Royal style & gossip: advance Baby Sussex!

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Surely this is the thread where Meghan has her baby??

I don't think Harry usually attends State Dinners does he? He will once Charles is king but at the moment I think it's just William and Kate. Hilarious headline today saying HM has told Trump he can't stay at Buckingham Palace as there's "no room"!

If all irritates me because there’s this push about who works hard but it’s all nonsense. Being the guest of honour for a charity and having people applaud and thank you for every breath you take isn’t work for most people. It’s not rainy commute, balancing sick days with daycare and contract, stressful boss, thread of redundancies, deadlines. I also think in a country were there is struggle as women to get proper childcare, cost of housing, living mortgage payment to mortgage payment, it all makes no sense. Why should the royals be funded, why should a couple of women be applauded and live in luxury for being beautiful and marrying well.

Having said that I’ve just checked DM for 100th time for news. No baby yet. Won’t someone put us out of our misery and leak something to the media.

I think having a baby changes everything and all your priorities, the moment you see their chubby little fingers and faces. I think we will see a different Harry and Meghan emerge. I really doubt they will be traipsing around Africa with a child. They’ll be bunkered down somewhere and surrounding themselves with friends with kids and support networks. We’ll see William’s heart soften as soon as he sees his niece or nephew and it will ease tension.

@QueenoftheAndals 😂 well they are renovating but does that mean they only have 100 rooms instead of 200.

Being the guest of honour for a charity and having people applaud and thank you for every breath you take isn’t work for most people

I don't know, I think the sheer boredom would finish me off. That and my poor feet in those mad heels they wear.

The "breaking maternity leave" hasn't come out of the Duchesses mouths. And it isn't about how she's had to pop into work for a KIT day but there's no childcare and the kids need to get to school and the washing machines broke. It's about the much more basic thing of not wanting to hand over the baby for X hours just so you can stand around whilst the press judge how fat / thin you are, how lazy you are to. Have not been at the other event a week after the baby and a whole host of comments about how you've swanned off out for a nice day whilst the Nanny is stuck at home with all the children.

It's perfectly acceptable for any new Mum to not be eager to do anything that involves hours away from their new baby.

As for Meghan, I think it's probably unwise making any statement on how long she wants off until the baby is here. Yes Americans have very short leaves in general. But that doesn't mean that if an American woman had the capacity and finances to have longer off she should.

Lets face it. Shes be sagged off any way.
Returns to work 1 month later - showing off, trying to shame Kate, thinks she's getter than us.
Returns to work after 4 months - lazy good for nothing freeloader who thinks she doesn't need to work for her privilege
Returns to work after 9 months - guilty of treason, probably a sign they're going to get a divorce, poor Harry, let's behead her.
Takes baby - show off attention seeking braggard trying to shame Kate
Leaves baby - heartless witch who shouldn't have had kids if she wasn't intending to look after them

How long is an engagement ? It’s usually a morning or afternoon. How many actual days a week ? One at most ? Then some reading about the charity and it’s goals. A team of people dress, style, blow dry your hair and helicopter you to the event. Your kid isn’t at a daycare, they’re with a team of nannies who they’ve bonded with and security. I could live with that even if people said my bum looked fat from certain angles. I would gladly trade that for nannies, chefs, a country manor and palace maintained by the people, holidays in private villas, first class airfares paid by the people and couture dresses that swish and.

D&D of C are off to Wales on 8th May to discuss mental health issues with those in search and rescue/front line roles...

Perhaps Kate will break out a boiler suit type outfit to fit in with the flight suits that pilots wear?

And yeh I think if you ride around on a horse and carriage and wear tiaras and live in the middle of London in a palace then you are open to tonnes of criticisms. They’re in that position arbitrarily - by chance, because of who they’re related and married to. It costs millions upon millions to keep them in their lofty positions. Might just have to wear that criticism I think !

Whoever said Williams helicopter job was ‘a rich mans toy’ is missing the point of what he and crew were doing. Saving lives, literally. William had to give it up in order to shoulder more Royal duties. He hasn’t seemed happy since.

Harry was at the Chinese state banquet I think. He sat next to Rose of William alleged scandal fame at dinner.

I think William truly loved his job as a rescue pilot. I’m sure I read somewhere that something happened that deeply affected him and his family. Not sure what as it’s obviously private, but I wondered if it was a child bereavement or something he attended. Speculation obviously, but I’d imagine that the group morale would have supported him afterwards and now he doesn’t have that.

The media & the ones who make the nasty/idiotic comments will be all fawning over Meghan once Baby Sussex is here. Plus her dislike of Trump will/should make her flavour of the month (when he turns up.) Wondering if HMQ might suggest the Heathrow Premier Inn for his stay

I’m not William bashing but didn’t I read that he only worked for a couple of days a month and that there was criticism of him taking someone’s job.

But at 3 months I wouldn't have wanted to be away from my baby for half a day. Anything they've been booked in for they'd know well in advance we'll that'll be about 3 months post partum so you reschedule or get an alternative. There's nothing THAT pressing that K or M must go in for half a kit day at 3 months. Trooping of the Colour is different in the essence of what it is.

I just can't froth enough over their personal cost to me to demand anyone be primed and squeezed and told to leave their new baby at home if thry don't want to

I know William wrote to some of the families or colleagues of the Irish search and rescue helicopter team who died in the line of duty.

I think William's passion at the moment is stability for his children, he knows how hard a childhood without it is. This links to his interests in mental health and conservation.

I'm hoping Charles will resist any temptation to carry on in the mould of his mother and bring in some genuine changes to the royal family. I think there needs to be a more continental feel to the family with a clear campaigning focus (just like the Prince's Trust). The protocol we see at the moment sets them apart in a way that lots of people feel uncomfortable with.

If he was only working a couple of days a month, he would not have been taking someone's job.

How does it cost 'millions upon millions to keep them in their lofty positions'? The only cost is security - Charles' wider family are supported by him through his Duchy income. I appreciate that security is a high figure, but that's largely because there are so many nutters around!

There was talk that he was part time in the role of helicopter pilot. No doubt he enjoyed it but I wonder why he didn’t continue with it.

Hasn't William said that he attended one emergency that really affected him? I think he's alluded that it involved the deaths of children around the same age as George and Charlotte.

Because he was dragged in to undertake 'royal duties' when Philip (understandably) retired.

There's always 'talk' about any of them - doesn't mean it's fact.

@sleepingstandingup agree that a Mother should always have choice about when and if to leave a baby. Just tired of the back patting royals do for their hard work and changing the world etc. Now Meghan’s PR touting her minimal maternity leave. The royals don’t know what work is. They’ve no idea of the struggles of working parents in UK and they’re paid by us handsomly in spite of this.

@Mummylovesbags Meghan's PR hasn't said anything - it's just "a source" who's told The Sun. Other outlets are just quoting them and reporting it as fact, pretty much like how they all "knew" the baby news was broken at Eugenie's wedding.

@ajandjjmum the security costs are huge. Travel is also a massive cost and paid for by the government including helicopters. There is also the cost of renovating and maintaining Windsor castle, Kensington palace and Buckingham palace and St James Palace to name just a few - that by the way is at least 400 bedrooms just in London and the staff to go with it. The Duchy of Cornwall is Prince Charles own private wealth and this doesn’t fund the upkeep of those palaces or the travel, staff, securitt & costs of working royals. There are also highly paid courtiers and press officers. It’s a huge cost. The Queen and prince Charles have their own private wealth but they hardly have to touch it unless for luxuries.

Only business travel costs are paid - although I appreciate that some members of the family manipulate this.

The Queen pays for Windsor Castle as it is hers - she had to pay for the damage caused by the fire. Buckingham Palace belongs to the nation, and is in effect an office, as is St. James' Palace.

Of course their lives cannot be compared to those struggling to make ends meet, but I would say that they can be challenging in different ways. Wouldn't like to be MM just now!

I think Windsor Castle is state owned - she has Sandringham and Balmoral as private residences owned by the family not the nation.