How do republicans who support H&M feel about 'princess' lillibet

[purpledalmation]

I mean how do you reconcile the, to me, gross hypocrisy of saying you want to leave the royal family to pursue your own projects and for privacy and would give up their royal titles.

Their own projects so far consist of trashing the royal family and making money from it, while clinging to their royal titles.

Privacy consists of reality tv shows, public therapy sessions and a book tour.

They touted their children's privacy and security as a reason for leaving yet they name their children prince and princess. A sure fire way to draw attention to them and reduce their security.

I honestly want to know how people who want the monarchy gone yet praise harry and Meghan for their bravery in standing up to the RF, square this circle?

Not sure it will be.

Traditionally it was robes and coronets for all peers, but that's being scaled back.

So there might not be as many peeresses in tiaras (there's no parallel term for husbands of peers, and they get neither robes/coronets nor tiaras)

Would be a first tiara event for Lady Louise as well.

I thought one's wedding was the first tiara event, even for those with access to a couple of dozen held in the family vaults?!

Anne wore a tiara to the state opening of Parliament before she was married so it’s not steadfastly a post-marriage thing.

It normally is.

One recent exception was Princess Anne, so it can be done.

Maybe certain occasions over ride the usual conventions!

Princess Margaret too. Didn’t get married until she was around 30, and had worn tiaras a lot for the 12 or so years before that.

I think if the dress code is white tie/tiara then it’s accepted as ok.

I guess many don’t go to those kind of events young.

Beatrice and Eugenie, for example, didn’t go to state dinners or the likes so have had no need pre-marriage for one.

It has been rumoured that the Christmas Eve dinner at Sandringham was white tie, and so Beatrice and Eugenie may have worn tiaras to that. Eugenie certainly got to see the stunning emerald tiara she wore for her wedding somewhere, and it may have been one she or someone else had worn then.

Who knows @Serenster , what they get up to behind closed doors, I imagine them all drunk trying on all the tiaras and jewellery, I certainly would if I could! 🤣

Like the Dutch Crown Princess, snapped aged 12 or so trying on one of the tiaras her mother wears. (she wears them herself, now).

Maybe they'll get a mini tiara for Princess Lilibet!

It blooming well better be!

Princess Lilibet sounds like a knock-off Barbie.

🙄

That's only because we're so accustomed to Victorian names for royals. We'll get used to it soon enough

Their names go back far further than the Victorian Age.

People hated Beatrice and Eugenie’s names when they were announced

Zara caused raised eyebrows too (though of course she would never be styled Princess)

Lillbet does sound like an old Edwardian name , I’d certainly say similar to how we regard Ethel and Edith .

Beatrice and Eugenie have a long history. So does Elizabeth.

I think Victorian and Edwardian names were very often in daily life shortened/turned into nicknames in RF (and other) circles, Q Victoria had numerous grand-children named Victor/Victoria or to a lesser degree Albert/Alberta as a first name. So shortened/cute versions were used informally in the family, as were secondary names, to distinguish between them all.

Like Edith becoming Edie, or Edward becoming Eddie (or David, the last name of Edward VIII)

But the full, traditional version was usually the formal, baptismal name - now the birth certificate name.

Traditionally it was robes and coronets for all peers, but that's being scaled back.

May explain why Andrew's reportedly in a snit over the prospect of being denied a camera-grabbing stroll up the aisle in his magic honourable cloak.

The peers are reportedly angry about being pushed out.

Frankly all this title nonsense is making me think about becoming a Republican. Who cares if some two year old who lives in America becomes a princess. It's all meaningless anyway. Now the Queen has gone the whole thing is being shown up for the outdated nonsense it is. The only thing that stops me from being an out and out republican is the thought of the upheaval that would be caused and the likelihood of us ending up with something even worse.

feellikeanalien · Today 00:13
the whole thing is being shown up for the outdated nonsense it is.
Otherwise known as "tradition".

The only thing that stops me from being an out and out republican is the thought of the upheaval that would be caused and the likelihood of us ending up with something even worse.
I agree. And possibly even more expensive.

Plenty of people care enough to open a thread, read at least some of the posts and then post on it themselves (whether positive, negative or whatever)

So "who cares?" is every single person on this thread. As we've all taken the time to engage with it