QEII would never have let this s**t show happen!?

[OliviaBean]

I didn't always agree with how she dealt with things, particularly Andrew but since she passed away, it seems no one is at the wheel.

I don't think Charles is strong enough to deal with them all.

H&M are monetising away, Kate seems to have said f*k it and f*k conforming (good for her) and William, god knows what he's playing at.

I just can't imagine the current situation would have occurred if QE was alive.

That's a lot of assumptions about the RF

What's happened??

Oh I don’t know. It was pretty bad in 1997. And when Windsor Castle burnt down as well, for that matter.

A Flat White is £4 at Costa.

Oh come on?!

Or maybe you're not old enough to remember the Annus Horibilis? That was hardly a great time for the royal family.
nor 1997 and the death of Diana - they didn't show exemplary PR skills then either.

PS Harry and Meghan need to make a living somehow if they're not part of the RF. You can't have it both ways. Cast them out, and they'll do what they have to do.

If social media had existed when Charles and Diana split, things would have been far worse then than now.

I just can't imagine the current situation would have occurred if QE was alive.
What current situation? A couple of members of the family are ill and taking sometime off for treatment and recovery. Some people have lost their heads about this and whipped up a a load of Internet rumours about severity of illness/divorce. A silly photo was released which is a bit embarrassing.

It'll all be forgotten in a few weeks. Most people don't give a fuck.

I am glad you have pointed out what the current situation is 😂 I thought I had missed something.

So basically ... no situation

Given when she was alive there were all the issues with Diana, Sarah, Charles, Camilla, Sophie, Andrew and Harry, I imagine this would have been just another incident in her reign.

Back in the late 1980s and through the 1990s the RF were an absolute joke. There was It's a Royal Knockout, Sophie's Fake Sheik sting, Fergie's Toes, Diana's book, Diana's Panorama interview, Squidgygate, Tampaxgate, the divorces, Windsor Castle burning down and the Queen having the gall to approach the government to fund the refurbishment of it.

That's just for starters. All on the Queen's watch.

Summed up perfectly.

A load of social media bots and those believers are finding issues that don’t exist.

I agree. I’ve been thinking exactly that over the past few days.

Social media has a lot to say for it here. If we were in the 90s and Kate was having an Op and wouldn't be back until Easter that would be it. It would've mentioned at the start on the 10 oClock news and the vast majority of the population wouldn't give it a second thought. We are used to (and some people expect) the ins and outs of celebrities lives now and feel free to have a opinion.

I agree.

Assuming there are no deep dark secrets being hidden under the veil of Kate's illness, this 'crisis' is pretty mild compared to some of the things which happened during Elizabeth's reign. If Kate returns to duties as planned within the next few weeks, this will all blow over. If she doesn't, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Not sure about your 90s point. The media were absolutely fixated by Diana.

@coloursquare the press were but I don't think the everyday person was.

Queen Elizabeth couldn't police her family's every move - see tampon gate, Fergie toe-sucking, Andrew's endless dodgy antics.

She was much beloved by the everyday people. Have you seen the pictures of the flowers left outside Kensington Palace? She was a superstar and people felt they knew her.

The real difference is that it is harder for the Royal Family to rewrite history. Receipts change everything.

And there was mega interest in Diana. Magazines were big sellers back then and constantly featured her.

Kate seems to have said fk it and fk conforming (good for her) and William, god knows what he's playing at

Where the hell does this crap come from. There's NOTHING to suggest she's done anything of the sort - other than the over active imagination of idiots on SM

Why is the fact she's recovering from surgery so impossible for folk to understand. ..

What exactly would QE have done to change things? Was she able to cure cancer & we didn't realise? Did her magical healing powers stretch to reducing the recovery time after major surgery?

I dont know how all the conspiracy theorists will cope when she reappears at Easter looking fit, well, happy with her husband & wearing her rings. They'll all be devastated

This really has brought out the worst elements of SM & just shows we've learned nothing since Diana & Meghan

This is all pretty mild compared to all the scandals of the past thirty years.

I mean, presuming all the rumours are untrue, of course. Otherwise it might well match her diabolical reign.

So true. It was bad enough without social media.

Eh ??
Its hardly the RFs fault that Charles has cancer or that Kate needs time off to recuperate from an operation.

I honestly think theres not a lot to see here until Kate turns up, unless, of course, you’re a bit thick and believe everything you read on Twitter.

Some of it may be true, some may not, time will tell. If she’s back at Easter, as planned and announced in January, all this ridiculous rumour-mongering will hopefully be put to bed. Poor girl has probably really been through it, possibly with an embarrassing medical issue to deal with, and I don’t blame her for hiding away.

Thank God the Queen is not around to see it - even she didn’t have the power to rein in social media gossip.