To find the royal family fascinating part 3

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Don’t use it yet just putting it here ready for when part 2 runs out....

If I remember rightly, the registrar received death threats over her handwriting (!!!)

people are definitely weird!

I remember all that fuss about the handwriting. Poor woman.

Princess of the United Kingdom

That is absolutely the best occupation! Is that what's on her passport?

They won't let you put your occupation in your passport any more

Royals have diplomatic passports I assume so I don’t think their occupation would ever have been included

I remember reading one of the biographies of the Queen Mother and her father's occupation was listed on her birth certificate as "peer's eldest son." How exactly is that an occupation, I remember thinking.

I think those boxes on British BMD certificates do actually say "Rank or profession". Quaint, isn't it?

Rank also applies to some professions as well as titles on certs, especially on older ones you often get master or journeyman along with an occupation.

Amusingly my Nana’s birth certificate just has ‘Inspector’ on hers. If you didn’t know he was in the police you could think ‘wtf did he inspect?’

William and Kate's wedding certificate is on display in Westminster Abbey. I can't remember what it says her profession was though.

The profession is Princess of the United Kingdom

That won’t be her profession on the marriage certificate though surely? At that point it would have been whatever her last job was.

If it’s on display why wouldn’t it be available to view online? I wonder what the rationale behind that is?

There are no photos of it online or a report of it being on a display. Just lots of reports about it ring kept secret.

It must be a very new thing that it’s on display.

When I registered my first the registra told me I could put any occupation I wanted. Fucking wish I’d put princess

Apopros nothing, other than it’s royalty, I saw Prince Andrew riding a horse down the Mall today.

That’s like when you take your driving test ‘and what should I call you today?’

‘Princess’. Wasted opportunity.

Seeing Prince Andrew on the mall is interesting. Was he surrounded by policeman?

Aww we got kicked out of AIBU. When did that happen?

I just watched Will and Kate’s interview.

I really wish someone would tell Kate that she’s perfectly lovely and whatever she says will be fine. She seems so nervous still, I always feel bad for her nerves when I watch her speak.

Oh yes, not sure but I suppose explains why the thread has slowed down a bit over the last couple of days. That’s a shame:

Surely no bad hing that it's in "the royal family" now; anything to keep the wreckers out (though I suspect they search for threads containing MM's name)

Right on cue the Deletion Queen even turned up on a thread following the birth - and promptly got deleted

Just seen Kate and William’s interview. I do wish she’d crack a smile every now and then, she’s getting as bad as Posh.

Neither Kate nor William are comfortable speakers, particularly when asked to do so spontaneously. I don't find Kate plummy so much as nervous and therefore a bit muttery. William is trying hard to say the right thing and it holds him back.

I'm sure they'll gain confidence as they get older. By the time William is King he'll be well past caring what people think of what he has to say.

Kate was so plummy in that interview with William re their new nephew, I couldn't make out what she was saying

He was riding in a column of about 10 guardsmen, them all 2 abreast, then Andrew at the back and maybe two behind him? I wondered if it was some trooping the colour rehearsal but seemingly not and google didn’t help.