Royal Thread the Second- Tiaras Optional! ?

Off to do so now!

Do Google Stuart Higgins

To be honest, I don’t have much faith in anything that was going on at The Sun in the 80s.
It was under the editorship of the disgusting Kelvin MacKenzie, and they shamelessly just made up any old stuff.
I haven’t heard of Stuart Higgins before though.
I’d find it more believable if it were The Daily Mail.
I must say that I am biased though, as I do rather like Camilla (and no, I haven’t met her!)

Stuart Higgins ? It must be true , not

Fanny I hope you do get the book because I am dying to discuss it with someone!

I have just read that Stuart Higgins, a royal correspondent in the 1980s and later editor of The Sun says that Camilla regularly provided him with up-to-date briefings on the marriage of Charles and Diana for 10 years from '82-'92 on a weekly basis.

Anniebach

Perhaps the claim that Andrew is her favourite comes from the
whispers of - who his father really is ! ! ! !

Who Annie?
Is it that horse trainer chap?

Sparklefizz. ?

OMG Annie - what are you saying?

Perhaps the claim that Andrew is her favourite comes from the
whispers of - who his father really is ! ! ! !

I imagine the Queen doesn’t have any favourites amongst her grandchildren. Hopefully not her children either, though it has long been said Andrew is the favourite child.

I doubt all the claims of - the Queen’s favourites

Harry is favourite grandson and Peter Phillips

Louise favourite granddaughter and Zara Phillips

Andrew is favourite son and Edward

Sophie is favourite daughter in law, who else is there !

Charlotte is favourite g grandchild

Thanks Fanny
Hope you're ok too.

Thanks for the recommendation Sparklefizz
I’ve been thinking of getting that on Audible. Like you, I need gentle distraction at the moment. Hope you’re okay

I am reading an interesting book I got from the library (wouldn't pay for it ) entitled "Battle of Brothers" by Robert Lacey.

As the author is often quoted in royal matters, I wanted to see what he had to say. There are pages and pages of references at the back so he has clearly done his homework, plus he has written many other books about royalty including one about the Queen Mother, another about the Queen, etc etc.

I am only 100 pages into the book (500+ pages long) and have learnt several things I didn't know, including how much time William spent with the Queen every week when he was at Eton. Harry is always deemed to be the "favourite grandson" in the press which I think is very hurtful to the others, William amongst them.... but quite possibly she knows William much better.

I needed a bit of light reading at the moment for personal reasons, and this book has done the trick.

Good morning all
Yes, we can talk about anything here! (‘My thread, my rules’ as in, they’re are no rules, apart from the one about not falling out).

(Going off piste - I think it’s brilliant that we have little or no nastiness on this thread, and indeed, it’s predecessor. It seems quite an achievement at the moment. Well done us!)

I’m totally not up to speed at all about the Andrew stuff, tbh, it’s not the sort of thing I want to contemplate really. He’s an odious old bore. You can practically see the entitlement and superiority oozing out of him.

It's ok, waffle away.

I thought perhaps no-one had realised

Callistemon

There is another thread on this.

I posted comments about Prince Andrew before the new thread was started.

But as often happens nowadays on GN, it didn’t go on top of the ‘Active’ thread, it just disappeared into the bowels of GN!

Not that it matters, but don’t want anyone to think I waffled on the wrong thread.

Blossoming if you read anything about Welsh history we do read the same things .

Anniebach

Blossoming I can’t recall saying anything I have read in books about the royals is the truth

And I can’t recall ever saying that you said that, so that’s that cleared up.

What I said was that your opinions as expressed on GN make me think you don’t read the same things that I do.

I do wish you wouldn’t keep twisting my words, it really puts me off posting on any threads where you are involved so I’ll say goodbye now.

Anniebach

So what we read about the royal family is true ?

Only if it is dishing the dirt on Diana, Meghan or Harry. Then it can taken as gospel.

There is another thread on this.

OK, sorry I misunderstood Casdon, but surely how you can see how the comment "She can only be after money" could be misconstrued in this situation?

As I read the article I posted I don’t think so Alegrias1, it’s a recourse for compensation, presumably she went down this route because that was her only option.

Not justice then?

There's a discussion going on in another thread about poor old Andrew, how its really all her fault.

Jeez

She can only be after money. Here’s a good article explaining the difference between criminal and civil lawsuits in the US.
www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-law-basics/the-differences-between-a-criminal-case-and-a-civil-case.html