If you could have a dinner party with 3 royals dead or alive , who would they be?

[BeCraftyFatball]

The late queen
Prince Phillip
Princess Anne

I am deeply ashamed. 🤪

😉
Fun fact; her name was Bessie Wallis.
Good call to drop the Bessie, imo

Diana
Marie Antoinette
Alexandra, the last Tsarina

^ hope it’s ok to have foreign royals
All three had extraordinary lives. Dazzling but ultimately tragic.

Queen Maxima is my girl crush so just her, no-one else required!

Mary Queen of Scots
Empress Matilda
Boudicca

I hope she wears one of her fabulous Pringle hats.

Ooh Queen Emma is a good one. Another formidable woman.

Can I borrow Queen Emma if she's the lady who was married to Ethelred the Unready? My knowledge of the royals doesn't stretch back to that era but I've always wondered why he had "Unready" at the end of his name. I know now. 🙄👍

For those who don’t know about Queen Emma

here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_of_Normandy

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she’s 🤩

I was involved with a charity which involved
occasionally, The Duke of Kent, God that man was intelligent, well informed and compassionate.

I would love to invite him, the Duke of Gloucester and Prince Michael, but in this fantasy they would have to be completely candid.

What do they actually think of those who are now higher up the pecking order?

I can’t imagine having my cousin (or her son) as my boss, having to ask their permission to marry etc.

They can still marry, nowadays, because of UK laws. It's more of a traditional thing. I don't think a marriage has actually been forbidden for some time.
Interesting about the Duke of Kent. I've heard lovely things about his late wife, too.

Henry II, his Queen, Eleanor of Acquitaine and John.

Yes I thought Margaret Beaufort too, but I think she could be quite intimidating! And rightly so given the life she had…

I've named her as one of mine, just on the basis of her early life and first marriage.

@Mamalasira yes her early life is not for the faint-hearted…

Fascinating woman and I like her portrait in the National PG.

Yes! I've read quite a lot about her. Imagine living through those turbulent times.

Princess Charlotte (George IV's daughter who would have been Queen if she had not died in childbirth)
Catherine Parr (how did she manage to avoid Henry's displeasure?)
Princess Anne

Catherine Parr didn't...at one point she was in danger.

Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, and Regent of Scotland.
Meanwhile, a Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon was Regent in England.
I'd like to have dinner with both women, focusing on this period.

Duchess Meghan
Princess Margaret
Wallis Simpson

Would be a hugely entertaining evening watching the sparks fly between those three prickly, grandiose and delusional characters.

Only one blood Royal there.

Didn’t see that specified in the assignment? Plenty non blood Royals mentioned earlier and repeatedly in the thread including Princess Diana…

@Myrealnameisbetty

She fascinates me. Imagine going from French Royalty to the Viking Cnut. She her latter marriage was nearly 20 years which was amazing at the time. The questions I would ask!!

Catherine, Anne and then Harry and bring the popcorn 🍿

Harry would eat all the popcorn.