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The royal family

Post your unpopular royal family opinions?

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DreamyPombear · 24/07/2024 17:24

I will start
I prefer Harry to william

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smilesy · 24/07/2024 20:06

I like Anne and admire the fact that she keeps her clothes for years, but sometimes she looks a bit of a frump as a result 😆

typo

User14March · 24/07/2024 20:07

@ElsaLion @SleepingStandingUp

Far more plausible is MM used a surrogate for one or both of the children.

  1. Other actresses in Toronto etc routinely freeze eggs. In that world surrogates normalised.

Then 2. The press were misled re: where MM was giving birth, home or Portland? The timings.

Then she was home within 1-2 hours of hospital epidural. Spare shows some anomalies with pregnancy test timings & then we have seemingly no food at Portland but Nandos in delivery suite. The Portland also surprisingly ran out of gas & air.

Velvetcupcakes · 24/07/2024 20:07

Mine is that I love the RF! Queen Camilla is a godsend, and there’s some seriously vile traits in the Spencer family. Diana was messed up and her brother continues to be vile. I’m old enough to have watched C&D’s wedding on television and have been following them forever.

AngelicaSchuylerAndHerSisters · 24/07/2024 20:08

They life a very out of date lifestyle that no longer exists what staff and horses and shooting parties. I think Meghan is an opportunistic grifter and Kate is desperately unhappy. And so thin. A member of my family worked on the episode of Repair Shop that Charles was on. said he was lovely.

OurDoorz · 24/07/2024 20:08

Agreed that Kate is extremely lazy. It was so disappointing she never pursued a career after graduating from university- she could have been such an inspiration to young women instead of being portrayed by the media as a very thin, bland clothes horse. Or as Hilary Mantel said she is "a shop window mannequin” whose sole purpose was to provide an heir to the throne.

kingtamponthefurred · 24/07/2024 20:13

They are a spectacularly dysfunctional family, which is the main reason why anyone takes any interest in them.

NextFriYAY · 24/07/2024 20:15

Kate dresses badly. She has the remarkable skill of making high end designed clothes look like Karen Millen. I think she LOVES being Royal and hated the attention Meghan got.

William seems angry, spoilt and petulant.

I too think they live pretty separate lives.

I like Harry and Meghan. They’re the ones I’d want to hang out with.

I think Charles is a functioning alcoholic.

bluedechanel · 24/07/2024 20:16

I didn't find the late Queen endearing or likeable at all. There I said it.
There is a clip where she is about to cut a cake with a sword and a lady offers her a knife and the Queens response came across really haughty.
When I've seen clips of her conversing with members of the public at events she came across as cold and unable to build rapport. Love or hate Miriam Margolyes, I didn't like the Queen's response when MM commented/joined
in with a person meeting the queen at the side of her.
Really rude.

TheWoodlanders · 24/07/2024 20:20

@NextFriYAY what’s the evidence that Charles is an alcoholic?

OhMaria2 · 24/07/2024 20:20

HotChocolateNotCocoa · 24/07/2024 19:33

I’d kind of love him to launch a serious campaign for the throne, just to watch the Catholic Church go into complete meltdown. Imagine - they take control of the world’s most powerful monarchy after nearly 350 years, but at the cost of having an openly gay king! 😆😆

I need the Netflix of this!

Mirabai · 24/07/2024 20:20

Off with all of their heads.

CoffeeCantata · 24/07/2024 20:22

smilesy · 24/07/2024 20:06

I like Anne and admire the fact that she keeps her clothes for years, but sometimes she looks a bit of a frump as a result 😆

typo

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Me too, Smilesy!

User14March · 24/07/2024 20:23

@sausawyee re: potential surrogate use, not seen negatively in her previous life, and ‘moon face’ I noted this too. Only for one pregnancy…IMO.

Note my PP for other anomalies. The Press were sent on a wild goose chase & she was home unusually fast post epidural.

Useruserdoubleuser · 24/07/2024 20:23

The King is astonishingly ugly.

CoffeeCantata · 24/07/2024 20:26

NextFriYAY · 24/07/2024 20:15

Kate dresses badly. She has the remarkable skill of making high end designed clothes look like Karen Millen. I think she LOVES being Royal and hated the attention Meghan got.

William seems angry, spoilt and petulant.

I too think they live pretty separate lives.

I like Harry and Meghan. They’re the ones I’d want to hang out with.

I think Charles is a functioning alcoholic.

To me, Karen Millen IS high-end. You must move in much more exalted circles!

I think William has huge cares on his shoulders and does very well at looking positive most of the time. His father is ill, his wife is ill and he has three youngsters to protect from all the stuff that's going on.

Harry and Meghan have tried to destroy W and C - they are poisonous and pretty shallow people too - good luck trying to hang out with them.

Charles is super-health conscious. What evidence is there he's an alcholic?

OperationGoldenDawn · 24/07/2024 20:26

Thewaytogohome · 24/07/2024 19:53

What about if its nothing to do with money? What about if its more related to thinking that no family or set of people should be seen as more special than another?

but then some people it could be debated are more useful to society for example if society needed to be rebuilt then why would you choose average people without any skills to rebuild etc

CoffeeCantata · 24/07/2024 20:28

CarmelaBrunella · Today 19:46
I think it's a bit sad that folks can't get past Diana's death and just move on. She wasn't a saint.

Quite - she was actually pretty unpopular just before her death, when she was holidaying with Dodi in the Med while the boys were at Balmoral.

Thewaytogohome · 24/07/2024 20:28

OperationGoldenDawn · 24/07/2024 20:26

but then some people it could be debated are more useful to society for example if society needed to be rebuilt then why would you choose average people without any skills to rebuild etc

Do you fancy your chances in a post apocalyptic world with the Royal Family to help you survive?! 😆

cupcaske123 · 24/07/2024 20:29

Thewaytogohome · 24/07/2024 20:28

Do you fancy your chances in a post apocalyptic world with the Royal Family to help you survive?! 😆

They'd bring the gin.

OperationGoldenDawn · 24/07/2024 20:31

Thewaytogohome · 24/07/2024 20:28

Do you fancy your chances in a post apocalyptic world with the Royal Family to help you survive?! 😆

yes, access to various bunkers that the general public would have no clue of

CoffeeCantata · 24/07/2024 20:31

OurDoorz · Today 20:08
Agreed that Kate is extremely lazy. It was so disappointing she never pursued a career after graduating from university- she could have been such an inspiration to young women instead of being portrayed by the media as a very thin, bland clothes horse. Or as Hilary Mantel said she is "a shop window mannequin” whose sole purpose was to provide an heir to the throne.

It's well known that she did have a job but had to give it up because the press were making life impossible for her AND for her colleagues who were being hassled and beseiged by photographers (who shouted horrible things at Catherine to attract her attention eg 'slut'). It got to the point where she couldn't go out.

But of course, the narrative is that only Meghan got badly treated!

TheWoodlanders · 24/07/2024 20:31

@User14March but why would they both go through the pretence? It would have involved so much deception and complicated logistics. They don't have private lives like you and I. I could go all over the place and nobody would know or care. They are surrounded by people ALL the time. Cleaner, cook, maid, driver, beauty therapist, stylists, hairdresser, secretaries etc. etc. Meghan would have had to lie to so, so many people any of whom could blow their cover at any time. So, why on earth would they bother? Why not just actually have babies? You know, like they said they did.

LaMarschallin · 24/07/2024 20:31

I think Meghan pushed Harry's and her relationship into the public domain far too early (eg by wearing the H&M necklace) so he had to acknowledge it because she was determined to marry him ASAP.
Tbf, she probably didn't need to as it sounds like he was a bit desperate anyway.

OperationGoldenDawn · 24/07/2024 20:32

TheWoodlanders · 24/07/2024 20:31

@User14March but why would they both go through the pretence? It would have involved so much deception and complicated logistics. They don't have private lives like you and I. I could go all over the place and nobody would know or care. They are surrounded by people ALL the time. Cleaner, cook, maid, driver, beauty therapist, stylists, hairdresser, secretaries etc. etc. Meghan would have had to lie to so, so many people any of whom could blow their cover at any time. So, why on earth would they bother? Why not just actually have babies? You know, like they said they did.

appearance's

CoffeeCantata · 24/07/2024 20:32

I have to say, people who like the RF do tend be a lot jollier than people who want to chop their heads off!

That's my unpopular opinion, but I've found it to be true. 😀

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