Post your unpopular royal family opinions?

[DreamyPombear]

I will start
I prefer Harry to william

There's no 'possibly' or 'borderline' about it .

Tbf the Tudor’s claim to the throne wasn’t the strongest! The king actually has direct Stuart ancestors through the QM

I'm 42 and I remember the fake Sheikh!

@ApplesOrangesBananas yes she used to have a nose like her Mum but now it is completely different.

She has said herself on The Tig she inherited the Markle nose.

Wallis Simpson was a Nazi.

Oh I never read that, tbh I never knew who she was until she married Harry as I’d never watched Suits.

Agree with this.

W. is as petulant, workshy and entitled as Harold but those reviled grey men are doing the same sterling job for his image as they did for Harold (and look how that's gone now they're no longer there).

I think W will be our last 'king' not least because he's already showing his determination to do it "his way" and starting to make major balls-ups in the process.

See his condescending finger wagging on the environment and now the decision not to release his tax details. He's a feudal throwback and it's not going to wash for long.

@Likewhatever I guess she would have to say that as otherwise it could be picked on by some as denying her Nigerian heritage and changing those features to a showbiz suitable Westernised look. She wouldn't be the only WOC to do that - Beyoncé and J lo spring to my mind.

Not wearing a seatbelt and being driven into a wall by a drunk driver killed her, didn't it?
Edited to add "her"

I think Meghan looks very like her Mum when Doria was young.

That's a lovely photo.

Diana was a terrible mother.

Who goes on TV and airs their dirty laundry regarding their marriage and husband knowing that their sons will be watching it at their boarding school?? How upsetting and humiliating for them!

I think Diana was a terrible mum who put all her unmet emotional needs on to her young sons. I think that if she was still alive now she would be the MIL from hell and would be a nightmare with sharing stories about the grandkids with the press and on social media to try and keep herself relevant.

Cute! Although she does also look a bit like Thomas Markle.
Unpopular opinion: she should have done her homework on the RF, however Harry should have been a better husband and given her help and advice. Now I duck for cover! 😉

And through the Queen! Just not through the male line.

Also, Henry VII married Edward VI’s daughter to ensure his heirs were legitimately descended from the Plantagenets. The York branch of the Plantagenets also claimed seniority based on female line descent, so the Tudor line of succession becomes pretty legitimate after Henry VII.

I think both Charles and Diana were loving parents on one level (certainly better than they had experienced from their own parents, in terms of attention and warmth) but they were also very selfish as they put their own needs first.

Both went on tv to tell ‘their side’, both leaked their grievances: Neither seemed to have an understanding of how it would affect their two children.

I agree with your point about Andrew, actually. He's a lot of deeply unpleasant things but based on the information we have, he's not a paedophile. He didn't care about women being trafficked or care what Epstein had done but that doesn't mean he's sexually attracted to children.

Yes. That is how lineage works. It’s a bit of a simplistic argument to say that the royals are not legitimately descended 🤷‍♀️

My unpopular opinion is that the divide between K and W on the one hand and H and M on the other hand is not that great. Both couples are more similar to each other than they are to the older generation of dutiful ribbon-cutters. Recent comments from K about her modus operandi have actually sounded like the sort of thing M would say. Both couples seem to prefer the big glam events with celebs around and glitzy charity work. I blame Instagram for making the look of the thing more important than the thing in itself.

Nearly spat my coffee out with the first one - love it!

My unpopular opinion - Charles is very charismatic in person. I had quite a bit to do with him at one point and he is very charming, quite sweet and really listens to you as if you are the only person in the room when you speak.

All the nonsense about Meghan using a surrogate is just nonsense. The obvious answer is that her "public" maternity clothes were probably tailored to fit a large bump so that there was some growing room. She probably used a small falsie to get them to hang right when she didn't quite fill them out. I imagine that it is quite common in "Hollywood" circles when clothes are ordered in advance and you don't know quite what size you'll be.

If she was interesting and exciting she wouldn't have married William or wanted to be queen! She's pretty much perfect for the role.

I think William is a petty, jealous little man

I don’t actually think it’s as complicated as that. Her posts on the Tig were full of darling Daddy comments. It was said affectionately. She didn’t know about her Nigerian heritage at that point.

I think she’s spent over 20 years trimming her personality to fit what the RF want.

It’s diametrically opposed to Diana who refused to change anything and fought constantly against what the RF wanted her to be.

TBH, whatever you think of them as individuals, Meghan’s response (of getting out) strikes me as the healthiest.