Princess Anne

[Mylovelygreendress]

Love this photo of Anne at the rugby today . She is such a brilliant supporter of the Scottish Rugby team

Plenty of the Coronet style of jewellery too.

But neither of Anne’s children are trading on their connections. No way. Milk, anyone?

Anne's treatment of her dogs is awful : the lack of restraint, I mean. The Queen was often not that good either, corgis were known to bite the staff.

Do Zara & Peter grift though?

I do think that judging RF members on personal stuff like affairs is arguably tricky ground

Yes, I judge politicians like Boris on affairs. But typically we don't judge someone's job performance on whether they have affairs or not.

This ties in to how Tampongate, Squidygate, & the Fergie toes incident are often used to criticise the royals. The cheating and the wider treatment of Diana was awful. But it feels wrong to use those things as examples of flaunting/indiscretion when they were born crazy invasions of privacy that I don't think were in the public interest: phone tapping & zooming in with a long-range lens on a couple on a private holiday.

With regard to Anne, it's fair to say Mark Phillips appears to have been the first to cheat & had a child in 1985 with Heather Tonkin.

Diana was no saint . She had numerous affairs including with married men . I doubt Julia Carling and Oliver Hoare’s wives have much sympathy.

Whilst we see only the enormous privilege, the RF see all the friends they've grown up with who live their lives mostly how they want. The women (mostly) can go around being no nonsense, horsey and abrupt; the men can be in the rowdy, red trouser brigade behaving badly, anonymously with their rich friends. Of all the rich lot, probably only the Duke of Westminster is recognisable (and comes across incredibly well).
I think that's why William and Harry get a bit cross about things, and why we admire Camilla and Anne for uncomplainingly getting on with it.
Ps. I LOVE Anne's husband. So proud of her and quietly supportive. Never seeks attention.

None of them work.

But what 'problem' is she solving, exactly? If it's the problem of what to do with an expensive anachronism, she doesn't show any signs of solving it.

And being a royal is the ultimate in 'pretension', whether or not you stamp about looking sour in headscarves. You pretend to innate superiority because of your bloodline. You benefit endlessly from the idea that God anointed your immediate family member to rule, regardless of whether you are brisk and horsy.

Ann had no choice in her birth or title, but her offspring have no titles, they don’t appear pretentious, she chose to give them as normal a life as possible. Her grandchildren, whilst obviously privileged, aren’t widely known. Children of other very rich, but non titled families are similarly privileged.

Only William’s children, in the direct line of succession should have titles, if the monarchy continues. Why should Harry’s, when they aren’t even likely to live in the UK?

Do Zara & Peter grift though?

I suppose it depends if you count trousering twice the amount raised for charity in your own fees for an uncontested event tender and lying about your involvement in a stonking six gig a year contract worth £100k with a shady Chinese businessman really.

I don’t love Anne but I’m also struggling to see how she and Andrew are siblings!

You don’t have any sponsorships

No. Probably because I’m not a member of the royal family!

They were all reared by different hirelings so that explains the differences in development, I suppose, what a life, poor kids. I remember newspapers would photograph Charles and/or Anne arriving home at the end of their school years. Both of them always struck me as thoroughly depressed.

I thought the Queen was more hands-on with Andrew and Edward?

I also thought Anne was supposed to have enjoyed her time at Beneden, she definitely seems more temperamentally suited to boarding than Charles. But ofc maybe she didn't.

Who knows? Photos were always their returning to the 'family home'.

The truth and facts matter.

It depends doesn’t it?

The Prime Minister doesn’t have his family weddings and funerals broadcast on national tv and largely funded by the tax payer.

The problem with the royal family is that they invite the British public to partake in, and fund, the major family events in their lives and then frown on any public interest in to their private lives that is less than optimum shall we say!

How decent of @Mylovelygreendress that she doesn’t change her username so you can keep track of and mock her and her posts, how about you do the same? rather than hiding behind name changes so she and us can use your previous posts against you for our own bingo cards?

Says a NCer 😂

Hilarious!

do tell?

@mylovelygreendress is a genuine and long time poster.
I think it would be fair to say a real ’stalwart’ on this board (😉iykyk)

Sad that someone wants to use that against her for stalking and mocking purposes.

Agree @Mylovelygreendress is always informative and polite.

Fairly standard UC stuff, though?

I genuinely don’t understand why people
care enough about the RF to post anything deletable. They are obviously all making money in shady ways-even the ones who aren’t actively grifting are rich because of various entrenched feudal laws and advantages. They are
interesting because they are a soap opera with tiaras. And because they wear pretty frocks. None of them are people of any particular merit-one or two of them do try to do “good work”, and deserve a little credit for trying, but none of them seem to actually achieve anything.