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Too bad Willy was turned to t he dark side. This young lady would have made a wonderful Duchess of Cambridge.
Willy is a joke. He didn't want a real woman with her own brain or neurons and neither independent who could have a real JOB. I read some where that Alexandra, works as an Assistant Director. I belive so |
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Too bad Willy was turned to t he dark side. This young lady would have made a wonderful Duchess of Cambridge.
Willy is a joke. He didn't want a real woman with her own brain or neurons and neither independent who could have a real JOB. I read some where that Alexandra, works as an Assistant Director. I belive so I think the British Royal Family has had enough marriages between cousins... as annoying as Kate can be, at least she brought some new genes into that very shallow pool. |
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Too bad Willy was turned to t he dark side. This young lady would have made a wonderful Duchess of Cambridge.
Willy is a joke. He didn't want a real woman with her own brain or neurons and neither independent who could have a real JOB. I read some where that Alexandra, works as an Assistant Director. I belive so Yeah Kate is the perfect wife for William. Obedient and empty. Unfortunately she is horrible for the role of Duchess and future Queen Consort. Sorry for veering off topic tho. |
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I have always been very intrigued with the decades of connection and friendship of the Mountbattens and the BRF . In addition to the blood connection as descendants of Queen Victoria, it was only intensified when Elizabeth married Philip. Both Charles and Anne were close to Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina and stayed with them when Philip and Elizabeth would be in Malta during the Navy years.
Charles was very close to Lord Mountbatten. Like everything else, the younger royals ig William and Harry not so much. I think the ties will go away once Charles is gone and other Mountbattens of his generation. William,Harry (and the other young royals) don't seem intent on ties with their noble relatives or continental royals which is a shame. These new Boleyns hold nothing on these old school bloodlines.
Lord Mountbatten wanted the Queen to call her House and all descendants Mountbatten. The Queen Mother found him pushy and too "dynastic." The fact that the Queen and her immediate Royal heirs (ie. Charles etc) are l Windsor but others who needed a surname became Mountbatten Windsor is a testament to compromise with him. It also assuaged Prince Philip's feelings as being no more important than a "bloody amoeba."Interestingly when Princess Anne signed the marriage register for her first marriage in 1973, she signed it Mountbatten Windsor.
I've always found the Hessian/Battenberg family connections fascinating as well, starting with Queen Victoria's daughter Alice. There were certainly some interesting characters in that family! An excellent book I can highly recommend on the subject is David Duff's 'Hessian Tapestry'. I've read it a few times, never fails to entertain me. |
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Too bad Willy was turned to t he dark side. This young lady would have made a wonderful Duchess of Cambridge.
Willy is a joke. He didn't want a real woman with her own brain or neurons and neither independent who could have a real JOB. I read some where that Alexandra, works as an Assistant Director. I belive so I think the British Royal Family has had enough marriages between cousins... as annoying as Kate can be, at least she brought some new genes into that very shallow pool.Yup. Shallow IAMDianathe jelly fish just floats on the surface of that shallow tea-spoon of water of a pond  Pricepessa  Love the heels too  G  |
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without Camilla, who spent the day with her grandchildren I wondered where she was .....that's interesting 
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"I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies." Pietro Aretino
I would rather be hated for something I am, than loved for something I am not. -Bob Marley
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How lovely, that he finally feels free to be himself with someone he loves  |
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How lovely, that he finally feels free to be himself with someone he loves I agree! It's lovely and i'm pleased he felt able to come out to his friends and family. I imagine that was extremely hard, particularly given the social circles he moves in. Side note: Louise is so smalllllllllll in that photo from her christening! |
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"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever." Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte.
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Good for him! Am I being terrible because my first thought after seeing the headline "One of the royals has come out as gay" was "is it Willy" before I realised the news stories said "three children" instead of two?  It's not that he'd seem to be gay (although not impossible) but the family dynamics is so wrong that I wouldn't even be surprised if W & K was a sham marriage. |
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Good for him! Am I being terrible because my first thought after seeing the headline "One of the royals has come out as gay" was "is it Willy" before I realised the news stories said "three children" instead of two? It's not that he'd seem to be gay (although not impossible) but the family dynamics is so wrong that I wouldn't even be surprised if W & K was a sham marriage. How odd. I got the same feeling ever since that horrible Cirque du soleil video of them and the Midds. IIRC despite Kate desperately making a show sniffing her hair and playing with it Will looked at James when something surprising happened on stage. Well, who knows? We could be completely wrong but maybe we're not...  But it's nice to see that even if it's in the lower royal ranks people feel comfortable enough today to not hide who they are or how they want to live.  |
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So sad. She seemed to be always a well bred lady.
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What a shame, I always enjoyed hearing from her in interviews. She lived a long, happy life. prayers to the family who will be sad at this time.
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