What is it with the Windsors?

My godmother gave me a silver serviette ring with my initials engraved on it, and my godfather gave me a silver spoon and ''pusher'' in a velvet lined box.Both disappeared somehow amid the mists of time.At least they were usable,and not as spooky as a silver hand and foot caste.I think my mother would have got rid of them pronto.Especially if they were worth £7,000.
I cant remember what my own children or grandchildren got.
What I found peculiar about the royal baby's christening was the fact it took an archbishop, a bishop and some other high ranking priest to baptise a baby, when it only takes the local parish priest for the rest of us.I thought we are all equal before God. And water from the River Jordan when we all get tap water.

None of the Windsors has ever been known for good taste, although Queen Mary was an avid collector of other people's antiques.

Well, she couldn't really have arranged this present without the parents knowing so they must have approved the gift .

Of course Pippa is a Middleton not a Windsor although I suspect that guests are tactfully advised in advance about the suitability of gifts to members of the Royal Family.

Those awful hand/feet castings would be more appropriate on a tomb....
YUK!
IF 'one' were superstitious they would give 'one' the heebie jeebies!

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Really Hebs [shocked] xx

Curtsying: It really is not in my remit to curtsy to ANYONE BUT about 25 years ago we were invited to the opening of a local nature reserve.The Queen Mother arrived and had to walk along this woodland path to a small rustic shelter to partake of tea and cake with the more 'important' chosen ones. As she passed me I automatically bobbed. Goodness knows where it came from.

She was delightful though. My then 4 year old son was swinging on the gate she was to come through. He had been waiting for an hour and was filthy
She asked his name and he politely replied 'I don't know you, I not tell you' and ran off. She laughed and said to her Lady-in-Waiting - 'That is what little boys should be like' After she had left and my son was playing running up and down the pathway he came back escorted by two policemen. He had been hanging off the Herts and Middlesex screen around the rustic shelter asking the 'kind lady for a cake please' Oops

Needless to say it was my only encounter with the Royals

And those horrible silver casts are another example. What on earth would "one" do with them? I hear Ramsdens are giving a good price for unwanted silver these days.

"Wrongly advised" is the understatement of the year JessM Their outfits and hats were hideous to say the least and I am sorry if I have upset anyone by saying it, but there was a strong resemblance to the "ugly sisters" outfits when they went to the Prince Charming's ball. It is so true when they say you cannot buy good taste.

My daughter produced casts of her first baby's hands and feet, which were handed out as presents. I notice she hasn't had the time or inclination to mess about with anything like that with the second one !

What a horrible present! Perhaps she could have opened a savings account for him, or bought him some Premium Bonds...

What DO you mean hebs ?

hebrideanlady

As long as it was only his hand

Silver baby hands and/or feet are just a more expensive version of a popular – among hoi polloi – baby arrival/christening gift of a cast of the relevant parts. You can buy kits to do it. I think it is spookily reminiscent of Queen Victoria's sleeping with a wax (?) cast of Prince Albert's hand on her pillow.

They look like a miniature version of those hideous stools and coffee tables that were made out of elephants' feet.

Oh, for goodness sake, anno - you don't have to actually look at it... (MOS yuk-making supplement)

He probably will melt them down as they were the cause of so many nightmares throughout his childhood as he imagined them crawling under the covers towards him

When George grows up, what is he going to do with silver casts of his hands and feet? Melt them down?

" Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day."

Wordsworth - Ode on the intimations of immortality from the recollections of earliest childhood.

Oh joy! The MoS is advertising a special glossy supplement on the royal christening. Yuk!

I wish Kate would dress down a bit but she must want to please the queen. its not easy when first married not to want to get right with your in laws, it took me years to stand up to my mother in law and just not to care!

I can understand Charles feeling it would be a prison to be king. His relatives on his father's side live near me and are organic farmers like he is. He was over and had a good time here. His top estate manager is here with his wife at the moment and they said Charles was impressed with what is being done in this part of Germany. He is a farmer and a business man. He was stomping about in wellies and talking to everybody.

I know my mother always felt very sorry for Charles and thought he had a horrible childhood, all that having to line up and shake hands with his mother when he hadn.t seen her for weeks, and being incarcerated in Gordonstoun just because his father liked it. In spite of his own disfunctional childhood he seems to have done a pretty good job with William and Harry.
How close is a republic when the answer to falling circulation is to plaster the royals over the front page?

Just seen the video clip. What a lot of silly bobbing and bowing ! Kate looked like she might need to use the 'ladies'.