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Royal style & gossip: more gowns, less frowns

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QueenOfTheAndals · 06/12/2018 07:30

Link to previous thread.

And once again, let's keep this good-spirited. Spiteful comments are about as welcome as Fergie at Prince Philip's birthday party!

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MotherofPearl · 09/12/2018 18:19

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/09/meghan-and-kate-why-we-all-love-a-good-family-feud?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

I hope this hasn't already been posted - I've fallen a bit behind with the thread! I quite enjoyed this article on "the feud".

IdaBWells · 09/12/2018 18:23

Thomas Markle’s life circumstances say a lot about him. Two failed marriages and estranged from various family members. His children from his first marriage seem particularly awful and he obviously bears some responsibility for that. Now he is living alone in Mexico, I assume for financial reasons as it is much cheaper than the US, especially California. He seems very lonely and lost and his daughter Samantha finds him easy to manipulate.

Then Samantha is estranged from her own children. Her 19 year old daughter knows Meghan and said she was a lovely person who was always kind to her.

I find the DM stuff so disturbing, mostly from the comments underneath. The fact that there are hundreds of commentators willing to rip Meghan to shreds and imply terrible things about her family without any hard evidence is so disturbing. I was reading through some comments the other day (I know, more fool me...) and I found myself starting to wonder if it was all true and she was really a raging narcissist. I realized I was almost being hypnotized and brainwashed by this crazy stuff. There are so many people who seem to enjoy hating her.

So I am glad to come here and hear voices of sanity who at least have a calm, balanced view of things. I just cannot throw another woman under the bus with no meaningful evidence of any kind. As another poster said it makes me feel protective of her.

Catherine is so blessed to have a highly functional and emotionally mature family she can turn to to escape the intense pressure, especially the media scrutiny. Although since MM arrived Catherine was swiftly canonized by the press.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 09/12/2018 19:19

Not Royal related, but a pp told me about the Readly app, when I wanted to read about Michelle Obama and Carole Middleton in Good Housekeeping.
Anyway, they have an introductory offer of £1.99 for 2 months gb.readly.com/

queenofarles · 09/12/2018 19:41

PH should hire a good PR team,MM should call her father on xmas. keep it short and simple.

Stop with the whole modernizing the monarchy and revolting against traditions, listen to advice. fallow protocol. Fallow Mrs Obama's advice don't rush into things.

with time it will all be forgotten once the baby arrives,

beanaseireann · 09/12/2018 20:25

QueenoftheAndals
I'm not the Swedish expert. I've never even been to Sweden 

Quantumblue · 09/12/2018 20:25

I do think the whole thing was very rushed. Even a longer engagement would have allowed them some time to work out how to deal with Thomas m. I think if he had been a bit included somewhere he would have stayed loyal and quiet.
Agree that a low key banal phone call would help things along now.
Looking forward to the Nobels. The Swedish press often seems quite mean to Madeleine and paints her as having married a rich foreigner and losing interest in Sweden.

beanaseireann · 09/12/2018 20:25

I meant to add - never been to Sweden.



beanaseireann · 09/12/2018 20:26

Emojis not printing. Aghhhh

TipseyTorvey · 09/12/2018 20:28

Actually I don't think MM should call her father on xmas day. I think he has done nothing but humilate and embarrass her from the moment he pulled that ridiculous stunt staging the photos. She has gone NC which is her right and the DM et al are just viscous detractors hunting for any story that fits their narrative. I'm not suggesting she's an angel by any means but she's pregnant, probably massively stressed trying to adapt to this hugely different life and her own father seems determined to destroy her. That can't feel great and not what she needs right now at all.

QueenOfTheAndals · 09/12/2018 21:33

Sorry @beanaseireann, definitely confusing you with another poster then!

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Spudlet · 09/12/2018 21:46

Speaking as someone who is NC with her father - no she should not call him. I am aware that there are posters on this thread who would judge me harshly for what I did. Well, I had and have my reasons for acting as I did - and I believe that anyone who does the same will have their reasons too.

That man has let her down. He is her father and she should be able to trust him implicitly to have her best interests at heart. He very plainly does not. He has shown this time and time again. He has behaved in ways which are guaranteed to have caused her distress - and done so repeatedly. He has forfeited his right to her consideration.

She owes him nothing.

TracyBeakerSoChristmas · 09/12/2018 22:06

Perhaps the Middleton's should welcome over H&M for New Year.
As a pp pointed out earlier they're a warm & welcoming family & perhaps the only normal family in the whole melodrama.
This would definitely put a stop to the feuding Duchesses rumour.

Want2bSupermum · 09/12/2018 22:07

DH is Danish. We have quite a few functions with the Scandi Royal families as events here in NYC to promote trade. From what I gather, Madeline is given a hard time because she lives abroad. It's seen as a tax dodge which doesn't go down well. It also doesn't go down well that her DH doesn't attend royal events or speak Swedish.

My personal opinion based on my interaction with him at these corporate events which he sometimes attends is that he genuinely loves Madeline and is keeping himself strong in a marriage which could be very unequal if he wasn't so keen to maintain his independence. He hasn't taken a title, and as she is rapidly becoming a very minor royal, was a very smart decision.

Paradyning · 09/12/2018 22:29

Have you seen Madeleine Supermum?

Want2bSupermum · 09/12/2018 22:59

Yes. No recently but when she lived in NYC she did a few of the events DH goes to for supporting trade between the Us and Scandinavia.

Pupsiecola · 09/12/2018 23:08

Can someone please provide a link, or a brief back story, to the Madeleine of Denmark story? I'm unfamiliar with it (and all of the EU royals Blush).

SenecaFalls · 09/12/2018 23:32

I read that Christopher O'Neill did not take a title because it would have required him giving up his business. Certainly understandable.

Paradyning · 10/12/2018 04:28

Is she as luminous in real life? She's my number 2 after Max, obvs.

AhoyDelBoy · 10/12/2018 05:25

Damn Curly between Netflix and Readly (which looks great!) I’m going to be $32 down a month Grin

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 10/12/2018 05:39

@ahoydelboy
Consider it a Christmas present to yourself!

AhoyDelBoy · 10/12/2018 06:38

When you put it like that 🤔

Parker231 · 10/12/2018 07:20

Christopher O’Neill doesn’t have a title as he would have had to take Swedish citizenship which he declined.

beanaseireann · 10/12/2018 07:39

From what I remember reading some years back, Madeleine had a broken romance and was very sad. She went on to meet Christopher O' Neill and have a family.
She looks lovely.

IPromiseIWontBeNaughty · 10/12/2018 08:12

Looking forward to seeing the frocks this evening.

Paradyning · 10/12/2018 08:54

Hope someone rocks out an Elie Saab!

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