So Boris has been busy

If was choosing, I wouldn’t choose him, but our children choose their own partners don’t they?

I'm sure many grans are not in love with their SILs but as you say, it's not our choice and unless there is alcohol, drugs, abuse or criminal activity involved we should be happy for them.

At least we don't have to know where & when the little one was conceived as we did with Cherie Blair and her forgotten contraceptives at Balmoral.
Good luck to CarrieS and her baby although Boris is not the kind of man I would wish as a SIL .

Oh gosh yes Cherie Blair!

That revelation was toe-curlingly embarrassing wasn’t it?

Talk about over-sharing!!

I wonder if the Queen is aware of her disclosure?
I understand she reads most newspapers so I guess the answer is yes!

I felt we hit an all-time low in first ladies with Cherie Blair. It really couldn't get any worse. And then along came Sally Bercow showing us how not to behave as the wife of an MP.

Wait until Boris writes his memoirs. Just think all the gory details about his sex life! Won't that be wonderful?

Er....not unless you really want to know all that. Hope you enjoy it. ?

We don’t have ‘first ladies’ we have the queen

Yes, HM The Queen is our First Lady.

Cherie was the wife of the then Prime Minister with her own career.

I am amused some find mention of contraception as an all time low and toe curlingly embarrassing

It was more the fact that she thought it appropriate to mention it at all.

Cherie Blair’s views on the royals are quite well known but she was obviously chuffed that her child was conceived in a royal palace!

I would think amused not chuffed

Yes you are probably right Anniebach !!

You'll be lucky trisher - he evidently 'Never discusses his private life - it isn't fair'. Seems there are plenty of people willing to do it for him!
The toe curlingly embarrassing moment for me was when a photo of Cherie Blair was front page news, with Carole (Caplan?) applying her lipstick, both sitting on the marital bed. Apart from Sally B in her sheet with the Houses of Parliament as a backdrop, I thought this particular photo of a Prime Minister's wife looking as if she might also need help to blow her nose was just about as silly as it gets.

HM The Queen is our First Lady.
Well of course, she is THE First Lady (with capital letters). ? But I meant 'first lady' in the sense of the PM's wife (no capital letters) who may or may not be an actual lady!

So amusing, shock , two women sitting on a marital bed, a married woman speaks of forgetting to pack contraception,

Queen Victoria is dead ?

Rosina I'm sure he would if there was enough cash on the table.

No, the wife of a PM is not a First Lady!

First def:
Being before all other in order, time, quality, rank, importance

No, they just happen to be the wife of a Prime (of first importance) Minister.
Or husband

Is the serial adulteror's latest squeeze a lady?

Was Paddy Ashdown’s mistress a lady ?

varian what an awful thing to say, are you a lady posting nasty things like that. Think some posters on here need to take a look in the mirror.

What is the definition of a lady?

In my day, our perhaps I should say our day, because most of us on Gransnet are of a certain age, a woman who slept with a married man would not have been considered a lady.

Okay maybe I used the term 'first lady' incorrectly as a casual description of the PM's wife. I'm not sure what else to call her.

The definition of a lady is someone who doesn't swear, doesn't run, and doesn't throw insults around on Gransnet.

Chestnut I was just being pedantic but it used to irritate me immensely when the media referred to Cherie as "First Lady".
She may well be a lady but not the nation's first one.

DH would be telling me to stop going on now and I will try.