Lady Louise 21st birthday - end of privacy?

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

So first of happy 21st birthday to Lady Louise!

I wouldn’t have even realised save for seeing a few articles online showing her celebrating with her boyfriend. The photos have been credited to Facebook and shows her posing for a photo and looking into the camera, but also a photo of her posing for a selfie and not seeming to be aware someone is photographing her. It looks like the media have been trawling through her/friends Facebook accounts or else someone has sold her out. Is this is now that she is 21? Is she not entitled to privacy any more? Is she going to get stalked and papped from now on?

She's still in full time education so suspect her privacy rights continue.

She seems such a sweetie.

What a weird inference. Do you watch an unusual amount of reality tv?

Most of the royals’ lives seem pretty dreary — privileged nonentities cutting ribbons at community centres, wearing endless coat dresses, waving, never saying anything whatsoever that hasn’t been pre-vetted. The ones who aren’t have been Nazi sympathising playboys, non-sweating friends of convicted traffickers of underage girls, toe-suckers, unhappy but charismatic bulimic serial adulterers, or celebrity defectors to Oprah etc etc.

Sophie Wessex is grasping her reputation as safe pair of hands firmly after her Fake Sheikh moment, ditto Edward, after an inglorious past consisting of It’s A Royal Knockout and professional failure. It’s hardly surprising their kids will have been brought up to toe the party line.

This is considerably less amusing than you imagine.

I’m local to st Andrews and close family were in Murray Mitchell’s buying steak. Young cousin was off sick from school and the butcher asked “young man why aren’t you in school today”. He was a farmer and replied “I needed to make sure the beef is ok for you”, heard chuckling behind and it was Prince William!!

Another time we were on holiday at Sandringham. Slowed down to look at a hedgecutter only to realise Prince William was stood there and it looked like we were staring at him. Apologised by saying “sorry, we were really looking at the tractor!!!

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Wow, you’re obviously looking forward to the revolution. Maybe you should apply for the guillotine operator. I hope I never get on the wrong side of you in rl.

😀 I think I’d be a better guillotine operator than a tricoteuse (I never made it past the heel of the only sock I ever attempted to knit, aged eight), so you’re probably right.

Or my other idea for what to do with the royals after the abolishment of the monarchy is to set them to work in tourism, re-enacting the coronation twice daily, waving from the BH balcony at 11 and 3, doing the Trooping of the Colour three times a week, William and Katherine riding up and down the Mall in the state coach waving like Disney princesses etc. People are always referencing tourism in relation to why the monarchy should be retained. I say abolish it and keep the tourists. Perhaps Lady Louise could run it all. 😀

Wow - I'm no royalist, but rather dreary? Thats horrible

adjective: dreary; comparative adjective: drearier; superlative adjective: dreariest

1. depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive.
2. "the dreary round of working, eating, and trying to sleep"

Of course its nasty

Yes, PrettyFly, we knew about this boyfriend in July when these pics first appeared. The Edinburghs have been very successful in keeping their children out of the public eye though - there's hardly anything known about James.

The days when the British public cared about minor royals are long gone.

I'm sure Lady Louise is a very pleasant young woman, but most people wouldn't know her if they bumped into her on the street, let along bother to click on articles about her, even assuming she was doing anything of 'interest' to the press. There is simply no financial incentive for 'paps' to 'stalk' her and in any case doorstepping random 'celebrities' isn't really a thing in the age of mobile phones and social media.

I agree with you. I saw those pictures and thought it was a shame she's had her privacy invaded. She does seem like a well brought up person, the product of a lovely family.

Didn't she have some problems with her eyes when younger?

Yes.

Stop being a twat. If you don't like the Royal family why read and comment on a thread about them.

I suspect you know she did. Isn't it a bit like Meghan Markle's "drift" ?

What do you mean?

Didn't her mum try to sell royal meet ups to a fake sheik? Or was that Fergie....?

I'm not sure how you know enough about her to term her, "dreary"? Not falling pissed out of nightclubs is probably a good thing?

Didn't her mum try to sell royal meet ups to a fake sheik? Or was that Fergie....?

Didn't her dad mastermind 'It's A Royal Knockout' in the hopes of kick-starting a stellar TV career then flounce when exhausted reporters failed to hail?

I met Prince Edward once. Now that was a dreary man.

I’m sure Louise is lovely, or not. I have no idea. But I do think she’s lucky that she will not be tabloid fodder.

It's generally accepted that It's a Knockout was a bit of a faux pas. Same as the documentary of royal life that Prince Philip was heavily involved in. I guess everyone fucks up now and again.

I think Louise was wise not to use her Princess title (and her parents too for not using it up to the age of 18 when she could decide for herself). Beatrice and Eugenie get a lot more attention, and they're also the daughters of a younger son. Maybe she will too after uni?

@BookishType now that's funny, because he speaks very highly of you!!

Interesting to read that someone on this thread is arguing that describing a person as "dreary" is not nasty. What is it then? Fucking stupid if you don't know them, I'd say.

Ooooooo .... has one come far?

It's generally accepted that It's a Knockout was a bit of a faux pas.

'Faux pas' is generous. I'm old enough to have watched it live.

Same as the documentary of royal life that Prince Philip was heavily involved in.

The one TLQ suppressed because she thought it didn't paint a flattering picture?

Still surfacing on YT for anyone exploring alternatives to counting sheep 😎