Smoking Royals/Nobles and Friends

[Why]

What possesses these individuals to decide to take up the bad habit  (in this day and age) ?

1. Image (good for PR, highlighting one's status as a jettsetter)?

2. Peer pressure?

3. Trait to be accepted into the social elite (bonding over a bad habit)?

4. Pressures of a busy and hard life to pose for the camera, fussing over their physical appearances?

5. A quick and easy fix to lose and maintain weight loss, but also be praised by sugary journalists for not being anorexic?
Very stupid reason to do so, and hypocritical especially when they bask in the light of flashing sugary cameras for looking 'naturally beautiful, and glamourous'    /promoting a 'healthy body image'  

6. Must have characteristic to be a future Princess/member of the nobility?

What irratates me the most are the smug/weird faces that they make.



Monaco
It looks like Caroline has passed on the habit to Andrea, Charlotte, and Pierre, including their respective partners, and friends.    
I can only assume that the youngest Princess Alexandra of Hanover will end up following her big brothers and sister.

Princess Caroline and Alex Dellal (boyfriend of Charlotte).








The over-hyped, very bland Borromeo sisters (from the first and second wife) also smoke:
Beatrice Borromeo also smokes.    





Lavina Borromeo, wife of Fiat heir, eldest sister to Beatrice.    



Matilde Borromeo an avid smoker, who (from my opinion sounds very stupid, deluded with reality and pathetic for a 27 year old woman), in a recent interview to an Italian Grazia journalist, said that she feels less tired when she undertakes rigorous exercise because of smoking     'sento meno la fatica nello sport'.
Clearly smoking has killed her brain cells, or she missed out genetically and she has no brain.
- Doesn't smoking actually make sports even more tiring as it restricts the lungs capacity to carry oxygen?


Margherita Missoni, former girlfriend of Ernst-August Junior.



The new addition, Charlene, is also an avid smoker.    




Sweden
Princess Madeleine puffing away her troubles.  




Denmark
Crown Prince Frederik.  


Prince Joachim and Princess Marie.


  Honestly, in front of children...




Belgium
Queen Paola as Princess Paola.




Spain
Young Letizia.



Infanta Elena




England
Future Princess Catherine of Wales?



Camilla, caught in the act




Luxembourg
Hereditary Grand Duke Guilliame as a smoker.


Prince Felix




Netherlands
Crown Princess Maxima




Greece
Prince Nikolous




Jordan
Queen Rania, which I am surprised

[joys54]

Good thread Why .  I am also very surprised about Queen Rania, and I can't tell in the picture because it's small, but is Charlotte of Monaco smoking?  I knew all the other family members did other than Alexandra, but I also didn't think that Charlotte smoked.  Queen Rania really shocks me because I thought she was such a health and fitness type.  I know smoking is held in different regard in various parts of the world, but when you see all of the statistics...wow!!  There's times I consider it in the "keeping weight down category" but I just don't want to resort to that.  And it always blows my mind about Camilla smoking...I always read that Prince Charles HATES cigarette smoking and here the love of his life does it.

[Miss Waynfleet]

I hate smoking, too. People smell really bad 



The unknown Backstreet Boy Guillaume?

[Victory]

Great tread, Why  

And of course the heaviest chain smoker in the world!

Tadammmm!
"The Ashtray Queen"

This is priceless





Dad has a lot to drink there!

Harald of Norway


Steph


CG, of Sweden



Madde


Harry


Euginie

[winx]

Queen B

Puffing away next to a baby

I remember this one with another one on Prive, winter vacation and Amalia was being hold by a nanny next to her!!


cigar

[royalwatcher2010]

I feel ill just looking at those pics.... and that's coming from a former smoker, having quit my long-term habit just over a year ago.

No matter how much a Dermatologist or plastic surgeon can be paid, there's no hiding the tell-tale signs of a smoker. I see it all over Daisy, Char, Caroline, Steph and Jokke (him in particular!) and if their complexion is any clue, just thinking about how they smell makes my stomach turn.  

PS - to any smokers out there thinking of quiting, take it from me - quiting is as simple as a decision to stop. Simple but true.... just stop and you're done!

What possesses these individuals to decide to take up the bad habit  (in this day and age) ?

1. Image (good for PR, highlighting one's status as a jettsetter)?

2. Peer pressure?

3. Trait to be accepted into the social elite (bonding over a bad habit)?

4. Pressures of a busy and hard life to pose for the camera, fussing over their physical appearances?

5. A quick and easy fix to lose and maintain weight loss, but also be praised by sugary journalists for not being anorexic?
Very stupid reason to do so, and hypocritical especially when they bask in the light of flashing sugary cameras for looking 'naturally beautiful, and glamourous'    /promoting a 'healthy body image'  

6. Must have characteristic to be a future Princess/member of the nobility?

What irratates me the most are the smug/weird faces that they make.



Monaco
It looks like Caroline has passed on the habit to Andrea, Charlotte, and Pierre, including their respective partners, and friends.    
I can only assume that the youngest Princess Alexandra of Hanover will end up following her big brothers and sister.

Princess Caroline and Alex Dellal (boyfriend of Charlotte).








The over-hyped, very bland Borromeo sisters (from the first and second wife) also smoke:
Beatrice Borromeo also smokes.    





Lavina Borromeo, wife of Fiat heir, eldest sister to Beatrice.    



Matilde Borromeo an avid smoker, who (from my opinion sounds very stupid, deluded with reality and pathetic for a 27 year old woman), in a recent interview to an Italian Grazia journalist, said that she feels less tired when she undertakes rigorous exercise because of smoking     'sento meno la fatica nello sport'.
Clearly smoking has killed her brain cells, or she missed out genetically and she has no brain.
- Doesn't smoking actually make sports even more tiring as it restricts the lungs capacity to carry oxygen?


Margherita Missoni, former girlfriend of Ernst-August Junior.



The new addition, Charlene, is also an avid smoker.    




Sweden
Princess Madeleine puffing away her troubles.  




Denmark
Crown Prince Frederik.  


Prince Joachim and Princess Marie.


  Honestly, in front of children...




Belgium
Queen Paola as Princess Paola.




Spain
Young Letizia.



Infanta Elena




England
Future Princess Catherine of Wales?



Camilla, caught in the act




Luxembourg
Hereditary Grand Duke Guilliame as a smoker.


Prince Felix




Netherlands
Crown Princess Maxima




Greece
Prince Nikolous




Jordan
Queen Rania, which I am surprised

[Why]

  Many thanks.


Unfortunately, all of Caroline's children smoke (except the young Alexandra).

Charlotte, up close.    





Lavina Borromeo is also a mother of two young boys (I don't even think she quit smoking during her pregnancies?)    .



Women like Matilde 'no brains' Borromeo and her comments disgust and astonishes me  .

I wonder what women, like Matilde, would do for a living if she was plain Jane Smith:
1. She is no beauty and has bug/odd shaped eyes
2. Clearly she has no brains/common sense (to see that smoking makes physical tasks harder, not easier) to forge her own independent career and is content with the lifestyle of a socialite (doing nothing other than chain-smoking away with her clique, designing/modeling clothes, whilst waiting to marry any hereditary Prince, Duke, Count, heir to a millionare that comes her way).
3. Is deprived of money and connections to the top plastic surgeons/stylists to rectify the effects of smoking.

[winx]

MM

[michelle j]

What possesses these individuals to decide to take up the bad habit  (in this day and age) ?

1. Image (good for PR, highlighting one's status as a jettsetter)?

2. Peer pressure?

3. Trait to be accepted into the social elite (bonding over a bad habit)?

4. Pressures of a busy and hard life to pose for the camera, fussing over their physical appearances?

5. A quick and easy fix to lose and maintain weight loss, but also be praised by sugary journalists for not being anorexic?
Very stupid reason to do so, and hypocritical especially when they bask in the light of flashing sugary cameras for looking 'naturally beautiful, and glamourous'    /promoting a 'healthy body image'  

6. Must have characteristic to be a future Princess/member of the nobility?

What irratates me the most are the smug/weird faces that they make.

There are many reasons why people begin to smoke.  There is no clear-cut answer.  

Why are some people alcoholics and cannot stop?  Addiction.

Why are some people drug addicts and cannot stop?  Addiction.

Why do some people over-eat and eventually become obese?  Addiction.

Why are some people hoarders?  Addiction.

Why are some people sex addicts?  Addiction.

Why are some people OCD?  Addiction.

Why do some people eat slaughtered animals thinking that it's actually healthy for them to consume?  Brainwashed.

It's not easy to quit smoking; furthermore, there are a myriad of reasons why some people start.      

In regards, to making those funny smug faces... that's what people look like when they inhale.  


 

[Victory]

There are many reasons why people begin to smoke.  There is no clear-cut answer.  

Why are some people alcoholics and cannot stop?  Addiction.

Why are some people drug addicts and cannot stop?  Addiction.

Why do some people over-eat and eventually become obese?  Addiction.

Why are some people hoarders?  Addiction.

Why are some people sex addicts?  Addiction.

Why are some people OCD?  Addiction.

Why do some people eat slaughtered animals thinking that it's actually healthy for them to consume?  Brainwashed.

It's not easy to quit smoking; furthermore, there are a myriad of reasons why some people start.      

In regards, to making those funny smug faces... that's what people look like when they inhale.  

[rsfc149]

MM

She looks so classless when she's smoking, especially in the last picture 
Thank God I've never seen Victoria smoking so I just believe she doesn't

[Diamond Lil]

I'm shocked.  I had no idea so many of them smoked.  Apart from the many health issues, it's incredibly tacky and is considered (here at least - we've become a very anti smoking nation) something people from lower socio economic backgrounds do - basically people who aren't well educated enough to know better. 

[Miss Waynfleet]

Since many normal people take care of their health, nobles think that it´s a chance to be more different from them. Or this oily hair which some Royals have. Because normal people wash their hair. I could imagine that 

[tigerben]

Never smoked, thank christ, as I,m undersmall for my age and not liking the smell of smoke or the eye burning that you get, it does,nt bother me if other's smoke once I don't have to kiss them or sleep with them, but as consented adult's  known the risk's  of smoking off with them, let them take their hacking cough's away from me let them smirting among each other in the cold.

[joys54]

I had no idea that Mette Marit smoked either, but I guess it really doesn't surprise me.  I wish people would not smoke for health reasons, but let's face it, I think a lot of people start because it looks cool. Especially for kids; I think that's why a lot of them start.  And with all the stigmatism that gets leveled at people who do smoke, I hate that.  No, for health reasons they should not smoke, but I also refuse to treat them like they're lepers!!