Harry and Meghan fly off into the sunset (soon)

[PelicanPie]

New thread!

The bringing up William and Harry together worked very well till their marriage.
I think George and harlotte are being brought up like Anne and Charles. Charlotte has a robust personality and will be a good back up to George

Not the Old Order, Worfs. Anything but that.

Who's going to start the next thread?

Go for it @TheMustressMhor

Poor Charlotte. I hope they take care with her emotions growing up. Middle child syndrome is bad enough without your older brother destined to be King!

But HMQ did offer them a less front line role without title. Maybe I to allow them to build their own lives. Perhaps having learned from the PA saga where he didn’t have a role other than spare, and then turned the roving ambassador role into promoting his coffers as well as the Commonwealth.

So they could have had want they now want it seems. But they declined this offer and wanted titles on marriage.

I commented way earlier up thread about how H & M's hand holding was not just affectionate but needy and I got that vibe even more yesterday.

No hand holding in church - I think they'd been told that was inappropriate, but then M reached for H's hand before they even got in the car and then there's a pic today, DM I think of them grasping hands in the car when they probably thought there hands were out of sight. Certainly it wasn't designed for public consumption.

I'm probably trying too hard here, but it's a weird level of dependency - like a kid with a security blanket. What does it say about their respective mental states? Do they really feel so under siege that they have to cling together like a mutual life raft? Maybe it's just me and this is normal for loved up couples but it all feels OTT.

I thought Harry was really struggling to just get through the day yesterday.

Re; heir & spare.
It is said that the Queen mother had William to Clarence House for tea every week. But not Harry - he wasn't the heir, therefore not important enough.
And Princess Margaret was apparently upset that her sister was allowed an education from visiting Eton master, while she - had piano lessons.

Piano lessons (and the subsequent ability to play) gave Princess Margaret a lot of pleasure, I believe.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_royal_family/3844167-Life-in-the-Mansion-finally-free?watched=1

Here is the next thread . I don’t think anyone else has started one yet!

New thread title suggestions needed so that I can ignore them

I seem to recall that someone came out of retirement, so to speak, simply to point that out to me.

I can't get worked up over the handholding. Thought she looked great this week. Harry may have been caught in a bad light with that terrible snap. Shame they didn't bring little chappy along. I'm genuinely sorry it didn't work out better. What a wasted opportunity. Still maintain it's not the fault of the British public not being welcoming though; not a big enough "platform" for them? Still feels that way.

I agree OVienna - that does seem the likeliest explanation.

I am so interested to see what will happen next. We've (variously) predicted divorce, moving to LA, another baby.

Will any of these come true?

Mistress Mhor
I’ve done it. Hope that’s okay.

Yes, of course, Pelican.

I have already posted on it.

Rainbows8177
Re Charlotte-
Princess Anne turned out ok.

This is nothing to do with the frocks or fraternal rivalry but I skipped through some of the recorded ceremony last night and was shocked by the service itself. It was such a wierd hotch-potch (I thought anyway.)

Antony Joshua was great but why on earth were Craig David and Alexandra whatsername there singing love songs? It was such an odd contrast with the more formal choral music. I know you want a mix of trad and contemporary, but if you really want to celebrate the wealth of the Commonwealth surely you could have had fantastic choirs and traditional singers from many of the Commonwealth countries themselves, rather than British B-listers? It just seemed so lame somehow... .

I agree. Only Anthony Joshua made an impression on me.

Just seen this. Although there is now another thread. I totally agree with you. It was really odd.

Anthony Joshua was brilliant. I agree about the others. Alexandra Burke is a decent singer but wtf with Ain't No Mountain High Enough? Maybe it was to showcase successful representatives with Commonwealth backgrounds?

We've removed a few posts speculating about mental health.
And this is after posting a warning just last night.
Can we give these threads a rest please, they're not helping anyone.

Here's our post from last night:

*Hi all

We're nipping in because we've got a few words to say about the long-running Meghan threads (we've just deleted a handful of 'not in the spirit' posts on this thread).

Above all, Mumsnet is a parenting site and our mission is to make parents lives easier. That's parents everywhere, including Meghan.

Posts with little context, designed to attack looks, personality or even parenting, are likely to be deleted. They are simply not in the spirit of the site, and not what Mumsnet is about.

We're all just trying to do our best and lets face it, parenting isn't easy. We need a bit of peace, love and respect on these threads if we're to continue hosting them. Imagine being on the receiving end of posts before sharing them - that's an easy way to evaluate whether or not it'll go down well.

We're happy for people in the public eye to be discussed, but if it becomes a campaign designed to belittle and attack every single thing about a person, famous or not, then we're not going to be able to stand by that.

Please do bear this in mind going forward.*

We'll be closing the accounts of repeat offenders.