As ever#4 - As usual

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I rewatched some of Kate and William’s wedding on the ten year anniversary and noticed how ‘ultra calm’ Carol Middleton was it made me wonder if she’d taken something for her nerves or maybe that plus some pre wedding Botox - she keeps her face so in control the whole time - I’d have been weeping for half of it.

Also there’s a moment when they stand up and are singing the national anthem and they are staring right across at the Queen just a couple of meters away - must have been so weird to sing that anthem that you’ve done many times before but you’re singing it right to her face!

Naughty cameraman focused on them during that moment but they managed not to make any weird faces.

Hilarious Sunday Times article.Great twist at end:

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/this-familys-only-big-enough-for-one-jam-maker-t3j8r976t

@wordler

I suspect by the time William and Kate got married they were very comfortable being around Royalty and the accompanying razzamatazz.

I don't think it was necessarily even lack of discretion, rather that Thomas might quite innocently say in the course of conversation something that was at odds with the story of her life that M had been telling - that she'd never had any extended family, or that she'd had to work her way through college, for example.

Here you go - the first wedding invitation and Meghan playing beach olympics with some guest on the left.

How on earth must her mother and father have felt hearing Harry say that ?

The Thomas Markle thing is really very odd.

What he did with the photoshoot is a bit naive and embarrassing, but it's not the crime of the century. I mean even dyed in the wool royals have committed similar faux pas in the past. Nowhere near worth being completely cut off by your daughter who you've always had a great relationship with.

Then the fact he had a heart attack and surgery and she still didn't fly over to see him, or indeed express any concern (in fact didn't he get angry voicemails from Harry while he was in hospital?) - the whole thing is really unbelievably callous and cold. It should have rung huge alarm bells for Harry, but he's too thick and totally infatuated by her to ever question her version of events.

It's behind a paywall

I remember the Major Ron Ferguson "massage parlour" debacle, what TM did is very minor by comparison and could have been turned round. Had there been the will to.

Try the archive link:

https://archive.ph/lu7Fi

@IcedPurple
Ah but don't forget William wasn't his best man
Harry later claimed that despite accompanying him to the wedding, standing by his side, brandishing the ring etc etc he wasn't his best man at all and it was all for show.
When I heard that I thought Harry has most definitely lost the plot.

Didn't he also complain that William turned down his request to stay over at the hotel the night before the wedding, rather than going home to be with his wife and not quite 4 week old baby?

Oh, he's no idea what the heck went on. That would explain a lot of the nonsense in Spare.

Hilarious! Thanks for link @BemusedAmerican

I don’t understand the ending. ☺️

Dastardly plot by Charles and Catherine to scupper Meghan's potential jam and homewares empire.

Charles should have called his new puppy muttley!

🤣

Yes & this was partly because Kate had upset M over bridesmaid dress gate & feelings running high. That & something about his oversensitivity about a row over a beard.

Harry's a big whingey girl's blouse 😂

Meghan posting more of lilibet on her instagram - I really think the children are going to be fully featured in a few months to generate more exposure. Wonder how Harry really feels about that.

You can tell there is not much Plantagenet blood there any more. I bet Edward I is revolving in Westminster Abbey at the thought of successors falling out over lip gloss, bridesmaids tights, air fresheners and beards (and as far as I can ever see, W&C are not the Hurty Feels squad behind it)

ETA you need the Devil's Brood, the sons of Henry II, for a proper sibling scrap. No dogbowls involved.

He didn't seem too bothered by the bathtime photos of Archie in their 'documentary'.

Oh my god, the Dog Bowl story 😂
That was a good one.

Let's forget "Polo" (lets, everyone else has)

Tournament with William and Harry, full plate armour. Winner gets an extra sausage.

Netflix?