The family firm.

I’m sorry Annie but I think saying Perhaps you don’t do eye contact with little ones was a nasty comment to make. Especially as you know very well I look after my 4 grandchildren on a regular basis .

I will leave it there.

They all make me puke.
Over - privileged self righteous brats, by some accident of birth we should think they are better than the next wo/man?
Yuck.
Kate is naturally beautiful and has a lively long willowy figure but it must be easy to maintain with a team of designers, hairdressers, cooks, make up artists, servants at her disposal, and more money than she could ever spend - she bloody well should look good!

Quite, Jabberwok.

The teacher did NOT curtsy, she was getting down to the children’s level to make eye contact with them. Every single teacher of young children knows this is good practice.

FGS! The teacher was not curseying! She was, as has been said, bending down to greet these two children. If she was curseying to them, how was it, that she just shook hands with their parents and did not curtsey to either of them, as was made perfectly clear in the clip?!!!

Apparently Kate/William do the school run regularly. Apparently they have helped at coffee mornings, sales, etc when the school runs them. Small independent schools run a bit like families, everyone knows everyone else. That’s how it is, they will fit in very well at this school.
I think Kate has turned out to be an asset to her country. Of course she has help, she’s married into royalty. Thank goodness William didn’t marry the attention seeker Meghan. She wants the privilege, the perks, and the privacy (almost total privacy.) She doesn’t understand how it works with royalty whereas Kate does, not surprisingly since she was brought up in Britain, apart from a couple of years when the family were expats when she was a toddler.
Royalty may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s better than the alternative (have a look at what’s happening now for example, and a hard think about it if you’re a republican.)

She is dammed if she does and dammed if she doesn’t. Give them a break

I agree.

Compare them to how Harry and Meghan have been behaving lately.

Gilly* it was not a nastily question, when you hold a baby you make eye contact, when talking to a small child do you stand over them or go down to their their level to talk to them ? If you do why criticise the teacher for doing the same ?

I commented on another thread about the Royals, think it was Top of the News, but will repeat it here.
There’s always been have and have nots, nothing will change that. Yes, the Royals live wealthy, privileged, posh lifestyles, supported by tax payers money. They also bring in vast sums through tourism etc. The ordinary man or woman in the street lives an entirely different existence. Live with it, that’s just life which isn’t always fair, but it is what it is and no amount of griping or whinging on here will change anything.

Perhaps you don’t do eye contact with little ones ?

No Annie I tend to walk around with my eyes tight shut around little children.

What a nasty comment to make.

Maybe she's hoping Harry will become so unpopular that he'll be happy to scuttle off to LA where we'll pay him to live the life she wants.

Echoes of Wallis?

gilly the teacher was not curtsying, she was doing what we all do, making eye contact with the child. Perhaps you don’t do eye contact with little ones ?

Diana spent holidays at Balmoral from a child, she knew what it was like to stay there but didn’t like it when married she didn’t like Highgrove, she was 100% town.

It hasn’t clicked with Megan that has married a minor royal

Perhaps they see quite a bit of the Queen and the DofE because they live at Windsor, so a holiday with them would be something of a busman’s holiday?

Actually M0nica can you show me where on this thread I have “gone on about the money” ? No mention of money as far as I can see.

Okay so we see a few photographs of K and W arriving at school with their children . All looking immaculate thanks to nannies, beauticians, hairdressers and whoever else.... this is one day, less than one day....one hour perhaps.

Then they drive (or are most likely driven) back to their luxury apartments where the tidy up fairies will have it immaculate again, lunch being prepared etc. And they can pretty much do as they please until the next “show” of arriving somewhere. What part of this is normal? What part of this is work? I just don’t understand .

Oh and that teacher, manager or whoever she is was most definitely curtsying.

31st August- Memo to Nanny.
C will be starting school on Sept 4th please could you have her and G ready in the nursery for 8am as I will be taking them in that day. I do hope the name labels have been sewn into the uniforms you bought at Harrods. Please ensure there are no sticky fingers as I will be dressed to leave (and that includes Louis). After 4th things will return to the normal for school run and you will be taking them. Thanks K.

Sad isn’t it?
Harry was/is very close to his grandmother but things are changing.
Also I thought the Balmoral holiday was a three-line whip for Royals, but Meghan clearly has her own agenda.

Country life is part and parcel of being a royal. Diana struggled with it and hated Balmoral. Meghan will have been told all this and the problems it caused so she should make the effort to support her husband and his grandmother, not kick against the system.

She has no intention of fitting in. She got what she wanted and now wants to exploit it.

My thoughts exactly Annie two foreign holidays in 2 weeks, flying off to Africa but too young to go to Scotland.
Hardly an arduous journey with staff on hand to pave the way.
When my GS was 6 weeks old my D flew to Antigua with him to join her H.
She had all his stuff, changed planes at Gatwick and then an 8 hour flight all on her own.
Somehow she survived.

Too young for Balmoral but not for Africa or Elton John’s holiday mansion.

So Meghan and Harry are not going to Balmoral this summer as Archie is “too young”.
Given how much the Queen loves Balmoral and having her family around her, I see this as a bit of a slap in the face. If I were Harry’s Granny I would be very disappointed .

It all comes down to the attitude to the 'job'. Kate and William had a long engagement and after their marriage she eased herself gradually into royal life. There was just as much interest in her public appearances as there are now for Meghan but apart from a few fashion errors (skirts far too short) she handled everything with dignity. William has something Harry will never have - loving and supportive in-laws so hopefully their children will grow up with a balanced approach to their privileged lives.

What kind of future will Archie have? He's only a baby at the moment but it looks like H&M are going to bring him up straddling royal and celebrity life while isolating him from any source of normality and refusing any contact with half his family.

I doubt we'll be seeing any pictures of him rough and tumbling around with his Tindall cousins. He may not even be living in the country that has paid for his father's lavish life style.

When Meghan gets her way and they re-locate to Los Angeles, can we have our money back renovating Frogmore Cottage?

Thinking of the leaders of the political parties we have the thought of electing a president doesn’t appeal to me.

And a president would be wealthy, he/she would need to be wealthy to fight a campaign.

Walk a mile in her shoes.
I’m glad she said yes to William, she’s doing the job that most of us would hate really well, IMO.

Meghan is still finding a pair of shoes to fit.