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!

But it’s not like it can be wiped down with a few sprays of leather cleaner , it’s made of brocade I think , 🤢
I know that movies and tv made us think of Costume Drama sex scenes look hot, but I bet In realty people must have smelt musty all the time.

lyra well if you will go behaving like absolute filth

My 15 year old was very disgusted the other day when she heard DH and I have a kiss hello in the other room.

lyralalala

My Nana always used to say that the Queen would try and outlive Charles for precisely that reason.

Not completely unbelievable that it could happen. She's 93 and he's 70. She's looking pretty healthy too.

queenoffarles maybe they put linens down as a cover?

A spritz of eau de cologne and a drying out in the sunny part of the room and it'd be fine. Anyway, I think people liked a bit of mustiness. Didn't Napoleon request that Josephine not wash for a few days before their reunions so she'd be all pheremoney.

maybe they put linens down as a cover?

I'm not getting "hold on while I fetch a sheet" vibes from it TBH.

Laodamia

Didn't Napoleon request that Josephine not wash for a few days before their reunions so she'd be all pheremoney.

Most definitely not envy.

My 15 year old was very disgusted the other day when she heard DH and I have a kiss hello in the other room.

Outrageous behaviour... I hope you are very ashamed!!

Not completely unbelievable that it could happen. She's 93 and he's 70. She's looking pretty healthy too.

You'd be raging in his shoes if that happened though wouldn't you?!

Imagine lying on your deathbed knowing you'd been training and waiting for a job your whole life and didn't even get to do it for a day!

That’s what servants are for, to be on standby with linen covers. It’s not like he’d have invited someone to sit on his sex chair for tea and a biscuit, unless they were to be consumed mid coitus.

(I’m joking about the linens, the idea just amused me).

lyralalala

Poor Charles. Do you think everytime she coughs or looks a bit peaky, he thinks "Ahh, Finally!"?

He's the longest reining Heir Presumptive. Not a record anyone wants to have really.

Didn't Napoleon request that Josephine not wash for a few days before their reunions so she'd be all pheremoney.

Apparently. And, also appaz, the scent "Je Reviens" derives its name from that:

"Perfumer Maurice Blanchet developed Je Reviens in 1932. Je Reviens, over the years, moved from prestige to mass market status; it was reissued in the prestige category in 2004 as Je Reviens Couture.1 Susan Irvine, in Perfume: The Creation and Allure of Classic Fragrances, attributes the original name to Napoleon’s instructions to Josephine, “Je reviens en trois jours, ne te lave pas.”2 (Hardly a recommendation for a spring-like aldehydic floral fragrance, if you ask me.) Its notes include jasmine, orange blossom, ylang ylang, aldehydes, narcissus, jonquil, violet, sandalwood, vetiver and musk."

The Queen is probably going to make it to 100 (and then write herself a letter )

So Charles May be on the throne in say 8 years

He’ll be 78 and then if he lives to 98 that’s 20 years

By which time William will be 62?

All rather tiresome.

MagicKingdomDizzy

He must have brought up the way the Dutch and Luxembourg monarchies do things at least once or twice I'd think.

It's a pretty shitty deal when you think about it. To get the top job you have to wait for your parent to die. Then when your parent dies you have to deal with promotion and moving house at that same time.

So basically LaMarschallin it's really Eau de Fanny

I think the Queen will go shortly after the DOE. They strike me as one of those couples who'll go very quickly. (Is that treason to say?? I hope not!)

Then I don't think Charles will reign long. I think he might only make early 80s, assuming he outlives his mother at all.

I’d really like to get rid of the lot of them. I wonder if it will ever happen and when.

Imagine lying on your deathbed knowing you'd been training and waiting for a job your whole life and didn't even get to do it for a day isnt ironic.... don’t you think?

not like he’d have invited someone to sit on his sex chair for tea and a biscuit, unless they were to be consumed mid coitus.

clair that’s a bit too George costanza ,

Sorry I meant Heir Apparent in my last post. Charles can't be displaced from the line of succession obvs.

lyralalala

Do the Dutch and Luxembourg monarchs retire at a certain age? I'm not familiar on how they work.

I think once Charles becomes King, the monarchy will be pointless, and just dies a slow death.

Quite hard to find a previous king of England (I don't know much about Scotland sorry) who was 100% faithful to his wife.

On the other hand, not a single reigning queen of England has ever given any suspicions of an affair to my knowledge (queen consorts, yes, in several cases, but never reigning queens). Elizabeth I abstained strictly throughout her entire life. Mary I, Mary II, Anne, Victoria and our own dear queen all remained completely faithful and actually devoted spouses.

If we don't want adulterers in the top job, maybe we need to adopt some kind of reverse-Salic rule--reining-queens-only, with women passing the crown from mother to daughter along the matrilineal line. Would be kind of cool, though I suppose sexist in its own way.

Ha ha an exhausted vagina. I was an HR Manager for some years but no one ever produced that on a Drs note

Thanks for the interesting discussion today. I'm going to bed now.

If we happen to hit 1000 posts (!) and there's interest for a 3rd thread, feel free to start one and I'll join you tomorrow.

Elizabeth I abstained strictly throughout her entire life. really? what about Robert Dudley?