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Camilla, the Wicked Stepmother?

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Daddima Wed 27-Nov-24 10:20:46

I watched this on Channel 4, but it was mostly a rehash of what has gone before. What did amuse me was Harry up there on the moral high ground about members of his family ( Camilla, we are to assume) getting ‘into bed with the devil’ and briefing the tabloids, when his mother was the biggest manipulator of the press ever!

LinkyPinky Sun 01-Dec-24 07:51:51

For the truth about the relationship between Prince Harry and the tabloid press, I recommend ‘The Palace Papers’ by Tina Brown. Worth reading for its Princess Margaret stories too.

BlueBelle Sun 01-Dec-24 08:17:12

The royals have been a pretty poisonous bunch from time immemorial … weren’t some colluding with the natzi regime? then we have Andrew and his affairs Many, many insinuations that Philip was not always faithful. Poor old Margaret and her very damaged love life Diane was no saint just totally wrong for Charles and a bit wild under the demur demeanour

I don’t hate them just think they’ve got as many flaws as us all and nothing to be adored and after I read about the money stacked away charging NHS and the services, RNLB etc large amounts of money for land they use they have definitely dropped a couple of rungs lower in my books
I don’t think Charles is any worse than any of them
We should have a much much much trimmed down RF and much much less pretentious, like other countries

Anniebach Sun 01-Dec-24 08:32:32

How can a family be trimmed down ? You have spoken of
three generations, the past cannot be erased

Jaberwok Tue 03-Dec-24 17:33:36

The late Duke of Windsor visited Nazi Germany in October 1937. Hitler made an enormous fuss of the ex King. This was of course before WW2 and before the horrors of the Nazi regime unfolded. A lot of people in Europe and the UK admired Hitler for having pulled a defeated and demoralized Germany out of devastation after its defeat and extortionate reparations following WW1. No other members of the RF either admired or visited Nazi Germany, in fact they rather mocked them particularly the Goose Stepping as can be seen in old film. How can they be trimmed down? As for pretentious! Actually they are not, any more than other European countries.