Lady Louise

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Some nice Royal news .
It has been announced by BP that she is going to St Andrews University . She will be in good company as I have a young relative starting there too ! When I told her about LL she said “who?” so hopefully HM’s granddaughter will enjoy her years there in peace.
It had also emerged that LL is working p/t in a local garden centre ..
She seems to be a lovely young lady.

I'm the same age as Prince Edward. I can still remember my deep sense of injustice about him getting into Cambridge with very low grades. Mine were much better than his, but as a girl from a northern grammar it didn't occur to me that I could apply - but of course as a girl from a northern grammar I wouldn't have got in... It still rankles a bit, 40 years on, even though I went to another very good university and got a decent degree.

But I wish Louise all the best. I hope she got in on merit, not because of who she is.

I went to a Northern grammar in the 80’s, a few people went to Cambridge/Oxford, think your school let you down if it didn’t occur to you to apply!

but of course as a girl from a northern grammar I wouldn't have got in...

Plenty of northern grammar school girls when I was there (myself included!).

There is plenty of fawning sycophancy to be seen here. If you are unable to see it, maybe you should be asking yourself why that is.

perhaps because i am a royalist?
there arent many of us

Me too ( with a few exceptions!)

Hmmm.

Agree @LadyKenya

Some of the fawning is a tad nauseating!

A young woman who happens to be a member of the Royal Family is going to University... that's it!

sorry you feel sick
walk away is your best bet.
dont come on the royal family threads
unless of course it is a form of one up manship, putting down other people's opinions?

Grammar school girl here too.
I remember the same feeling re Edward and his 'non Cambridge' grades .

I don't feel physically sick. I find something a tad nauseating, there is a difference.

This is a forum. I can express my opinion if I want.

Don't understand about your oneupmanship comment, as I say I have an opinion that you might not like. That's the nature of a discussion forum!

@MrsLargeEmbodied

Really??
So the royal threads are only for the boot lickers?

You've decreed it such ?

Sorry to break it to you but royal topic does not equal fawners only .

There is much to criticise re the monarchy - this topic area on mumsnet only scratches the surface

This is a forum. I can express my opinion if I want.

as can everyone

but you are calling people fawning sycophants
what do you expect when you criticise posters

I thought she looked like Rosamund Pike!

@WimpoleHat you'd need to quantify 'plenty'
Grammar schools always had a cohort of people going to oxbridge but their path was not smoothed for them as it was for public school pupils .

Oxbridge was forced to address this imbalance and publish stats

That's your school's fault and the culture at the time. To suggest that Louise didn't get in on merit is pretty awful actually. It's not her fault she was born into the royal family.

@derxa
No, it wasn't the school's fault .
There were extra barriers in the way of state schools - yes grammar schools had a higher success rate but state schools overall were not represented in the numbers they should have been
Edward getting in without the grades asked if others exemplifies the situation.

Or do you believe Edward was there on merit ?

Given that not one person in this thread knows what grades she achieved, it's a completely pointless thing to be arguing about whether she deserved her St Andrew's place or not. She might have got 4xA* for all we know.

No I don't believe he got in on merit. But that was then and this is now. I also think it's partly an English cultural problem. My mother was an agricultural worker's daughter and went to a good university just after the war. She was encouraged to go.

Weird ? Sycophantic?
Any chance you could drop the rudeness ? You are not coming over well at all !

No. I didn't.

I said there was fawning on here, that's all. Just my opinion, as you have yours.

As I said before, she is a young woman going to Uni. That's it!
How can people think this is wonderful? It's what millions of 18 year olds do without having their path eased by going to a select private school.

I went to Glasgow too. I liked the vibe. St Andrew’s sounded dull.

It’s very unkind.