General Chat

Happy that you got so much attention?

Well Thank You Ma.m really looking forward to Vera new series Sunday night :-)

Well at least Barbara it is not one of those threads where you can complain because you've been "ignored"...every cloud has a silver lining doesn't it :-D

Hmm must be bed time night ladies :-)

As an aside - King George VI's personal chef would have been making money in Portal's 'money mill', as his father, grandfather, g grandfather etc etc had done, if he hadn't, at the age of 19, got a 35 year old divorcee he was having an affair with, pregnant.
His mother, in disgust at what he'd done (though, of course, he couldn't have done it on his own) threw him out of the village they lived in, and he joined the Royal Navy, where he worked his way up.

That's a great bit of scandal to have Maggie, Nell Gwynne and her oranges :-) I don't have anything like that, the best I can come up with is a bigamist, and just possibly a castle in Ireland gambled away.

I only found out about Nell Gwynne, Thomas Killigrew and his asking her to act, on Thursday night!
I have a couple of 'very close' cousins marrying, and having to get 'belated' permission from the King, and 3 generations of William Jory's marrying ladies with the surname Polkinghorne - who all came from St. Allen (Jory's and Polkinghornes) in Cornwall (which is a very small place) :-S
After that, the Cornish lot 'spread their wings' and went to Redruth - I mean, that's 3 hours walk away - a different country!

My ex's dad really wanted to find the son he knew the divorcee had.
I found him, but after Father in law had died. However, ex and his brother kept in touch with him.

Just an update Harry. Prince Charles .The Queen ..William .are having family meeting .ti discus Harrys future so you lady's on the other thread can read the papers Monday & you will all.know.the end .result glad you have been interested makes a.change from small talk :-)

Thankyou for the update Barbara, I really won't bother to read the newspapers tomorrow, not for that anyway, as it will be just unfounded speculation unless it is an actual statement from the Queen herself, which is probably unlikely. :-)

If the truth be known its much more deeper than wanting to lead a life away from the confines of the royal family and Meghans hurt feelings ,,,,,,and that we may never know.

The great reporter Claud Cockburn put it well: ‘Never believe anything until it’s officially denied’.

Or, the alternative ... God laughs at those who make plans. :-D

Harrexit.

or

"Do as you wish to be done by"

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty"?

(Cicero 106-43 BC.)

Love to be a fly on the wall in sandringham this afternoon

"Meghan’s chief crime is not to share the wealth and opulence that defines royal life, but to be deemed a fifth columnist: a woman of colour who epitomises the encroachment of the progressive values that are articles of faith for so many younger Britons. She has accordingly suffered her punishment beating. But a word of warning. Yes, the Tory right now has a majority, is drunk on power: minorities and their defenders are expected to get back in their box. But a younger generation that passionately believes in such values is going nowhere and, in the end, will win. Deep down, the culture warriors know that, and it is that insecurity that drives their viciousness."
Owen Jones

Harmony within the Royal family remains a remote goal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51099102

Prince Harry is sixth in line to the throne and is never likely to be anything closer than fifth. His boy is seventh, he is never going to be part of the core Royal Family, he will need to make his own living.

I think that Prince Harry is being quite sensible and responsible towards his family by striking out and setting up a lifestyle that will help his children go forward in the world while he is still young enough to do so.

As for royal protection. Wherever they were, whatever they did, that family, simply by the princes accident of birth, will need to be protected from malignant nutters.