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Correct, Scotland Yard (London metro police) are responsible for security and the public purse does pay for it. Security is present at royal residences and when members of the royal family attend functions and events in an official capacity.
M and H gave up the privilege of official security at the public expense when they decided they didn’t want to be working royals anymore. (And that’s when and why they lost their official stipends from the public purse.)
I thought M was disingenuous re the security. Imo she was actually upset about the title and the money, and pretended Archie’s security was the reason or justification for complaining that he wouldn’t bear the prince title until Charles becomes king, and that they wouldn’t have their hefty stipends anymore.
Drug and alcohol abuse are glorified in media all the time. How many young, fit actors, singers, and other celebrities have died due to drug and or alcohol abuse?
Heath Ledger
Prince
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Cory Montieth
Whitney Houston
Amy Winehouse
Anna Nicole Smith
Sid Vicious
Margaux Hemingway
River Phoenix
John Belushi
Jim Morrison
Hank Williams
Bruce Lee
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Judy Garland
Brian Epstein
Marylin Monroe
Thank you!
You should watch “Diana, in her own words” (I think that’s the title?). I watched it last year on netflix. It contains many minutes of audio recordings that Diana made for Andrew Morton, answering specific questions for him whilst he was writing her biography. The questions and tapes were smuggled in and out of Kensington Palace by a friend who was helping Diana and Morton.
I found much of it shocking. Diana was very candid about how sad, lonely, and yes, desperate, she was during her marriage. It’s clear that she was frequently unstable and really out of her element. She was totally unprepared for the life she married into. And she was so young, and so vulnerable, and yes, damaged, as well, from her parents’ divorce and mother’s abandonment.
Her marriage to Charles never stood a chance, and not just because of Camilla. It’s terribly sad.
Like The Wizard of Oz.
The tights are important because Kate is practically faultless about protocol. She is so cautious to never put a toe out of line because of the attacks she had to endure from the tabloids back when she first started dating William.
Additionally, protocol really means something to Kate because William will be king one day and she will be his consort. She has dedicated her life to embodying everything that a future queen [consort] should be. To ignore protocol is to disrespect the monarchy and the purpose of the royal family.
Traditions and protocols are what make the monarchy “special”; some of them may seem ridiculous or stuffy, but taken together, they establish a standard that carries great significance.
The original story was written by Ian Fleming. ‘Nuff said.
It’s not their only non-Disney film. They also wrote the music for the amazing Cinderella musical, produced by David Frost, titled The Slipper and the Rose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slipper_and_the_Rose
It’s a closer match with “Step in Time” from Mary Poppins, which even has similar dance steps.
Heh, if she wants to address someone’s past offensive racist remarks, she should start with her husband’s.
It makes more sense to me, if you want to consider situations which are common for women to become emotional and cry, that Kate had just given birth to Louis and so it is more likely that Kate cried.
I couldn’t watch most of it, I was so annoyed and sorry for the queen. I had to read the transcript first, and let it all sink in before watching the rest.
Maybe it was Conrad’s accent. It was dire! Probably the worst Quebecois or French accent I have ever heard. So painful!
It has to rank as one of the worst accents in an acting performance— right up there with Dick Van Dyke’s cockney in Mary Poppins.
Not ranked in any particular order:
Pride and Prejudice
The Jewel in the Crown
Horatio Hornblower
I, Claudius
The Winds of War & War and Remembrance
Bleak House
Shogun
Middlemarch
The Forsyte Saga
Wolf Hall
Btw, I really enjoyed North and South, but it’s such a cheesy mini series! So much overacting. Soapy storylines and cardboard cutout villains. I just couldn’t put it on this list.
I was going to say ditto, but I actually came around about M & H a while ago, starting about the time they announced they were quitting RF duties.
Imo some of the juiciest parts about the Oprah interview are when Meghan and Harry tried to play the sympathy, attention-seeking card, and only ended up revealing how selfish and ridiculous they are.
Harry whinging about being cut off, financially, and having to rely on the millions of pounds his mother left him. How is the average person supposed to feel sympathy for a man who is nearly 40 years old, complaining that his father doesn’t want to pay for his lifestyle anymore?
Meghan comparing herself to Disney’s Little Mermaid has to be one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard! It is so laughable! How the eff did Oprah keep a straight face when she heard that remark?
You can read the full transcript online. Here’s the part when Harry says it was before they got married:
Oprah:[…] Meghan shared with us that there was a conversation with you about Archie’s skin tone.
Harry: Mm-hmm.
Oprah: What was that conversation?
Harry: That conversation I’m never going to share, but at the time . . . at the time, it was awkward. I was a bit shocked.
Oprah: Can you . . . can you tell us what the question was?
Harry: No. I don’t . . . I’m not comfortable with sharing that.
Oprah: OK.
Harry: But that was . . . that was right at the beginning, right?
Oprah: Like, what will the baby look like?
Harry: Yeah, what will the kids look like?
Oprah: What will the kids look like?
Harry: But that was right at the beginning, when she wasn’t going to get security, when members of my family were suggesting that she carries on acting, because there was not enough money to pay for her, and all this sort of stuff. Like, there was some real obvious signs before we even got married that this was going to be really hard.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14277841/meghan-markle-oprah-interview-full-transcript/
Her father should feel guilty about that. His betrayal might have hurt her more than Duncan’s had. She must have felt like collateral damage upon learning from Anton Lesser’s character that her father had known all along that Duncan’s affair had been going on for a year, and that Duncan was obsessed with his mistress.
At the moment that was revealed, I couldn’t help but feel that her father had a lot in common with Duncan: lust for power, willing to do anything to get what he wanted, feeling that the ends justified the means, lying came easily to him, and Flora’s feelings and those of the children were the lowest priority. Saving Duncan’s career took precedence.
Your response and Cookie’s, below, are the stances expressed here with which I most agree.
I cannot believe we’re meant to infer Flora wanted her father dead. I do not at all believe she would pull the plug to silence him.
She was willing to make her father take the blame for the scandal because he had valued Duncan’s political career over the feelings of his own daughter when he conspired with his son-in-law to cover up the length and breadth of Duncan’s affair. Perhaps she felt he deserved it.
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Harry told Oprah it happened before they got married, so it was before Meghan got pregnant. And apparently it’s been taken very much out of context.