Page 14 | Do you all find Charles, Camilla, William and Kate boring?

DessertsForAll · 2023-03-10T23:20:34+00:00

I am genuinely interested, Because every single post I have seen about one of these four ends up getting derailed by Harry and Meghan. Try it. Post about one of them and within a small number of posts people will be talking about Harry and Meghan. It happens again and again and again. So do find these 4 really boring then? Or are you just so fascinated about Harry and Meghan you want to talk about them whenever you can?

MarshaMelrose · 24/03/2023 18:53

Bouledeneige · 23/03/2023 19:21

Rygo I disagree. There is nothing meritorious about a well educated woman wanting to just be a royal consort. I knew the Royal Foundation a few years back and frankly you're a huge optimist if you think the Royals do anything more than rubber stamp the major donations and reading speeches written for them. The Foundation add their private office are fully staffed to elicit and process funding applications and carry out due diligence, write speeches and brief them on each event they attend. They have very little personal involvement beyond a few meeting a year and a briefing before events. It's very clear that Kate rarely ever makes any public comments that are her own beyond the usual ' hVe you come far', 'I hope you did t wait too long', 'who are you here with?', and 'how has the charity supported you.'

I've also worked preparing royal charity visits with the Lord Lieutenant, the royal household, police and security add know how well they are stage managed and bound by protocol.

Kate stuck it out through years of if William Gadding about with other girlfriends playing pick me and she was eminently suitable because of her willingness to play the part of the modest, quiet consort who would look good and bear lots of heirs. Good for her. But I can't think many independent intelligent women would volunteer for it. It's eminently boring and pointless.

If the RF was replaced by a president, they would do exactly this job. So basically you're saying we'd never get anyone intelligent who'd want to do it? So I guess, we'll just keep this family, who do want to do it and do it well.

mixedrecycling · 24/03/2023 19:12

Bouledeneige · 23/03/2023 19:21

Rygo I disagree. There is nothing meritorious about a well educated woman wanting to just be a royal consort. I knew the Royal Foundation a few years back and frankly you're a huge optimist if you think the Royals do anything more than rubber stamp the major donations and reading speeches written for them. The Foundation add their private office are fully staffed to elicit and process funding applications and carry out due diligence, write speeches and brief them on each event they attend. They have very little personal involvement beyond a few meeting a year and a briefing before events. It's very clear that Kate rarely ever makes any public comments that are her own beyond the usual ' hVe you come far', 'I hope you did t wait too long', 'who are you here with?', and 'how has the charity supported you.'

I've also worked preparing royal charity visits with the Lord Lieutenant, the royal household, police and security add know how well they are stage managed and bound by protocol.

Kate stuck it out through years of if William Gadding about with other girlfriends playing pick me and she was eminently suitable because of her willingness to play the part of the modest, quiet consort who would look good and bear lots of heirs. Good for her. But I can't think many independent intelligent women would volunteer for it. It's eminently boring and pointless.

You're right. Someone as intelligent and well educated as Michelle Obama, for example, would never agree to give up her career to support her husband in his...

oh wait. She did. And used the role constructively to promote causes that mattered to her.

Roussette · 24/03/2023 22:16

MarshaMelrose · 24/03/2023 18:53

If the RF was replaced by a president, they would do exactly this job. So basically you're saying we'd never get anyone intelligent who'd want to do it? So I guess, we'll just keep this family, who do want to do it and do it well.

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Where do we quantify that this family are doing it well?

There is no measure. No voting in. No voting out. No criticism. We have to accept what we're given because of birthright.

PreparationPreparationPrep · 24/03/2023 23:42

*You're right. Someone as intelligent and well educated as Michelle Obama, for example, would never agree to give up her career to support her husband in his...

oh wait. She did. And used the role constructively to promote causes that mattered to her.*

What career did Kate give up? The two women are hardly comparable

pilates · 25/03/2023 07:08

Why can’t you accept that we are all different? What works for one woman may not for another. If Kate is happy, and we have no reason to believe otherwise, then leave her be. She appears to have a well balanced life with her projects, royal duties and looking after her family.

mixedrecycling · 25/03/2023 07:59

I agree that Kate did not give up a career - Michelle Obama gave up far more to be the 'suitable' partner to her husband. That doesn't mean she has no intelligence or is 'misusing' her education somehow.

It just means she has made a choice about her life that isn't the choice you would make.

It's not the choice I would make either, but I don't have a problem with other people having different priorities in life.