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  • #901
BDE, I don't read tabloids either. Have never bought such a thing in all my long life.

I read the headlines to my DH while we were in the checkout line at the supermarket, where they line the wire racks, but it was to make fun of the horrid headlines about alien abductions and that sort of urban legend thing.

There was, of course, one period of ridicule and headlines involving the BRF and we all know it was the C and D scandal years, with an occasional rip to Sarah Ferguson. Those things did make their ways into mainstream media, because the fallout was huge and sad, so very very sad.

I'm going to say this and it is my truth: I came to this part of WS to be entertained by the GOOD and HAPPY things involving the Queen, her children and their offspring and the things the UK posters might know that Americans don't.
Instead, it's turned into free advertising for the more scandalous pieces from sources like the Daily Mail headline. I don't think a poster's OPINION of what's posted is the salient feature of the post, it's the action of posting mean- spirited headlines with article links, and contentious things which are not good or nice or fun.
I've tried very hard to ignore the mess on all media, and now, right here on WS . Things that don't seem even appropriate for this website except in the private area of the Jury Room. .
TMZ and other sites ( which I also do not ever touch) are for the mean people slurs and the fan people cross fire.

Not Websleuths. I've been a member from the very beginning in 1997 and this type of " Did you see what they said about her/ him or what he/ she / they then did?" went to the JURY ROOM until about 2 weeks ago.

Respectfully, and with absolutely no aspersions cast upon any poster here, just the general atmosphere is changing from FUN and LIGHT to extremely uncomfortable, serious.

The direction of the news articles are now loaded with class distinction and racial overtones which, according to how I was taught, are unethical in addition to unkind.

I am very sorry you have enjoyed coming here less and for the role I have played in that. I got into the habit of posting anything and everything about the Royals and it was a mistake. The British press particularly the tabloids and programmes like Good Morning Britain seem to have an anti-Meghan agenda for several reasons one of which is the negative press generates clicks, viewers, purchases and viewers. I do not believe the British public are against the Duchess of Sussex I think they are reading about the Markle family scandal for the gossip party because their own lives are less interesting.

I am not going to post anymore anti Meghan or Markle family scandal articles anymore as they are not of any interest to me and the whole saga is very boring. I cannot and would not dictate what other members should post that is up to them but I personally will not be posting anti Meghan, Markle family drama or negative Royal news stories anymore here. It would be nice to focus on the upcoming new baby and outfits etc again.
 
  • #902
Yes I think most of us who posted anything mean spirited especially by her Family was in sympathy for Meghan and Harry. As to how quickly the press will build you up only to tear you down. I love Meghan and all things Royal. I did apologize and felt bad for posting such an article the other day. No more on my part.
 
  • #903
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  • #904
I’m with everyone else....I posted one or two articles re the Markle family/jealousy and I’m done with it all. It seems like the half sister will complain & spout off about anything and everything just to get the publicity. She’s nuts and I’m over her and that family. I really feel for Meghan.
 
  • #905
I think people do get caught up in the drama if they let themselves, and I know it's hard to stay out of it with all the media, as you say, in the UK.

I believe we can turn this trend around on this site easily. The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. Maybe our supportive and non-reactive response to negative forces will show others that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex deserve better and more than what's being done at present from multiple external forces.

If we, as a body of people in the world, do not give polite space and time to straighten out some issues that have come up then Harry, Meghan and those people they choose to interact with privately could face very negative effects on either one of them or their baby in personal ways not related to their popularity but to others in their world who do not wish them well and who would seek to divide and upset them. They are newlyweds expecting a baby, and I believe there is a reasonable expectation that they will be treated with courtesy and dignified respect.

Although Harry has matured, he's still not a stalwart man emotionally.
I believe he's having a difficult time with the negative things, especially the death threats on the KP official website, or SM account, and certainly it has to be stressful for his new wife, who has not invited conflict into their lives.

Harry lost his mother, due to, in some measure, she and those she was with being rushed and pressed. The lack of best decisions by many people led to multiple factors which rushed her headlong to her death. All people have limits of what they can withstand and what will break them, if only for a short time. There's a chance a chain of very tragic events could happen again, or that Harry and Meghan will be derailed in some ways because of the negativity that continues unabated. . Not the same events, of course, but perhaps bad decisions made because of the external stressors of the tabloids, the cameras, the TV cameras, and screaming fans and some very vocal dissenting people who need to find the peace of silence.
In this case, it seems there may also be recent death threats and other very negative and threatening things said and known to this young couple. That's just wrong.

I worry for them, as the parent of a son Harry's age, and I wish the very best for them now and always. The best I can do is to not be negative or even to click on the stories about them in the press. To just let it run its course and let those particular people who are trying to hurt Meghan run out of things to say about her past in their orbit.

I have a quite remarkable Royal analogy to what grace under pressure is. . Would that each critic or commentator on H and M could be just like Queen Elizabeth on her one trip to Morocco, which she much later called " the trip from hell" due to the lack of respect for her schedule and even her physical comfort. She was left out in blistering hot sun for hours by the king. There's a photo of her, and it's a good example of what happened when she was waiting for the Moroccan royalty to finally stop fighting long enough to be hosts on her only visit to their country.

In the photo of Queen Elizabeth, taken in 1979, as I recall, she's sitting in a chair outdoors, uncovered by a canopy or even an umbrella. She's not smiling, but neither is she broken down in weeping and wailing and ringing the press the press to complain. She's steady and silent in the midst of a palace and country in turmoil. She did not add to their upheaval but likely was a visible example to all who saw her quiet dignity and lack of complaining, then retelling her complaints.
We know of the difficulties of the trip from her former staff members, but she's not sugar coated the generally tough conditions present at the time of her visit.

Ever since I saw that photo and read about her grace under extremely poor conditions not of her making at all, I've hoped that the backbone of total grace and ignoring the temporary situation in favor of the big picture could be followed in modern times.

If we believe that power of the press is controlled by the monetary response of the public, which it largely is, then we'll realize the harm that could befall anyone caught up in so much turmoil.

I wish the couple peace and inner relaxation, the continued freedom to be themselves in a manner befitting their titles, and an end to external forces of friction and anger from all and any external factors, whether family, friend, foe or tabloid reporters.
 
  • #906
I know I'm OLLLDD, but there's a reason Norman Vincent Peale's book, " The Power Of Positive Thinking" was a best seller for several decades.

YOU ARE TERRIFIC, ALL OF YOU. I'm so glad we can share positive things about the Royal Family with each other.

I think I'm starting to see the answer to something I've always wondered - WHY Princess Anne, who does a huge deal of work in the public sector for the good of those who need help, rarely is photographed doing her work, or visiting the myriad of charities and agencies she visits annually and has for all her adult life, except maybe when she was raising her children, not sure how much of a break she actually took. :)

She's had a lifetime to see how the press tears into good people and seeks to magnify imperfections and distort.
She does what she does for its own rewards, not for any publicity unless the charity asks for photos, I imagine.

It's said she's the most hardworking Royal and has been since the Queen slowed down due to the changes which come with ageing. Also, posing for photo ops. slows her pace down. :)
 
  • #907
I know I'm OLLLDD, but there's a reason Norman Vincent Peale's book, " The Power Of Positive Thinking" was a best seller for several decades.

YOU ARE TERRIFIC, ALL OF YOU. I'm so glad we can share positive things about the Royal Family with each other.

I think I'm starting to see the answer to something I've always wondered - WHY Princess Anne, who does a huge deal of work in the public sector for the good of those who need help, rarely is photographed doing her work, or visiting the myriad of charities and agencies she visits annually and has for all her adult life, except maybe when she was raising her children, not sure how much of a break she actually took. :)

She's had a lifetime to see how the press tears into good people and seeks to magnify imperfections and distort.
She does what she does for its own rewards, not for any publicity unless the charity asks for photos, I imagine.

It's said she's the most hardworking Royal and has been since the Queen slowed down due to the changes which come with ageing. Also, posing for photo ops. slows her pace down. :)

I don’t think Princess Anne gets the credit she deserves either. I don’t understand the negativity in the media towards her she is a credit to her parents and a great Ambassador for the Royal Family and Great Britain. She has a tremendous work ethic and I think she has inherited this her sense of duty from Her Majesty and Prince Philip. Her children have been well brought up and are good family people.
 
  • #908
Haven’t caught up properly but it sounds like we all need a group hug lol
 
  • #909
I don’t think Princess Anne gets the credit she deserves either. I don’t understand the negativity in the media towards her she is a credit to her parents and a great Ambassador for the Royal Family and Great Britain. She has a tremendous work ethic and I think she has inherited this her sense of duty from Her Majesty and Prince Philip. Her children have been well brought up and are good family people.

BBM

might have opined in this august space that Queen Anne would be a very popular & competent leader of the Realm. JMHO and all. Any chance of a cooperative reign of brother & sister?

I am respectful of the people, trying to live in their gilded fishbowl in the new Millenium. However, when an image of an inappropriate outfit is available....

Glad to be a part of this group, an oasis in CyberSpace for certain.
 
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  • #911
Princess Anne doesn't get the attention as I am sure the press views her as boring. It doesn't sell. We are getting very little of the wonderful work Harry and Meghan are doing now. I think Meghan and Harry will be just fine. They both are accustomed to the limelight yet certainly not on this scale. They are in the 30's. I always think of poor Diana, 19 years old thrown into the limelight and all it entailed. It likely exacerbated her mental health struggle. IMO
 
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  • #914
Dare I ask, will anyone here read Samantha Markle's book when it comes out?
 
  • #915
Dare I ask, will anyone here read Samantha Markle's book when it comes out?
No but I am sure folks will. I hope they remember whose pockets they are lining and clearly are promoting hatred. IMO
 
  • #916
I believe it was reported that the book release is timed at the birth. She just cant go any lower. I cant imagine......
 
  • #917
I think people do get caught up in the drama if they let themselves, and I know it's hard to stay out of it with all the media, as you say, in the UK.

I believe we can turn this trend around on this site easily. The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. Maybe our supportive and non-reactive response to negative forces will show others that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex deserve better and more than what's being done at present from multiple external forces.

If we, as a body of people in the world, do not give polite space and time to straighten out some issues that have come up then Harry, Meghan and those people they choose to interact with privately could face very negative effects on either one of them or their baby in personal ways not related to their popularity but to others in their world who do not wish them well and who would seek to divide and upset them. They are newlyweds expecting a baby, and I believe there is a reasonable expectation that they will be treated with courtesy and dignified respect.

Although Harry has matured, he's still not a stalwart man emotionally.
I believe he's having a difficult time with the negative things, especially the death threats on the KP official website, or SM account, and certainly it has to be stressful for his new wife, who has not invited conflict into their lives.

Harry lost his mother, due to, in some measure, she and those she was with being rushed and pressed. The lack of best decisions by many people led to multiple factors which rushed her headlong to her death. All people have limits of what they can withstand and what will break them, if only for a short time. There's a chance a chain of very tragic events could happen again, or that Harry and Meghan will be derailed in some ways because of the negativity that continues unabated. . Not the same events, of course, but perhaps bad decisions made because of the external stressors of the tabloids, the cameras, the TV cameras, and screaming fans and some very vocal dissenting people who need to find the peace of silence.
In this case, it seems there may also be recent death threats and other very negative and threatening things said and known to this young couple. That's just wrong.

I worry for them, as the parent of a son Harry's age, and I wish the very best for them now and always. The best I can do is to not be negative or even to click on the stories about them in the press. To just let it run its course and let those particular people who are trying to hurt Meghan run out of things to say about her past in their orbit.

I have a quite remarkable Royal analogy to what grace under pressure is. . Would that each critic or commentator on H and M could be just like Queen Elizabeth on her one trip to Morocco, which she much later called " the trip from hell" due to the lack of respect for her schedule and even her physical comfort. She was left out in blistering hot sun for hours by the king. There's a photo of her, and it's a good example of what happened when she was waiting for the Moroccan royalty to finally stop fighting long enough to be hosts on her only visit to their country.

In the photo of Queen Elizabeth, taken in 1979, as I recall, she's sitting in a chair outdoors, uncovered by a canopy or even an umbrella. She's not smiling, but neither is she broken down in weeping and wailing and ringing the press the press to complain. She's steady and silent in the midst of a palace and country in turmoil. She did not add to their upheaval but likely was a visible example to all who saw her quiet dignity and lack of complaining, then retelling her complaints.
We know of the difficulties of the trip from her former staff members, but she's not sugar coated the generally tough conditions present at the time of her visit.

Ever since I saw that photo and read about her grace under extremely poor conditions not of her making at all, I've hoped that the backbone of total grace and ignoring the temporary situation in favor of the big picture could be followed in modern times.

If we believe that power of the press is controlled by the monetary response of the public, which it largely is, then we'll realize the harm that could befall anyone caught up in so much turmoil.

I wish the couple peace and inner relaxation, the continued freedom to be themselves in a manner befitting their titles, and an end to external forces of friction and anger from all and any external factors, whether family, friend, foe or tabloid reporters.

Very nice posts. Well done!
 
  • #918
I wish I had hung on to some of my clothes/shoes since some are making a comeback. I think :D
O/T me too! especially the shoes. I was into the glam scene in the early 70s (saw Queen on their first North American tour) and I often wish I still had some of my wonderful platform shoes and boots from back in the day.

Not that I could wear them now........LOL
 
  • #919
Princess Anne doesn't get the attention as I am sure the press views her as boring. It doesn't sell. We are getting very little of the wonderful work Harry and Meghan are doing now. I think Meghan and Harry will be just fine. They both are accustomed to the limelight yet certainly not on this scale. They are in the 30's. I always think of poor Diana, 19 years old thrown into the limelight and all it entailed. It likely exacerbated her mental health struggle. IMO

BBM THIS

Had her circumstances been different, she very well might still be alive today. RIP Diana
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  • #920
I thought this article was great to scroll through to look at so many fashions. While many suited the day, So many of Diana's outfits were Timeless, and they would be in fashion and up-to-date to this day.

40+ Times Kate Middleton and Princess Diana Dressed Alike - Kate and Diana Matching Clothes

That was a fun article, Dixiegirl, thanks for posting it.

I always enjoy looking back at Diana's outfits. It's fun seeing the changes in fashion in general, and how she eventually developed her own style. She really came into her own fashion-wise after she divorced Charles. IMO.

This is the outfit that looks the most deliberately twinned to me. Check out that added touch of red on the cuffs of Catherine's gloves.

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