Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble: "Royal Protocol"

[queentim]

Often in threads about the royal family, the issue of 'royal protocol' is discussed.

This thread is one where we can discuss (the ridiculousness of) protocol and how people have noticed how it has been used to control and abuse those (women) marrying into the family, and the double standards leveraged against members. If you feel that way of course. Views on the benefits of it would also be interesting if that's your take!

Discussions should be about how it has been used, why, etc., and not to attack the subjects themselves.

Both light-hearted and serious discussions will be welcomed here.

I think once she became a little old lady, history got rewritten

Also once the Queen Mother died
The media needed someone else to occupy the "nation's grandmother" slot, she was the obvious choice, and the narrative got re-written accordingly

Kate reacted pretty well to being tickled by a stranger from behind

She reacted far better than I would have frankly.

I hate being tickled with a passion, it's a running joke in my family now.

My reaction would have been a mixture of shrieking, jumping 5ft in the air, swearing, fists flying and likely now at my age and with my pelvic floor possibly some wee. 😳

She did didn't she, just so natural and relaxed. Nothing seems forced or fake.

'My reaction would have been a mixture of shrieking, jumping 5ft in the air, swearing, fists flying and likely now at my age and with my pelvic floor possibly some wee. 😳'

"https://www.thestar.com/news/topics/royals/the-meghan-and-kate-double-standard-is-alive-and-well/article_d4cb6383-00ee-5950-b46d-aabc21bf40dc.html
Some anslysis from across the pond

"Recent royal history is littered with examples of things that were met with gushing approval when Kate Middleton did them, but depicted as an affront to common decency and all that’s sacred when Meghan Markle did the very same. Just a few: cradling their baby bumps while pregnant; not wearing a hat while on official business with the Queen; painting their nails with coloured polish.

During Meghan’s tenure as a working royal, the endless double-standard applied to the duchesses was a toxic hallmark of the press's reaction to her, fuelled by the misogynistic tendency to pit women against each other as well as thinly veiled xenophobia against the newcomer. The fact Meghan is no longer officially employed by The Firm hasn’t stopped these two women from being held to a bizarre comparative rubric.

Behold, three very recent instances that prove that the double-standard is still alive and well when it comes to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Catherine, Princess of Wales."