Royal kids going to Lambrook

[Hettythechicken]

I wonder how things will change (if anything) for existing parents/staff. I don’t envy the teachers or Head - there must be so much more pressure with security and press intrusion. I don’t know Lambrook particularly well but I’m not surprised they’ve chosen it!
Would you be happy if royal children started at your children’s school?

What title does Pippa have??? She’s just plain old Mrs Matthews isn’t she? The less famous sister in law of the toothy Vogue?

Why would anybody ever want to marry into royalty? I can see how it does happen, through getting to know the individual/falling in love/deciding that you'll make sacrifices and take the risks that come, but I just can't imagine that anyone would deliberately pursue such a life. I mean you'd know from the off your prospective children would have dodgy in-bred genes, and the fear of what that might mean would just hang over you all the time wouldn't it? Never mind all the rest of the stress of constantly being in the public eye/the possibility of assassination/having your whole life mapped out for you.

"That’s right. Pippa’s title comes from her husband, James Matthews, to whom she wed in 2017.
The hedge fund financier’s father is the Laird of Glen Affric, a title he reportedly acquired when buying a castle and a 10,000-acre estate in the Highlands, something his eldest son James will inherit.
This would one day make Pippa Middleton, Lady Glen Affric."

www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/people/pippa-middleton-title-602139

@PestoPasghetti I am not interested in whether Kate orchestrated this or not.
But certainly gorgeous young intelligent women pursue relationships and marriage with horrible old but rich men all the time. I would not want this, but there is no accounting for taste.

I don’t get it either. If you are marrying for money just marry for money. I’d rather be Pippa than Kate.

We don’t know what her reasons were. It is pure spiteful speculation.

@typeb I was trying to point out that some people would have expected their children to meet 'the right sort' at university/school - luckily, my parents couldn't have given two hoots, and I found the whole thing amusing and ridiculous.

I have no idea whether the Middletons threw their daughter at a royal, or whether she did so herself. It's horrible to read people idly speculating and gossiping about a couple who have now been married for many years - really, who cares?!

@Panicmode1
Agree that it’s really not important whether or not Kate changed university to be near William.
What annoys me is when people claim it’s a completely outrageous suggestion and that no-one would ever do that - loads of people did do exactly that in that very year he started at St Andrew’s. Maybe Kate was among them, maybe she wasn’t. But lots of other girls were.

Loads of people also send their kids to private schools to mix with the ‘right sort of people’ too. It happens. Why do people want to pretend it doesn’t?

Kate made friends with people at MC who were friends with the royals.

What a crime! Should she have cold shouldered them in case someone thought she was a social climber? Such bitterness and vitriol on this thread. Those who criticise Meghan are called bullies and haters. Kate hasn’t put a foot wrong once yet people need to rip her to shreds because they are firmly convinced she was a scheming social climber , determined to ‘bag a Prince’. Perhaps she actually loves him and he loves her? Is that possible?
It’s disgustingly misogynistic.

I wouldn't say she's being ripped to shreds! There's just a lot of information out there which indicates that she was trying to peruse him. Both on the gap year and at university. Of course she's never going to admit to it because let's face it, it's quite tragic really!

Pursue - not peruse! Although that works too!

I would say the Middletons didn't put a foot wrong with their dc's upbringing. They gave them every single opportunity to be umc. Carole & Michael were extremely invested in their children & had the money to back up their ambitions so more power to them. Thousands of similar middle class parents out there...

Lol, I can do all those things and I went to the local comp.

Lots of people want to be famous, though, so I guess someone might choose that. Plus it gives the whole family a well-known status, so parents might want that as well. Alien to me, but I could see how some might. No idea if there was any deliberate pursuing in this instance, though, as I don't know much about their relationship. I think people could put their children in suitable situations/schools to meet certain types of people (and may do), but beyond that, I don't think they can really do anything to guarantee lasting friendship/love. That has to be just luck.

Inbreeding isn't really an issue unless you are already from that family, because the risk of having problems increases when a child is likely to get a gene from both parents for something. As long as she didn't carry those genes, the risk isn't particularly high for genetic issues. Of course he might be more likely to carry a gene for certain factors than others from the general population (though his parents were only very very distantly related, weren't they? He's hardly "inbred"), but if one gene were enough to cause a problem, then he'd likely have that issue too and they'd know about it. So I don't really think it's something that would have caused her much concern.

Don’t shout at me @SilverLiningPlaybook, I made a comment about how she was already in the royal social set before she went to university. Are Royals not allowed to have friends? And are their friends not allowed to have other friends?

She was in that mileau sure. You'd have to be to even meet them. I mean I couldn't haven't Prince William. There was no common area. She had that but so did loads of other girls. That meant nothing really.

I agree she was in that set before she moved to uni... Pippa too was, she spent her weekends at various country piles & went to Edinburgh & house shared with aristos...

You must be from a pretty middle-class family though as some of those skills take a lot of money to acquire.

It is not spiteful speculation to post the truth. Some posters were getting bashed for saying Kate had changed the university she was going to and told that was not true. I dislike people being told facts are not true.

I wouldn’t say so. Not by MN standards! My grandparents would definitely be described as working class; my grandmother was a cook for a middle class family and my grandfather lived in a 2 bed house with 11 siblings. It’s fair to say that access to council housing and education were transformative for our family.

@Temporaryanonymity The fact you talk about grandparents and not parents tells me that your parents had plenty of money.
Most people can not pay for their children to become proficient in all those sports.

Yah 🤣

@sleepygal are you implying that I would like my DS to go to school with royal children??
I went to school with quite a few children of Liverpool footballers. The behaviour that created amongst parents was bad enough. Imagine royals. 😱

That's so true & imo to fit in with the upper middle to upper echleons in U. K society this skills are invaluable & part of the unspoken code.. As I said upthread I would be an embarra liability to an aristo or royal as I can't do any. My parents were not outdoorsy or had the finances to pay for outdoorsy pursuits....