What is it with the Windsors?

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

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

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.

As long as it was only his hand

hebrideanlady

What DO you mean hebs ?

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

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 !

"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.

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.

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

Really Hebs [shocked] xx

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

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.

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

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

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.

We are equal before God pink princess, just not equal in the Anglican Church,
Makes no difference where the water is from, it has to be blessed .

My younger daughter has moved to England, if she ever does have successful IVF and the baby is Baptised in England she wants Welsh bottled water to fill the font

Depends where she lives Anniebach, it could be Welsh water in the taps

It doesn't have to be blessed, does it? I was taught that I could baptise with any old water when I was a wee kid.

Never had to, but how dire if I was misinformed!

Hadn't thought of that Oldgreymare - duh. She is in Lincolnshire, seems a long way to get their water.

thatbags, it is blessed in the font but water is water and I very much doubt the good lord has a two tier system - the blessed and not blessed water lot. Come to think of it, my grampa was a baptist minister and he plunged his flock in the river

I think the windsors have water from the Jordon because it is a family tradition,

I suspect that the Windsors have water from the River Jordan for baptisms because Queen Victoria was convinced that her family was descended from King David (as in the Bible not as in Scotland).

Rupert Murdoch's baby - the one Tony Blair is a godfather to - was actually baptised IN the Jordan. No bottled water for him!

I hope your daughter has sucessful IVF Anniebach.I love the idea of the Welsh water.

I never knew that about the Jordan water Absent.