Princess Anne in hospital

[Mylovelygreendress]

Breaking news on Sky .

Princess Anne in hospital following an “ incident” yesterday .

More worry for the RF

Well, people are determined to create negative, unpleasant and fanciful stories about an injured woman in hospital.
I think I'll bow out at this point, it's gone a bit low really.

Your Flat-on-your-back-ness

dont worry@DelectableMe: she’ll be awesome. She’s handled more than a few nurses with aplomb in her life. Take no notice.

Not sure what you mean but I hope it wasn’t aimed at me. I’m hoping she’s being well looked after and will be discharged home soon in full health.

I think it was the suggestion that she might be rude to staff. She won’t.

We are a bit lighthearted about this as it appears she will be fine. If it were a more serious or life threatening injury we wouldn't, is my guess.

Ok Anne/YRH any bowel sounds yet? (from experience that is an obsessive question asked by medics and nurses when you are lying in bed).

The truth is Anne would field all that better than most of us.

The talk of her being repeatedly asked her name reminded me of when my Nana was in with a head injury after a fall. She had the start of dementia as well which meant she had lost a few of her filters.

I got a call from the hospital to say that she was adamant that her name was Aggy McBaggy and she lived in Baggyville house in Aggyville. The doctor who called me said he was 95% sure she was just pissed off and wanted to go home, but that they’d keep an extra eye just in case 😂

When she was asked about it at visiting time she announced that said Dr was a prick who was rude to nurses and she wasn’t going to answer any of his questions properly. One of the nurses laughed and said “well she’s definitely not confused with that, she’s spot on” 😂😂

Random memory that has made me really chuckle.

Indeed! Not a complainer or one to make a fuss! 😉

In neurology they wake you up every 15 mins for the first night ( only my experience though) and ask you questions. If you didn't feel rough before you went in you certainly do on a neurology ward 😂

How on earth do you know that about her? And, anyway it wouldn’t be surprising if she didn’t make a fuss about things. People dance around her making sure her life is easy and she has everything she needs.

I have no problem at all with Princess Anne. I imagine, like most members of the royal family, she is very good at putting people at ease and would be quite pleasant to talk to. The upper classes have been brought up to be charming to everyone including their servants who they depend on. Unlike the middle classes who are sometimes unsure how to behave for example with waiters or domestic staff. I don’t think any of us can really know what any member of the royal family are really like.

What I have noticed is the construction of a very consistent discourse about Princess Anne in recent years with similar tropes again and again:
down to earth
no nonsense
a trooper
just gets on with it
good egg. Etc etc

I am not saying she is not like that I am just pointing out how an image of her is being constructed. She used to be a fairly peripheral figure in British life and is now coming to the foreground, possibly because the RFs ranks have become depleted. From being a dull and grumpy figure in the background she is all of a sudden ‘bloody marvellous’ .

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@JawJaw have you been cramming with Downton Abbey? 😂😂😂

I am not saying she is not like that I am just pointing out how an image of her is being constructed.

You say you are not saying she is not a ‘good egg* etc., but yet you are ‘pointing out that an image of her is being constructed.

So you are essentially saying that the good egg image is a constructed image and therefore not a true representation of Princess Anne.

Dull and grumpy is a good descriptor.

I daresay in this instance it is not applicable to the Princess Royal.

@HadMeABlast

So you are essentially saying that the good egg image is a constructed image and therefore not a true representation of Princess Anne

That’s right. It’s the discourse about Princess Anne. I have no idea what she is really like. I don’t think anybody on MN does. Years ago she used to be talked of as grumpy and dull. Again, I have no idea if this is a true representation either.

Anne's always been bloody marvellous, but was overshadowed in the Diana/Fergie years by the more glamorous members of the RF. It's just now that a lot of people are realising what a stalwart she is after stepping up for HM. I don't think there's any need to construct a discourse around her, Anne's Anne. Take her or leave her, like her or don't, she probably isn't bothered either way.

So you are posting to tell us you have no idea? Thanks for this contribution.

Years ago she used to be talked of as grumpy and dull. Again, I have no idea if this is a true representation either

But you're just putting it out there, like.

What's that favourite word of MN? ah yes. Disingenuous.

My point is that none of us know what she is really like. All we know about her is what we glean from newspapers and chat on MN and I find it interesting that what people say about her now is so different from what used to be said. The actual language used is strange as well, ‘good egg’ and ‘bloody marvellous’ sound like upper class speak from the 1950s. Who actually talks like that now? I am a sociolinguist.

You apparently in your previous post .

"The upper classes have been brought up to be charming to everyone including their servants who they depend on. Unlike the middle classes who are sometimes unsure how to behave for example with waiters or domestic staff."

Someone upthread said that she had never been central to the RF (or words to that effect) and is only now more visible. She was second in line to the throne at one point - hardly on the periphery!

I have met her.

My sibling used to mix in the same circles as her daughter.

You are right in that I don’t know her. But personal experience has given me an insight that you don’t have.

I am a sociolinguist too.

Or Spartacus.

And oh, I do use good egg.

My mother used that phrase. My nan did.

I also quite like disingenuous fud.

Language changes and evolves. Somethings stick. Some don’t.

Who could forget Anne's feather in her cap ? 🤗

"She was second in line to the throne at one point - hardly on the periphery!"

Only until Andrew was born, surely? That must have been enough to make a saint a bit grumpy!