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jeffgoldblum · 18/09/2026 21:22

Still interested, still not bored!

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fridaynightzzz · 21/09/2026 12:42

Starryfifty · 21/09/2026 10:22

In danger from what / who? I would agree they need protection from each other

In danger of the kids photos getting out before they can monetise a reveal?

Didn’t Catherine drive the kids herself at least some of the time, I can’t imagine she is picking a different route each time she’s driving.

MaturingCheeseball · 21/09/2026 12:45

I got deleted back then for suggesting Harry had had a hair transplant !

I must admit I was positive about H&M at first and enjoyed the wedding. The scales fell from my eyes when it was the baby shower. It was not only vulgar, greedy and expensive but I saw that the merching was going to go into overdrive.

Lunde · 21/09/2026 12:46

AlexandraCarrington · 21/09/2026 11:00

The interesting thing about that article is the comments. Many readers were onto her already, back then in 2019.

It was on the S Africa trip in Sept/Oct 2019 that she did the Tom Bradby interview - 'not many people have asked if I'm OK' - which was what I think made people begin to revise their opinion of her.

That is what really settled it for me as I realized it was acting as I'd seen her do exactly those expressions before - especially the sad face, where she looks bereft and looks up at her interviewers with huge eyes as though on the verge of tears. She recycled that, and most of the other expressions for the Bradby interview from the "Fairy Tale Princess" episode of Castle where women are being murdered and dressed as fairytale princesses. She played the sole survivor - Sleeping Beauty - but of course it turns out that she is the stone cold killer.

The engagement interview also gave me pause because of the suitcase girl/ reality show poses she pulled and also spending £60,000 (presumably of KC's money) on a dress. But I gave the benefit of the doubt that perhaps she'd been poorly briefed by Harry and got carried away.

IcedPurple · 21/09/2026 12:46

Mylovelygreendress · 21/09/2026 12:24

Ah , I did wonder about that poster and seems I was right .
Got it ( as they were prone to saying !)

Yes. That poster has been through a lot of very obvious name changes. Which is their prerogative (!) of course, but it's so funny to notice the exact same posting style across name changes.

Same with the poster whose name is a variation on my own colour theme! Been posting exactly the same stuff all the way back to a certain valley in California!

Dizzierblonde · 21/09/2026 12:46

JSMill · 21/09/2026 11:43

Is this how the Wales children get to school? Surely it would have been a nightmare to travel like that from KP to Battersea, when they were at their old school.

Interestingly the Wales children start school in Windsor the day QEII died. A pure coincidence but, given the family knew of her illness, not entirely accidental that they removed the London commute from the security arrangement around the time the family moved up the line of succession. PH's family will never be at that point in the LoS, so won't ever actually meet the needs of the Wales family.

myrtleWilson · 21/09/2026 12:48

Yes, the veneer of 'neutrality' and 'reasonableness' has really disappeared from their posts now @RepercussionsMayVary

MaturingCheeseball · 21/09/2026 12:49

I do remember the hairdresser guy on Gogglebox saying that he didn’t like her straight after they’d watched the engagement interview. Called her Princess Pushy. He had her number all right.

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2026 12:55

noonames · 21/09/2026 12:29

If I'm thinking of who you're thinking of, these days they seem to concentrate on negativity towards the Waleses more than positivity towards the Sussexes. As in - the piano-playing, gallery-visiting, exhibition-curating, art history graduate, amateur artist and photographer Catherine has no interest in the arts. Only tennis, apparently.

True , and for some odd reason avoids threads I’m on .

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AlexandraCarrington · 21/09/2026 13:00

As in - the piano-playing, gallery-visiting, exhibition-curating, art history graduate, amateur artist and photographer Catherine has no interest in the arts.

Neither have the Sussexes, have they. Didn't Charles have to step in and organise the music for their wedding because they couldn't or wouldn't?

Lunde · 21/09/2026 13:09

Dizzierblonde · 21/09/2026 12:46

Interestingly the Wales children start school in Windsor the day QEII died. A pure coincidence but, given the family knew of her illness, not entirely accidental that they removed the London commute from the security arrangement around the time the family moved up the line of succession. PH's family will never be at that point in the LoS, so won't ever actually meet the needs of the Wales family.

I think part of the issue was that they knew they would be looking at schools to the west of London which would have made a nightmare trip on exeat weekends

But there were other security issues as well - but funnily enough the Wales family don't talk about the real security breaches they suffer as opposed to HAM who make sure we know all about potential breaches.

  • KP was a bit of a security nightmare and several times the Wales kids were photographed in the garden from the public areas and I don't think William wanted his kids to grow up in a goldfish bowl. W&C still use KP as their offices and official entertaining venue - but I think they like the distinction between work and home.
  • KP has also suffered multiple intruders that must be a concern
  • There was also an intruder that got into George and Charlotte's school - St Thomas's Battersea - twice
noonames · 21/09/2026 13:10

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2026 12:55

True , and for some odd reason avoids threads I’m on .

Ever thought of joining a few more threads? 🙏😁

RepercussionsMayVary · 21/09/2026 13:29

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2026 12:11

I spotted this on Reddit…found it interesting so I thought I’d plop this here …I’m sure most of us already knew that cat deeley is friends with Marcus Anderson ! …..disclaimer this was not me , I just screenshot someone else’s post!

Oooh Murky Merkin’s nose will be well out of joint - why wasn't she at LFW with MA - but his type love to keep their female entourage agitated with each other. You lie down with dogs….

JSMill · 21/09/2026 13:38

Didn’t W have a right go at someone who tried to photo the dcs when they were on a outing in Norfolk?

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2026 13:39

noonames · 21/09/2026 13:10

Ever thought of joining a few more threads? 🙏😁

I used to ! 😉

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Warmhandscoldheart · 21/09/2026 13:41

AlexandraCarrington · 21/09/2026 12:10

I thought H was desperate to marry and have a family of his own, and having lost out with Chelsy and Cressida, was thrilled to find someone who would take him on.

At first I didn't see her as fake; was just enjoying the prospect of a royal wedding with tiaras and frocks.

I thought she was a grown woman with experience of putting on a public face and should know what she was getting into.

I felt this way too until I saw her walking down the first bit of the aisle alone. I began to feel as if I was watching a red carpet event or a model on a runway. The absence of sharing that experience with Doria seemed wrong to me.

fuschiaproudparrot · 21/09/2026 13:49

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2026 12:11

I spotted this on Reddit…found it interesting so I thought I’d plop this here …I’m sure most of us already knew that cat deeley is friends with Marcus Anderson ! …..disclaimer this was not me , I just screenshot someone else’s post!

No! 😂😂😂😂😂

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 21/09/2026 13:50

JSMill · 21/09/2026 13:38

Didn’t W have a right go at someone who tried to photo the dcs when they were on a outing in Norfolk?

He did, because that man had been told to stop, but didn't.

fuschiaproudparrot · 21/09/2026 13:52

Whoopiedooo · 21/09/2026 11:23

I do miss the GIFs Jeff, even though I've only been here for 3 or 4 threads. Maybe a compromise and have some? I don't remember if those against GIFs were recognised posters or drones from the other side, obviously their posts should be weighted differently.

As for the Twatts, that would definitely hurry Scottish independence along. They would have to be actually legally exiled there (remember the Dumbarton title), so the blame would go to KC. I think the Scottish isles have enough litigious American incomers just now. Probably legal exile is the only effective answer, but of course it's not really legal any more.

Oh they are alive and well 😂

Happy So Excited GIF
Badvocthebad · 21/09/2026 14:02

It's the typical mid life panic relationship/marriage imo.
I've seen it so many times in my family/social circle.
Both men and women.
Always ends badly.

JudgeJ · 21/09/2026 14:29

Horses7 · 21/09/2026 12:15

Apparently she is buried on the island - lead lined coffin and the island was consecrated so she could be buried there. A perfect place in my opinion - the other would be Westminster Abbey.

Lots of friends in Northants who say she is not buried on the island but was secretly interred in the church where her father lies, there is a Spencer Chapel there.

Badvocthebad · 21/09/2026 14:31

JudgeJ · 21/09/2026 14:29

Lots of friends in Northants who say she is not buried on the island but was secretly interred in the church where her father lies, there is a Spencer Chapel there.

Which is what she requested in her Will

DancingFerret · 21/09/2026 14:33

Warmhandscoldheart · 21/09/2026 13:41

I felt this way too until I saw her walking down the first bit of the aisle alone. I began to feel as if I was watching a red carpet event or a model on a runway. The absence of sharing that experience with Doria seemed wrong to me.

I didn't watch the wedding (too appalled that it actually took place) but when I saw a picture of her parading solo down the aisle all I could think of was the wedding scene from The Sound of Music, even though that was far more tasteful.

JudgeJ · 21/09/2026 14:35

Badvocthebad · 21/09/2026 14:31

Which is what she requested in her Will

I wonder how much CS made from those vising Althrop to see her 'final resting place' on the island?

Horses7 · 21/09/2026 14:36

JudgeJ · 21/09/2026 14:29

Lots of friends in Northants who say she is not buried on the island but was secretly interred in the church where her father lies, there is a Spencer Chapel there.

Think CS book says island etc - I know I’ve read it in the last few days, especially the consecrating the ground and names the people who consecrated it.
I believe if she’s not there it would have been really big news over the years.

AcrossthePond55 · 21/09/2026 14:37

"“This is my final word,” he said, “my swan song too, my celebration of her, and I will step off into the sunset now and not be available for comment.”"

Well, I certainly hope so! And after having his incendiary 'recollections' greeted with a lot of doubt and scoffing, I'm not surprised he wants to be 'unable for comment'. But somehow I doubt he'll be able to 'step off into the sunset' and will continue to defend his book and defend HAM against their mutual enemies. Enemies they have made all by themselves.

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