To not understand why the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk only came over for 4 days?

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I just find this really odd. To fly all that way then only stay 4 days? Surely they had other family to visit, could have made a bit of a holiday of it. I can&t imagine 2 long flights with toddlers that close together - it would be exhausting!

I'm not sure that's a book I'd enjoy, but maybe I should give it a try.

Are all their family and friends really ignoring them? That seems unlikely.

Harry really wouldn't have married one of your 'wonderfully English' daughters

Of course he would have. Two
of them turned him down.

I didn’t say they were but apparently some of them are.

@saoirse31

You've missed the point. The UK, along with all the places that QE still reigns over are functionally republics. There is therefore nothing to gain and a fair bit to lose by replacing the monarchy with a greasy suit who would probably interfere with politics.

All those countries could instead have been ones enslaved to a document written by dead white men who believed in gun ownership, or perhaps ones in which (leastways till recently) the local RCC archbishop said what went but I don't think either would have been preferable or more democratic.

This post is HILARIOUS!!!
Thank you for making me laugh on a Sunday morning.

William has done the big issue ‘thing’ for years by way of honoring his mums work with the homeless. It’s nothing new.

And the Cambridges were in Cardiff at the time of the Birthday party representing the Queen. An engagement that had probably been planned for the Jubilee long before MM was even pregnant.

And Kate in awe of Meghan? Nope. I’m quite sure very few women would be in awe of any other woman who did the Burger advert she did.

@TomPinch Prince Charles has a long history of interfering on political matters.

The issue with William "selling" the Big Issue was the pretence he was undercover.

Are you calling people on this thread racist?

So it’s not ok for people to have opinions on people they don’t know such as Harry and Meghan “based on nothing” (apart from their actions and words) but it’s ok for you to have an opinion on people you don’t know based on nothing at all (if you claim nothing need to be said).

I doubt very much we’d have known about it if the person who was desperate for his five minutes of fame hadn’t leaked his story to the press.

"dragging race into everything" invariably means the person saying it is racist.
It is a dog whistle phrase.

He's not the head of state, which is the point. He can say what he likes.

He is standing in for the Queen so often now that it is very unwise.

But this proves my point. When he opened Parliament and gave the Queen's Speech he didn't ad lib, did he?

I'll add that I'm sure that when Charles becomes king he will keep his opinions to himself or, if he finds that uncongenial, abdicate so that the crown can pass to William.

I guess I get a little annoyed that it's become accepted wisdom that the UK is undemocratic because it has a monarchy and an unwritten constitution. It's a very simple and flexible system actually: 1. Parliament has supreme lawmaking power and 2. to govern, a government must have majority support in Parliament. The Tories are a wretched lot but they would probably still be there under a PR system - just like their equivalents were in Aus and NZ for most of the last decade. There's a reason why there hasn't been any revolution, putsch or coup d'état, ie, political breakdown, in the UK or similar countries since 1688.

@TomPinch He didn't ad-lib at the Queen's Speech!!!
Of course not.
That is not the definition of politically neutral.

I do not think he is capable of being politically neutral over years. But anyway we know a lot of his political views alraedy.

I'm sure that when Charles becomes king he will keep his opinions to himself

Probably best to keep your fingers crossed on that one, TomPinch ... some think it unlikely, but time will tell

I do not think he will be able to resist getting involved. He thinks his opinion is extremely important.

He is only saying what the vast majority of people are thinking which is why its down to a pitiful possible 10 people now and even thats being challenged

I agree with his view on this occasion. But that is besides the point.