The family firm.

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.

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.

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?

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

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 ?

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?

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.

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.

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 agree.

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

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

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.)

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?!!!

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.

Quite, Jabberwok.

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!

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.’

What a truly horrible and nasty comment Tigertooth, you are discussing, amongst other people, a little four year old girl on her way to her first day at school, like millions of others up and down the country this week.

Sorry, curtsy! Wow Tigertooth, certainly a very unpleasant sweeping comment about two very young children! What about other children of wealthy parents, MP's children for example? Are they too overprivileged self righteous brats?!

I am not particularly royalist but I wouldn't expect the future King and Queen and family to travel by Ryanair, shop in Aldi or Primark, drive in a Nissan Misra , get on a bus, browse the local charity shops, hang out the washing on the line. The list is endless but many of us do these things daily and accept that's the way things are so let's get on with it , be happy.?

Those who criticise the monarchy, who would you vote for to replace them?

Windsor Castle , Buck House, KP, would still be owned by the country, turn Windsor into flats ?

Balmoral and Sandringham are privately owned , take these properties off their legal owners?

Where would the elected president live ?

Where would heads of state from the commonwealth and other countries be welcomed ?

Forgot , there would be no need for heads of state from the commonwealth to visit, our president would have to visit the
head of the commonwealth in their country.

gilly I asked a question, do you make eye contact with little
ones? You condemned a teacher for doing so.

Some posters are very nasty. Remember we are talking about two kids going to school. I cannot believe the vitriol on here.
Some ot you must be very bitter and resentful about your own lives. I remember taking my daughter to school on the 1st day, lovely pristine new uniform (it did not stay that way). I was well dressed too as I had work.
I would also add I did not have the press to contend with either.
Some of you have such pretty prejudices.

No you did not ask a question Annie you said Perhaps you don’t do eye contact with little ones which is at best a sarcastic comment .

I did not condemn a teacher where are you getting this from ??

I commented that the teacher , manager (or whoever she was) curtseyed . No condemnation whatsoever .

pinkquartz You'd look stressed and not quite 'normal' if you had the level of criticism and outright racist hate directed at you that Meghan M constantly gets. The way the press try to make out there's some kind of inter-family warfare between the two duchesses is appalling. I have no great fondness for the royal family but seeing the Duchess of Cambridge held up as some kind of perfect example of royal womanhood and viciously contrasted with the Duchess of Sussex is quite disturbing.