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Carrying on.

Employee feels Harry is happy doing charity work and is happy for meghan to do all the work to make money so he doesn’t need to

I imagine she was like a rabbit caught in headlights throughout most of the ceremony and wouldn't be thinking about the profound meaning of any of the vows! It's a stretch to think she would have the time/presence of mind/calm etc to emote appropriately (or otherwise) to anything. She'd be focused on getting the words right, not tripping over her dress and what her next move was.

I think anyone in that situation can be excused whatever expression happens to pass over their face and not be too harshly judged for it - even Meghan! 😃

You do talk a lot of rubbish, which is your prerogative. But the tone of your posts seems to suggest you talk for other people.

You don't talk for me!

Targeted campaign to get him? How do you know that for a fact? It’s tabloid speculation , nothing more. What a horrible comment.

To be fair, one could suggest that Pippa might not have married a billionaire if she weren't an adjunct part of the royal family. Her husband might well have thought, "cor, it's the fit bridesmaid off the telly". Which is not to say they don't love each other, it just changes the context of the introduction.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Billionaires, millionaires and royalty exist. They have to fall in love with someone.

I made the approach to my husband because we share a hobby. 17 years later, we don't do the hobby any more, we're together because we love each other, not because of why we met/were interested in the first place.

And Rory McIlroy.
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Given the way things are going, most countries will end up with some form of conscription before long - I think Sweden is already bringing it back. So I don't recommend getting too much on one's high horse about this. It's not pretty but the reality is that Europeans are going to have to sort out our own security more and more, with the Americans proving such unrealiable allies.

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Because I’d quoted a different post to the one I meant to, and what I said didn’t follow on from this one

They have conscriptions but conscripts don’t get send to combat zones. Conscripts are only in the army for 4-12 months, max 2 years. Only service personnel who have fully committed to the army AND who volunteer get sent on missions abroad.

That’s true but unless there’s an actual war, conscripts do not engage in combat.

I’m genuinely interested in what you think the RF does for the common people if this country?

Surely, unless there’s an actual war, no-one engages in combat?

It’s not tabloid speculation. Do you honestly believe that her doing the same gap year activities as him and then attending the same university is a coincidence?
regardless, of course she’s both beautiful and smart so I didn’t mean to say that it’s surprising William fell in love with her. Just that she placed herself in his line of vision on purpose, as countless other girls did at the time. The applications to st andrews went through the roof once he was enrolled.

meant to say gets send on missions abroad full stop. British and European soldiers have been participating in missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and Libya, to name a few. Where else do you think the veterans come from? You’re only a veteran because you participated in a mission. And none of those veterans are conscripts.

Disaster tour continues

(Trying again, with the post I meant to quote)

The Invictus Foundation does more than the Games.

But many (people only pay attention to the Games and possibly don’t even know there’s more. I think that’s a Harry factor, and without him Invictus would have a very hard time indeed,

Thd Games themselves only have a small number of participants. The rest of the programme has more interesting reach internationally, but the numbers are dwarfed by the numbers reached in the sports and activities provided by other veterans organisations

didnt question whether William fell
in love w her, all evidence points to that he did, and why wouldn’t he, Kate is both beautiful and smart, on top
of this with a preference for a lavish lifestyle and no appetite for critical thinking, so perfect princess material.

all I meant was it seems there’s sufficient evidence that she made an effort to be around him so he’d notice her. Many young women who hoped the prince would notice them did the same.

look, most royals, men and women, marry someone who’s have been out of their league if they weren’t royals. That’s one of the perks.

I would class all those places as war zones, and that we were there with various missions and roles

I do not equate all active operational areas with being sent to combat (ie fight, be at war). But even a missions, say Bosnia from the list you cite, which falls under the Wider Peacekeeping doctrine, involved some fighting by UN troops and produced casualties and some fatalities, was not a combat operation (and it would have been politically disastrous to have described it as such)

Im probably splitting a hair too far on what combat means

I don’t know the details of how the Colombian and Nigerian armies work re. Sending conscripts to engage in actual
missions or not. I know israel
does this, but then, the last thing I’d want is to support Israeli veterans.
for all European countries, conscripts do not engage in missions.
the event I attended didn’t have all countries present, it was an event for the national team of one of the countries and can’t say which one of course in order not to out myself.

Yes like I said, my comment was imprecise, what I meant to say was participating in missions abroad. All of those missions were tough and that’s why veterans may have physical or mental scars such as PTSD. All I’m saying is nobody forced them to go if they’re British or from any European country

I agree with what you are trying to say @EdithWeston. Many of the conflicts named here involve our troops in peacekeeping roles, so not active warfare. Troops are often injured by IED’s which have been left behind after active warfare is suspended. But some posters don’t seem to think that it matters that our troops are trying to clear up after conflict in some cases. They joined the army and, you know, bullets 🙄

I do think that on some cases such as the Balkans of course peacekeeping missions were/are a good thing. And we should be glad some people volunteer to do this. However the vast majority of recent
British engagement has been misjudged and imperialistic. What makes me feel sick is watching royals and other upper class people and civil servants expressing gratitude to the men and women they send into harms way, for their own political ambitions. Invictus is Sponsored by weapons manufacturers too. All the masters of war crying fake tears at the feet of the people they sent off to do their dirty work and afterwards they put medals on them.
I get that the games is trying to make it up to veterans, but at the same time they’re glorifying military service and I personally find that hard to stomach. But I understand if others see it in a more positive light.

Kate is both beautiful and smart, on top
of this with a preference for a lavish lifestyle and no appetite for critical thinking, so perfect princess material

How do you know she has a preference for a lavish lifestyle and no appetite for critical thinking?

And how do you know when and why she decided to take a gap year and switch to St Andrews? Loads of people every year change their minds about their firm choice and either have to go through clearing or reapply with grades in hand. It's very normal, not such an incredibly weird thing to do that there can only be one explanation.

of course I can’t know for sure and if you decide to see it like that, up to you.

if you marry a prince and decide to dedicate your life to upholding the monarchy, imo you aren’t a critical thinker. But again, I appreciate that’s just my view. You may think that the monarchy has a great tradition for critical thinking.

Kate was part of the glamour girls in the Chelsea area, all fancy cars and clothes and hanging out on the fanciest clubs. Of course, she may have genuinely disliked that lifestyle and just gone along with it against he will, she may have secretly been wanting to spend her time volunteering in a soup kitchen or doing activism for immigrants, but was prevented from
doing so.

How do you know she has a preference for a lavish lifestyle and no appetite for critical thinking?
Uh, her life choices?

Slightly mystified how you know so much about how she spent her time and what was important to her but hey ho.

So hundreds of not thousands of kids change their minds every year about their firm choice and have to reapply but Kate was DEFINITELY out to ensnare William, sure 😂