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Princess Lillibet. Your thoughts?

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Bossyrossy Wed 08-Mar-23 18:34:04

Just that really.

faye17 Sat 11-Mar-23 14:44:08

Yesterday 20:16Callistemon21

Tentacle 🤔
Are you likening Harry to an octopus?

One tentacle still clinging on to prestige and money, seven others waving around looking for a secure foothold somewhere?

Poor Harry, that's not a kind analogy.

lemsip Sat 11-Mar-23 13:48:59

of course archie is a prince, it was the occasion of lilibet's christening that her princess title was used .

Calendargirl Sat 11-Mar-23 12:22:44

They probably haven’t made a point of calling Archie ‘Prince’ yet as nothing newsworthy has happened to him lately, unlike Lilibet who has been christened, rather late compared to the age her brother was, thus providing an opportunity to flaunt the title.

This is to clarify things to bear.

But never fear, I’m sure something will occur soon to bring ‘Prince Archie’ to the headlines.

Probably his birthday being the same day as the Coronation will provide a for/against reason/excuse for their appearance (or not),

Grantanow Sat 11-Mar-23 11:11:55

Yawn. It's just some over-privileged people staying in the limelight so they can increase their income from gawpers.

Jaberwok Sat 11-Mar-23 11:00:40

Of course they can choose not to use these titles once they are 18,it will then be their choice, not their money grabbing parents. Lady Louise illustrates this as she doesn't wish to be known as an HRH, and probably never will. It is usual and good manners to inform the monarch of a change of status, so that it can be announced properly from BP and the Court Circular, BUT with H good manners have certainly deserted him, and M probably wasn't aware of protocol anyway, so they just announced these titles as and when they saw fit. Could be a money spinner, why else use them in America?

FannyCornforth Sat 11-Mar-23 10:48:08

Bossyrossy

Could it be anything to do with William and Kate's children having the titles, Prince and Princess?

Yes, the grandchildren of the monarch are allowed to use the titles. It’s up to the parents.
As discussed up thread, Anne and Edward decided against it; while Andrew was for it, with Beatrice and Eugenie.

FannyCornforth Sat 11-Mar-23 10:46:00

The Cambridge Dictionary reckons that octopi 🐙 have tentacles, as do jellyfish

(I do hope that this discussion meets with the approval of *USA Grundy*)

Bossyrossy Sat 11-Mar-23 10:44:56

Could it be anything to do with William and Kate's children having the titles, Prince and Princess?

FannyCornforth Sat 11-Mar-23 10:43:16

What does have tentacles then?
Off to Google…

FannyCornforth Sat 11-Mar-23 10:42:03

Yes, bear, Archie is a Prince, too.
Funny how we focus on the females of the family!
(Historically and currently, they are far more interesting imo.
And women like observing and discussing other women)

Callistemon21 Sat 11-Mar-23 10:41:21

Joseanne

Just to clarify here .... an octopus does not have tentacles.

😂😂😂
Sorry, yes, arms.

Still nothing like Harry, who, being a human being, still has two and two legs.

Callistemon21 Sat 11-Mar-23 10:39:37

faye17

How clever Calistemon -
'One tentacle still clinging on to prestige and money, seven others waving around looking for a secure foothold somewhere'

British empire in a nutshell

No offence intended to squirrels
Brown or red

I didn't say that, Faye17!! It was another poster not me.

In fact I disagreed with it as I said that Harry is a human being not an octopus.

bear1 Sat 11-Mar-23 09:37:39

so why haven't they called Archie
a Prince or did i miss it. any way their titles mean nothing these days they will never come to the throne so why the fuss if Meghan wants her child to use the title its because its a title she wanted and will never get

M0nica Sat 11-Mar-23 08:38:02

Gundy If everything H&M is negative, it is because when they got engaged almost everyone was delighted that Harry, who had always appeared such a lost soul, had at last found someone who made him happy.

Many of us did not realise she was mixed race until it was specifically reported and, in a way that made her more welcome because with so many mixed ethnicity families in the UK, it brought the RF in line with so many other families in the country.

Most of us were accepting when they decided to withdraw from Royal life. If H&M had then gone off to the states, bought a modest house that matched their means and settled down to earn their living all would be have been fine, but as soon as they got there, they began living like Russian oligarchs, way over their income and then decided that the way to fund it was through an endless whinge fest in which they betrayed the privacy of their families, mainly his, accused the British people as a whole of being racist, of course there are racist people in the UK, but not the majority. Is the US any better?

Now we are having to deal with the silly 'Will they, won't they?' over the invitation to the Coronation. It is not big and it isn't clever, to play this game around such a ceremony. It is plain bad manners.

H&M need to realise that their behaviour over the last year in particular, now make it very likely, that if they do turn up for the coronation and are seen in public, they will be booed, which they, of course, will tell us is all aimed at M for racist reasons.

I do not know anyone of any age who isn't fed up with this essentially very boring couple.

Joseanne Sat 11-Mar-23 07:23:07

Just to clarify here .... an octopus does not have tentacles.

faye17 Sat 11-Mar-23 06:27:54

How clever Calistemon -
'One tentacle still clinging on to prestige and money, seven others waving around looking for a secure foothold somewhere'

British empire in a nutshell

No offence intended to squirrels
Brown or red

lyleLyle Sat 11-Mar-23 02:54:08

Indeed the idea of a collective mindset is a myth pretty much everywhere. There are just loud mouths who think yelling loudly enough in an echo chamber will convince others that their opinions and mentality represent the whole. It’s pitiful.

Gundy Sat 11-Mar-23 00:00:02

Oreo - you are correct! “There is not a collective American mindset either.” We are so split politically.

I’ve been “researching” the British mindset in hopes of finding a new country to move to in case Trump is reelected President.
USA Gundy

Kartush Fri 10-Mar-23 23:18:22

So when the poor child is an adult does she not have the right to drop the princess title?

eazybee Fri 10-Mar-23 22:53:36

'This thread was overwhelmingly negative'.
Well, that is because it expresses the sentiments of those who post. There isn't a limited amount of space; those who have positive views of H & M are entitled to post, but I think you will find there are few of them. Most people here view them with contempt; it is the constant flow of lies over matters great and small, and we don't like the way they exploit their relationship to the royal family to make money.
Not done over here.

Oreo Fri 10-Mar-23 22:41:38

Callistemon21

^For about a half a year I’ve been trying to figure out the collective British mindset^.
Impossible task, there isn't one!! 😂

No there isn’t, not a collective American mindset either.
Peace
UK Oreo
🇬🇧

Joseanne Fri 10-Mar-23 22:26:03

Squishy, isn't it, in Finding Nemo?

Joseanne Fri 10-Mar-23 22:25:29

Callistemon21

^Harry’s tentacle is his branch on the family tree, bloodline. Go ahead and make fun - that can’t be erased^

It was the use of the word tentacle that was amusing, Gundy

Harry is a human not an octopus.

Tentacles. Oh, I thought we were back to Disney stuff again.

Callistemon21 Fri 10-Mar-23 22:19:27

Calendargirl

You mean babies don’t come out through your belly button?

shock

To think all these years I have been labouring under a misapprehension!

(This is to Callistemon).

Do you know, I really thought that until I was taught differently in biology lessons at school when I was about 12.
I must have been very naïve.

Callistemon21 Fri 10-Mar-23 22:15:24

Harry’s tentacle is his branch on the family tree, bloodline. Go ahead and make fun - that can’t be erased

It was the use of the word tentacle that was amusing, Gundy

Harry is a human not an octopus.