Mary Wilson

So what seems to emerge from this thread is that it's OK to be as promiscuous as you like as long as you don't get found out and don't get divorced. Who knew that so many GNers were swingers?
For Mary Wilson, who tried to be her own woman, wasn't a great poet but wrote from her heart

After the Bomb
After the Bomb had fallen,
After the last sad cry
When the Earth was a burnt-out cinder
Drifting across the sky,

Came Lucifer, Son of the Morning,
With his fallen-angel band,
Silent and swift as a vulture
On a mountain-top to stand.

And he looked, as he stood on the mountain
With his scarlet wings unfurled,
At the charnel-house of London
And the cities of the world.

And he laughed..........

And as that mocking laughter
Across the heavens ran,
He cried 'Look!' to the fallen angels -
'This is the work of Man
Who was made in the image of God!'

So what seems to emerge from this thread is that it's OK to be as promiscuous as you like as long as you don't get found out and don't get divorced. Who knew that so many GNers were swingers?

Does it?

My intention was not only to share Mary Wilson’s (IMO admirable) life with others and by analogy to look at instances of “the woman behind the (better known) man.”

No it doesn’t Maw ?

Well I don't know what happened with this thread. Why has it turned into some sort of fight?

The blood pressure thread might be worth a look...

Why are you threatening to pull a perfectly reasonable thread which (yet again) I started in good faith?
Just because one person decides to kick off does that mean the rest of us can’t e.g. honour the memory of a significant woman or ask for instances of other “powers behind the throne” as it were?
This is too like “whole class detentions” because of one troublemaker sitting at the back.
Be reasonable GNHQ .
Please.
(Otherwise anybody could, were they so minded, effectively censor the threads of those they do not like.)

If you don't want controversy MawBroon then perhaps you shouldn't reply in an antagonistic manner to posters. As for my conclusion both Annieand niggly posted about open marriage and the inconsequence of affairs. But I agree they may not have meant me to reach the conclusion I did. I suspect that perhaps they were not posting their real views, just being argumentative.

No trisher I was not being argumentative, just replying to a post about Corbyn, there are couples who are content with an open marriage , both have affairs but stay in the marriage, joint agreement to disregard wedding vows.

Which post was antagonistic?
(Of mine I mean)

So swingers Annie? Who knew?

Try 9.48 and between 10.58 and 11.04 Mawbroon

Well said Maw. This is a damned good topic to discuss and if we could just stop with the aggressive and angry posts, the subject could be discussed properly. I just don't understand the need for such anger and vitriol that derail threads and put people off posting. What is the point? Please GNHQ, don't pull this thread. It isn't the thread that's the problem.

Let’s go back to women married to men in the public eye ?

Try 9.48 and between 10.58 and 11.04 Mawbroon
9.48 no post.
9.44 I did ask about the derailing of the thread but I was not intending to sound aggressive, just felt Mary Wilson was being sidelined
10.58 was a (sincere) apology for getting Nehru/Gandhi wrong (will I ever live that down)
11.00 I was accused of sarcasm which was news to me because in no way was my comment sarcastic.

Hear, hear Anniebach
Would it be controversial if I mentioned the Queen Mum I wonder?

Oh dear got it wrong it was 9.44 and the first agressive post
*Is it fair to hijack a thread about Mary Wilson?
(Oh let’s have another political bunfught shall we? )*

Yes Annie!

Norma Major held their marriage together whilst JM had a much publicised affair with EC. And another one before that. She always appeared to be a very calm and supportive woman but must have been going through hell at the time.

Aw Maw, sorry I have the giggles , my views on the QM do not include admiration ? I will remain silent and read the posts on this woman

Then
^Bl**dy h*ll, did I ever say you did MaryEliza?
Anyway, I got it wrong, it was Nehru! blushbut it was a strong rumour at the time and since.
*Don’t be so touchy.*^
Last line so personal and unnecessary

Please! Can we just talk about the topic! Please?

But stick to your belief MawBroon that the aggression is nothing to do with you, your posts are being hi-jacked and it is all someone else's fault.

Chew Accra I didn’t know there was one before Edwina.

Possibly Norma didn’t know of her husbands affair with Edwina untill she wrote her book.

Ooops, sorry Chewbacca x

Well I was asked.
And actually I'm the only poster who bothered to find out anything about Mary Wilson herself and posted it.