Princess Anne in hospital

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Breaking news on Sky .

Princess Anne in hospital following an “ incident” yesterday .

More worry for the RF

What possible conspiracy could there be about falling off a horse/ getting kicked by a horse?

<a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/2024.06.26-235504/www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/princess-anne-kate-mansey-bhrhhdbmb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.is/2024.06.26-235504/www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/princess-anne-kate-mansey-bhrhhdbmb
She can't remember, so no-one really knows. I like her refusal of an air ambulance because she wasn't really an emergency case!

Well some would make a conspiracy about if she stirs her tea clockwise or anti clockwise.

@Iwasafool "Well some would make a conspiracy about if she stirs her tea clockwise or anti clockwise"

My grandma said one was summoned witches. Can't remember which way though...

Widdershins, ie anticlockwise. Apparently!

Good Lord-it's a "thing"!! I thought it was just her being daft! 😮

I think it's quite an old idea @CurlewKate , not one of my Nan's, but she had loads of others, like bringing the may (hawthorn ) into the house was a total no no (that one might be Viking), birds in the house are omens of death, hiding the knives during a thunderstorm, oh the list is pretty endless!

She was actually pretty sensible (and lovely) but a repository of strange lore.

ETA birds flying in, not a budgie.

@Uricon2 oh, we had lots of May tree ones. There was one in her garden and it always had to have a ribbon or a piece of cloth h tied to it-clothes for the fairies.

That is actually adorable.

I've just read that 'People' have an article saying that PA is suffering from memory loss. Just wondered if it is a journalistic guess or someone has been whispering?

Well I think they have been saying from the start that she has had some memory loss. That’s why they are not entirely sure what happened. It’s also been reported that this has happened when she has suffered concussion in the past. So I don’t think it’s a big deal. Just a result of the head injury (which is obviously not great, but is not in itself unusual)

They have already said she can’t remember what happened.

Not uncommon.

Shame on them if they are just giving things whistles and bells to fill a page.

Cross post again @smilesy ☺️

Tbf, hair like the her late Maj’s is usually sculpted via a weekly shampoo and set, under a hood dryer, then sprayed rock solid (and preserved under a hairnet/scarf combo outdoors and at bedtime).

so a) it probably did take considerably longer than a swipe of TV camera greasepaint and lipstick and a change of frock

and b) her hair may have been solid enough to serve as head protection anyway!

source: my Nan, who kept her 1940s heyday hairstyle right up until she died in the early 2000s, and was the village kitchen hairdresser, supplying permanent waves and helmet hairdos to a rotating shift of neighbours.

(no blossom indoors, saluting magpies)

QE2 hardly needed a perm. Do you think she had one? I always wondered. Her hair was quite curly when she was small. Was a set enough for her?

I wish there were a woman round here who'd do me a nice home perm now.

If you pass someone on the stairs you'll have ginger twins, or something!

I think she did have it permed. A beloved relative of the late Queens vintage always, always did, it was ferociously set under heat 2 x weekly and then brushed into a full wavy bob.

The perm and setting lotion were the GHD equivalents of the 1920s generation.

(Magpies saluted too, meant to spit but I just do a token lip purse)

I've had a couple of horse related head injuries. One I remember every embarrassing detail. The other I lost a couple of hours and never got them back.

in the 40s/50s/early 60s a lot of women had a perm because it made their wet set hold better/last longer, so it was more about the texture change than a curl pattern (unlike the 80s where it was ALL about the curl pattern). It’s also much easier to put curlers into permed hair (less slippery) and permed hair requires less back combing to make a sculptural do.

It was common to still have a perm for texture in later life amongst my Nan’s hair ladies (Nan was born about ten years before QE2) but these were working class ladies so more invested in a set having as much longevity as possible (budget constraints) whereas the Queen would’ve been able to access a hairstylist more often (although I can imagine there were times when she was very busy/travelling/couldn’t be arsed with much primping and a bit of perming lotion might’ve been useful, especially in a humid climate!)

So I expect the Queen did have a perm at times, depending on how old school that era’s hairdresser was - it’s perfectly possible to create an authentic looking vintage hairdo with all-modern tools (eg curling tong and curl clips, mousse instead of setting lotion) but it won’t stand there, immovable for a week the way the old ‘dos did 😬

Really interesting hair history there @UtilitarianNameChange thank you, all makes a lot of sense. Being a perm aficionado from the 80s, they do give fine hair an awful lot of ooomphh if done properly and your hair takes well.

I get the feeling the late QE possibly wouldn't wanted endless fussing with her hair and also her style supported the tiaras that are not really an issue for most of us!

It's good news that she has been released from Southmead today
Concussion varies in severity and she has no memory of the accident

Depending on the conspiracy theorist:

She fell off through grief at Harry’s antics

She fell off in a spasm of guilt about the royal family’s racism towards Meghan

Camilla is jealous of her popularity and jumped out of a bush personally to scare her horse (none of these conspiracy theorists seem to realise the royals have staff)

She Knows Too Much about Andrew and this was an assassination attempt by the deep state. Or Hillary Clinton.

She didn’t fall off her horse at all, her lizard suit is on the blink and needed the firmware updating

I’m here all week…

I know this is a slight shift but I was fascinated by the hawthorn discussion because I read a lot of folklore.Your grans knew their hawthorn mythology

https://thehazeltree.co.uk/2015/04/25/hawthorn-bride-of-the-hedgerow/

Help! I’ve fallen down a Royal Hairdo rabbit hole!

I have to say, I rather admire a woman who finds her style and sticks to it (my Nan was still sporting a rolled 40s do in her 80s, 60 years after she started doing it to fit under her WAAF cap and my mum had a 60s bob with fringe her entire adult life span). Anne clearly figured out very early on that she had a preference for some height and once she found her french pleat/pompadour combo she stuck with it!

Whilst googling hair photos I noticed she’s been discharged from hospital. Good for her,

(bet she’s got some impressive bruising tho, so depending on where she sustained an injury we might not see her without a big pair of sunglasses for a while!)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyr76lmgxy2o

@Saschka I think I'll take deep state assassination attempt. I've known horses I'd believe it of!

just to add to the royal hairdo rabbit hole - I did read that the late Queen had wigs styled in her famed style, believe was for towards the end when she might have naturally had a bit of thinning. But annoyingly I can’t find it now.

would make sense, increasingly is common.