What is it with the Windsors?

Gracesmum thank you for that but if you were able to go back and read my comments with a less jaundiced eye you would see they were very much in the same style as Merlotgran suggesting palace staff were here looking for subversive comments. It was attempting humour after nigglynellie posted what others thought were eyebrow raising to say the least, I didn't raise my eyebrows, I joked and implied it was an irate and fed up granny having her say. This is Gransnet after all.

As for knowing the granny - not even by way of six degrees of separation and an order of party plates and sparklers. Please don't judge me by your own personal standards, you may have looked at my post and thought I was showing off so I will assume you recognized it as something you would do - and you mistakenly applied your standards to me.

I have no idea why the post was removed when there is other mention of the Royal Family in the thread, but its nice to know that you are on the job for when the moderators are out for the evening and someone needs a telling off.

For the record - I am a very patriotic, one of the proudest moments of my life was when Her Majesty The Queen made a visit to Oman two years ago. To see HM and our Sultan spending time together was a dream come true. As was seeing my grandson give flowers to HM at an Embassy Garden Party after standing in the heat for hours as part of an welcome party.

And just in case you missed it, here is my first contribution to the thread

I thought he looked adorable in his Christening outfit and I really do like the tradition of it all.

As for the ladies on the day - they looked rather lovely also

with best wishes
Hanoona

I think it was a misunderstanding Hannoona - and very surprised that your fun post was deleted.

I certainly took your comment as a joke - rather like in the past we've joked that the queen and camilla might be members. As if!

Have to say I took your comment as a joke Hanoona as I did with bluebell's and one or two others and I found them funny. There was one to which I responded (fron nigglynellie) which I found a teensy bit insulting. I wonder if along the line all these posts got confused and you took the rap (?sp) for someone else?

Han - I think your reply to grace was OTT in the snide personal comments you made - there was a lot of misunderstanding but you jumped in and attributed unwarranted base motives to her. BTW - sultan of Oman - another democratic leader!!

And at least in the UK we can criticise the royal family- unlike Oman. I think it's a disgrace that the Queen visits such a despot but I know it's about politics( and picking up tips for Charles!)

bluebell, Hanoona was sticking up for herself. Why don't you butt out and mind your own business. I am really sick of people who take offence when none was meant.

FFS Faye - first we can't criticise the Windsors now we can't criticise another poster. What I said about han's post was perfectly acceptable and allowed under the guidelines- sounds like you'd enjoy living in Oman where no criticism of anything is brooked.

bluebell I don't care what posters say about the Windsors. Whether they like them or not, makes no difference to me. I do care when posters are singled out and criticized for no reason at all. People post on Gransnet because they enjoy the sociability, they don't post to be told off.

Oo-er. I so agree Faye that people don't post on GN to be told off so I won't take Hanoona's diatribe as a telling off. As Cari has said the confusion was largely down to the missing "e" - Carol without an "e" and Carole look like 2 different people and I mistook Hanoona's comment about "Carol M's friends" as a reference to *real people on GN. My other remarks were not addressed to Hanoona as should be obvious to her and anybody else as they were a quote from another post.
As for taking offence where none was meant - well, the criticism was addressed to me so I think the jury is still out on that.
However, if anybody wishes to take issue with my remarks about our entitlement to have an opinion on current issues - whether Royals and their hats or women's rights in Middle Eastern countries - please feel free.
In the meantime I think it is much more important that we care that over 10,000 people may have lost their lives in the Philippines not to mention the homeless, the starving and the bereaved. Do we really care more whether the Windsors have a lacy christening robe for their baby ?

I am sorry about the "blacking" of the best part of a sentence. This was not intended- I was not shouting or even being emphatic. Genuinely accidental.

Are we to take it that the mighty ones at GNHQ didn't get Hanoona's joke re Carol/Carole Middleton?

Wake up in the back there!

Oh dear - am I the only person not to have realised that hanoona meant *Carole M (with an e) when she wrote Carol M?? There was no joke about *Carole Middleton" or a reference to a member of the royal family just a question addressed to "Carol /Carol M and her friends" - which in my innocence took to be genuine GNetters. I would have "got it" if she had said "Carole M". MY Mistake - OK?.
"Jokes" can misfire when people get things wrong and I do not see why I am now getting all this flak and snide personal remarks about "my own standards"

gracesmum Don't be upset, this is just a silly mix-up!

gracesmum I didn't understand the reference to "Carol" either - it was maybe a reference that was more likely to be understood by royal watchers.

Right for once and for all:

I am very sorry if I made it look as if I was associating Hanoona woth nigglynellie's patriotic royalist outbursts to which I referred. I should have made it clearer that everything I said about our freedom to express our opinions on GN (and I take nothing back) was in response to the comments which I had "blacked" to show it was a reference to a post - BUT I accept I did not make it clear that Hanoona had nothing to do with that.
I misunderstood the reference to "Carol" and mistakenly thought that somebody's anonymity was being compromised.

I shall now go and stand in the corner and hope that Madge/Camilla/Carole Middleton/Princess Anne/ and any other Royal gransnetters have not taken umbrage as that will be my gong out of the window. <curtseys>

Gracesmum
and some for you Hannoona
Have a nice day, y'all

What a lot of fuss! The royal family do not lose a moments sleep about opinions of individuals on a forum! To think they actually care about the people as a whole is not backed up by action! They do some good PR work for charities and am sure some royal individuals have been touched by some experiences in the course of this work. But not one have them has yet decided to sell the crown jewels for the good of the sick & poor!

The individual royals are like a soap opera and I find it hard to understand people who follow their lives and feel pleasure or pain for people they do not actually know! I do not wish them any individual pain or harm any more or less than anyone else I do not know!

As an institution I do not support the royal family and would prefer a republic. We do not have to choose a presidential style to replicate the royal approach. We could be innovative and choose to create a different approach.

Well it's off to the tower for you Graces ..... along with Nonu for suggesting that the queen buys her drawers from Primark!

Off with their heads.

River

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Hannoona; we don't actually have mods on this forum, it's sort of self regulating [something that I disagree with; I feel that, like other forums I'm on there should be moderators]. Please understand as well that, after the events of the past few weeks a lot of us are feeling somewhat sensitive about certain issues so, as a new member please try to understand. We're all a bit raw at the moment. Lets all just start again ?

I thought I had said I was sorry for not making it clear that it was Nigglynellie who talked about being "vindictive, hurtful and plain horrid" not Hanoona. I was a bit shaken by Hanoona's reference to Carol. At no time have I told anybody to "bile their heid" or accused them of being anything like "downright nasty".
Can we move on now please?