Catherine and family at church in Balmoral (Sunday 25/08/2024)

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Catherine and family seen at church in Balmoral (Sunday 25/08/2024)

Kate Middleton is seen at Crathie Kirk for the first time since revealing her cancer diagnosis as she joins Prince William and other Royal Family members for Sunday service | Daily Mail Online

This is a load of nonsense. You talk as if none of us go to church and none of us live in Scotland.

I can't stop laughing at this and I have no idea why 😂 'But who does Tim Lawrence belong to?' 😂

Thanks for brightening my dreary Tuesday

Maybe that's her personal experience?.
It was certainly mine at St Giles Cathedral.

Mine too, in Ayrshire, Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Plus the fact we have several denominations in Scotland.
Church of Scotland.
Presbyterian.
Free Presbyterian.
Catholic.
Baptist.
Brethren.
And that's just the Christian faiths.

@MrsFinkelstein don't let facts get in the way of an attempt to slate the Princess of Wales!.

I don't usually defend any member of the RF-but can you imagine the press if the PoW had turned up at church in jeans?🤣

I would love that. I wish one of them would be brave enough to do an ordinary thing like Sunday morning church in ordinary clothes. I'd have a lot more respect for them.

The references to "the royals" are interesting. The Royal family is very large with lots of very different individuals in it. Why treat them all as one homogeneous blob with the same opinions and reactions?

To pick out a few fairly opposite pairs at random:

Princess Micheal of Kent
The Duchess of Kent

Prince Andrew
Prince William

Mike Tindall
Meghan Markle

The Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Sussex

Very different people in the same family.

Why would that garner your respect? We see them particularly the younger royals in jeans all the time in their day to day life so why would wearing jeans to church make you respect them more?, I don’t get it, how about leggings and a hoodie, would you respect them even more than if they wore jeans to church?

@DappledThings "I would love that. I wish one of them would be brave enough to do an ordinary thing like Sunday morning church in ordinary clothes. I'd have a lot more respect for them"
To be honest, they only go to Church at all because it's part of the deal. And so is wearing the daft clothes.

True, @BigWillyLittleTodger I respect people more for giving acknowledgement to their surroundings and the people they'll meet. I like an effort made with appearance.

Because it would look like they were doing it because they wanted to rather than as a performance.

To be honest, they only go to Church at all because it's part of the deal. And so is wearing the daft clothes.

Who is they? Have they all told you about their faith or lack of?

Daft clothes? Do you mean King Charles wearing a kilt? Are kilts daft?

I would look at it completely the opposite, it would show they couldn’t be arsed to make an effort and did not want to be there, honestly you would think that they had all turned up to church wearing ball gowns and tiaras and not just smart clothes 🙄

St Giles Cathedral is where very middle class mainly English people go to worship. It is also a tourist attraction. I am sure people attending St Paul's Cathedral services will be more likely to dress up/
Equating St Giles Cathedral to the Church of Scotland as a whole is usual English imperialist nonsense. People visit Edinburgh for the festival and then think think they understand Scotland.

TBH if i were a member of the RF I'd turn up to church regularly mainly to thank God for his generosity in giving me such an amazing opportunity and lifestyle. (Despite the downsides).

Well we will have to differ then! I don't think wearing a hat and heels and a dress that fancy is anything approaching standard daily attire and, to me, going to church is standard ordinary Sunday thing to do so getting dressed up for it looks like performance. Ordinary clothes would make it look like an ordinary thing they were choosing to do.

It doesn't make them look respectful, just dutiful and uninterested.

I worship at Church every Sunday and very few people dress up. I do not care if the Royals do or do not dress up to go to church. Its irrelevant. I do care when people talk a load of nonsense about the Church of Scotland.
If you do not believe me, watch some online services.

Or would you ask for forgiveness for having so much but not sharing it out? I thought it was easier for a camel to pass through a needle than it is for a rich man to get into Heaven.

Well- that would be good too. I am sure.

Anyway, just because I am a bit of a nerd this represents some of the commentary around the Eye of the needle. I appreciate you did not actually request this.

https://classictheology.org/2021/10/12/through-the-eye-of-an-actual-needle-the-fake-gate-theory/

@BigWillyLittleTodger "Daft clothes? Do you mean King Charles wearing a kilt? Are kilts daft?"

No, I don't.

lol, I’ve heard that said before!

Mine too in Perthshire, Dundee, Kirkcaldy and Aberdeenshire

The thing for me is apart from the hats - what they are wearing doesn’t look particularly dressed up. They are just wearing smart clothes. That’s what my family wears to church or going out to dinner, or going to the theatre etc.

What are the ‘daft clothes’ that other people are seeing?