Harry and Meghan’s Happy Holidays card

Hope your rant makes you feel better.

I was going to post something kind and supportive to WellsRose but I didn't think it would be appreciated.
Added to which, the lack of empathy for others who are ill with cancer was uncalled for.

I will just say that, whatever anyone's circumstances, rich or poor, cancer is a devastating and worrying diagnosis especially when it is a mother of young children.

Who is Marcus R, ?

I’m doing chèz merlot’s version of the RF’s pre Christmas lunch tomorrow for DGCs and their OHs that I won’t see over Christmas.

So, having staggered in from the garden with armfuls of greenery to decorate the garden room and trying hard to escape the attentions of an excited Jack Russell, I can honestly say that right now I feel like a pheasant!

WellsRose

I will be going to see Christmas lights later so I probably will forget this conversation. I say Merry Christmas but I don't care what others say.

Thankyou for working in the care industry WellsRose.. I can understand your annoyance when you get so little help or renumeration.. I hope your husband recovers..

Allira

^Hope your rant makes you feel better.^

I was going to post something kind and supportive to WellsRose but I didn't think it would be appreciated.
Added to which, the lack of empathy for others who are ill with cancer was uncalled for.

I will just say that, whatever anyone's circumstances, rich or poor, cancer is a devastating and worrying diagnosis especially when it is a mother of young children.

I haven't asked for you sympathy or kindness especially from someone who doesnt mean it. I'm a strong person and I deal with it myself. I have a young child too. I am still being treated much worse in society than William.

Thank you Pascal x

Marcus Rashford. He's a good man.

The royal family alone have private health care ? So not true.

Anniebach

The royal family alone have private health care ? So not true.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean?

Why single out William ?

Brave words, WellsRose, but sadly - from my reading of many RF threads on GN over the years - you won’t find many prepared to agree with you. Deference and blind adoration are the order of the day.

Anniebach

Why single out William ?

We are talking about the Royal family.

LucyAnna2

Brave words, WellsRose, but sadly - from my reading of many RF threads on GN over the years - you won’t find many prepared to agree with you. Deference and blind adoration are the order of the day.

Thank you x

RosiesMaw2

Please remind me- to have red haired children the parents use have red hair somewhere on BOTH sides of the family, yes?
How does that it in with Meghan's 43% Nigerian background?

Maybe something to do with the other 57%

Quote WellsRose Sat 21-Dec-24 13:38:41
Anniebach
Why single out William ?
We are talking about the Royal family.

Yes, we are talking about the royal family and you

Deference and blind adoration?

That’s a little dramatic don’t you think?

Deference and blind adoration are the order of the day that's a good one LucyAnna

LucyAnna2

Brave words, WellsRose, but sadly - from my reading of many RF threads on GN over the years - you won’t find many prepared to agree with you. Deference and blind adoration are the order of the day.

Silly post 😂😂😂

theworriedwell

RosiesMaw2

Please remind me- to have red haired children the parents use have red hair somewhere on BOTH sides of the family, yes?
How does that it in with Meghan's 43% Nigerian background?

Maybe something to do with the other 57%

Recessive genes from both sides of the family.

Sago

imaround

Oh look. Another thread full of people offended that the US, a secular country, is inclusive of all religions during this period of time by using the words Haopy Holidays.

Do you know how ridiculous you all sound? You may be offended that they didn't say Happy Christmas (it is Merry Christmas in the US by the way), but this card is not about you or for you. It is an American card for an American audience.

You all should be more offended that they used their titles vs what a population of over 300 million half a world away say in December.

How ridiculous.

Harry is a British citizen, his Father is the head of the Church of England, he was brought up as a Christian.

As AnnieBach said up thread I also care that Christmas Day, Goof Friday and Easter Monday are celebrated by Christians across the world.

Why should we have to use the dreadful “Happy Holidays”?
We should be able to say merry/happy Christmas to people of all religions.

Of course you can say Merry Christmas to people of all religions but do people want to get Christmas cards, Solstice cards, Hanukkah cards etc? It just so happens that there are various celebrations at this time of year and Happy Holiday includes them all and excludes none.

I'm a Christian and Happy Holiday doesn't offend me in the slightest and I have been to solstice and Hanukkah celebrations.

I do hate Christmas cards that don't have any link to the Nativity as that is what Christmas is about. We all have our own feelings but I look at the cards I have received this year and I see dogs with father christmas hats, Christmas trees, snow scenes, not one with any religious connection to Christianity. I think if you don't want to send a religious card then Happy Holiday is appropriate as it isn't hypocritical.

Deference and blind adoration,

As usual any thread about the royal family brings mocking of
some posters, can’t offer anything else

Because we both partners with cancer.

Allira

theworriedwell

RosiesMaw2

Please remind me- to have red haired children the parents use have red hair somewhere on BOTH sides of the family, yes?
How does that it in with Meghan's 43% Nigerian background?

Maybe something to do with the other 57%

Recessive genes from both sides of the family.

Not sure what you mean, Meghan can have a recessive gene from one side of her family, if she had red hair she'd need it from both sides. If she has one copy of the gene she can then pass the recessive gene on to her children and that can then be joined by one of Harry's genes and give them a child with red hair.

I have red hair and a father with black hair, he inherited the red gene from my grandmother. He married my red haired mother and voila here I am although my sister got the black hair gene from him.

Quote WellsRose Sat 21-Dec-24 13:48:42
Because we both partners with cancer.

When your partner was diagnosed with cancer, I am truly sorry, did you choose not to speak publicly of it? if so were
you accused of having an affair, the press , social media demanding to see your partner? When you did go public were
you told the country had a right to know every medical detail of the cancer ?

“Why not someone like Marcus Rashford who has know what life is like at the bottom of the pile.“ WellsRose

Rashford?

I wouldn’t hold him up as an example of anything if the last couple of years are anything to go by! He can’t be arsed to put in a decent 90 minutes for the club that lifted him out of poverty let alone turn out in all weathers to engage with all manner events with a smile on his face! And he doesn’t have a partner’s cancer diagnosis as a reason…