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Bea65 Fri 04-Oct-24 18:55:27

So today on 2 different forums, news that Prince William and Kate divorcing ?.? Also that PRINCE WILLIAM has a secret daughter…has anyone had these news alerts today.. ? Hope this is just gossip but getting news on different media platforms?

Allira Sat 05-Oct-24 19:32:26

petra

nofrowns67

Sounds fake. Daily Mail at it again?

You obviously don’t read it.
Why do people repeat this Shite 🤷‍♀️

Not the DM.

It was on Gransnet. And presumably one other forum.

Oreo Sat 05-Oct-24 21:04:35

FriedGreenTomatoes2

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
^Mark Twain^

Love it!😻

JenniferEccles Sat 05-Oct-24 22:51:03

This reminds me of how there was much speculation that Madeleine McCann’s parents were somehow involved in her disappearance.

That of courses was different as, for a while, the Portuguese police were convinced they were somehow involved.

This gossip about William and Catherine though is surely just spiteful tittle-tattle.

Elrel Sat 05-Oct-24 23:45:00

Bea65 I think you would enjoy Quora!

Deedaa Sat 05-Oct-24 23:59:20

Don't forget the guy in Australia who claims to be Charles and Camilla's love child from long ago. He says he was smuggled out and given to another family. Meanwhile his adoptive mother swears that DNA tests have proved he is her own child. I'm not sure who is dafter, the man himself or the people who believe his claims.

TerriBull Sun 06-Oct-24 09:51:23

There was a woman around post Russian Revolution who swore she was Anastasia, somehow she'd survived, many believed her until DNA came along and put paid to that. Clearly the Tsar and his family all perished.

Allira Sun 06-Oct-24 10:00:35

TerriBull

There was a woman around post Russian Revolution who swore she was Anastasia, somehow she'd survived, many believed her until DNA came along and put paid to that. Clearly the Tsar and his family all perished.

Franziska Schanzkowska aka Anna Anderson; she was believed by many, including exiled Russian monarchists and the DNA test was posthumous as she died in 1984.
They tested her remains and took a DNA test from Prince Philip for comparison. They did not match.

Summerfly Sun 06-Oct-24 10:02:59

Spiteful nonsense

Dickens Sun 06-Oct-24 11:16:07

A while back now there was some muck-raking about George Clooney and his then wife-to-be, Amal.

The usual tabloid circus around a celebrity - lots of photo's of the couple together, but pretty harmless stuff basically.

However, I started to read the readers' comments and was shocked at the speculation and rumour-mongering. It was suggested by one reader that Amal was, in fact, a man disguised as a woman because - wait for it - Clooney as a declared bachelor would never marry as he was a closet gay, so Amal had to be a man, right?

There was a particular photo' of her leaving her house in a loose-fitting trouser suit and, if you looked carefully, you could - apparently - see the 'bulge'... "OMG, you are so right" declared another reader... "she defo is a man, who do they think they are kidding?". Amal was, allegedly, wearing the loose-fitting trouser suit in order to conceal that she was a he...

I suspect these two readers also believed similar, later, rumours that their twins were born via a surrogate mother.

I wanted to comment and point out that in fact it's not unusual for confirmed bachelors to marry when they find the 'right' woman, and that Clooney and Amal had a lot of interests in common - but I suspect it would've elicited a scornful response along the lines of me being "deluded", or not wanting to face the "truth" - so I didn't bother.

I loathe and detest this kind of gossip; "did you hear that ...", or "did you notice that..." etc, whether it's about my NDN, celebrities or the RF.

I'm neither stupid nor deluded - I know that human relationships can be complex and tangled. But starting a rumour with no evidence other than hear-say, or, in the case of Clooney and Amal, "look-see", is just ignorant, spiteful and evil.

M0nica Sun 06-Oct-24 14:09:41

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

pascal30 Sun 06-Oct-24 14:28:49

M0nica

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

Obviously not in the case of George Clooney, his wife is both gorgeous and highly intelligent

Dickens Sun 06-Oct-24 14:46:35

pascal30

M0nica

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

Obviously not in the case of George Clooney, his wife is both gorgeous and highly intelligent

... I think he might still have had some pulling power left, too, in spite of his age, but that's of course a subjective opinion.

I only gain information from what I read in the media so know nothing about his relationship with Amal, but at a guess would think he and she are on the same wave-length politically, and as they are both activists, and she's rather lovely, it was a marriage waiting to happen. I wasn't at all surprised that this confirmed bachelor decided to tie the knot.

Norah Sun 06-Oct-24 14:52:40

Dickens

pascal30

M0nica

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

Obviously not in the case of George Clooney, his wife is both gorgeous and highly intelligent

... I think he might still have had some pulling power left, too, in spite of his age, but that's of course a subjective opinion.

I only gain information from what I read in the media so know nothing about his relationship with Amal, but at a guess would think he and she are on the same wave-length politically, and as they are both activists, and she's rather lovely, it was a marriage waiting to happen. I wasn't at all surprised that this confirmed bachelor decided to tie the knot.

Perhaps it helps that George is as gorgeous as ever no matter his powers. No idea to his 'powers' (whatever that means) apart from in films.

AreWeThereYet Sun 06-Oct-24 15:02:22

I think some people don't realise that many people make a living from YouTube channels. They may have 5 or 6 channels that regurgitate the same 'news' (so you will see the same rubbish on more than one channel) and get paid by the number of people who click on their videos. Hence, clickbait. It's big money, which is why their news is so sensational.

Syracute Sun 06-Oct-24 15:05:22

Why read newspapers that write this . They are lies that prey to the vulnerable. Keep to the newspapers that don’t print malicious gossip.

JaneJudge Sun 06-Oct-24 16:27:14

well they have plenty of time to themselves whilst the rest of us are working to pay for them all to have affairs/get divorced/do whatever the f&ck they like. It is all eye wateringly vulgar in 2024 when people are queuing up for food and vulnerable people cannot access the help they need

M0nica Sun 06-Oct-24 17:47:41

pascal30

M0nica

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

Obviously not in the case of George Clooney, his wife is both gorgeous and highly intelligent

In this case and probably others, the art, and a womaniser is very knowledgeable in the art, is to pull a high class permanent partner when you are just on the cusp of starting to lose your pulling power.

Dickens Sun 06-Oct-24 18:55:24

Syracute

Why read newspapers that write this . They are lies that prey to the vulnerable. Keep to the newspapers that don’t print malicious gossip.

I'm guessing quite a few people who read more sober news outlets also dip in and out of the tabloids - for one reason or another. Anyway, it's as well to actually see this stuff with your own eyes occasionally.

But I think the worst offenders are X, YouTube and TikTok - far worse than the newspapers for malicious gossip and the deliberate instigation of lies.

I can't see it improving any time soon in spite of the pleas of high-profile individuals for these kinds of sites to act more responsibly about their content and what they allow. Artificial Intelligence, according to my teenage grandson, is going to enable the spreading of fake news to an alarming degree.

Dickens Sun 06-Oct-24 19:06:59

M0nica

pascal30

M0nica

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

Obviously not in the case of George Clooney, his wife is both gorgeous and highly intelligent

In this case and probably others, the art, and a womaniser is very knowledgeable in the art, is to pull a high class permanent partner when you are just on the cusp of starting to lose your pulling power.

Or he could have simply met a woman he was crazy about and she fell for him, too. It does happen.

M0nica Sun 06-Oct-24 19:42:40

Dickens I still think it is a state of mind that tells them, albeit subliminally that now is the time to settle down, which engenders a mind set to fall in love with someone and want a permanent relationship, and, in almost every case, children.

It is what Warren Beatty did, and now George Clooney, and others.

Allira Sun 06-Oct-24 19:45:44

Dickens

M0nica

pascal30

M0nica

Confirmed bachelors usually marry when their sexual and pulling powers are beginning to wane. eg Warren Beatty - and George Clooney

Obviously not in the case of George Clooney, his wife is both gorgeous and highly intelligent

In this case and probably others, the art, and a womaniser is very knowledgeable in the art, is to pull a high class permanent partner when you are just on the cusp of starting to lose your pulling power.

Or he could have simply met a woman he was crazy about and she fell for him, too. It does happen.

Confirmed bachelor was a term used years ago for gay men when same-sex relationships were illegal.

George Clooney had been married before and had a string of relationships with beautiful women.
I would say he was a commitment-phobe until he met Amal.

Allsorts Sun 06-Oct-24 19:49:59

Bea, i would like to see where you got these stories! Suggest you change where you get your news feed from as i have never seen either of those item, lot of rubbish,
Can’t people be fined any more for spreading malicious lies.

David49 Mon 07-Oct-24 01:40:15

The only royal scandal tale that might have credibility is the Harry is not Charles’s son, but I’m sure any official investigation would have given the required result.
Those involving William and Catherine are just spiteful lies

Mt61 Mon 07-Oct-24 01:55:05

David49

The only royal scandal tale that might have credibility is the Harry is not Charles’s son, but I’m sure any official investigation would have given the required result.
Those involving William and Catherine are just spiteful lies

Harry was born before that affair began, I think she ( Diana) went off Charles because of a remark about “ Harry’s red hair being a Spencer trade mark “ the affair began three yrs later.
I think Harry has all King Charles characteristics- absolutely Charles son

Anniebach Mon 07-Oct-24 02:21:32

Barry Manakee before Hewitt , she said in her tapes