Royal Thread the Second- Tiaras Optional! ?

trisher I find your defence of Meg highly amusing, your sneering of 1950’s housewives insulting.

Anniebach

There is a thread this morning Alegrias1 about a woman, do
post there and tell those posters to ignore what is written about
her. I look forward to reading the replies .

If people are still going on about "a woman's" deportation in six months and between now and then they start to make completely unfounded comments about how they know how she thinks and what motivates her, then I'll make a comment.

sarcasm is the lowest for of wit don't you know.

Anniebach

trisher I find your defence of Meg highly amusing, your sneering of 1950’s housewives insulting.

I said Kate behaved like a 1950s housewife, the sneering judgement is entirely yours Annie. If it is a role women should aspire to, or it is their choice, how can it be derogatory?
Personally it's not something I would want for myself or for my GD, but if she is doing a job you consider worthwhile what difference does my comment make?

How does she behave like a 1950’s housewife trisher ?

For me 1950’s housewives were women who married and had
children , some had a job some didn’t, only difference today is
many live with a man but don’t marry , now there is the
contraceptive pill so number of children is a choice.

1950's housewives supported their husbands, following them around, promoting his career over their own ambitions, might have a little interest in charity work but his commitments always came first. Even if they worked it wasn't a career because that would interfere with their main purposes to support him and to have children.

So Prince Phillip was a 1950’s housewife , as was the Queen Mother, Tim Lawrence, Harry !

Surely in marriage support is a two way commitment?

Three of my great aunts were married , had children, one a midwife, one a district nurse , one a headmistress .

I think it’s sad that women today look down on women of previous generations, in my opinion many women were strong
woman in every generation.

Does not commute.

(Now that's sarcasm.)

Both points are true. Many women in the 1950’s were stay-at-home mums. Many others, including my Mum and my M-I-L had a job or a career. My MIL said riveting Halifax Bombers was great training for the job she took post war.

Seems a strong woman, Meg, is to be admired, lives with and then marries a film producer , dumps him and moves in with a celebrity chef, dumps him when she meets Harry. Also cuts off from her family who are of no further use to her now.

Harry is writing a 'tell all' book to hit the shelves in time for Christmas.

I thought he'd already told it all.

A blurb from the publisher states: 'In an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time, Prince Harry will share, for the very first time, the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him.

Charity shops will need to start making space alongside Finding Freedom and The Bench.

A blurb from the publisher states: 'In an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time, Prince Harry will share, for the very first time, the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him.

Duno why the blurb bit posted twice.

You're so good at finding these exciting forthcoming titbits merlotgran!
Your comment about charity shop shelves is funny!

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lemsip

sarcasm is the lowest for of wit don't you know.

…..but the highest form of intelligence (Oscar Wilde )

I’ve just remembered reading somewhere that Meghan initially had her sights set upon the rather unsavoury Ashley Cole.
I’m not sure if it’s true, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story!

Ellianne
I still haven’t got around to watching the Charles and Diana documentary.
I’ve seen that Harry’s book is being ghost written by the chap who wrote Andre Agassi’s biography. I remember when that came out it caused rather a stir.
I don’t think that Harry’s book is going to be as lightweight as I previously did.

Why “sights set on”? Goodness how predatory you make it sound.

I don’t know why Harry didn’t get Charles Spencer to ghost write it. Keeping it in the family, so to speak.

I find this unbelievable - Meg said to her friend arranging a blind date with Harry

‘I didn’t know much about him so the only thing I asked her was ‘is he nice ‘.

Its amazing to many that not everyone in the world knows all about the lives and doings of an aristocratic family from a small island off the coast of Europe, one of whom happens to hold an unelected Headship of State.

Imagine!

Lucca

Why “sights set on”? Goodness how predatory you make it sound.

As said many times previously, it’s so difficult on here to convey a bit of nuance.
I can see exactly why you think that Lucca, but I’ve got my tongue firmly in my cheek (what on odd and rather unpleasant saying that is).
Meaning I’m purposefully ‘tabloiding’ things up, if that makes any sense at all…

But can you imagine thinking that Cole was a bit of a catch!
Now, Harry Kane…

Anniebach

I find this unbelievable - Meg said to her friend arranging a blind date with Harry

‘I didn’t know much about him so the only thing I asked her was ‘is he nice ‘.

Yes, I found that a bit of a stretch.
I’m sure that Meghan knew quite a bit about Diana and was a fan?
If the young Rachel had ambitions to be a feminist, glamorous, globetrotting, campaigning, human rights spokesthing (which she surely did, but hopefully would have known the correct word for it) then Diana would probably have been a role model?

I didn't know anything about Ashley Cole.

One of the best defenders of his generation, it seems. Sued numerous papers for telling lies about him and (shock, horror) was once fined £80 for swearing at a policeman. Banned from driving once for speeding.

Oh, he's a bad'un.