‘Spare’ by Prince Harry

Well, Princess Margaret's children both manage to live fairly normal lives away from the glare of publicity.

Hilarious title. Love it! Harry and Megan draw more fire on here that Vladimir Putin – "from people who struggle to articulate exactly what their problem is".

Sparklefizz I am sure that if Princess margaret had been young now, she probably would lead a useful life, but her youth covered a time when the social rules that governed her behaviour were far more restrictive than they are now. Remember she was prevented from marrying Group Captain Townsend because he was divorced.

Different times, different rules.

FannyCornforth

Joseanne

Yes, and if she chooses to exit the RF as being a spare, I bet she will do it with good grace and style.

Charlotte, the future Queen.
(NB I didn’t say ‘our’)
You mark my words!

I know
You’ve said this on others threads Fanny and it does sound like you are wishing something very bad for her brother.
It really disturbs me.

Perhaps I’m ultra sensitive on this and it’s not what you mean at all.

Bit of a trigger for me.?

Galaxy

To be fair a long line of unsuitable men and G & T's sounds great to me. I would certainly prefer that to the Queens or Catherine's life

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But these people, like Princess Margaret etc, have more money than sense. Personally I would want to do so much if I had that opportunity without the responsibilities and duty that the Queen had to follow. She could have chosen to really make something of her life, not just drift around. Ditto many others in the same situation.

Oh I don’t know. ?

Me too, but the thought of it is a bit exhausting now

Well, it’s served me well Galaxy

To be fair a long line of unsuitable men and G & T's sounds great to me. I would certainly prefer that to the Queens or Catherine's life

eazybee

^I shan’t buy the book, but will order it from the library^

That is the biggest insult you can give an author because it means they will only get one royalty from the original sale!

In that case I will as well or just get snippets from the DM online because it’s free.

FannyCornforth

Joseanne

Yes, and if she chooses to exit the RF as being a spare, I bet she will do it with good grace and style.

Charlotte, the future Queen.
(NB I didn’t say ‘our’)
You mark my words!

I believe Elizabeth had a sister who thought she was more fitted to the role of queen. Her life became a sad succession of unsuitable men and too many G&Ts. The position of younger sibling to the heir and monarch has never been a particularly happy one.

As it's free, I read the Mail on-line which has been sued and lost a libel trial against Meghan. I think there is another pending. So they are very hot on anything that is, anti, the pair of them. I chuckled this morning to read an article about James Hewitt, (remember him?) who according to the DM, despite ill health and poverty, has been part of a charity for a number of months, transporting stuff to Ukraine. Quite the coincidence that the day the book Spare's publication is announced, his Mother's ginger haired, ex-lover hits the headlines, for something he has been doing for months. Made me smile.

Joseanne

Yes, and if she chooses to exit the RF as being a spare, I bet she will do it with good grace and style.

Charlotte, the future Queen.
(NB I didn’t say ‘our’)
You mark my words!

Caleo

Harry was good at soldiering was he not? I imagine some further training in his speciality whatever it was would fit him for paid employment. He is a healthy young man of good character.

Apparently he needed exams to go any further in the Army and he wasn't bright enough to take them.

Yes, and if she chooses to exit the RF as being a spare, I bet she will do it with good grace and style.

Joseanne

Calendargirl

He probably didn’t fulfil the entrance requirements for Eton either Callistemon, but obviously it’s a coup if the son of the future king wants to come to your school/ workplace/ university, even if they’re not too brainy.

Don’t think Charles reached the standard to attend Cambridge, but he still went for a while.

All horses for courses I suppose.

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Exactly Calendargirl, just like Lambrook School now feels like the cat who's got the cream with George, Charlotte and Louis attending, irrespective of their verbal reasoning scores.

I bet Charlotte's are top notch ?

Calendargirl

He probably didn’t fulfil the entrance requirements for Eton either Callistemon, but obviously it’s a coup if the son of the future king wants to come to your school/ workplace/ university, even if they’re not too brainy.

Don’t think Charles reached the standard to attend Cambridge, but he still went for a while.

All horses for courses I suppose.

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Exactly Calendargirl, just like Lambrook School now feels like the cat who's got the cream with George, Charlotte and Louis attending, irrespective of their verbal reasoning scores.

He probably didn’t fulfil the entrance requirements for Eton either Callistemon, but obviously it’s a coup if the son of the future king wants to come to your school/ workplace/ university, even if they’re not too brainy.

Don’t think Charles reached the standard to attend Cambridge, but he still went for a while.

All horses for courses I suppose.

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Callistemon21

^He preferred to go into the army after his gap year, nothing wrong with that^.

Absolutely not but I don't think he fulfilled the normal entry requirements for Sandhurst although it seemed to suit him.
It's a pity he couldn't become a long-term career officer.

Wasn’t there something about having to pass exams to further his career and it wasn’t likely that he’d be successful?

He preferred to go into the army after his gap year, nothing wrong with that.

Absolutely not but I don't think he fulfilled the normal entry requirements for Sandhurst although it seemed to suit him.
It's a pity he couldn't become a long-term career officer.

eazybee

^I shan’t buy the book, but will order it from the library^

That is the biggest insult you can give an author because it means they will only get one royalty from the original sale!

Well, that’s too bad. My local library is usually quite busy, so it’s not just me insulting all these authors.

‘Finding Freedom’ was another one I borrowed. Thank goodness I didn’t waste hard earned money on such a silly book, and glad Omid Scobie? didn’t make any money out of me.

Actually, I thought authors did receive royalties from library lending, but I may be mistaken on this.

eazybee

^I shan’t buy the book, but will order it from the library^

That is the biggest insult you can give an author because it means they will only get one royalty from the original sale!

in that case I shall get mine from the library too.

Use Public Libraries to stop them being closed by the way.

There were rumours that his exam results were ‘helped’ by his teacher(s), not sure if that related to his A levels or GCSE’s.

His A level grades were not anything outstanding, but am sure he could have gone to university if he had wanted to.

He preferred to go into the army after his gap year, nothing wrong with that.

I shan’t buy the book, but will order it from the library

That is the biggest insult you can give an author because it means they will only get one royalty from the original sale!