Queen's not so cosy home - do you have any clothes that match your furnishings?

Cheers, jess. Your posts are often very amusing. I just don't like such speculative stereotypes.

I think it's good to see that she lives in a bit of a guddle like the rest of us, with mismatched furniture and all her bits and pieces around her. I too have a little convector heater like that which I cart from room to room when I need a bit of extra heat. Good on yer, yer Maj - just off to tidy up my sitting room just in case any visitor feels like taking a sly photie on his mobile

Love guddle *Gally.

I now intend to model my sitting room on HM's Balmoral pad. Just my style.

If me and my house were to be colour coordinated I would be surrounded by black and denim. Mind you, I do have a tartan sofa, because when the kids were young I realised that designs like that didn't show marks. Often wonder how much the Royal Palaces smell of dog.

Do Royal pooches smell? Aren't aristocratic dogs made of cleaner stuff than mere mongrels?

Feeling better now, just seen the Podiatrist, wondering whether Her Maj could do with a visit and whether that would explain the sad face .
My face was rather like a dog's bottom before tho', I must admit.
Local gossip has it that Lord Bath ( he of wifelet fame) cut up some very expensive drapes to make bell-bottomed trousers, way back.
P.S. to Bags What's a 'speculative stereotype'?

I would think it's, sort of, imagining what someone is like. And then stereotyping them. As that. HTH

A stereotype based on speculation rather than actual knowledge, ogm. We don't really know how that room is heated, or the rest of Balmoral, or how much private time HM spends in it, etc.

Exactly, jings.

don't we do that all the time on GN??????

I took a look at HM's room. She has every right to please herself regarding décor. Nowt wrong with that.

Thatbags I'm surprised that you're taking this thread so seriously, and seem to worry that other members might think that the queen relies on the little heater for warmth, and we don't know that Scotland can get very cold!

Also, I think the queen is fair game for 'speculative stereotyping'.

From my experience of houses in Scotland, especially the older sort (NOT that I have ever lived in a palace or castle) even with the central heating on it is bl**dy cold and not just in Winter!! I think HM's wee convector heater is an expensive way of topping up the heating, my parents had one in "summer" when they didnt light the fire and I had one in my bedroom to thaw my clothes out in the morning before getting dressed.
What is wrong with speculating anyway? I don't think we needed to know all the queries you raise bags to have an opinion on HM's choice of decor, if indeed it is her choice. I seem to remember a small convector heater in the fireplace of the room in Buckingham Palace where she has her weekly audience with the PM. Probably standard issue from Ministry oif Public Buildings and Works. The knicknacks and matchy matchy skirt are presumably her choice i.e. when at Balmoral, wear Balmoral tartan.

It was one of those 2 bar affairs with a parabolic reflector behind gracesmum that you might have spotted, Not even a convector. Just like electric fires in the 1950s, so ministry of works may not be too far off the pace.
I have a porridge coloured tailored linen/cotton jacket that would probably make me disappear against my new porridge coloured IKEA chair. Rushes off to put on some red lipstick...

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/379672/The-Queen-shows-off-her-two-bar-electric-fire

at putting on the red lipstick!

I've got a two bar one like that. Son tells me never to use it. Says they're dangerous! (dunno why )

OK. It's fine if people want to stereotype speculatively. It's fine if people want to comment on HM's sitting room decor.

And it's also fine for me to take such things seriously if I so wish and to say if speculative stereotyping pisses me off, especially when it comes from people who object vociferously to other kinds of stereotyping.

What's the difference between me saying what I think and someone else doing so?

What's the difference between my not being amused by something and others not being amused by something I find amusing?

What has 'need' got to do with it?

I'm joining in on a thread is all. Same as everyone else. Just because I dont want to do it the same way as most other people is FINE! (not shouting, just saying with emphasis).

Sorry thatbags phrased that badly - I meant "needed to know the answers" to the queries you raised. Just saying.

I'm worried now - aren't all sitting rooms/lounges, even houses, organic? Am I the only person who doesn't throw everything away every so often to up date a room? Our rooms evolve!

kitty Very true.
bags and a very big

I can't over the amount of 'stuff' in the photo. I thought I had a lot of stuff, but am very relieved that even the Queen has more than I do. Mind you, she doesn't have to dust it all - and mind you I don't do dusting either until I'm crawling through the cobwebs. I find these snippets of everyday life at the palace[s] fascinating I must admit

As I sit here in my sitting room (no heating on yet!) I have a radiator and a log fire made up but unlit. I have a sofa & two chairs with porridge covers, a neutral coloured rug and walls..all sounds a bit bland until I look at the six non co-ordinated cushions of different colours/designs all depicting London in some way. 14 bookshelves with books and knick-knacks and family photos acquired from all kinds of places /times. There is a hobby horse in one corner, a basket of baby toys, a basket of logs, a music system on a low cupboard, various dangley glass things at the windows, a rather jaded pot plant and an assortment of lamps, LP sleeves displayed on the wall plus a cartoon of London.. eclectic I think...I am feeling quite royal

Penstemmon