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Has The Royal topic been disappeared?

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Peasepuddingbloodycold · 09/01/2023 17:54

And if not, it looks as though I've hidden it. Can anyone tell me how to unhide it?

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WinnieFosterReads · 09/01/2023 19:49

I don't think they're screenshots. The Daily Mail is stirring. The article doesn't correspond with the order shown on the 'screenshots' graphic.
Honestly I've spent less time talking about my own bridesmaid dress dramas and I had 7 bridesmaids and 3 flower girls - a bridesmaid who decided she didn't like the dress; one who changed sizes and a flower-girl's mum who altered her dress into a completely different design. Sadly I didn't keep any of the messages either.

StarInTheHeavens · 09/01/2023 19:50

Someone post the £20 meme please...

Lightningfast · 09/01/2023 19:50

I definitely remember reading in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday that the Mumsnet royal family threads have all be consolidated into one because there were too many.

BethDuttonsTwin · 09/01/2023 19:50

Kate had given birth THREE WEEKS prior, she had a new born. Was she really expected to go and stand around at dress fittings like “the other mums”. If someone had posted this here on MN she’d have been told her SIL was a Bridezilla who should be told to eff off!

MandyMotherOfBrian · 09/01/2023 19:51

GolfEchoRomeoTangoIndia · 09/01/2023 19:48

Mark me down as another who doesn't really care what's going on at KP or Nott Cott, but is positively agog to find out what's going on at MNHQ.

Me too, it’s so conspiracy theory isn’t it, first development that’s got me invested. 😉

AutumnCrow · 09/01/2023 19:51

StarInTheHeavens · 09/01/2023 19:30

@AutumnCrow how can you tell there's a bot on a thread?

There are a lot of repetitive, pre-populated sentences and paragraphs, usually, with some iterative 'learning' and the occasional human intervention to re-steer their bot persona. I explained it on another thread so I won't bang on about it here. But repetition of words, phrases and sentences is always there.

I work in a connected area and have to know how to detect them, especially the new less clunky ones.

Bababluesheep2 · 09/01/2023 19:51

Seriously if I had a tailor waiting all day and my future sister in law was wanting to get the dress remade four days before my wedding rather than just get it fitted, while I was having a major crisis with my dad I’d think that future sister in law was completely self absorbed. Kate should have been texting to see what she could do to help….offering to take the dress to the tailor and what else she could do …maybe being there as a shoulder to cry on over the dad issues…but no she was just demanding and inconsiderate by the sound of things! The she sat back as the press reported terrible things about her sister in law, things she knew weren’t true.

I think the power has really gone to Kate’s head. William too. It really is time to get rid of them. The royal family had their chance to modernise and represent the people of modern Britain but Wills and Kate obviously let their ego get in the way of that. They weren’t popular, Kate will never be loved by the people especially the younger generations in the way that Diana was or that Meg was beginning to be.

They should have sucked it up but they didn’t and now look what’s happened!!

Anyway not sure why I feel so strongly about all this. I think it’s just for years I was so aghast by all the terrible things printed about H & M that it’s really gotten to me. I can’t believe how many of the older generation that I know truly believe that they deserve everything they’re getting and deserve to have had such awful things written about them and how Meghan had corrupted poor Harry. It’s ridiculous and a real eye opener!

Itsnottime · 09/01/2023 19:51

RedToothBrush · 09/01/2023 19:27

The whole exchange between the two of them sounds curt and rude. It sounds like there's no love lost on either side and both of them were fed up with each other and they'd been an argument prior to the text if that is the entire conversation.

But Harry wanted the four of them to hang out as best buddies after the wedding? And was taken back when William said it might not happen like that. And then Harry got upset because William didn't want to hang out with him the night before the wedding and instead cancelled at the last minute to look after his wife and children (including newborn Louis).

Strikes me that there'd been a long running argument going on with Meghan and Kate which Harry knew nothing of (but William did)....

Agree with this. Both sides are being rude and curt and really don''t sound like they like each other at all. I do think it's odd that Kate wouldn't be a bit kinder and nicer considering all the fall out with Meghan's father. The fact that they can be quoted verbatim like this suggests that Harry or Meghan actually took screen shots and kept them for years afterwards. I find that extremely peculiar to say the least.

Ticketyboots · 09/01/2023 19:52

StarInTheHeavens · 09/01/2023 19:50

Someone post the £20 meme please...

@Mezmer - please !!!

NerrSnerr · 09/01/2023 19:52

BethDuttonsTwin · 09/01/2023 19:50

Kate had given birth THREE WEEKS prior, she had a new born. Was she really expected to go and stand around at dress fittings like “the other mums”. If someone had posted this here on MN she’d have been told her SIL was a Bridezilla who should be told to eff off!

I think that she probably has enough staff that a nanny could have taken Charlotte and sorted it.

The way people are talking it's like she'd just given birth, doing all the school runs and housework whilst caring for a newborn alone.

lmnabc · 09/01/2023 19:52

I always miss all the deleted comments by MNHQ. Happens all the time 😟

AliceOlive · 09/01/2023 19:53

NotABeliever · 09/01/2023 19:46

Agree. If true, Kate is in the wrong. It's ridiculous to demand a new dress for a child if the one is too big. Any good tailor can sort that out. It would be harder if it was too small.

She wrote that the dress needed to be remade. That doesn't mean a new dress, it means taking this one apart and building it again. There are times where simply altering a garment will not be enough to make it fit.

WinnieFosterReads · 09/01/2023 19:53

RedToothBrush · 09/01/2023 19:49

Well HQ have been pretty transparent about whose paid them a visit with a cricket bat.

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet can you confirm the Windsors gif with Camilla with a cricket bat wasn't a serious comment on what happened. Hmm Some posters seem to have had a sense of humour bypass Grin Unsurprising given their past record.

NerrSnerr · 09/01/2023 19:54

If those text messages are actually factual they both sound as narky as each other.

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2023 19:54

Lightningfast · 09/01/2023 19:50

I definitely remember reading in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday that the Mumsnet royal family threads have all be consolidated into one because there were too many.

Well that's not true

BradfordGirl · 09/01/2023 19:55

NerrSnerr · 09/01/2023 19:54

If those text messages are actually factual they both sound as narky as each other.

It was 4 days before the wedding. Tension is not surprising.

Mezmer · 09/01/2023 19:55

I don’t have the link anymore but someone else already put it up if you look for ‘sandwich’ at about 6.45 this eve in this or the other thread that also started up.

Anisina · 09/01/2023 19:55

MandyMotherOfBrian · 09/01/2023 19:51

Me too, it’s so conspiracy theory isn’t it, first development that’s got me invested. 😉

Perhaps we should start another thread about the missing topic?

doory · 09/01/2023 19:56

She wrote that the dress needed to be remade. That doesn't mean a new dress, it means taking this one apart and building it again.

so a new one then

BradfordGirl · 09/01/2023 19:56

NerrSnerr · 09/01/2023 19:52

I think that she probably has enough staff that a nanny could have taken Charlotte and sorted it.

The way people are talking it's like she'd just given birth, doing all the school runs and housework whilst caring for a newborn alone.

Agreed.

Lightningfast · 09/01/2023 19:56

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2023 19:54

Well that's not true

@JaneJeffer True fact! A full page interview with the Mumsnet founder.

doory · 09/01/2023 19:57

Kate had given birth THREE WEEKS prior, she had a new born. Was she really expected to go and stand around at dress fittings like “the other mums”.

why not? I'm sure there were chairs available.

Meg has her impending very public wedding so understandably was also stressed.

LegoAmies · 09/01/2023 19:57

AutumnCrow · 09/01/2023 19:51

There are a lot of repetitive, pre-populated sentences and paragraphs, usually, with some iterative 'learning' and the occasional human intervention to re-steer their bot persona. I explained it on another thread so I won't bang on about it here. But repetition of words, phrases and sentences is always there.

I work in a connected area and have to know how to detect them, especially the new less clunky ones.

Interesting! I can't spot them, are they pro M&H or pro the rest of the family?

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2023 19:57

Who was misquoted @Lightningfast

doory · 09/01/2023 19:58

Interesting! I can't spot them, are they pro M&H or pro the rest of the family?

both most likely!