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Are you observing a minute's silence today at 3pm?

382 replies

Frownette · 17/04/2021 09:10

Curious!

YABU - NO
YANBU - YES

(I couldn't see a thread on this so apols if there is one and I missed it)

OP posts:
FlattestWhite · 17/04/2021 23:05

Apparently the queen and Prince Philip were both great great grandchildren of Victoria, not just great grandchildren, so quite distant

Mittens030869 · 17/04/2021 23:17

Margaret did eventually get married and her husband became Lord Snowdon. They got divorced many years ago and Margaret had several relationships afterwards. Yes, she did have children but I don’t know anything about them.

Margaret died in 2002, as did the Queen Mum, the year of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.

Thedogscollar · 17/04/2021 23:20

@isthereaduckinthehouse
Your comments over this thread have become more and more bizarre.

For a family that you profess to dislike it appears that you are totally clueless about them, what they have done and achieved over their lives or even who they are married to!

I suggest you educate yourself on the whole of the Royal family as your comments display a breathtaking ignorance of them.

Also your comment that Prince Philip would like Poppy Day when you found out he had served in WW2 was offensive to any decent human being.

SheldonesqueHasGotTheWeevils · 17/04/2021 23:25

The woodwork must be empty tonight.

HeronLanyon · 17/04/2021 23:26

flatest aha that makes sense timewise I guess.

SuziQuatrosFatNan · 17/04/2021 23:28

quite distant

I guess it depends on what your starting point is. Eg maybe people in Arkansas class it as distant.

And yes they had conditions because of it. There were loads of conditions in the royals before they started branching out a bit. And they do still all look the same, men and women.

rainbowthoughts · 17/04/2021 23:30

@SuziQuatrosFatNan

quite distant

I guess it depends on what your starting point is. Eg maybe people in Arkansas class it as distant.

And yes they had conditions because of it. There were loads of conditions in the royals before they started branching out a bit. And they do still all look the same, men and women.

So basically you can't back up what you said

JustAddCoffee91 · 17/04/2021 23:33

No I didn't, I do feel sorry for the people left in grief but I find it really annoying! There are people all over the country dying, children fighting terrible terminal illnesses... brave amazing people, and their families suffering, these are the people who deserve this!!
He lived a good long life, some people don't get that gift

Isthereaduckinthehouse · 17/04/2021 23:40

[quote Thedogscollar]@isthereaduckinthehouse
Your comments over this thread have become more and more bizarre.

For a family that you profess to dislike it appears that you are totally clueless about them, what they have done and achieved over their lives or even who they are married to!

I suggest you educate yourself on the whole of the Royal family as your comments display a breathtaking ignorance of them.

Also your comment that Prince Philip would like Poppy Day when you found out he had served in WW2 was offensive to any decent human being.[/quote]
What the fuck are you on about? I'm commenting on a thread on a website called Mumsnet. It's hardly The Sunday Fucking Times. You know nothing about me and apart from an occasional idle curiosity sparked by incessant coverage of the royals when one of them ascends this mortal soil, I have as much interest in them as I have in the parentage of my neighbour's cat, his prowlings or his progeny.

SuziQuatrosFatNan · 17/04/2021 23:43

Look here then, haemophilia was the main one but there were others. They had to widen the gene pool after Victoria so they moved on to second and third cousins but they're all still cousins. Same throughout Europe and in Russia too until the revolution.

www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/the-dangers-of-royal-inbreeding/

Thedogscollar · 17/04/2021 23:59

@isthereaduckinthehouse
If you have no interest in them I suggest you re read your utterly bizarre posts where you are asking all sorts about them.

Anyway I seem to have touched a nerve so I'll leave you to be educated on the Royal family by the other posters who seemed to have been happy to put the pieces together for you Grin

SuziQuatrosFatNan · 18/04/2021 00:04

At least @isthereaduckinthehouse knew they were all cousins. That's more than other people on here knew. You're welcome for the education btw.

AnotherSunrise · 18/04/2021 00:24

No!

picknmix1984 · 18/04/2021 04:25

No I went looking at vans. I may have been silent then or I may have been talking about mileage or seats to hubby. Haven't a clue. He was 99 . Why a minutes silence? Because he was born into some Grecian Royal family? I don't get it.

Isthereaduckinthehouse · 18/04/2021 06:33

@SuziQuatrosFatNan

At least *@isthereaduckinthehouse* knew they were all cousins. That's more than other people on here knew. You're welcome for the education btw.
Lol thanks Suzi!

There were apparently distant cousins in a home according to The Crown. Relatives of the Queen mother I think? No idea as to the veracity of it.

Isthereaduckinthehouse · 18/04/2021 06:38

Who were Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon?
Katherine, born in 1926, and Nerissa, born in 1919, were the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon – the brother of the Queen Mother – and his wife, Fenella.

The ties to the royal family mean they were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/the-crown-queen-cousins-nerissa-katherine-bowes-lyon-b1721187.html

Ginuwine · 18/04/2021 06:53

@SuziQuatrosFatNan

Yes I think I'm getting Anne and Margaret mixed up as well then. It's really hard when they all look the same.

Random question - why are there a handful of posters commenting dozens of times about things they demonstrably know nothing about in a very offhand way?

"Easy to get them mixed up when they all look the same".... I mean, really? Hmm

Isthereaduckinthehouse · 18/04/2021 07:31

It's chatting Ginuwine

blowinahoolie · 18/04/2021 08:12

Cousins marrying cousins 🤢

Mumoblue · 18/04/2021 08:19

No, I didn’t. I stopped my Sky sub after the pandemic kicked off majorly bc I couldn’t afford it and I was using it to watch the news 24/7 which was bad for my MH, so I didn’t even know when the funeral was.
I wouldn’t have done it anyway, as I’m not a supporter of the royal family, but I’m not any more worked up about them than I normally am.

FindingMeno · 18/04/2021 08:22

I never ever usually comment on the deaths of people in the public eye since I didn't know them personally. I'm sad at every death for the families but I'm not into the whole hoohaa that goes with it when they're well known.
I didn't do it, not to make a point, but because I'm not following 'news' at the moment. I would have done though, to remember everyone who has lost loved ones recently.
It's good to have a time of reflection sometimes.

goldielockdown2 · 18/04/2021 10:19

I don't know why a couple of posters have been humoured so much when they are clearly taking the piss. Trying oh so hard to be edgy and unbothered yet asking questions when google would be quicker. Googling wouldn't demonstrate how supposedly unbothered and dismissive you are though, would it, duckinthehouse? Your contribution to the thread has been so cringeworthy to read- so teenagerish.

NoFeedyDaMuppet · 18/04/2021 10:41

Indeed Goldie. And one with such an illustrious history under that moniker too.

Muppet fed.

HectorHalloumi · 18/04/2021 13:52

I have as much interest in them as I have in the parentage of my neighbour's cat, his prowlings or his progeny.

And yet you have been posting/asking questions all throughout this thread. Wow you must really love that cat.

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