Prince Harry’s engagement

Shall we get back on to the subject of Meghan now?

She looks to me like the type of girl who doesn't drink g, with or without t.
Healthy Californian girl, probably sips a coconut water - or a kombucha when she wants to push the boat out.

Tell me again - how did she meet Harry

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09hcj4t/mary-berrys-country-house-secrets-series-1-episode-2

You have to run it on to 49 mins.

I'm not sure that a 36 year old divorcee qualifies as "a girl" . If she is a girl then I (and my fellow septogenarians) could perhaps be described as "young women". OK, let's call her "a girl".

OK, young woman
As long as no-one calls me 'old woman'!

Oh No G&T how on earth will she cope? Those long weekends at Balmoral will feel endless. It may even drive her to drink!!!

Standing in waders in a freezing river catching salmon - she'll need a hip flask at least

Varian, she us still a girl, so are we. In the North, we have"girl's nights out" at any age.

I don't think the younger members of the RF spend much time at Balmoral - other than the obligatory visits. Charles loves it and apparently Camilla does to but she might not have much of a choice.

Diana hated it and William and Harry probably associate the place with the shock of their mother's death.

Once the Queen and D of E have gone I wonder if Balmoral will play such an important part in the RF's calendar?

Charles and Camilla spend a lot of time at Balmoral. Not the palace itself but a smaller place in the grounds. They're often in the local village especially since the Storm Frank floods two years ago.

I thought Wills and Harry spent much of ther childhood there hunting things?

Does that mean that Balmoral won't forever cause associations with the shock of their mother's death trisher?

I think it could mean sanctuary, a refuge, because apparently HM and P Philip took the boys walking in the hills just afterwards, away from the intrusive media, until they were forced back into the public eye by TB.

I take it you're a vegetarian tgrisher
I respect that, I have friends who are, but we are not.

sorry!! fat finger trisher

My point is that although the younger royals spent holidays at Balmoral as children I'm not sure they will want to carry on the annual tradition when the Queen is no longer alive.

We've argued about discussed their many homes/castles on here and to be fair to the Queen she has always spread herself around them but I can see future generations preferring to holiday abroad or have their own more modest holiday homes.

Nobody lugs all their rellies around with them these days.....do they?

Jalima1108 Not entirely veggie. In my youth I ate anything-venison, pheasant, rabbit, anything. I remember picking bits of shot out of pheasants. Somehow as I have grown older I seem to have cut meat out. Not sure why, just don't like it as much as I used to.

I remember when my dad was given a pheasant which hung in the cold conservatory for a few days, then mum cooked it and we wouldn't eat any because it was full of shot.

Nobody lugs all their rellies around with them these days.....do they? well, if I could get them all together in one country I probably would

ps I read it as 'wellies' first of all

Very few have holiday homes large enough to house all their rellies.

I think the generation of Charles sons will holiday abroad, Harry has a passion for Africa , can't see Megan dressed for deer stalking

I don't know in detail about William & Harry but a number of the royals use Balmoral (or other properties in the grounds) on a regular basis.

They don't get bothered by the press and the locals are used to them so they can lead a relatively normal life. I used to have the same cleaning lady as the Queen!

Ooh how posh

In 1820, John Bowes, of the Bowes Museum, wasn't allowed to inherit the Lyon estate when his dad, the tenth Earl of Strathmore died, because he hadn't spent enough time in Scotland. It passed to his brother or his cousin, which is why the Queen mum was brought up at Glamis.
Whe she married, they sold off one of their castles near Barnard Castle to pay for the wedding.
I wonder if the Scottish inheritancy laws will still apply.

Annsixty you'll note I said 'used to'. I don't anymore.

Wonder how it was willed by Victoria

Just a thought, will queenie go to the wedding ? She didn't go to the marriage or Charles and Camilla but went to the blessing. So will she miss the wedding or decide if the church accept the marriage of a divorce she is free to do so.