Club Penguin Royal - the intricacies of the monarchy etc

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Have taken the liberty of starting a new fred if no one else has?

I said before they announced stepping down they'd end up in LA. I'm pretty sure it was always the plan.

I'm waiting for all the posters on here who criticised Prince Charles for moving to Scotland after lockdown to critics the Sussexes for their relocation to another country during Covid.

Only thing missing is the Reddit analysis.

It's not really an issue of degree snobbery though, it's comparing like with like. Personally I don't care about her education, she is at least as well educated as many other royals, but I get a bit sick of the hyperbole.

Hello I've NC ( 🌈 🐧) and not posted for a while as wanted to avoid all the CV stuff last week. So I've been catching up and I know it was a few days ago but I wanted to say something about the WHO/Sussex royal insta post.

Firstly, I think it's appalling that they would 'rebrand' WHO's own post to the SussexRoyal colours using the WHO logo.

Secondly, the thing with them rewording the WHO advice, quite simply I think it's because they wanted to have one line per point. Looks cleaner and simpler, which is obviously more important than accuracy isn't it?! It's the only explanation I can come up with as to why they did what they did. Seriously, if they were purely wanting to do the right thing and not think of themselves then they would have just done a simple repost surely.

(Posted pics again as it was from a while back)

Don't get me started on the 'today i feel..' and the train to be a counsellor ones! 🤦🏼‍♀️

And I'm so pleased to hear they have finally left Vancouver Island, I was sick with jealous hearing about their idyllic seafront mansion in one of my favourite places in the world

Apparently this appeared on the SussexRoyal Instagram earlier and now appears to have been taken down.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8157835/The-Queen-pays-tribute-NHS-workers-Prince-Edward-claps.html

It's still on there, it's in stories rather than a post

Ah, right. I’m not too familiar with IG so missed it.

There's plenty to legitimately criticise about Meghan without bringing degree snobbery into it. Society doesn't only need economists or astrophysicists. And if the current crisis has shown us anything it's that socially useful jobs don't always correlate with STEM degrees. Or any degrees at all.

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There's plenty to legitimately criticise about Meghan without bringing degree snobbery into it. Society doesn't only need economists or astrophysicists. And if the current crisis has shown us anything it's that socially useful jobs don't always correlate with STEM degrees. Or any degrees at all.*

Exactly. What the fuck is the problem with NorthWestern? It's an excellent university with a great reputation.

Only thing missing is the Reddit analysis

And pages of draft texts finding different ways of saying "we will no longer be able to send you £20m each year"

My favourite Royal NHS tribute post is the one posted by the Wessexes. It's really warm and heartfelt. They attract fewer headlines but they seem to get the tone right every time. They deserve a bit more glory of their own for the work they do, especially as that workload looks about to increase.

I love the Wessexes - they made mistakes early on. Learnt from them, out their heads down & got on with it & have supported the Queen ever since. They deserve more kudos for what they do.

In my opinion HaM keep getting it slightly wrong. And it makes me sigh and think oh just be quiet 🤐

Exactly. What the fuck is the problem with NorthWestern? It's an excellent university with a great reputation.

There's no problem with Northwestern and no problem with a non-STEM degree (although you won't want an actor sewing up your appendix but it can probably work the other way). My personal perspective is that she resorted to her feminine wiles to get ahead as opposed to her craft. She is an appalling actress (I am still traumatised from watching A brief encounter, or whatever it was - toecurlingly bad, and I am not easily scared). That's fine. Not everyone is a great actor no matter where they study. However, when she realised she was bad (she knows), she sought out a new occupation of...taking her clothes off. As much as I have tried to perceive everything women do in anything they fancy as just them empowering themselves (I have a lot to say about this and can go on for days), it quite clearly isn't. The bottom line - I don't want to pay for someone who took their clothes off and simulated sex for 'entertainment', something that requires no tenacity, hard work, thought or creativity, all the traits I admire. I want to pay for someone who worked hard and honed their skills through dedication and not giving up, in whatever field that might be. There's clearly a market for watching people simulate sex on screen (I think...?) and, as long as everyone observes rules, leave them to it - but we are not paying for these people.

So the British security team were presumably obliged to decamp to California too? How do they get home or are they stuck there for the foreseeable too? What happens if they fall sick? Or just want some time off?

I can't see The Don forking out for any US protection. MM has made her views on him perfectly clear.

My personal perspective is that she resorted to her feminine wiles to get ahead as opposed to her craft.

The misogyny is strong in this one

How would the protection officers get back if they had an emergency at home?

Not really, Navigator. Unless we, as a society, change the gender-power relations on which the whole world is structured (women as something men), whatever women and men do and however they behave will always be cast along those lines, no matter how many times they utter the words, "I, as a woman, am empowered by simulating sex". Women will always be viewed in terms of their sexualisation, appearance, image, flightiness, emotionality - until their (different to men) role in reproduction changes. These changes will not and can't come about just by changing the language. If I were Meghan, I would read (a lot) about feminism and would give lectures on how men's and women's differential roles in reproduction (because that's where it all stems from) guide their roles in society (all societies),. It is these, or, the perception of these, that needs to change before we can ever view positively women acting out the traditional stereotypes of femininity and call them empowered.

How would the protection officers get back if they had an emergency at home?

Maybe they could use their 'feminine wiles'

Sorry, BarleymoonPenguin I cannot take anyone seriously who unironically uses the term 'feminine wiles'. On the plus side, you could probably get a job at the Daily Mail

I hope Harry, the nanny and the security team are well insured. Harry might be at the 'front of the line' for a ventilator over here, but his status in the States is nowhere near as important.

If it was deemed irresponsible by some for his father to isolate to a second (third? fourth?) home in Scotland, how does crossing an international border - presumably with all their belongings and staff in tow - in the midst of a pandemic, measure up in terms of thoughtlessness?

I think public opposition to paying for their security in LA will be massive. It's one thing to cover the cost in a remote quiet place like Vancouver Island (and even that isn't popular with the British public) but to be paying for them to be protected while they live a busy and glamourous life in LA will be beyond acceptable. It will cost a fortune to provide adequate protection for the three of them while they work or attend events. Senior members of the RF are not meant to cost the taxpayers a fortune living in a foreign country as private citizens. I respect their wish to be private citizens but they better figure out their own protection.

I can't quite put my finger on it but something about their move to LA, perhaps it's the secretiveness and the timing, it just doesn't look good. I think it's because they made statements about the importance of being in a commonwealth country but I think that Canada portion of their adventures was meant to soften the blow to the RF and support the argument that they could retain their titles and a couple of the royal duties they enjoyed. That didn't happen so they have finally landed where they meant to all along. So good luck to them but we'd better not be paying for their astronomical security costs.

My god, they can't possibly expect security to be paid for now they are in LA. And in the middle of a pandemic. Surely?! Agree that this is the best CF AIBU story yet from 'Cash and Carry'.

I always assumed they’d end up in LA.