Just a thought

Don't do that absent please.
I think it is perfectly clear what you intended. A Royalty topic area like there is a Sport one. Will help those interested to keep track.

Thank you Greatnan and quite a few earlier posters who saw what I was talking about. There are times when I think I should just go and shoot myself because of the conniptions that sometimes ensue from a very simple, straightforward post.

I think having one thread for all Royal-related subjects is a very good idea. Of course, any member would be free to post on it, whether they were for or against having an hereditary head of state. It is just an inconvenience to have to open several different threads about the same subject. (I realise that the current batch were just posted almost concurrently).

Absent

You started this thread I tought to ask for opinions which is precisely what I have given to this thread.

I think I am happy with the points I raised. It is obviously upto others to read, or not read, into the wording and feeling we have both used as I hope you will agree.

POGS When I joined Gransnet which I think was earlier than you, there was no forum for sport. Gransnetters suggested that one would be a good idea. It's the same thing. Those people who hate sport, are opposed to a particular sport such as boxing or steeplechase, or resent the amounts of money paid to sportsmen can still post about these things if they want to, just as much as those who adore horse racing, follow Andy Murray or loved the Olympics can post.

Isn't part of the point to debate? If it is a 'royalist' or 'republican' only thread it would be in danger of getting pretty dull as everyone would basically agree and not have ther ides /views challenged..which I think is a good thing!

POGS I didn't suggest a forum for Royalists, just for Royals as I thought it might be useful to provide a forum for this particular subject, whether people want to post about the queen, Prince Harry, the succession, Kate's pregnancy, The York princesses or whatever. I didn't suggest it as a forum of apartheid or censorship. Nobody was talking about thought police – just a bit of administration and tidying up. I don't care because I don't have any enthusiasm for the House of Windsor – but some people, possibly even quite a few, do.

If there was a dedicated Forum for 'The Royalists' to please some G.N.'s, then fine. The same as if there was a thread for 'Republicans' to please some G.N.'s that would be fine too. They souldn't be set up just to stop G.N.'s from posting where they want to, just to appease a bias by a handfull of G.N.'s though, surely.

The point raised here was not only about the pregnancy, was it.

If all G.N's had to only post on either the Royalist thread or the Republican thread, where would that leave the other forums? Nobody would have started a thread on the likes of 'In the news', 'A.I.B.U.' or, Chat', would they because someone would tell them to go to designated site as they think they are the thought police for G.N

We certainly would not want any unkind or cruel comments, and I don't recall any 'antis', by which I presume you mean non-believers, ever making any on the spirituality thread, jingle. People have expressed sincerely held beliefs.
I hope nobody tries to turn this into another spiteful argument, using words like 'back stabbing' on totally inappropriate threads.

Ana – just an opportunity for threads about royals, but if there are more pregnancies, so be it.

Ooo lilygran nobody is saying mean things about the royals here that I've noticed. As you rightly say its the media.

I'm with you there, absent. Not envy, not spite, but I felt the full force of the hype within minutes of the announcement. In fact, I hope that, for William and Kate's sake, the tabloid and broadcast hysteria will abate and let them have a bit of peace.

For the record, I am neither envious of the royal family – indeed, quite the opposite – nor do I feel any spite towards them.

What - you want more 'royal pregnancy' threads?

I still think a dedicated forum would be a good idea from everyone's point of view. Then we all know what we are entering if we dare approach it. I'm not worried about more threads starting – I am actively encouraging it.

Abesnt

I think it is pretty obvious what you are saying.

If you look at the times the three threads were started, 2 were within in a minute of each other and yours after a little longer. I wouldn't worry in that case there will be nore threads started, it was just timing, it happens!!

I don't think we'll get hours and hours of screen time on the pregnancy Lillygran. They're not going to issue weekly scans or fortnightly blood pressure readings.

I have always wondered why we don't have a forum for the Royal Family. But I suppose it would just get like the Religion and Spirituality threads where the anti's wade in with negative, and sometimes unkind, comments.

Being a republican is one thing, carping and snide remarks about members of the royal family is another. It smacks of envy and spite rather than making a political or constitutional statement. I'm a royalist but I'm not looking forward to pages and pages and hours of screen time spent on this pregnancy. But I think that's the media to blame, rather than the principals. I'll avoid reading or watching it when I've had enough.

My suggestion was not with a view to asking GNHQ to introduce any sort of ruling about who may and who may not post on any thread. Apart from anything else, I don't see them agreeing to that and in any case I wouldn't want them to. I just thought it was time for a dedicated Royalty forum particularly in the light of the forthcoming sprog. There are those who take a particular pleasure and delight in the doings of the House of Windsor who would, I am sure, appreciate this and it would also mean that those of us who are less enthusiastic about the subject wouldn't keep opening threads which we didn't particularly want to read. However, I am not at all sure that when Republicans post on a thread about some member of the royal family they don't actually have any input; what they usually lack is any kind of approval.

I agree, POGS but people seem to feel the need to register their disapproval anyway.

Maybe GN should have one in that case for Republicans!!.

Simply don't enter a thread if you have no input. That message is espoused enough times and it makes sense to me.

same hear sick of the coverage on tv .

Was probably ca of uterus or ovary.

Wasn't it Queen Mary (the Bloody Tudor) who gave it a go - eventually it turned out not to be a baby after all ?