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runner2023 · 2023-03-28T08:18:08+00:00

Really...? He has had his State visit to France cancelled, so two days freed up. Some families do not learn.

Ishouldbeoutside · 30/03/2023 13:47

BellePeppa · 30/03/2023 12:26

Harry is looking so creepy since his real personality surfaced. Maybe it’s a case of the ugly within has made him ugly on the outside too but his face makes my skin crawl nowadays. The smug smile, the evil eyes, the deep sense of entitlement, the lack of shame all adds up to an intensity ugly pathetic excuse of a man. His utter delight in himself is 🤮

My thoughts exactly. It’s quite disturbing really. He seems like a completely different person.

jeffgoldblum · 30/03/2023 14:03

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 12:45

Charles did his speech to the Bundestag in German so maybe he was too busy practising that!

Impressive Marsha ! Go Charles !

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 14:05

It's really nice that he made the effort. I'm sure it will have been appreciated.

jeffgoldblum · 30/03/2023 14:13

Yes I think it's great ! And German is a difficult language compared to French .

KnickerlessParsons · 30/03/2023 14:27

TrashyPanda · 29/03/2023 23:13

Camilla looks amazing!

I see she is wearing the late Queens Royal Family Order, a honour given to a select few of the female members of the Royal Family. Current holders are Camilla, Anne, Sophie, Kate, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester and Princess Alexandra. Meghan was not a recipient.

it will be interesting to see who King Charles gives his RFO to.

In all fairness Meghan didn't really hang around long enough to be of great service to the queen. These awards are earned, not handed out to boost people's egos.

derxa · 30/03/2023 15:55

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 12:45

Charles did his speech to the Bundestag in German so maybe he was too busy practising that!

Charles has nothing on Prince Philip who was truly fluent in French and German

shockthemonkey · 30/03/2023 16:38

wordler · 29/03/2023 20:32

Like her or loathe her you can't deny the woman knows how to wear a tiara well.

How hard can it be to wear a tiara? You just plonk it on, surely. Or your maid plonks it on you.

wordler · 30/03/2023 16:44

shockthemonkey · 30/03/2023 16:38

How hard can it be to wear a tiara? You just plonk it on, surely. Or your maid plonks it on you.

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It's like saying "she knows how to wear a hat" a common phrase meaning they look particularly good the way they are placed on / work with her hair etc.

Everyone knows 'how' to wear a hat but some people really suit them or place them in a way that looks better than other people.

Camilla's 70s pouffy hair works really well with those big regal tiaras.

And actually it's definitely not a plonk it on thing. Sometimes they get sewn into your hair. Or you need hundreds of pins to keep them on.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 30/03/2023 16:46

shockthemonkey · 30/03/2023 16:38

How hard can it be to wear a tiara? You just plonk it on, surely. Or your maid plonks it on you.

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Placing a tiara so it's secure and the base doesn't show is an art, it's not just plonking it on - look at Diana's tiara when she got married. You can see the base, that's a hairdresser not used to dealing with tiaras. The late queen could plonk her's on, but she had decades of practice. That Boucheron tiara is worth a fortune and probably heavy as well so it has to be placed and secured properly.

StephieSlade · 30/03/2023 17:48

Just seen this comment under a video about King Charles' speech today 😕😕😕!
Charles mentioning his mother on every speech all the time. When Harry mentions his mother he gets attacked though.

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 17:56

StephieSlade · 30/03/2023 17:48

Just seen this comment under a video about King Charles' speech today 😕😕😕!
Charles mentioning his mother on every speech all the time. When Harry mentions his mother he gets attacked though.

You can't see the difference?!!!

Charles was thanking the German people for their kind regards sent after his mother's death 6 months ago.
Harry talks incessantly on multiple interviews, tv programmes and a book, about his mother's death 25 years ago.

StephieSlade · 30/03/2023 17:58

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 17:56

You can't see the difference?!!!

Charles was thanking the German people for their kind regards sent after his mother's death 6 months ago.
Harry talks incessantly on multiple interviews, tv programmes and a book, about his mother's death 25 years ago.

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It wasn't me that thought that - was just surprised that someone else would think of it that way 😉😉😉!

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 17:59

derxa · 30/03/2023 15:55

Charles has nothing on Prince Philip who was truly fluent in French and German

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I think philip went to school in both France and Germany, and, of course, he had German relatives. Apparently both Charles and William speak German quite well.

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 18:00

StephieSlade · 30/03/2023 17:58

It wasn't me that thought that - was just surprised that someone else would think of it that way 😉😉😉!

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Oh I misunderstood. Sorry. I agree with you, it's a very 🙄 comment.

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 18:04

shockthemonkey · 30/03/2023 16:38

How hard can it be to wear a tiara? You just plonk it on, surely. Or your maid plonks it on you.

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Hmm, I agree you'd think that, but no. Remember how Meghan was panicking to her hands on the tiara because her hairdresser needed to practise with it. They're quite tricky things. And the weight can sometimes cause them to move around.

cyclamenqueen · 30/03/2023 18:31

Philip didn’t ‘have German relatives’ he was German. Both his parents were German, German was his first language.

MarshaMelrose · 30/03/2023 18:41

I thought Prince Philips father was Greek. But yes his mother was half German and half British. I wonder how many languages Charles.speaks, or at least gets by in.

jeffgoldblum · 30/03/2023 18:42

Why did people call him ' Phil the Greek ' then ?

jeffgoldblum · 30/03/2023 18:42

Sorry cross post @MarshaMelrose !

SnottyLottie · 30/03/2023 18:49

Erm Philip was born in Greece. His father was also born in Greece (and his father’s father was born in Denmark), his mother was born in England to an English mother and a German father (but he was born in Austria).

Roundlampshade · 30/03/2023 18:53

But all his sisters married Germans.

cyclamenqueen · 30/03/2023 18:54

Philip’s father was a German prince (actually Danish as well ) whose father was a prince of Greece and Denmark but was actually descended from the House of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Gluckstein . George 1 Greece ( his grandfather ) was a Danish prince who was nominated by the powers after WW2 to he King of Greece . He had no actual Greek blood . Philip’s mother was Alice of Battenberg, a great grandaughter of Queen Victoria , her mother was Victoria of Hesse .

cyclamenqueen · 30/03/2023 18:56

Sorry that should be WW1

cyclamenqueen · 30/03/2023 19:03

Interestingly Philip’s mother had three siblings who became Queen of Sweden , Marquess if Milford Haven and Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

CeliaNorth · 30/03/2023 19:33

[Philip's] mother was born in England to an English mother and a German father

She was born at Windsor Castle, in fact. Her father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, gave a lifetime's service to Britain in the Royal Navy, reaching the rank of First Sea Lord, the highest rank possible. He felt obliged to resign at the outbreak of the First World War because of the attitudes of people like those on Mumsnet who keep on with the 'He's German!' Churchill, who was first Lord of the Admiralty, tried hard to persuade him to stay, but he felt he couldn't.

(And it's also down to Prince Louis that we have the tradition of the gun carriage being pulled by Naval ratings rather than horses at state funerals.)

Deeply ironic that this should come up (again) today of all days, when the King is promoting Anglo-German friendship.