Harry & Megan drop HRH Titles

I don't think anyone particularly wants to be like either of the duchesses. Most people admire them, often one more than the other, and the following of them online and in the papers, is enjoyable.

Well maybe some posters admire MM but I think the majority don't, and it's just weird to suggest this is because there's something missing in their own lives. It's a twisted sort of logic which is typical of the posters who think this way.

I’d put money on it that there’s a direct relationship between depth of hatred and bitterness towards MM and the lack of success and contentment posters have had in their professional and personal lives.

I think I agree with that.

The only person I wish I was, and had been, like is my elder daughter.

I don't think she is "worth" about five million. She might own that amount of money, but "worth" is something else.

Just me being pedantic now

Chestnut A completely logical position given that outwith that explanation, it’s hard to explain or understand the obsessive bile. Btw believing that these various threads are vile, does not make one a Meghan admirer or lover( or as posted earlier, mean that one has a crush on her).

And I’ve never given a fig about majorities - there’s nothing intrinsic about a majority position that makes it right.

Logic says that people who (without any reason) accuse others of having something missing in their lives probably have something missing in their own lives!

I admire Catherine’s elegant style, but apart from that I don’t see anything special about either of the Duchesses. They are quite ordinary apart from the fact they’ve married princes. Nice enough, but ordinary. I don’t have much time for the kind of show business Meghan’s involved in, and Catherine’s degree isn’t as good as mine!

No idea , I didn’t ask her, it was in the sixties.

I remember Gwladys Aylward giving a talk at primary school in the mis 60s Anniebach! Wonder if she was touring Wales with a talk about missionary work?

She was my childhood heroine as well. In my nine year old mind, having read all about her on the back of Girl magazine, I always thought she would have an educated middle class accent so got quite a shock when I discovered her on YouTube and realised she spoke with a working class North London accent.

I still have my battered copy of The Small Woman and must have read it a dozen times.

As I know nothing about her, and I seem to be the only one I have just downloaded her book about herself, onto my kindle. Only £3.79. Should be interesting.

Did you not see The Inn of the Sixth Happiness back in the sixties, lucy?

It was well received even though Ingrid Bergman was not a bit like GA and Colonel Linnan was played by Curt Jurgans with a German accent

Yes Pantglas she was touring Wales . I was disappointed to learn the romance in the film didn’t happen . She came to the
Chapel, I met her in the vestry after her talk.

She was driven out of China by the communists and not allowed to return.

It wasn't as portrayed in the film Annie but she definitely had a close relationship with Linnan. They even discussed marriage.

*merlot, I only know she said it wasn’t true , ‘I never met the person I believe God had chosen for me ‘ ,

Not sure if I've seen that film or not merlot. Says on Amazon it as released 1958 so I would have been seventeen. Might get the dvd. Is it sad though?

That's one of the reasons she turned him down then.

Not sad at all. I did cry all the way through but then I was a soppy thirteen year old.

Right. I think I'll get it then. (I'm spending money on this thread! )

You can get it on Amazon, Lucy

Yes. That's what I'll do. ?

No idea, I remember her saying that because I was going through a period of deciding between the church and getting on with a normal ! life

I met one of the child extras. We were in opposite beds in the maternity ward of Kings Lynn hospital when I was having DD2.

She was about seven and the mountain scenes were filmed in Wales.

Wow! Sent for it. I like the mountains of Wales. Will make a good watch.