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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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doory · 09/01/2023 20:14

Didn’t M & H jump the queue with regards to royal weddings? Wasn’t Eugenie supposed to go first but gave up her spot as they were in such a hurry? No wonder it was all so chaotic.

It was very short notice. Was M pregnant?

Andsoforth · 09/01/2023 20:15

The dresses do look too big, long and baggy and presumably that’s the style they were going for - and I think it all looked lovely on the day.

But I imagine a dress, designed to be loose, could look truly shocking if it’s even bigger and looser. And if you’ve only seen one child, you might assume the worst, even if it actually fit exactly as intended.

I’d read Kate’s tone as urgently letting Meghan know that it was a bigger problem than taking up a hem.

But it’s one of those text conversations where tone gets lost. I’d like to see the rest of the conversation, and the time stamps before I’d condemn anyone.

ItWasDobbinAtTheMareAndSpare · 09/01/2023 20:15

I am really surprised they have these conversations directly at all, I 100% would’ve thought that they would have people that would be arranging all of that stuff, interesting.

Cath667 · 09/01/2023 20:15

Why is everyone suddenly taking what Harry is saying in his book as gospel? No-one has seen the text messages, only a DM mock-up.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 09/01/2023 20:15

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Then you are mistaken.

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2023 20:15

Three weeks post birth a new mother needs to be resting and breastfeeding, the baby isn't in any sort of routine and probably feeds frequently for extended periods. It's completely unreasonable to be expecting her to be running around at dress fittings, hanging around with the other mothers. Kate has all my sympathy on this.
I wonder if after she had Archie, Meghan reconsidered her texts. Nobody realises what the postpartum stage is like until they experience it for themselves.

Coucous · 09/01/2023 20:15

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Orangefir · 09/01/2023 20:16

doory · 09/01/2023 20:08

@Orangefir but I guess there were time constraints.

If you throw money at it (which rich people do) it really wouldn’t have been an issue.

Have you ever seen the turn around for the dresses on Stictly(I know it’s not couture but it is all hand sewn, hand applied crystals etc) but get enough people on it and it can be done.

Having one tailor to alter all those dresses was insane, particularly as it looks like 4 days before the wedding it was the first fitting. They would have been better of going to David’s Bridal, much more professional service

BabyFour2023 · 09/01/2023 20:16

doory · 09/01/2023 20:14

Didn’t M & H jump the queue with regards to royal weddings? Wasn’t Eugenie supposed to go first but gave up her spot as they were in such a hurry? No wonder it was all so chaotic.

It was very short notice. Was M pregnant?

Yep. Apparently that’s why Eugenie got the pick of tiaras, as a thank you for postponing her wedding for H&M

Coffeecreme · 09/01/2023 20:16

harry isnt showing meghan in a good light
but tbh they are as bad as each other

doory · 09/01/2023 20:16

Why is everyone suddenly taking what Harry is saying in his book as gospel? No-one has seen the text messages, only a DM mock-up

Don't worry we will soon get another version from a Royal source 😆

StarInTheHeavens · 09/01/2023 20:16

Whinge · 09/01/2023 20:08

You would certainly hope so. If an entire topic disappears and MNHQ have no idea why it vanished or what caused it to happen that doesn't look great for the users of the site.

It wouldn't be the first time it was hacked, if that's what happened here.

RedToothBrush · 09/01/2023 20:16

WinnieFosterReads · 09/01/2023 19:53

@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.

Er... Irony klaxon. I was pissing myself laughing at the MN meme and that post was sarcastic too. I think you are the one who missed my point and are making a personal attack at me...

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2023 20:17

Lightningfast · 09/01/2023 20:07

@JaneJeffer Well I believe I was! I shared that I had read some info about the disappearing thread in the Telegraph, to which you responded ‘That’s not true!’
Read Saturday’s Telegraph for yourself - you’ll find the interview is there.

All the threads were separate. Not one huge thread.

doory · 09/01/2023 20:17

@BabyFour2023 makes sense

GloomyDarkness · 09/01/2023 20:17

NerrSnerr · 09/01/2023 20:08

@GloomyDarkness I have the clingiest children ever but I can't imagine William and Katherine's children have that choice.

I don't know - I image they'd be used to a nanny but maybe they felt unsettled. My eldest was oddly extremely excited by her siblings and second child just took it in his stride - but I knew other parents who had bed wetting and tantrums and regressions in response - parents just had to deal with as best they could.

I do know I've been fucking irritated by additional tasks when I've had new borns which others think are little things - but then I don't have staff.

Presumably something was done about the poor fit - so they must have got there somehow at some point.

hoooops · 09/01/2023 20:17

The texts have to be a wind up - surely they wouldn't release Kate's private text conversations about her 3 year old would they? (On her birthday too 😬)

SighsTheNewWord · 09/01/2023 20:18

LegoAmies · 09/01/2023 19:57

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

😅🤣 Seriously, some posters have been going on about "bots" for how long now? I'd call this line of thinking fairly paranoid and bordering on tin foil territory.

Like I say to H and M, either call names (or report them) or let it go. Otherwise, it's just attention-seeking to sound like you know what you don't.🤣

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2023 20:18

Cath667 · 09/01/2023 20:15

Why is everyone suddenly taking what Harry is saying in his book as gospel? No-one has seen the text messages, only a DM mock-up.

I'm more interested in why everyone who hid the topic suddenly wants to see things that were posted in it.

piedbeauty · 09/01/2023 20:18
  1. How do we know this was the contents of the texts? Do you believe Harry?
  2. If all the mums had to take those kids to have the dresses remade, that suggests they were shit in the first place.
  3. Lying on the floor sobbing - wtf??!
BradfordGirl · 09/01/2023 20:18

ThePoshUns · 09/01/2023 20:12

Eugenie's bridesmaid's dresses were far better.

That is personal taste though.
A bride should be able to choose what bridesmaids wear.

Eugenie's bridesmaids dresses.

Has The Royal topic been disappeared?
BradfordGirl · 09/01/2023 20:19

@piedbeauty Having a fitting is perfectly normal for handmade bridesmaids dresses. Children grow.

BethDuttonsTwin · 09/01/2023 20:20

BradfordGirl · 09/01/2023 20:18

That is personal taste though.
A bride should be able to choose what bridesmaids wear.

Eugenie's bridesmaids dresses.

Lovely and far better and most importantly more comfortable, with tights!

cynthiasrevels · 09/01/2023 20:20

Genuine screen shots?? Good grief.

But. If the bridesmaid episode was a source of real grievance - and therefore constitutional significance, as - why else should we be invested? I think that the lesson here is that women - and men! - but seemingly particularly women given the media storm, are particularly vulnerable at specific points in their lives. And all need our sympathy.

For example, I can remember being a crazy and totally ridiculous Bridezilla, really concerned about ribbon, for, example, a subject that has never interested me previously or since. I was not getting married in front of an audience of gazillions. Getting married creates loons of many of us (obvs not those who marry in a tin bath, and have beans on toast with the local homeless).

But ... if there is any edifying message emanating from this is it that we surely should also be particularly considerate towards the behaviour of a mother of a tiny baby, required to be on public display always? And to have been required also to manage the expectations of her older (still very small) children at an extraordinarily difficult moment for them both? My children have been insanely jealous of their newborn siblings to the point of total despair (from me), immediately before and, goodness, after the birth. It's quite understandable that poor - three-year-old! - Charlotte was a bit emotional. And her mum? Around the wedding? To be able to get herself out of bed, let alone appear in a coat dress, looking stunning.

But why on earth was she required to do that? I do not think that those are the questions that 'thought leaders' and 'feminists' H and M were interested in changing ...

Orangefir · 09/01/2023 20:20

BradfordGirl · 09/01/2023 20:18

That is personal taste though.
A bride should be able to choose what bridesmaids wear.

Eugenie's bridesmaids dresses.

It’s not the style that was the issue. It’s the fitting of the dresses.

These dresses are Pepa and co. Pippa used the company for her flower girl dresses too.