believe. Happy to be corrected.

Reading the daily mail comments on the story that queen visited Kate because she wanted to see her before she gave birth.

I’m firmly of the opinion she’s had the baby. I really don’t think the queen would visit her so soon before AND after the birth. The Cambridge’s also saw her after Easter. I bet that ambulance was there on standby.

Someone upthread asked about the Queen Mother.I highly recommend 'The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother' by Lady Colin Campbell. Dirt dished in vast quantities. A very good £4.99 's worth on Kindle.

I think Zara is pregnant again.

@ LaMarschallin so true 😆 about scarves

I’m firmly of the opinion she’s had the baby

If she has, that involves an awful lot of people who've kept schtum about it ... which with the royals would be unusual in itself

Still, it's their news to break and I'm sure we'll all get to hear about it when the time's right for them

Zara pics Easter

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6944713/Zara-Tindall-looks-effortlessly-chic-nude-wool-coat-pink-hat-Easter-Sunday-service.html

@puzzledandpissed off just immediate family and the doctor in change if she had it at home.

To be fair I’d look pregnant standing behind KM too, she does look to be though.

Possibly wasn't distancing himself from her Duchessness as much as from Harry. He couldn't really engage with one without 't other.

Plus, he had a very complicated scarf arrangement to see to...

True enough, Humpy, but I was thinking more of the staff of other family members, the medics' staff and so on

The same principle applies to just about anything this family do, unless they somehow manage to tell nobody - and in the case of the birth of a baby I'd have thought that unlikely

Kate looks really happy in that pic where she is curtseying to HMQ, and the one with Zara.

When a sibling/family member decides on their life partner, just keep it zipped otherwise you risk so much damage to a lifelong relationship.

Maybe the feud is about money ?? Especially if the men care so much and the women not so much. Perhaps Harry finds it a bit unfair that WIlliam gets the entire duchy income and is concerned about how he will support his actress wife or something like that ?

Kate Middleton's brother: