I don’t often feel sorry for the King…

[CurlewKate]

…but bloody hell, I hope he’s got a crack writer’s room for this year’s Christmas Message! I wonder who might be up for it?

Trees are extremely important and I hope he’ll hug it!

The only reason i want a bigger house is to have space for an enormous Christmas tree. I want a tree that needs a cherry picker to decorate.

Sophie is touring South America, starting in Peru this week highlighting work to stop sexual violence. Why can't that get headlines?

I have no idea. It's such great work.

I'd far rather read about the excellent work Sophie does than which party Meghan is at. The press really do dumb us down.

Oh god, me too. That Kardashian party.
I suppose it's all about what people will click on, but I agree, it's depressing.

Oh God-129 to Meghan. Sayonara, guys-have fun.

Apologies, to be clear, I wasn't attacking Meghan, I was making a point about press priorities. The Kardashian party was the first thing that came into my head, I think because they discussed it on The Rest is Entertainment. I'm equally uninterested in photos of Beatrice at a pub or Catherine in The Range.

Thank you, I guessed that's what you meant, and my point was about the Kardashian party. Things like that get the clicks and the publicity, don't they. It happens, it's frustrating.

... which gave rise to one of the best lines ever about the guy who'd waited years for it: "Long time, no see"

My own favourite's the Bernard's survey one, which I often post on here when someone insists that a poll "proves" something

😂😂😂
Brilliant!

Alternatively, we could reach for Maggie Thatcher's excellent one liner about the entire series:

"That's not a sitcom, it's a bloody documentary"

That's 👌

Damn-I shouldn’t have peeked! For clarity, I don’t care how much anyone attacks Meghan, although I do know think some people should get a more interesting hobby. I do care very much that it’s impossible to have a thread about the Royal Family without the spectre of the DofS being raised. It’s so tedious.

So long as you apply the same metric to Harry and Meghan threads with regards to bringing up Andrew, I agree it’s tedious.

Or the Andrew threads where W&K get bashed for some reason.

AMW is slowly going off the front pages now. The issue will recede somewhat in people's minds especially if other RF members are pushed to the front pages instead. The issue is done and dusted in many people's mind I think. Next, the soft PR of Christmas in the Cathedral, Wales kids in white socks, red dress, and little suits, all smiling. You get the picture. Onwards and upwards and perfect timing.

I don’t think even the Royal family have the power to change the date of Christmas.

Andrew might be done and dusted, but all the Epstein files haven't been released, and once the US gets back to work and the latest Democrat Senator is sworn in... they might be. Who knows what they might show
And the daughters of course... they are very busy in the Middle East

😂
There was a thread where someone kept insisting that KC was "omnipotent"..😂
it was actually very funny, I know not everyone understands the nature of a conditional monarchy, but even so! 😂

Sorry, that should read "constitutional" monarchy.
Erratum.

Also TPS - tax paying sheep as used by camilla in the comedy the Windsors 😅