Prince Harry’s engagement

.Lets hope the monarchy is gone soon...very soon
Probably not in your life-time paddyann

Infuriating, isn't it, when people won't see sense ie don't see it your way

There’s really no need to be so rude to people just because they don’t share your political views.

Priceless!!
Pot, kettle, black come to mind

The posts just get funnier and funnier.

its the mentality though if not the actuality jamila1108 for the life of me I cant understand WHY people think these are superior beings and TREAT them as if they are .The monarchy costs AROUND £345MILLION a year ...hardly chicken feed .For what? Subjects not citizens of your country? Not me nor most folk I know .

No, we are citizens, not subjects.

Look in your passport if you have one
'British Citizen'

The stats that I posted earlier would seem to support the opinion that the RF are as popular now as they ever were. Plus, they bring in a staggeringly large amount of tourist's money each year. The younger generation are bringing changes and that's a good thing but I think youre right Jalima; they won't be disappearing any time soon.

The people criticising TMs dress were not exactly the left wing. Maw started the thread and kittylester jumped in with her agreement. Generally on that thread the left were much more sympathetic towards TM than the right so goodness knows annie why you thought the criticisms of her were to do with the ‘Corbynites’ - just demonstrating your usual prejudice.

and I think someone else corrected you about the cost but if you believe it then I can't be bothered to get infuriated.

I am a pragmatist not a sycophant.

ps I don't think they are superior, I think they are doing a job and HM in particular has done a sterling job over the years and has earned my utmost respect.

That's my mentality and that of most people I know.

But I am not so intransigent that I do not realise that other people may have a different mentality - I do understand human nature.

Where is this Ruritanian part of Britain which has cap-doffing residents who regard themselves as lesser beings than the royal family?

I think that I'm quite well-travelled in the UK but I would be interested to visit this quaint-sounding enclave on my holidays next year.

I think you'd have to go back a few hundred years SueDonim
ooh arrr yer Royal Highness

Actually, I remember when men used to doff their caps or hats when they met ladies.

Is it that they don't wear caps any more or that we are now women and not ladies?

My father never went out without a hat on (and we weren't at all posh, so nothing to do with 'class'), neither did my paternal grandfather. They always lifted their hats in greeting to women they knew if they met them in the street.

But hat wearing went out many years ago (and some of us might say that manners did, too...)

Cornwall? Prince Charles's fiefdom? And his village in Dorset.

Gloucestershire, I would have said, but Princess Michael of Kent no longer lives there so no doffing or curtseying required when out shopping these days.

Doffing caps? Fiefdoms? Oh, you are funny durham!

My grandad always wore a hat, too. But he'd be 123years old now if he was still alive so probably not very relevant!

I was in Cornwall in June, Durhamjen, and saw no doffing. Or hats, except for sunhats, which definitely weren't doffed.

Ditto Gloucestershire but it was raining there so sunhats were not in evidence though umbrellas were.

I live in an area frequented by various members of the royal family and they don't put on airs and graces. My young daughter's friends were out hillwalking this summer when a dog ran over to them. A lone walker called the dog to heel and apologised as they passed by. The girls walked on and then it dawned on them that it was in fact the queen. She was on her own, tramping the hills and exercising her dogs, though no doubt security was lurking somewhere. My mum is a year younger than the queen but I'm not sure I'd want her wandering the hills alone!

I've also flown on a normal domestic flight with Camilla as a fellow passenger. She was wearing a coat that I wouldn't have thought fit for my dog to sleep on. They seem very ordinary human beings, really. I actually thought Camilla was someone who worked in my local surgery, because her face was familiar!

Camilla was at a charity yesterday which supports battered women, she has chosen charities which draw little attention,

All those royal palaces would get loads more tourists if there weren’t any royal family as they could be open all the time. More people visit Versailles in France and The Tsars palaces in Russia than any of the relatively mediocre royal palaces in this country and their monarchies are long gone. So the idea that the millions of tourists clogging up London are here to see the queen is hokum. The Tower of London more popular and thats where queens’ heads were chopped off.

There’s really no need to be so rude to people just because they don’t share your political views.

*Priceless!! grin
Pot, kettle, black come to mind

The posts just get funnier and funnier.

Jalima the above is your post referring to my post.

When have I ever been rude or posted a personal comment about anyone who does not share my political views? Please tell me if you can find one. Or I’d be happy to hear from anyone who thinks I have ever done the same. I don’t do personal insults and I don’t understand why others need to do them either. Or perhaps I do.

I'm very intrigued by the assumption that if you criticise May's clothes you're a Corbynite

And thanks to this thread I suddenly realised that we've chopped off more queen's heads than have the French (albeit for even more ignoble reasons); two, as opposed to their one (three if you count poor little Lady Jane Grey)

I don't see the point of your post, Annie. Why is work with charities that get little attention seen as more notable?
Perhaps it would be better if she tried to get a higher profile for women's refuges. Then the government wouldn't feel it acceptable to close so many.
17% closed since this government came to power.

www.refuge.org.uk/get-help-now/

I accept the rf encourage tourism to London . But what do they do for the rest of the country? Not a lot. It's a bit like saying thst the olympics benefitted the entire country when it clearly didn't .

Our local WI support a woman's refuge. This Christmas they have asked for packages of the very basics such as a pair of pyjamas, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, tampons etc. That they can hand out to new arrivals who usually turn up with nothing at all. Very sad.

Gillybob, don't forget that HS2 is going to benefit the North East to the point that lots of companies are going to relocate in the north east because of it!!!
I heard it on the news last week, so it must be true.

Cumbria lost its last women's refuge this year.