Post your unpopular royal family opinions?

[DreamyPombear]

I will start
I prefer Harry to william

@TheWoodlanders Damn. I've never heard of her. How disappointing!

Isn’t the PP companion/carriage driving partner story covered in the Crown?

The lady in question was also good friends with the late Queen. I'm also not convinced that Philip was the playboy some purport him to be.

Duke of Edinburgh was a ladies man but he was faithful.

Yes. Also if you Google ‘Prince Phillip carriage driving companion’, her name comes up.

I have no idea if they actually had an affair or if he just enjoyed the company of a very attractive younger woman but her identity is well known.

At one point it was suggested she might have been his daughter but I think someone looked into it and either Phillip or her mother (can’t remember which) was overseas at the relevant time. I only mention it because it illustrates there was nothing in his behaviour in public that would be absolute evidence of an affair.

Edited to say: Or in her behaviour either (obviously).

@Runnerinthenight in The Crown it shows how Phillip’s indiscretions were dealt with in the press by saying the Queen was good friends.

I really don’t know how much of a playboy he was during his life but the evidence is pretty clear about the one particular relationship he had in his later years. It’s there to see in the press. It really wasn’t hidden.

Oh bore off you strange temperance enforcer 🥱

Insults?
I like an alcoholic drink. But I challenged you as you are explicitly linking drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes with having fun and being a fun person. That is not a healthy attitude to have. Anyone should be able to have fun without drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes.

The Crown is largely fictional!!

@DreamyBird Duke of Edinburgh was a ladies man but he was faithful."

How do you know?

It's astonishing how many people seem to think it's a documentary.

Including Harry!

“The Crown” has about as much authority as “a source” ie much of it was speculation based on a grain of knowledge

it would be nice to think so but we don’t know that. I agree about the likely beneficiary in PP’s Will.

How do people know he was not faithful? 😂

They don't. They choose to believe ancient gossip!

Penny Knatchbull. Surely that doesn’t merit a deletion? I have zero idea if they were making the beast with two backs at carriage driving competitions, obviously, but their names were linked often enough in the media for it hardly to be libellous to mention her name on here.

Clearly I was wrong!😀

Yes! She took years to come to the groundbreaking conclusion that "early years are important". Colour me shocked.

😂😂

It's actually amazing though when you visit, and you picture all the scenes and the figures who inhabited those rooms, the history that was made there. I've been in the palace three times, and I've been mesmerised. I doubt it's changed much since Queen Victoria and before.

I felt the same at Versailles, thinking of le roi soleil and Marie Antoinette there!

She probably didn't take an interest until she had her own children. I couldn't have given a shiny shit about children until I had mine! Wouldn't have crossed the room to look at a baby!

My unpopular opinion.

Catherine patting the bum of the future king was daring so she can’t be the bore she is painted out to be by some.

Didn’t he say she has a really naughty sense of humour in their engagement interview? And he said he has quite a dirty sense of humour too. That seems about right considering he wanted to choose the aubergine as his favourite emoji but he was told it had to be family friendly 🤣🍆

I had forgotten about the emoji @PrettyFlyforaMaiTai ! 😆