Royals at Remembrance events 2024

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Catherine and William at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. Anne is also in attendance.

It was a Kyrie. Warbly and operatic from the starr. Totally inappropriate style and typical of anyone with opera training attempting sacred music. They just can't help the warble.

What a nasty thing to say. Horrible.

It's an opinion based on observation. Much like every other comment on this thread, including your own.

The comment is a bit spikey but really it's sad to see somebody like this in public out of duty. Like the late Queen, it was pitiful to see her.

All this bitchiness about Catherine’s appearance dressed up as faux concern from all these supposedly new posters to royal family section.

She's not saying that at all. I think she's saying she would have understood if Catherine dint come back at all until she was feeling 100%.

Oh ok. It wasn’t clear to me. Sorry if that was the case. But I still stand by the fact that you don’t have to feel 100% to want to do
something that resembles normality. It makes you feel like you are progressing

@mythbuster88 yes you carry on spouting your 'opinions based on observations'. I'm sure your comments make you feel better. Sad really.

Currently not looking my best due in large part to factors beyond my control (and age )

Seeing Kate making an effort so she could be there for the Remembrance commemorations after what has objectively been a horrible year for her spurred me on to at least apply my eyebrows, thus slightly decreasing my resemblance to the ghost of a naked mole rat (Google them, they're sort of cute. Just not aspirational as a human)

That woman can't win. If she didn't show up there'd be speculation she was ill. She shows up looking in the peak of health, she was never ill at all. She makes up so she looks as good as poss and that's wrong too. It's like bloody March all over again.

It was a Kyrie. Warbly and operatic from the starr. Totally inappropriate style and typical of anyone with opera training attempting sacred music. They just can't help the warble.

It was a Kyrie commissioned for the occasion (a rather grand one!) and probably written specifically for Bryn Terfel. Maybe the composer (and the commissioner) intended it to sound like that? If they'd wanted a purer sound they could have asked one of the (adult) choir members to sing it. I agree Terfel would not sound so good in a small church singing the male solo verse of Darke's 'In the bleak midwinter', for example.

Again, most classical singers train for both opera and oratorio. They might focus more on a certain period (opera by Purcell wouldn't be sung in the same style as opera by Verdi). No-one would expect the Kyrie from Verdi's Requiem to be sung in the same manner as a Kyrie by Byrd or Smith, so saying Terfel's vocal style is inappropriate for a Kyrie means nothing.

That woman can't win. If she didn't show up there'd be speculation she was ill. She shows up looking in the peak of health, she was never ill at all. She makes up so she looks as good as poss and that's wrong too. It's like bloody March all over again.

This bears repeating, also if she hadn’t shown up she would have been called lazy, nothing but nothing she does will be right in certain posters eyes, anything to beat her over the head with and always dressed up as concern, so transparent.

Much like the bitchniness of others dressed up as faux criticism

I wouldn't expect any Kyrie to be sung with operatic warbles. Verdi or Byrd or Tallis or our own church's music director or either of the Tave(r)ners.

It is inappropriate to me that it was done as a performance at all with all his hugging himself as he was singing. Should have been only the choir singing all of it. The gospel choir they had as well were fab though. A very different style of sacred music but still an appropriate sacred rather than secular style.

The difference is regular posters don’t name change and pretend to be new they stand by what they say, it’s up to you if you perceive critical posts to be bitchy 🤷🏻‍♀️ no one cares.

@Uricon2 "I honestly think Jane Seymour bathes in virgins blood/has a picture in an attic somewhere/both. She looks absolutely amazing and if she's had surgery, it is extraordinary."
I recently watched Harry Wild and couldn't get over how fabulous Jane Seymour looks. I honestly couldn't work out why. There's such an air of self confidence and self acceptance about her, as if she lives life solely on her own terms.

@loobylou10 You are aware that I neither need your permission nor approval to post. Also, why would my post make me feel better? An odd conclusion. Does posting on MN have some medicinal effect on you? If so, then sad would be a well-placed word.

@mythbuster88 'Does posting on MN have some medicinal effect on you? If so, then sad would be a well-placed word.' I'm not sure what you're on about actually because that makes no sense whatsoever, but saying someone who has/is going through a cancer battle has make up that 'looks like drag' is disgusting.

@loobylou10 Well if an opinion on a person’s choice of makeup is able to disturb your sensibilities then perhaps MN is not the forum for you. In fact, with that delicate a nature the wider world may be a challenge. Incidentally, what offends you about drag? And should the many drag artists out there be offended by that?

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Urgh some really nasty nobodies on here - they must have a really sad life to have an outlook like they do.

Eem what has the person's name who posts go to do with it. It's itchiness being dressed up as something else, doesn't matter who does it.

Her hair was beautiful but I thought she looked very tired

That just comes across as incredibly petty