A statement from Catherine, Princess of Wales

[quote] “I am not out of the woods yet,” she wrote. “I am learning how to be patient, especially with uncertainty. Taking each day as it comes, listening to my body, and allowing myself to take this much needed time to heal.”

Sounds grim to me.

Sad last days...

This sort of chemo should't take this long, it must be hammering her like crazy.

Really nice flora in that shot, I'd like to recuperate in a place like that as well, looks cosy.

PAYWALLED YOU JERK.

She is wearing a wig. And extensions. And she's been partially embalmed, too.

^ You noticed that too, huh?

I’m sorry you don’t know how to get around a payroll you idiot.

I imagine the story is being reported elsewhere.

"PAYWALLED YOU JERK. "

I'm here to help...

I hope she recovers fully. Fuck cancer. I do not wish it on anyone (except Putin, and he can have it all and the worst of it).

Not surprising that someone undergoing months of chemotherapy would be wearing a wig.

She's been through three pregnancies and the dark Marklist era, no wonder chemo is taking such a toll on her.

Oh, but I suspect in my opinion she's been wearing a wig since she was a child.

I never thought I'd see Catherine, Princess of Wales, wearing a ratty Korean wig, but here we are.

@r11, You mean Kate is still so angry that her kids didn't get Easter presents that the hate is eating her up from the inside? I agree

If you're going to start flinging shit on every thread be prepared to get it right back

There are at least 100 different chemo drugs and infusions. We can't know what her treatment is as we don't know the type and stage of illness she has. The infusion phase can last from one to five days and is then followed post-chemo by a period of weakness and side effects, generally as long as the first phase. Patients feel better toward the end of the cycle before the next infusion. Hence, good days and bad days.

R3 Preventative chemo treatments can often last for six months or so. Given she seems to have started her treatments in March, it's likely they will continue throughout the summer. If she's still receiving treatment in the fall, than it's something more serious.

Saying she’s not out of the woods, doesn’t mean she’s dying. She’ll have a while to wait until she’s cancer free. I suspect she meant that as an explanation why she’s not able to return fully to public life. For one thing, her immune system is shot while on chemo. Being in public is dangerous.

Actually, I suspect Charles is sicker than reported and he’s said, fuck it! I’m going to king it up while I still can.

Anyway, both have managed their terrible year with a lot of grace.

Rooting for them both and hope other people struggling with cancer take some comfort that they’re raising awareness for the disease and impact of treatment.

She's not gonna make it, is she?

I hope she beats it.

"Saying she’s not out of the woods, doesn’t mean she’s dying"

Yes, it does, it means they've tried everything and they'll keep trying, but she's not responding

R19 Me, too.

^ Meghan just wanted her to be nice and had no idea that ancient voodoo curse would actually work

If it really is a precautionary chemo, “not out of the woods” could just mean “it’s not finished.”

R23 That's what it means. She won't be given an "all clear" until her treatment if complete and tests confirm that there's no sign of cancer.

Re: The debate about her hair. I don't think this is a wig (maybe there are hair extension to give it a fuller look). Many of the newer chemo drugs have minimal hair loss side effects.

I read it as "I'm not ready to resume public life. Chemo means good days and bad." They're probably giving her a break so she can regain some strength and do this event.

No one is seriously arguing she's wearing a wig today or ever. It's just a fetish a few low IQs cling to here. And of course the welfare cunts at Celebitchy.

Great news! All the best, princess!

She’s flying in from Houston for the party/photo op?

Covid really slapped me back for a period of time - I imagine chemo is something like thst, over and over. Hope I never find out..

She looks good and her hair looks the same as it did in December before the announcement.

R27 r28 r30

I’m arguing she was wearing a wig. You’d have to be blind to think otherwise. I suspect she is wearing one in this photo, just because if she was previously, it stands to reason that after a course of heavier treatment she would still be doing so.

Wtf is so remarkable or obsessive about commenting on something very obvious. Woman with cancer is wearing a wig. So what?

R32, man up.

R33, you'd have to stupid to think so.

R34 r35

R35 How does one stupid?

Man up, R36. If you can't resist reading them anyway, don't look like a little pussy too.

Oh, the oh, dear dodge. Played out, hon? Why not go wig spotting?

R37 r38

My point was, that it's the same wig as BEFORE the announcement. Therefore, something she always liked and thought looked good and saved her time and trouble.

I love how just a few hours ago according to DL (based on something on Reddit)) she was in Texas. You people are crazy.

She’s had surgery and been on treatment for half a year now and still not out of the woods? This doesn’t sound good.

Can we at least agree that if she *is* wearing a wig, it's neither ratty nor Korean?

R42 There’s probably some truth to the MD Anderson rumor. Maybe she’s not there but it’s a possible that she’s considering going to Texas as the next option if she’s not responding to chemo.

Yes, because what she's considering would definitely get out.

I agree, r44.

R41 r46 r47

There was an oncologist on CNN awhile ago who said that preventative chemotherapy - and she used the disputed term preventative, so that was interesting - is done after a primary cancer is removed surgically, to reduce the risk that minute cells could have spread. Kate said herself the cancer was found unexpectedly and after her initial abdominal surgery. So there's no basis to assume she's not responding to chemo because the chemo is an end in itself - preventative rather than curative.

For pete's sake she's milking her time off, not dying. You all would do the same thing.

A convoy was recently spotted at night in London near the hospital where Kate wasn't and I have reason to think I suspect I believe that Beverly Hills' top wigologist was inside. He wasn't seen anywhere else at the time.

[italic]Maybe[/italic] she's not there? She's on parade in London tomorrow.

She's not there. She never was there. Just some low-Q on Reddit thought she was there. And you should probably be wary of Nigerian princes on the internet.

So what if she is wearing a wig? She's undergoing cancer treatment. Women, with or without cancer, simply do wear extensions and wigs to enhance themselves.

I’ve been on chemo for four long years and never lost my hair, other than maybe just a bit thinner. It’s surprisingly rare to see completely bald patients in the chemo ward, I think treatments must have changed quite a bit over the years.

The fatigue can be the worst thing of all, and it can stay with people months, even years after treatment ends.

The original announcement said she would resume public duties after Easter. That she remains out of the public eye and is taking one day at a time sounds a bit ominous (and yes, royally vague) to me.

But Kate HAS to be wearing a wig, don't you see?

R55, depends on the cycle. If she started in March and the regime.

"When cure is the treatment goal. Adjuvant chemotherapy (therapy after surgery has removed all visible cancer) may last 4-6 months. Adjuvant chemotherapy is common in cancers of the breast and colon."

Four months would take her to June, six to August. I can't recall if she said she'd started in her remarks or if it got released (if at all) but if she started late February, six months would take her to July.

I'm taking an optimistic view that because she's going to the Trooping and because William was an usher at the Duke of Westminster, she's actually doing well (for someone exhausted by chemo and the physical and emotional ups and downs.) I don't think they'd take either step if she was unwell or worse. It raises expectations that have no need of being raised.

Is that a Texas Live Oak in her photo?

Hmmmmm.

Could that photo have been taken any farther away?

When you zoom in on that photo you can see the utter exhaustion in her face.

Forget the wig - how does she fit the colostomy bag under those skinny jeans? They’ve obviously photoshopped her head onto a model’s body.

I must say that Houston looks quite lush!

She’s making her first public appearance nearly 3 months after she was set to return to public life (6 months since her last appearance). A heavily-edited, well-lit photo doesn’t obscure what we know to be true: She’s in bad shape.

I won’t be surprised when she pulls out of the appearance tomorrow (or requests not to participate in any public portions of the pomp and circumstance).

Some of you really want her to die, don’t you?

R54 My sister also had chemo for cancer and did not loose her hair. There's still an automatic association that chemo=hair loss which is no longer the case for many chemo treatments. Chemo meds have changed and more targeted treatment options also reduce the amount of side effects. If Catherine were being treated for something like breast cancer, then yes, that type of chemo would see major hair loss. Charles, who is also undergoing chemo has also not had significant hair loss (granted he was going bald). I suspect many people commenting on Catherine's appearance and her treatment are "desktop experts."

I am offended, sir. I am no expert at all!

Very colorful, R62.

R60, speaking from experience, it is exhausting to go through chemo & other treatments. It takes time, it's exhausting and isolating. No one is walking that road but Kate and it's a tough mind set during treatment.

Hope to see her tomorrow at the event. This is her new normal and we can't keep comparing her to the previous healthy Kate version.

This is all very sad but i am still recuperating from being mauled by the Macron woman and get no sympathy.

Not one to be outdone, the Duche$$ has released a statement.

Of course childless DLers won't think it's relevant that she has THREE small children to be present for and might want to prioritize them by equivocating about when she'll be back to royal duties. She should take the fucking year off and save everything for the tots.

I honestly do not understand all the antipathy for Kate or Meghan. We don't know what either of them are really like, only what the tabloids tell us, in order to increase their sales. I'm sure, like all of us, each is a blend of traits: kind, considerate, calculating, and selfish, generous and petty. I love to read biographies of all types, What always strikes me is how every subject, no matter how noble and inspiring, inevitably indulges in some startling, inexplicably ugly behavior that, I suppose, is both disillusioning and confirmation of their humanity. I think we should reserve our condemnation for individuals like Trump and Putin, who are proven to be irredeemably awful.

R71 people with very little in their lives have made a sport of Kate’s illness and some of them really won’t give up until they get their wish and she dies. Then there will be speculation about the Sussexes’ attendance - will they or won’t they? Will Louis act up at the funeral and is this proof that he is mentally handicapped etc. It’s endless.

The problem isn't even the antipathy or the unfounded speculation but that it's all conceived and expressed without any wit.

Here’s what I suspect—the major surgery was to remove large cysts/tumors in her ovary. Pretty common in women. Post surgery they found cancer cells. Or maybe a colon resection with cancer cells post surgery. Now she’s being blasted with chemo. So, just 6 months ago, she had major surgery. And that was quickly followed with chemo.

All of that in 6 months while trying to keep her kids calm while the press was losing its fucking mind about her photoshopping a family photo and refusing to share her most personal/terrifying news with the public.

I don’t know whether this will kill her or not. I sure hope it doesn’t because she seems like a good person. She’s certainly raising those kids well and I deeply appreciate her attempts to color coordinate her family’s when they’re in public. It’s adorable.

I don’t care that she’s a princess and incredibly pampered and privileged. No one deserves this type of bullying to reveal a serious medical condition. Let the poor girl be. We’ve got plenty of other healthy royals to besmirch.

[quote] Of course childless DLers won't think it's relevant that she has THREE small children

A LOT of DLers are childless or child-free and this board is supposed to be a space for that. So stop lecturing about not knowing what it's like to have children. 99% of the boards on the internet will be sympathetic to your plight as a mother or father. Go post there.

I don’t think there is that much antipathy for Kate. I think there are a few instances and many accusations of it. For example, R70. Have there been a lot of suggestions that she shouldn’t reserve her energy for her kids? I haven’t seen any.

I have seen a lot of hate for Meghan. I’m not a fan of hers and she does seem to almost always do the wrong thing, but no matter what she does it’s treated as though it’s the worst thing anyone has ever done. Some of its been pretty bad, though. Ulvalde was awful, but at least one of the families seemed to appreciate her interest and sympathy. She’s not all bad, all the time. She’s just basic. She doesn’t see it.

And while I suspect Kate is very determined and fights like hell, I haven’t seen evidence of the “bravery” and “grace” that the media is attributing to her cancer battle. Because, rightly so, she hasn’t shared it.

R75, I love you!

I suspect the events she is to attend will be canceled last minute. She is not well.

The irony of life. It’s always the richest, most beautiful people who are the saddest, most tragic cancer stories. But as a bored, ugly, poor as dirt millennial, I’ve been hoping for a sympathetic cancer exit for years without results 😩

[quote] It’s always the richest, most beautiful people who are the saddest, most tragic cancer stories.

Really? Seems like all kinds of people get cancer.

It seems like she is hoping to attend the Trooping the Colour ceremony, and this is just still remind people she's still recovering and it won't be business as usual. It's all about managing expectations.

Her abdominal surgery required weeks in the hospital. It’s probably pancreatic, and she only has a few months left.

R80 Liars get cancer

With any luck she’ll keel over in her carriage at Trooping tomorrow - that should make some of you happy.

Oh shut up.

[quote] I suspect the events she is to attend will be canceled last minute. She is not well.

Why would they do that, though? If they announce it and then she cancels the speculation will explode. They must be pretty confident she’ll be well enough to attend. If they weren’t, an unannounced appearance would be better.

[quote]So stop lecturing about not knowing what it's like to have children. 99% of the boards on the internet will be sympathetic to your plight as a mother or father. Go post there.

I don't have children dear, but I was a child. In what sterile world do you live in where you have to be a parent before you can empathize with an ill mother? I don't have kids but I like kids, maybe that's what you don't understand.

R58

Definitely not a live oak.

Pictured is a 500-year old Live Oak.

That background is green and pleasant England in the strawberries and cream part of summer.

Does anybody really think they're going to put out anything but the genuine article after the last brouhaha?

[quote] Definitely not a live oak.

[whoosh!]

r84 it would make for a fun news day, but she's a person so let's hope she doesn't keel over in the carriage, hard for the cameras to capture such a moment. But perhaps she could faint on the balcony, that could be so camp and fabulous! Of course, dull Kate would never be so fun.

BBC cameras were zig-zagging all over the place last year to hide Charles & his out-of-control horse named Noble. They'll manage a little fall from Kate just fine.

Why won’t this bitch announce what kind of cancer she has? The British media is so weird about cancer. They always just say death from stage 4 cancer, never the type of cancer. She’d actually be doing a service saying the type of cancer it is to bring awareness. Maybe it’s anal and she’s embarrassed.

British health care is the worst. I wouldn’t want have cancer in that country. The NHS will leave you dying before they take a look. Bastards.

Nice, R94.

Turnabout being fair play, will you tell us what's wrong with you? Because, I mean, something is, obviously.

[Quote] She's been through three pregnancies and the dark Marklist era,

Can’t you bizarre haters keep your weird obsession out of anything?

Don't be hurt.

[quote] Why won’t this bitch announce what kind of cancer she has?

Hah. I was thinking the same thing since this could be such a 'teachable moment' and all that crap, but the Royals can only be so human. Too human, as in picturing the tumors and their location, and they become so human that we wonder why are we waving at them and paying them to wave back?

R88, that was some nice due diligence there! Love it.

R94, I've wondered the same thing. My best, non-professional hunch is that it's ovarian, and the BRF doesn't want us to know, because many people know that ovarian cancer is almost always diagnosed at Stage 4 and is therefore usually terminal. It's not quite the death sentence that other cancers are, but it's pretty close.

I hope it's uterine, Stage 1, which is totally and typically curable.

You "pay them" £1.29 per year. Not sure if that includes layabouts like R99 on the dole.

That is NOT a wig! Wig Trolls. She looks good to me and I'm glad she checked in. Wishing her peace.

[quote]Here’s what I suspect—the major surgery was to remove large cysts/tumors in her ovary. Pretty common in women.

Large cysts/ovarian tumors are not common in women. And they don’t require weeks in the hospital to remove.

Whatever Kate has is much more serious.

Do we know for sure that this is a new picture? We know our royal amateur photographer loves to play with editing.

It's not a fucking selfie, Jessica Fletcher.

I’m interested to hear about your experience with the NHS, R95 - when were you last in the UK?

R105 The photo was taken by Matt Porteous on the grounds of Windsor earlier this week.

I suspect Kate (and the King) will disclose what kind of cancer they have only if/when they are declared cancer free by their doctors. They likely haven't announced the type of cancer because of the intrusive conversations it would cause (e.g. what stage, what's the survival rate). Your prognosis is not something you want being debated around the world while you're trying to deal with your condition, not to mention Kate has three young kids who are probably very worried.

What’s Pippa up to?

Has anyone mentioned that Kate has 3 young children who are probably worried about her?

Nobody, R110 - we are all sadly childless and so simply cannot empathise.

You don't need children to have empathy for kids who lose their mother. Their grandmother was abandoned by her mother and she turned into a borderline personality. Losing one's mother at an early age is a major reason why people become borderline personality disordered.

Woosh R112!

I never thought her to be very pretty, but she's looking great at trooping the colour right now. Whatever she's doing in terms of face work, it's good. Lovely outfit, also, the kids too. A great comeback.

She is a lovely young woman. Wishing her a complete recovery. The Royal Family is fortunate to have her in such a key role.

She looks beautiful.

...and here

She doesn’t look anywhere as bad as I was expecting. I suppose the only sign she’s ill is her weight…which isn’t too far off from the excessively thin look she adopted in 2011.

I like her dress…must’ve been inspired by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

She looks perfect - perfect in the sense that if she looked any better people would say “wtf have you been doing?” and if she looked any worse people would say “This is her goodbye.”

This is a beautiful course correction. I think now she can pop up intermittently while taking as much time off as she wants / needs. They really fucked this up in January through March.

She and Charlotte are matchy again, from what I can see. HRH PC looks to be in navy with white edging stripes.

I had arranged a showstopper from D&G but Mummy said no.

She seems like a strong person. I wish her the very best in her recovery.

BTW, do you guys know it's live on YouTube? The main festivities have just ended, so balcony scene soon.

Wow, she looks even better than she did before her diagnosis! Never seen that in a cancer patient before. Very happy for her.

It's absolutely pissing rain there now.

She looks great - I hope she makes a full recovery.

To the handful of frau cunts who attempted to hijack this thread to lecture the “childless DLers,” fuck off and go back to Facebook. It goes without saying that she has 3 young children. Why would anyone need to type about THAT?

Everyone except Patsy Ramsey of Boulder hopes that she spends time with her children and survives.

This is a gay forum of pointless bitchery and the self-righteous parents still manage to show up here and insert themselves in the most obnoxious ways possible to remind everyone that they are morally superior. Nice try. We don’t buy your shaming bullshit.

Mary me if you must, but it’s lovely to see her back, with her children especially. As she got out of her carriage at Horseguards Parade, she made a point of thanking an officer giving the salute, and at the end, she and Charlotte made a point of trying to clear condensation from the carriage windows so the onlookers could see them waving.

Quiet consideration for others. It’s nice to have her back.

To give Charles his due, he stood for about 15 minutes in steady rain saluting the troops as they passed back into the Palace. No small thing at his age and undergoing cancer treatment.

Yes, and Charles looks very well, too. Happy to see that.

R126, if she spends time with her children she deserves to survive.

Better link than mine at ^

Ok, I'm among those who posted that she's circling the drain.

But now? I'm shifting from that suspicion.

She chose to wear white; on her first public appearance. That's an intriguing, confident choice. It's the opposite of funereal black (and we all know, in public appearances, the BRF never declares, they silently signal).

Her face looks slightly more plump, in a good way.

Maybe she got a little nip tuck while she was in there.

Well, it doesn’t appear that she has any bags attached to her.

Here's the live feed.

Charlotte just chastised Louis for not standing up straight for God Save the King.

All's right with the world.

George looks more like a Windsor with every passing year. For me, isn't it time to let Charlotte look a little prettier and free her from the Von Trapp kids costume?

lol, I thought the same thing, r138.

And whoever is the DLer (maybe you?) who posts the "Charlotte as usurper" thing, I'm your fan.

Catherine looks good and not at death's door. Hopefully the mother of young children will make a full recovery.

Louis must be on the spectrum. George and Charlotte were much more well-behaved when they were his age. He can’t resist acting out…although Kate seems to have learned ignoring him is safer than trying to force him to behave.

It's called high spirited.

She didn't ignore him, R142: she handed him over to Me.

Fuck off R142

And Boom!

Thanks, r144

I love 💕 her

R112 Charlotte and Louis are already borderline disordered. This won’t change much.

God Bless the Princess of Wales and her family.

The white dress is a nice choice in and off itself and it reveals enough to demonstrate that she isn’t skeletal and there is no bag while possibly also making her look ever so slightly bigger. And having her and Charlotte so obviously coordinated de-emphasizes the possible motives for that choice. Can’t find anything to criticize here.

[quote] She and Charlotte are matchy again,

She copied ME.

She gets a pass this time. Considering.

She's very thin

[quote] Everyone except Patsy Ramsey of Boulder hopes that she spends time with her children and survives.

I beg your pardon. I have nothing but respect for the Princess of Wales and her lovely children. I just hope they get a handle on the little one before he says something unforgivable.

R91

No, I got the “joke”.

[quote]whoever is the DLer (maybe you?) who posts the "Charlotte as usurper" thing, I'm your fan.

I think it's a collaboration. Her intentions are obvious to many of us.

Usurper? Don’t be ridiculous. I’m next in line.

It’s not my fault that George is accident-prone, and unlikely to have children.

[quote] Her intentions are obvious to many of us.

Another good one!

And point well taken about it being a collaboration.

I enjoy all your posts because they're funny and you all have the decency to keep your quips clean, yet pointed, and harmless.

After all, she's a child and the best DLers never punch down.

lol, r156

Look, with Mummy indisposed and Daddy being such a cold fish, someone has to hold this family together.

Louis is not much trouble. Just give him a horsey and lock him in his bedroom and he’ll keep himself amused for hours.

But Georgie requires a LOT of hand-holding. There’s a reason they’re not sending him to Eton. Some boys just aren’t cut out for the rough and tumble of a hypermasculine environment, if you catch my drift. At Marlborough, I’ll be there to make sure he’s getting along. He’ll continue to look to me for protection and guidance, just as he always has; just as he always will.

[quote] He’ll continue to look to me for protection and guidance, just as he always has; just as he always will.

(Cue Ominous Organ Chords)

Kate's dress today was a re-wear. She wore it during the Coronation weekend. If you can see the pictures (or archiv.ph) her face to me looks a little fuller now than then.

She looked painfully thin yesterday and moved very tentatively. She actually looked like she was in pain, poor thing.

Joan Collins, at 91, looks better these days than Kate did today on television. Poor Kate looked like a corpse. Very sad last days for her. I'll be shocked if she makes it till New Year's.

And King Charles - he makes Joe Biden look young and spry.

While Kate does look very thin today, she was a similar size three years ago at Philip's funeral - long before her cancer diagnosis:

She looked like a tarted up Gumby - especially with that stupid hat.

She really didn’t, r163. She def looked thinner than usual, but otherwise she looked great. I haven’t seen video so I don’t know if she was walking gingerly or tentatively.

It's been reported that Kate has been walking the Palace gardens by herself, and singing this song to herself:

'This is it -

This is life, the one you get, so go and have a ball...

This is it -

Straight ahead, and rest assured, you can't be sure at all...

So while you're here, enjoy the view -

Keep on doin' what you do.

Hold on tight, we'll muddle through -

One day at a time..."

These hats that cover half of her face need to go.

She is an ideal clothes horse- and she knows her body well, unlike our dear Sussex Duchess.

She needs to find a hat which covers all of her face.

It’s extremely unlikely that she was diagnosed with cancer prior to Louis’s conception but it’s possible her original diagnosis was not in 2024. I suggested it in a previous thread last year somewhere around post 146 and was poo-pooed, but I think she has been ill for a while. So I don’t think you can conclude much from her current weight.

She’s lovely and so are her kids. She’s clearly a good mom.

She is expert in her role. I have no idea what she’s like out of the public eye, but that just underscores how skilled she is in the role. She presents only what she wants the public to see.

She might be a complete monster behind the scenes but I highly doubt it. To my knowledge there have been no negative reports on her…other than she can be a bit lazy and she made Meghan cry.

Hope all the best of her and her family. And for anyone dealing with the misery of cancer.

R171 I agree. She’s been unnaturally thin for many years. She either has superhuman willpower or something has been off with her digestive system for a while. As for a colonoscopy bag, these days it’s more like a discreet patch, but I highly doubt she’d be wearing white if she even had a patch bag. I think she’s worked for her attendance at this event for a while. Long enough for well placed fillers to settle so her face looks less gaunt.

Fillers during chemo? I highly doubt that.

R174, nothing is impossible for our DL's Facts of Death ghouls.

[quote]She’s lovely and so are her kids. She’s clearly a good mom.

Assuming she's been a hands-on-mom and has done the child rearing on her own, without the help of household staff and nannies - which I doubt very much.

Like you know, R177.

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^ "Meghan Markle releases new batch of jam and dog biscuits as Prince Harry's polo pal Nacho Figueras shows them off just hours before King and Kate Middleton's Trooping the Colour moment"

What an unfortunate coincidence.

Does Harry take pictures directly of his dog’s face?

R177 Sure, Kate has help, but it seems like she and William utilize the help for their most mundane tasks that suck up the time and energy of most parents. Their public interactions with the kids seem to support that they are genuinely close. Of course, Kate is human and I’m sure even pre-cancer she dumped the cranky babies on the nanny for an afternoon nap.

If every mother who had help is, by the R177 definition, a bad mom, then you're writing off the middle class and every working mom in the developed world.

She and Charles were quite chatty on the balcony, moreso than she and Wills. Maybe because of her hat was blocking Wills. It's interesting that they framed Anne out of the balcony shot.

Just an observation: in all of the video from today, Catherine seems to pay particular attention to her daughter, include several physical touches of reassurance—as if Charlotte were stressed a bit. Didn’t notice the same with the sons, today.

Honestly, it sorta looks like she’s enjoying her time in the woods

Catherine looked great today, if not a bit tired. She might have lost a little bit of weight (totally normal with chemo) but she's naturally a very thin women so it's hard to tell.

R185 I noticed that too. I get the impression that Charlotte is rather shy. I've noticed that when she's out on public engagements with her parents she seems to be a bit clinging with them (particularly William).

R183 I don't know many middle-class working moms who have 'household staff and nannies' as I clearly pointed out in my post. Do you ?

[quote] Just an observation: in all of the video from today, Catherine seems to pay particular attention to her daughter, include several physical touches of reassurance—as if Charlotte were stressed a bit. Didn’t notice the same with the sons, today.

Did you see Louis’s little jig? I was mortified. I told him, be a quiet little prince for a few minutes and what does he do? He dances in front of everyone. Well, if someone expects to live in the Royal Lodge one day, someone should be more obedient.

Great to see her out in public and that outfit was spectacular, very My Fair Lady.

[quote] I’m sorry you don’t know how to get around a payroll you idiot.

A payroll? PAYROLL!

How very sad for you.

Princess Catherine is exceptionally slender for a mother of three.

When you see her in motion, you can really see the weakness/frailty, but in her still shots she looks about as stunning as she ever has, which is quite surprising, especially since I'm fairly certain botox and fillers are not recommended during chemotherapy. She always looks the most beautiful/elegant with an updo and large hat. Suits her so much more than that basic bitch blowout she favors so much.

Vanessa Friedman has spoken!

Queen Camilla, in need of a cig, carrying a floppy handbag.

I was expecting Catherine to stand alone at the balcony at the end, and sing out:

"I want to tell the people

Of Great Britain

I've decided I must decline

All the honors, and titles you've pressed me to take..."

R195 That old mare is in need of a bottle of whiskey.

[quote] Princess Catherine is exceptionally slender for a mother of three.

Exceptionally beautiful both inside and out. She’s a model for how royals should behave.

The model royal died many royals ago… /s/ the 21st century

The BBC copy editors still have Louis ahead of Charlotte ….

Thanks for the heads up, r200. I’ve made a note.

Charles looks terrible.

R196, she's losing speed, she's losing strength--not style! that goes on flourishing forever, but her eyes, her smile do not have the sparkle of her fantastic past....

Just kidding--mostly. She did look wonderful today, but I wouldn't make any judgments about her health based on that. I think she was very carefully, fully, and expertly made up to give her a glowing, even skin tone, and it worked. Her face looked beautiful, almost more than ever. I can only imagine the pressure she felt to look well today.

I do hope she's not as ill as some here are prognosticating. Yes, I know she lives a very privileged life, etc., etc., but I like her, and she deserves a bit of good luck as much as any other cancer patient.

She looks happy. A little TOO happy. What pain meds do chemo patients get? Is she a full Stepford wife now?

"Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character. She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon. Kate seems capable of going from perfect bride to perfect mother, [to perfect cancer patient,] with no messy deviation."

She’s probably out of practice walking on four inch heels, which may have contributed to her tentative walking.

I used to think that the interesting issue was whether we should have a monarchy or not. But now I think that question is rather like, should we have pandas or not? Our current royal family doesn’t have the difficulties in breeding that pandas do, but pandas and royal persons alike are expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment. But aren’t they interesting? Aren’t they nice to look at? Some people find them endearing; some pity them for their precarious situation; everybody stares at them, and however airy the enclosure they inhabit, it’s still a cage.

It was wonderful to see her smiling again and I hope she gets well soon.

Has it been revealed exactly what kind of cancer she has?

[quote]She did look wonderful today

Mortuary cosmetologists can do wonders these days

[quote] She’s probably out of practice walking on four inch heels, which may have contributed to her tentative walking.

It was a bit muddy out there.

Re: fillers and Botox on chemo patient. There isn’t a rule against it, so it’s up to each patient and doctor. Kate looks a little too full in the face for it to be natural considering how ill she has been. No one watch to see Kate with a skeletal face, so I think her team considered how heathy she would look played a bit part in her decision to appear today. I don’t think Kate is particularly vain, just very conscious of her public image.

Would steroid treatment make her face puffy?

IME, steroids make your face puffy in an unattractive way, just puffy all over.

Katherine stole the day in terms of media attention. I bet Charles and Camilla are jealous again.

I'm not seeing the "fuller face" everyone is talking about. She looks more rejuvenated with better skin tone, but no fuller. If she's had anything done I would say fraxel laser and/or sculptra.

Here's what was going on with her beautician early this morning, in her dressing room:

"I inject the tissue of the fatal lamb

The formula's the one Somerset Maugham owns

Just a modest course of thirty-seven shots

You will be a heaving mass of hormones

No more crow's feet, no more flab

No more love handles to grab

You'll be so thin they'll all think you are

Walking sideways like a crab

Nothing sagging, nothing bagging

Nothing dragging on the floor

Of course, there's bound to be a little suffering

Eternal youth is worth a little suffering

Of course, there's bound to be a little suffering

Eternal youth is worth a little suffering

We have dry heat, we have steam

We have moisturizing cream

We have mud-packs. we have blood sacks

It's a rigorous regime

Not a wrinkle when you twinkle

Or a wobble when you walk

Of course, there's bound to be a little suffering

Eternal youth is worth a little suffering"

Is it a cancer of the coochiepop?

"One day at a time" sounds dire.

R215 I think it’s more that considering how thin she appeared, her face should have looked gaunt. So fillers would have brought her back to normal.

It's highly unlikely that Kate had any Botox or fillers while undergoing chemo not mention having just had abdominal surgery. You're not going to inject foreign substances in your body while your immune system is weakened.

I swear some of you think going through chemo and cancer treatment makes you shrivel into a raisin or something. The side effects of chemo are not what they were even twenty years ago. In many cases unless you actually know the person is undergoing treatment, you would never guess. The most common side effects are exhaustion and nauseousness.

There is definitely going to be another season of THE CROWN.

Tragic, this all writes itself.

[quote]I suspect Kate (and the King) will disclose what kind of cancer they have only if/when they are declared cancer free by their doctors.

I am currently in remission and have never heard a doctor use the term 'cancer-free'. There's no real way to determine whether someone is 100 percent free of cancer, and there's always a risk of recurrence. 'No evidence of disease' (NED or NEOD) seems to be the preferred term.

She could have facials that temporarily improve the tone and texture of the skin, as many celebs do before big award shows.

Looks like she has some bronzer makeup on.

Or maybe she just looks better than so many of you seemed to be hoping for.

Nah, it ain’t that

So it's true this was all a hollogram?

Definitely - she never left her hospital bed in Houston. All smoke and mirrors.

Megz tried to upstage Catherine by launching some dog biscuits two hours before Trooping the Colour started.

Good old Smeggy - like clockwork.

R221 fuck off you hysterical drama queen

[quote]Katherine stole the day in terms of media attention. I bet Charles and Camilla are jealous again.

Charles had a funny way of showing it, then. Not only did he encourage her to appear, but he chatted amiably to her throughout the balcony appearance. I think he's genuinely fond of her--and why wouldn't he be? He's been through Diana and Markle, and He's Still Here.

Pointless bitchery is one thing, but groundless is another.

She looked beautiful, elegant and much healthier than most would hope to given how punishing chemo is (and I know from personal experience). Rooting for her to get fully better.

Who is “Katherine”, R214?

Like Henry VIII’s first wife, C and K are used interchangeably.

No, they’re not. If you’re name is “Catherine” then that’s your name. It’s not “Katherine”. And vice versa.

William wishing Charles a happy Father's Day.

R236 I was joking about the current princess.

What r232 said.

Charles and Camilla are way above and beyond being "jealous" of anyone, unless it's to envy anonymity.

As for that pic at r237, my fun in observing and gossiping about the Royals is coming to my own interpretation of their silent gestures and statements.

For instance, I'm sure William releases a Father's Day pic every year, but with that one, I can't help but think of the absence of Harry from it, and if Harry now wants to try to match or exceed it with his own.

Poor Meghan. She has probably been waiting weeks to roll out her dog biscuits and jam but couldn’t for fear of doing it and then five minutes later comes the announcement that Kate is dead/in a coma/in Houston/whatever. So she waits and waits and confirms last minute, “She’s DEFINITELY doing it, right? She’s going to show up?” And she thinks she is safe and she unveils her products and avoids criticism, but nobody notices at all.

I see a message in the photo. A man with affection in his heart, but held back by the demands of his role (the suit) who is only able to tentatively engage with a foot on the ball and a child who doesn’t realize it yet. And I’m a pretty insensitive person, so if I see it, it’s there?

I don’t think it’s meant as a dig, I think it’s meant as an acknowledgement. Whether William has been stepping out on Kate or not, this past year has probably been exceptionally hard on him. There’s no way he hasn’t been looking back in his childhood and the loss of his mother.

co0uld Kate be on steroids and wouldn't that fill her face out?

in pic r195 of Camilla. no matter how she is dressed why does she always look so frumpy and out of place? Why is she still blond at her age? And she needs a different hair style.

f she dies William will have another broad in his bed by nightfall. If he doesn't already.

R243, that was Harry at the sex party in Las Vegas, not William. Remember?

R242, I have read that is the style Charles likes. All of this probably annoys her. She's trying to be a good sport but she'd rather be home with her grandchildren.

Look at most of the real aristocratic women in the UK. Very few of them fuck with their faces. Camilla does nothing. Anne does nothing. Sarah Armstrong Jones does nothing. Camilla gets bee venom facials, but plainly no work. Kate will probably go the same route. Look at Carol Middleton. If there's been work, not much. Kate's always had a chunky face with very distinct zones. Very big, prominent cheeks, in particular, a prominent forehead and a big, strong jawline. She looks entirely normal to me and like herself as she always has. Those women don't fuck with their faces, they wrinkle and sag and shrug their shoulders. It's confidence of that world. They probably mock women who have visible work done.

She looked like a skeleton at the TTC. Megan looks ten years younger than her.

Prince Louis is now seven but he still behaves like a four year old. Yawning and fidgeting on the Balcony. He definitely has ADHD.

R231, you can hate me but there will be.

There's nothing like the royal family. They're the biggest celebs in the world. I do hope she recovers and lives a long life for her -- her kids, her husband, her family.

[quote]I am currently in remission and have never heard a doctor use the term 'cancer-free'. There's no real way to determine whether someone is 100 percent free of cancer, and there's always a risk of recurrence. 'No evidence of disease' (NED or NEOD) seems to be the preferred term.

R222, this is so very true. Many questioned celebrities Suzanne Sommers and Olivia Newton-John when they publicly declared themselves as 'cancer free' over the years. It's a positive interpretation, and encouraging to their public. Yet the truth is, you're never cancer-free, as you point out - there's no way of determining someone is 100% cancer free. It is indeed misleading.

I wish you well on your journey.

I'm not sure it's a better idea to keep the type of cancer a secret. But I guess with the young children, it may be better. The press, their school mates' family, would be talking about prognoses and all that.

At least they revealed it was "abdominal" surgery. So ovarian, bowel, liver, or the dreaded pancreatic or stomach cancer, I guess.

Very unlikely they'd find pancreatic cancer by accident following another operation. The pancreas is a discrete organ and is tucked away under several others, which is why scans rarely pick up cancer in it till it's late in the day. It is much more likely to have been bowel surgery, probably resulting from one of the ulcerative bowel diseases, and the routine testing of removed tissue unexpectedly showed cancer amid the ulcerations.

[quote]she needs a different hair style.

Camilla has perfect hair for big tiaras, why would she change it?

When people are stuck in a specific hairstyle/makeup look, it's an indication that that's when they thought they were at peak looks. So with Camilla, it's the '80's.

Realistically, what modification could a woman of her age do?

A lot!

So...QEII should have updated her 70 yr old hairdo too, I suppose...

She should have. That George Washington curls, off-the-forehead style was awful.

Those photos at R253 must have been photoshopped.

[quote] She's trying to be a good sport but she'd rather be home with her grandchildren.

Strike grandchildren. Insert horses, dogs and gin.

How come Charles isn't red in the face like he has rosacea anymore? Is he wearing makeup?

[quote] horses, dogs and gin.

And cigarettes!

Hmmm, Charles' famous sausage fingers also look smaller recently to me. I think he's just lost weight overall. That might be the explanation as to why he just opted to wear his general officer waist sash vs the regular colonel's sash at Trooping the Colour, as I mentioned above (or in the other similar thread).

Oh Jesus^ sashe away, NOW.

Maybe his treatment and suggested dietary changes also cured his edemic fingers and rosacea. At the coronation Charles was wearing foundation and powder at least.

Maybe Charlie is on Ozempic or Wegovy ?

Charles might be drinking less too.

I agree that Kate’s face looks different but this could be due to makeup or some sort of recent facial enhancement procedure.

[quote]It is much more likely to have been bowel surgery, probably resulting from one of the ulcerative bowel diseases, and the routine testing of removed tissue unexpectedly showed cancer amid the ulcerations.

This sounds like the plausible scenario.

Also because I don't think she's wearing a wig. Chemo for colon cancer often doesn't make you lose your hair. I have a friend who is, unfortunately, stage 4 (liver mets) at 45 and has still gone through it without hair loss.

You can see the future-Prince-Andrew in Louis. My heart is already fearful for the scores of teenage women who’ll be subject to his unwanted, oily advances once he’s in his 40s and bloated on years of gorging food.

One of the factors responsible for Prince Andrew was his status as his mother's favorite, R269. A combination of indulgence and emotional neglect during childhood is often mentioned as a possible cause of personality disorders in adults. The Prince and Princess of Wales seem as if they are more involved parents than Queen Elizabeth.

[QUOTE]Charles might be drinking less too.

Did not even think of this until your mention. Has he given normal up? For the Queen, even thinking of the Dubonnets and wine for meals, how did she not pass out?

[quote]For the Queen, even thinking of the Dubonnets and wine for meals, how did she not pass out?

I too was surprised to learn the sheer amount of booze that Elizabeth consumed daily. When you have developed a high tolerance it doesn't knock you on your ass like it would a non-drinker.

R271 You've never met a Brit, have you?

When all those ridiculous American articles came out saying "OMG the Queen is an ALCOHOLIC look at how much she drinks!" the general British reaction was "Is that... all?".

Britain is a world leader in dementia. Can't help thinking it's all that booze and fried chips.

R274, and yet the average Brit lives 2.5 years longer than the average American. All that high-fructose corn syrup and chlorine-washed chicken is killing you quickly…

Why are Nacho and his masculine looking wife aligned with the Harkles? Wasn't Nacho also friends with William? Do the Nachos need money or exposure or what?

On the day of Catherine's comeback at Trooping, Nacho posted a photo of a very "skinny" black and white dog. That can't just be a coincidence.

There are also photos of Blake Lively socializing with Nacho and his wife so that explains Blake's dig at Catherine at the beginning of Catherine's illness. Blake is part of that group.

[quote]r29 She’s flying in from Houston for the party/photo op?

Will she be moving to Texas?

It’s possible you have to be a resident to get treatment.

Meghan might be willing to sponsor her for residency, etc., but I don’t know how that relationship is.

The symbolism of "raspberry" jam is not lost. Cruella de Markle is so juvenile, spiteful and seething with rage.

Blowing a raspberry to the "skinny" white bitch (the skinny white dog). Also, the "2 of 2" designation on the jar of raspberries, does that mean raspberries to both William and Catherine (two)?

Nacho, who is in Florida, posted the photo at 5:00 a.m on the day of Trooping the Color, that's 30 minutes before Trooping started in the UK. Was he really up at 5:00 a.m. posting photos of jam and dogs and biscuits or was this Cruella de Markle's machination with Nacho's blessing?

Meghan's flying monkeys who patrol DL will be here shortly with their angry righteous indignation. They are so transparent.

Fly monkeys = the henchman who do the narcissist's dirty work.

Not henchmen, dupes.

Or useful idiots.

Wow r278, your deep analysis is… really deep.

You can schedule posts on IG, no need to wake up bleary-eyed to post.

Catherine can get consults from doctors from all over the world without our knowing it. Unless it's surgery, she has no need to leave home. There's no infusion she can't get at home and no machine her father-in-law can't gift to a hospital.

Incredible R283. Surely that silly old cancer stands no chance against Her Royal Highness’s unlimited material resources.

R283 Yeah. The King is really going to start "gifting" items to hospitals. You frightfully dumb cunt.

Sorry, I'm misinformed. The NHS introduces a political dynamic I did not take into account.

Had no idea that my remark would rub people the wrong way but I can see how it did. Sorry again

[quote]There's no infusion she can't get at home and no machine her father-in-law can't gift to a hospital.

You're talking about a man who asked his friends to buy his second wife a house because he was too big a cheapskate to buy it himself.

Did he start a GoFundMe?

His entire existence is GoFundMe writ large !

She's not getting NHS care. She's getting private care. They alway pay their own way privately.

I have a question about U.K. private care. Are these private insurance policies? Or are they paying out of pocket for the entire medical cost? Considering how much medical costs are (a hospital stay could be hundreds of thousands). I would imagine this is out of reach except for the wealthiest of the wealthy. Or are costs more manageable even out of pocket?

[quote] Prince Louis is now seven but he still behaves like a four year old. Yawning and fidgeting on the Balcony. He definitely has ADHD.

You have no idea.

[quote]Prince Louis is now seven but he still behaves like a four year old. Yawning and fidgeting on the Balcony. He definitely has ADHD.

He was watching a military parade with a marching band. What would you expect a six year old to do? Idiot.

[QUOTE] ADHD. He was watching a military parade with a marching band. What would you expect a six year old to do? Idiot.

He was seven last April, Klanner. Shame he is retarded and doesn't understand that he's supposed to stay still and look interested. George and Charlotte were perfectly behaved at that age.

Is Louis in school? I seem to remember the press were allowed to take pics of the other kids on their first day, but haven’t seen any of Louis.

Btw, by the third kid, parents stop being hypervigilant. The third kid then ends up being high spirited and spoiled. Louis is just an average kid in that respect. I can’t believe people are diagnosing him over the tv.

Louis est le nouveau Barron? Mon Dieu!

R294, he's six you proudly ignorant moron. He turned six at the end of April, this year.

Go back to Celebitchy and swap welfare fraud stories with the rest of the scam sows. You're of no use to fact and not good with fiction, you stupid cunt.

R294 please stop, you are just embarrassing yourself. You don’t even have the mental capacity to check someone’s age before posting.

[quote]Will she be moving to Texas?

[quote]It’s possible you have to be a resident to get treatment.

No, you don't. People come from all over the world for treatment at MD Anderson, which has been explained already.

Except the Princess of Wales, R299, who was never there.

I don't think she was there either, R300, I was just correcting the poster who thinks you have to be a Texas resident.

I wish she would just be upfront about traveling to Texas for treatment.

This is why no one trusts that family anymore.

Yes, every famous cancer patient *must* issue bulletins about exactly where they will be receiving treatment, or they are untrustworthy.

Idiot.

Isn’t the public dole paying for her treatment, tho…. since she’s a public servant?

The People deserve to know what it’s all being spent on. And where and why.

Maybe the public doesn’t want to fund weekly trips to Houston.

R302 have you any idea how stupid you are?

Maybe you were dropped on the head as a baby, that would explain it.

R304 are you seriously so stupid that you think that the Princess of Wales is making weekly trips to Houston for cancer treatment that is available in the UK as well as in all countries in the developed world?

“The People”? Who are “The People”, R304? It’s kind of cute that you’ve taken on the mantle of spokesperson for the 67,000,000 people of the UK.

Are you representative of the stupidity of the population of the USA, or are you just a stupid outlier?

Are you representative of the Brits who have no sense of humor?

These are joke posts….

Perhaps that explains the basis for the resentment of a 302 or a 294... they see a loving mother, happy children, and all they've got to look back at is that Christmas the cops kicked in the door.

Nice try, R307.

The People belong to no one.

They are fickle.

Can be ma-nip-u-lated.

Break out your hats, it's Royal Ascot!!!

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^ See Hugenie within that story... I never thought I'd say this but maybe they should give her some engagements... a few walk abouts wouldn't hurt.

Good to know the Widow Windsor set aside her grief for…a horse race.

Tell us more about grief, r315.

Have you had a relative commit suicide? You’re left with a shitload of grief..

Rather than be an anti-social shrew trying to cause misery among decent people, R314? Deferring to your obvious expertise.

Zara looks fantastic here.

Was Rose “Hatchet Face” Hanbury there?

She's like a walking skeleton. Probably be dead by this time next year. Shouldn't have smoked in the first place.

R321 you keep trying to push that smoking story on every single Royal thread. Nobody is buying your lies, so go away, stop with the drugs and try and find yourself a job. Nothing too taxing for your tiny brain, but just enough to get you out of the welfare/hostel cycle.

It won’t be easy, but others as dumb as you have managed it, so don’t give up hope.

Smoking is such a bad idea but Kate did it to keep her weight down.

I think she should go straight to homelessness, personally. The evidence speaks for itself.

First, boards have points of view. On this board the prevailing view seems to be that Meghan Markle is a clumsy interloper who is her own worst enemy when it comes to thinking up ways to look like a jackass and is endless fun to mock as a result.

Can you seriously, though, imagine the disorder afflicting R321? She is so invested in Meghan Markle that she comes here anyway, to incessantly go low and demean someone she doesn't know, who to all appearances is doing a diligent, sincere job and who is presently suffering from cancer? She tells lies and casts aspersions without any credibility. What is wrong with that person to imagine that coming to another board to spew discharge like that accomplishes anything? Is racism so bad in the US and the UK that it's twisted R321's mind and soul to the point this is some kind of keyboard reparation? I don't know care what Celebitchy or some other street corner for no hopers says but I don't get the mental and emotional satisfaction of incursions to elsewhere. At the very best it's the behaviour of a school yard.

She attacks her weight, she attacks her marriage, she attacks her husband, she attacks her children, she attacks her [italic]health.[/italic] To what end? In support of what? What does it accomplish? What need to does it fill? She's truly a repulsive nature. I can't imagine what place she has in the world.

Does Edina Monsoon handle the PR for the Royal Family? Stunning how inept the PR has been on this.

Other than the edited photo, what was inept? I assume you’re American?

[quote] First, boards have points of view. On this board the prevailing view seems to be that Meghan Markle is a clumsy interloper who is her own worst enemy when it comes to thinking up ways to look like a jackass and is endless fun to mock as a result.

I think this is a very apt description of the majority view, but I’ve seen some posters who are ridiculously eager to find fault with Meghan. And I’ve seen posters (maybe the same?) who act like pointing out that a woman who is now known to have cancer has been very obviously augmenting her hair with extensions and wigs is engaging in ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Also, I’m not sure how diligent Kate is. She doesn’t seem to work all that hard. Between tough pregnancies and possibly being ill for quite some time I suspect she has justification for a light schedule, but there is no evidence that she a diligent. Because she wasn’t working her ass off prior to her marriage, either. Nor is there any proof that she is brave or compassionate. Doesn’t mean she isn’t. She dresses appropriately and has stopped flashing her ass. She is either an attentive mother or fakes it well. She is very good at being thin and maintaining mystery around her real personality and beliefs. Both of those are impressive.

The PR earlier this year was really awful, which is why I was sure she was dying once the video was released. That was the only explanation I could figure out for why they were willing to lie so obviously. The situation was just so extreme they didn’t care. The whole situation is fascinating because it has been so mishandled. Anything is possible.

I’m not OP but what possible point do you have by asking if someone was American? The PR HAS been somewhat inept. Anyone on either side of the Atlantic can see that.

[quote]Does Edina Monsoon handle the PR for the Royal Family? Stunning how inept the PR has been on this.

If this had been handled properly, Kate's illness could have been a bully pulpit of advocacy and support for Britons who are battling cancer along with their friends and family. She could have had a social media campaign that required minimal participation on Kate's part to outreach and awareness about the disease.

Instead, we were given a ham-handed series of strange videos and bonkers messaging regarding Kate and her health. Rumours are born in that hothouse of misinformation.

This could have given the royals a boost in support and popularity. Instead, it has challenged the patience of the British people (many of whom have their own struggles of equal or greater challenge, and has given birth to conspiracy theories that will never die.

Not good PR, by any reasonable standard

And now they have to walk a very fine line. They don’t want a deathwatch, but they also don’t want people to start to think this was breast cancer like their neighbor / colleague / cousin had and continued to work full time through, while doing a 2 hour commute and cooking dinner most nights.

[quote]Can you seriously, though, imagine the disorder afflicting [R321]? She is so invested in Meghan Markle that she comes here anyway, to incessantly go low and demean someone she doesn't know

It's nutso. Don't forget wishing death on the mother of three kids.

It's not limited to R321, either. There are people on Twitter saying the same kind of stuff. I hope it's just because they're young and that they outgrow this weirdness eventually.

R329. My comment was directed to the post about the PR being inept, not OP, so I’m not sure why you reference OP. Second, you continue to assert the PR has been horrible, but you can cite any ways in which it has been. There hasn’t been any erosion of support for the royal family as far as I know because of tte handling of the matter. Do you have any evidence that is has? The British public generally respect the royal family ‘s right to privacy and expect them to be discreet and somewhat remote. Do you have evidence that Catherine’s adherence to third policy is a cause of dissatisfaction with the British public she serves?

Of course, her condition has led to a lot of vile speculation, among stupid and foul people (many of them Americans) but if you think releasing her X-rays would stop that, you’re foolish.

For the reasons above it is highly relevant to ask f you are American. Your post assumes a narrow, biased, uninformed American view.

r328 and r330.

I don't have children, by choice. I'm the exact opposite from a "But... but... what about the children?" breeder Frau.

I've read a variation on your position that it should have been full disclosure, no holds barred, they blew the PR, Kate could be an advocate, blah, blah, blah.

I fully disagree with you.

And I write this as being 2nd to no one when it comes to immersing myself in, and posting about, all the latest gossip about the BRF, the Sussexes, whoever.

As soon as they announced Kate's surgery in January, I didn't want, require, yearn for, any more info than that.

And getting back to the children, this is their parent the world wants to know about and talk about.

Fuck that.

I totally understand why William and Kate needed to give themselves private space with their children so they can comprehend, in private, what is the situation with their mother.

R330. This is one of the weirder chauvinistic American fantasies to appear o. a royal thread.

The only wrong with the PR is it hasn't satisfied with ghoulish need that makes us stare at a traffic wreck when you pass it in the road. The same conspiracy mindedness that believes non existent hair extensions tell all. There is the weird desire to knock this lady down, who hasn't done anything except her job, unlike... somebody else.

R330, is there anything to say Kate can't become "a bully pulpit of advocacy and support for Britons who are battling cancer along with their friends and family" once she's, you know, actually done chemo and perhaps... feels up to it? Is it OK she prioritizes her treatment, recovery and family or do we really need a live feed?

The agreement, R328, was always that the Wales would be given the space to raise their young family, raising, ideally, happy, well adjusted supporters of the future kings. That got turned into lazy Kate by people with agendas.

You can drop the good cop routine. You're not very good at it.

She’ll be fine.

R334, you are claiming I wrote things that I didn’t. And, R338, I’m not privy to “agreements” made by the BRF, but she didn’t do a hell of a lot prior to having kids.

“ I’m not privy to “agreements” made by the BRF, but she didn’t do a hell of a lot prior to having kids.”

So the story goes, QE II’s happiest memories are from the time when newly married and Philip still a serving officer in the Navy and they lived on Malta. She wanted something similar for Will and Kate. She was still hale and hearty, Charles was the heir and William was the heir to the heir. So why not dictate they could have their honeymoon cottage in Wales and make sure their marriage was solid. She also had the evidence of her three childrens’ divorces, especially Andrew’s which was mismanaged from the start. Should’ve worked, grew up together, but Fergie has said that in her first year of marriage, she saw her husband for less than 30 days total.

When they were first married, the working Royal Family consisted of the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Camilla, Anne, Andrew, Edward, Sophie, the Kents, the Gloucesters, and Princess Alexandra. William, Kate and that other guy were given alot of leeway to live their young lives. William and Kate, at least, having. married around thirty, had fifty or sixty years of work ahead.

And a quick primer. They married in April 2011. They toured Canada in the summer of that year. He served as a search and rescue pilot during that time. She, oddly, lived with her husband where he did his work. She was pregnant by the late autumn of 2012 and we all know how well she was during that.

Sorry if she didn't do a hell of a lot in the eighteen months after her marriage.

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A hundred pages of Ascot.

I could watch Zara Tindall all day... she's always having fun.

Making nice with Fergie.

Good one of William.

[quote] Sorry if she didn't do a hell of a lot in the eighteen months after her marriage.

Or the preceding 30 years.

I like her and respect her, probably because she isn’t like me. She’s disciplined about her weight, she takes advice, she plays a long game, sees the big picture. I also appreciate that she isn’t attention-seeking and seems to a good mother. But I think throwing adjectives like diligent, brave, committed (not sure exactly which ones I’ve seen here) lacks justification. But they could be accurate.

William looks horrible there, at R347, IMO.

He looks fine.

Kate, before her marriage, no she wasn’t setting the world on fire with her ambition and work ethic. Her parents were wealthy and appeared to be okay with supporting her. Not an unheard of situation even in the US, see every twenty-something living in Manhattan with an apartment they couldn’t otherwise afford. But remember, Kate was already linked to William in college. It’s quite possible that working for her parents was the safest option to keep her name out of the gossip columns. If she had an ordinary job (she did have a couple outside jobs) and she messed up at work —like everyone does at some point—it would be headline news. Why put yourself through that?

When she and William broke up after several years, he was commitment shy and still had at least one other woman on the string, Kate just launched herself into a frenzy of don’t-need-him activity and it worked . They got back together after a few weeks and then the engagement was on.

Absolutely agree, R350. I’m not claiming she was a lazy shit. Just that there is no evidence of her being particularly hard working, either.

R343 her parents have really aged…

Michael Middleton is 74. Carole is 69. She's gained some weight and, admirably, seems to have avoided the surgeon's knife.

R334. Correct on all counts. Anyone who wishes ill of this woman is a fucking monster.

I love Catherine, hate Meghan, so I am NOT trying to stir anything up, but, from the American Cancer Society:

Smoking is one of the most important risk factors for pancreatic cancer. The risk of getting pancreatic cancer is about twice as high among people who smoke compared to those who have never smoked. About 25% of pancreatic cancers are thought to be caused by cigarette smoking. Cigar smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco products also increase the risk. It’s never too late to stop smoking, since the risk of pancreatic cancer will drop once a person stops smoking. To learn more, see Can Pancreatic Cancer Be Prevented?

R350 Not only were they supporting her, they also paid for expensive orthodontic work seemingly without a blink and purchased a Chelsea house for her and Pippa. The Middleton finances have always been a bit of a mystery. I wonder if the younger kids were ever jealous of the support Kate received during the long wait? Of course, Pippa did alright in the end and nabbed a hubby that might not have looked at her without the future king and queen as his in-laws.

When Kate dies, does Diana’s ring revert to Meghan? Wouldn’t that be the fair thing?

The ring will revert back to William r357. To be used by one of his sons for their wives, or his daughter.

R357, the ring now belongs to Catherine. It will go to whoever she wants to have it.

Not really r359. It's a royal heirloom - it's Catherine's during her lifetime but guaranteed it reverts back to William and the Crown at her death (or a divorce, if that were to come about). It's not the typical engagement ring given out by non-royals, this one has special provenance. I'm sure Catherine had to sign off on this when she became engaged.

It’s a private family heirloom. The Crown has zero claim.

The ring (and the Cartier watch which Meghan now has) were Diana's personal possessions. They didn't belong to the Crown. Maybe Kate did sign a prenup agreeing to return the ring in case of divorce, but, really, who else but her own children would she give the ring to? Makes no sense to put it in a contract.

So, just to recap... now she's got pancreatic cancer, which given The Trooping pictures she's absolutely rocking. Does she divorce William and hock the ring per the prenup before she dies or just dies and wills it to whoever? And are we certain extensions don't cause pancreatic cancer?

R362, the royals don't do prenups, and how tacky would the RF look if they wanted an engagement ring back? How many sapphires do they need?

Um, her entire existence unto death is, practically speaking, a prenup. The prenup of all prenups.

You Brits can’t see the forest for the trees…what a strange kingdom you’re stuck with.

Proof that she has pancreatic cancer?

If y'all wanted to really start some juicy rumors ...reality based... you'd check out how close and flirty and friendly William is with his "aunt " Sophie. Yeah. Both at the Ascot races and the Ceremony of the Garter at Windsor. What a dear nephew! She's been dressing a lot sexier lately and looking much more glammed up. Edward...well he's just himself, right?

Pancreatic cancer has a 14% survival rate so 'Catherine' isn't going to be around for much longer.

The Kate stan on this thread is hilarious. Imagine simping for some ugly rich white woman.

R366, don't worry about that!

If something happens to Kate, that sapphire is the new Hope diamond.

R355. So you have assumed that she has a particular cancer, which you have no reason to believe she has, because of a smoking habit you assume she has?

This has turned into a thread about a woman with cancer looking well at her first public appearance to one in which she supposedly has the deadliest kind of cancer and her husband is unfaithful. Bye, Felicia.

What should we talk about? The UK’s reputation as the world’s greatest meritocracy, or its role as the world’s leading economy, or how team GB will dominate the upcoming Olympics?

You gotta go with the 💩ya got

Will William remarry after Kate's gone?

“Ugly rich white woman” - R368 you’ve revealed yourself. It’s obviously the “white” part with which you have an issue. Along with the “rich” part.

As far as “ugly”, well that’s entirely subjective, but by most unbiased criteria she’s hardly ugly.

You, on the other hand, R368 - if you’re as ugly as your bitter, jealous and resentful postings, you must be fucking ugly indeed.

Back to Celebitchy for you.

[quote]It's a royal heirloom - it's Catherine's during her lifetime but guaranteed it reverts back to William and the Crown at her death (or a divorce, if that were to come about).

Then why didn't it revert back to Charles after his divorce?

R368 is the KGT. Hey KGT - you’ve posted elsewhere that Kate had ulcerative colitis and has a stoma and colostomy bag (which she hid rather well in that tight white dress at Trooping the Colour last weekend).

Now you’re diagnosing her with pancreatic cancer.

You really want her dead, don’t you, R368? Why is that? Apart. From her being rich and white, which seems to trigger you.

R368, imagine being a welfare kween stumping for... I dunno.. catching Markle farts?

R376 don’t ask obvious questions of too stupid folks—they will get agitated. 🫥

Shit wrong thread

Shit not wrong thread, not R129 on this thread, I don't know what the kippers went wrong but FFS Kate does not have pan can.

[quote]R362 really, who else but her own children would she give the ring to?

I think it would go a long way toward healing old wounds if Kate gave Meghan the ring now.

Call it reparation.

[quote]r374 Will William remarry after Kate's gone?

Yes.

Some of the posts are missing. Are they still following William and Catherine around like insecure little hangdogs?

Diana's sapphire engagement ring is now worth millions of dollars, many times more than it was worth when she was alive. It's one of the most famous and recognizable rings in the world. You can bet that Kate signed a strict agreement to return it to William in case of a split or her early death. There's no way she's keeping that, it has too much value and association with the BRF.

Agree with r383, William would definitely remarry if Kate passed away early.

I bet she didn’t —you type odd

[QUOTE]signed a strict agreement to return it to William in case of a split or her early death.

"Yes, William, I consent to your agents prying the ring from my cold dead hands. Where's the notary?"

Was there a wax seal and was it signed with Charles’ favorite pen? 😵‍💫

R373. The UK outranks the US in income mobility.

Tee hee. When you have such clear class-based social distinctions, a little extra income makes no difference.

R390. Let me guess. You don’t have a passport but you’ve watched every episode of Downton Abbey. Yea

?

What a very odd reply R391. Almost as if you don’t acknowledge class distinction remains significant, in particular compared with the US. Oh well.

R393. Almost as if you are using silly cliches based on your provincialism.

R392. I think it went over your head.

Ahh there will always be an England, amirite? You guys are feckin’ funny.

Economics is the only class line anywhere.

If PoorDearCatherine should succumb to her illness, and die, William will never remarry.....

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^ Lots of great pictures. All the senior royals except the King, PoW, and Andrew were in attendance. Zara Tindall hugging everyone including Fergie. Not a bad dress in sight. Mrs. Middleton is looking older but jovial.

I thought Eugenie's dress was too light - a forest green would have worked better.

R356 Kate and Pippa didn’t live in a house in Chelsea, they lived in a flat, like most people in London.

And if Kate’s parents paid for her dental work then so what? It’s not as if she had a mouthful of gold crowns like a rapper, she just had some dental work done to improve the appearance of her teeth. And your never going to believe this, but plenty of people get cosmetic dentistry done, including ordinary people like myself and probably many others on here. You don’t have to be a multi millionaire to afford it.

Eugenie's dress had an unflattering bustline area.

[QUOTE] Will William remarry after Kate's gone?

Yep, to a woman 15 years younger than him. One with decent sized breasts this time. He'll probably have more children.

[quote]Economics is the only class line anywhere.

A US Presidential candidate claims he's a billionaire, but is the most classless man on the planet.

R404 Sure KGT. I’m sure that your breasts are absolutely massive, to go with your enormous butt. Better lay off the Pepsi for a while.

If Kate dies, I doubt William remarries. And assuming Kate fully recovers, if she survives William, I doubt she remarries.

Why take on another marriage contract with all of its familial and financial headaches when you've fulfilled your duties in the only marriage that actually matters? That produced direct heirs to the throne?

Ya think the future, or crowned, King of the UK and Commonwealth Realms will have any obstacles to getting laid?

William strikes me as the type of heterosexual man that will go into a long-term relationship as widower, but won't have any hesitation making it clear that he has no intention of ever marrying again.

Yeah, I know. For whatever reasons that existed then, Charles and Camilla decided to marry.

That era is over.

I'm not a citizen of the UK. I'm just guessing.

It's hard for me to believe, however, that in this day and age the UK citizens would have any problem with William assuming the throne as a single, widowed father.

And remaining that way ^.

[quote]And assuming Kate fully recovers, if she survives William,

If she survives him after becoming queen, seeing how the Brits loved George the 6th wife, she could be Queen Catherine, the King's Mother, possibly after being Regent. Queen Mary didn't need explanation.

It's all in the timing. But if I were Georgie, I'd start cancer screenings after puberty.

William is in his early 40's yes? If Catherine dies, he will finish raising his kids, date discreetly, but William seems like the type who needs a partner. I see him remarrying, but he would wait until he was nearing 60 to do it.

[quote] I see him remarrying, but he would wait until he was nearing 60 to do it.

From a purely financial, legal and Royal standpoint, I still believe the heavier scale is avoiding a remarriage, no matter what stage of life he's in.

And a publicly acknowledged, long-time partner who he is committed to can be financially taken care of. If she had any smarts about her, she'd make sure (and, he'd make sure!) that's taken care of, money up-front or however their financial experts create whatever instrument that's needed.

I don't know. For all I know, he'd be sizing up his options at her funeral and be re-married in a couple of years after Kate's death.

But, I just think William is, ultimately, a practical guy. Hell, he may have already had a vasectomy. Look how long he took to marry in the first place.

Jesus Christ.

For Christmas each year, Kate should send Meghan a case of lip gloss. And on Meghan's birthday, Kate should send her one of those cards that cries out when you open it. When Meghan opens the card, she' hear little Charlotte crying, "But the dress doesn't fit, Mummy!"

If you're aghast with pearl-clutching at the topic of Kate being dead (and I stan her), r412 and William remarrying or not remarrying while she is alive, well, I've noticed a few things in life.

None of us are getting out of here alive.

R414, it wasn't aghast, it was contempt at the stupid. Sit a spin, cunt.

Are you new to DL, r415? If you don’t like the topic, there’s an X at the corner of the screen.

R416, there are some really intelligent posters on this thread.

I mean, not you obviously, but that's what the block's for.

Oh no! I’m devastated r417!

🙄🙄🙄🙄

[quote] Sit a spin, cunt.

This from r417, but I'm the one who isn't "really intelligent."

And it ain't the C-word I'm referring to.

In my 20 plus years here at the DL, I've been flamed by the truly skilled at it, which doesn't include r415.

A typo's the best comeback you've got? Wow, we quake.

Not the typo, Einstein, the sophomoric, juvenile "sit a spin" or sit and spin, whatever.

Go find a playground, the adults are talking.

Don't confuse your age with adult. For somebody who's been around all these years, you haven't learned much about flaming. But I guess with your limits, that's a step too far.

LOL - the adults are talking about woman with cancer and speculating about her death. Nice.

R423, I’m sure deep down we all wish her well, but come in, this is DL. Did you expect the Hallmark Channel?

So everything is within bounds [italic]except[/italic] calling bullshit on the ghoulishness? I'm not saying don't, I'm saying suck it up if you do. You're ghouls. Own it.

[QUOTE]Not the typo, Einstein, the sophomoric, juvenile "sit a spin" or sit and spin, whatever.

I haven't been involved in this bizarre exchange, but..

It's worse than a typo. You totally messed up the insult to the point of incomprehensibility. It's actually "Sit on this and spin " as the insulter holds up the middle finger (or index finger depending on the country) at the insultee and makes an upward thrusting gesture.

Prince George has stated that he wants the sapphire engagement ring if his mummy dies.

Well, thanks, R426, but you may have noticed we're not actually in each other's presence here on the internet.

So sit and spin on that, ya fucking moron.

lol, r426, in a good way.

And it's telling of r423 being in over their head.

They immediately operate from the premise that if we're gossiping about the realities of life and death, it surely must follow that we desire Kate's death.

*eyeroll*

You do though, little eyeroller.

[QUOTE]you may have noticed we're not actually in each other's presence here on the internet.

Are you trying to make some sense or did you deliberately use a weird non-sequitur just for kicks?

[QUOTE]So sit and spin on that, ya fucking moron.

You sound nice. Like you can easily make friends and influence people in real life.

You sound stupid, R431. So there's that.

OK, enough. Blocks all around.

R432 is completely and utterly baffled. Intellectually out of his depth on DL so he's collecting his marbles and running off to mommy.

Seriously, R433? That's what you've got? You're very brave.

I thought I got blocked... 😪

Getting close. But if you're down to emoticons, I don't talk to fourteen year old girls. You have a nice day. And don't forget the hairnet for your shift.

Gurls, gurls! Settle down now. Putting everyone in time out chairs.

It is ghoulish to directly discuss Kate's death (or that of anyone still living, imo), however I offer that the topic discussed here isn't specifically her death conditions, but the potential legalities of inheritance of well-known heirlooms in the event of. This is the BRF we discuss here, a lot, and there's a lot that isn't expressly known about these things so people are curious. As a public family, partially supported by public dollars, people will ask these questions.

R 436 - You seem to have a pathological need to get the last word in despite having claimed to block me.

Am I blocked per your previous claims or not?

William will remarry for sure. He can't be king with a girlfriend, can he? Hardly respectable. He needs a wife to keep him company at all the tedious functions and to take on some royal duties herself.

DL has always been proudly ghoulish and if it was Meghan with cancer there would be a hundred death watch threads by now.

I love Catherine and don't want her to die, but...

if she did, I'd like to see William marry and have more kids, just to push Harry further away in the line of succession.

[quote] if she did, I'd like to see William marry and have more kids, just to push Harry further away in the line of succession.

I agree, but Parliament needs to have backbone and remove the Sussexes from the line of succession.

[QUOTE] agree, but Parliament needs to have backbone and remove the Sussexes from the line of succession.

Not happening. Harry is the King's son and there's cancer in the family now. Charles and Wills might both die before George reaches 18.

...and if that happens r443, Harry will have no role in the BRF either way. Catherine (if she's still with us) would be appointed Regent for her son. And if she is absent or no longer living, Great Aunt Anne or Great Uncle Edward will step in to fill in the void, until George reaches 18 or finished Uni (probably the latter scenario).

You don't need those wrinklies.

R443. William has cancer?

Pippa meanwhile is living her best life ever.

Once they knew the Queen had cancer, they should have kept those next in the line of succession away from her. Now Catherine has caught pancreatic cancer. (They should have been extra-cautious since she is a smoker.)

William could have taken over for Catherine, but now he has cancer too. That leaves Meghan next in the line of succession unless parliament acts quickly. I think we are witnessing the death throes of the British monarchy. . I’m not sure it will see 2025.

But but but R448 - Catherine flew straight back to her Houston cancer hospital after Trooping the Colour last weekend and was immediately hooked up again to her colostomy bag, dewigged and de-extensioned. In the adjoining room is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley preparing for cosmetic surgery to look like Kate in case Kate dies. Crisis averted, I would think.

[quote]Charles and Wills might both die before George reaches 18.

That's why there's a process in place to have a regent. That's not an obstacle for the Parliament to do the right thing and remove the Sussexes from the line of succession. Also, the deaths of Charles and William is all the more reason to remove Harry and his offspring asap.

R451. NYMag writers are morons.

Maggie H is a snappy writer. Go after the substantive facts, if you can. It’s not like she writes for the Daily Mail, or the Sun….or

[quote]Charles and Wills might both die before George reaches 18.

Quite. Possibly.

Yikes?! Have I been found out and ..., shit, damaged? God, HELP ME!

R452, the article openly mocks the idea that Charles would ever go out his way to have anything to do with Harry.

Kate tweeted this for William's birthday.

Great pic

I’ll just leave this here. Yes, it’s Newscorp but it hits the nail squarely on the head.

Kate's trolling, in a good way, in that pic at r457.

They may be jumping from a small beach cliff or something, but from the angle it's taken from, it suggests impossible to achieve heights.

It's like she's inviting accusations of photoshopping and doesn't give a fuck.

Family is extremely important to Charles, even though family means nothing to Harry.

Anybody who's been to the beach near Sandringham/Anmer/Holkham Hall, knows that where there's dunes in that part of Norfolk they are both high and steep.

[quote]Family is extremely important to Charles The Ghost of Diana, Princess of Wales would like a word.

Oh, please. Diana was sleeping with everyone, married or single. She was hardly obsessed with traditional family life.

From R451 's article:

[quote]When I asked a well-placed source whether Harry could bring his children to see the King at Balmoral this summer as a compromise, the answer was a resounding snort. Read into that what you will.

I have no idea what she's implying. Anyone?

R465, snort = derision = "That's not happening."

[QUOTE] and if that happens [R443], Harry will have no role in the BRF either way. Catherine will become Regent ...

Kate will be dead. The sole survivor will be Harry and his very healthy wife. They'll rule England until gay George is 21.

Yes, but why? The whole article was supposedly about Charles wanting to see his grandchildren.

What about Scotland, Wales and the other Commonwealth realms, R467? As you’re so informed.

R467 You don't understand much, do you?

2030

Kate: dead

Charles: dead

Wills: dead

George: gay

Harry: King

Meghan: Queen

Louis: Sectioned

R468, the article is mocking the tabloid stories that are trying to sell the “Charles wants to see his grandkids” stories. It’s pointing out that nothing he’s done is consistent with that narrative.

Is Taylor Swift the next Queen?

Taylor Swift is ALREADY a queen. She needs not the BRF.

The only queen in that picture is George.

Nasty, R475.

The whole narrative of the drama with Harry is stale. Truly. Time moves on. I have been watching something I predicted a few years ago as it evolves, with the Tindals. And yes, I know Zara is Anne's daughter, blahblah blah. But in the past she has always eschewed being a prominent Royal, and was happy with her horses. She married her rugby guy and they have kids, they hang out at the pubs, they party and have fun. But now, she is all dressed up and she and her husband are featured everywhere. Their enthusiasm is barely concealed. He loves the spotlight, does Mr. Tundal. And don't tell me how the cousins are stepping up to help out. I know they are. But no one has "stepped up" with more glee than the Tindals.

What are you on about, r477? Zara has always been around. She even competed in the Olympics, while Mike played rugby for England. If she was actually being pushed forward for a working royal role, which is what you seem to be implying, then she would have been on the balcony at last Sunday's Trooping of the Colour. Going to a Taylor Swift concert is not "stepping up" for royal duties. "Dressing up" is what you're supposed to do at Ascot, and she's been doing it all her life.

[quote] . And don't tell me how the cousins are stepping up to help out. I know they are. But no one has "stepped up" with more glee than the Tindals.

Why shouldn’t they step up? Harry and Meghan chose to leave, and it has created a gap. Apart from William and Kate, the youngest working royal is now Sophie who is 60 next year. The King and Queen, the Kents and the Gloucesters are very old.

I’d bet on seeing more of all the cousins in a semi-official way for at least the next decade, until William’s own kids are old enough to take the spotlight. And Zara has always been close to William and pretty scandal-free. Most importantly, neither she nor any of her cousins have ever broken the bomds of loyalty which family members expect of one another.

I tried to resist posting this but can't.

Those pix of William, the children, Swift and Kelce are a neon bright contrast to Markle receiving a "No" from Swift to interview her on Markle's now in demise Spotify pod cast.

And the Sussexes did attend Swift's show in California but didn't score a backstage pic with her because if they had, we'd have seen it posted by the Sussexes a long time ago.

For the millionth time, Could Have, Would Have, Should Have. If the Sussexes would've toughed it out, it would be them, either accompanying William or getting their own pic with Swift on a different night of her shows in London.

Swift's stardom is truly a thing to behold. And I write this as someone who rented the Eras concert for home viewing and still doesn't know what the fuss is about.

But, right now, her exospheric place in pop culture can't be denied.

As a Royal, William knows mere celebrity is beneath him; that Swift is Show-folk on a glorious run.

But that didn't stop him from seizing the opportunity to capture for his children and him a bit of her Swift's stardust.

R479, Zara and Mike will never be "working royals" in the way Edward and Sophie and the Kents and Gloucesters are. What they are an example of, however, is how you can still be a member of the royal family with your own public profile - even a "fun", cheeky profile - whilst at the same time securing your private life.

They want $$

William and Taylor Swift have known each other for a long time. Here she is in 2013 taking William by the hand onto the stage to sing Living on a Prayer with Jon Bon Jovi during a charity ball at Kensington Palace.

They should give Tindall a life peerage to jazz them up a bit and bring them into the fold. They're fun and energetic and good with people. They'd make very effective working royals. But they probably love their lives as are.

R453. In what universe is she a punchy writer?. Her idea of clever sarcasm is to write “Poor Charles!”

Her idea of research is to quote a notorious Sussex mouthpiece.

Her idea of critical thinking is to accept unthinkingly Scobie’s claim that there is only residence in the entire UK where Harry and Meghan are physically safe. Did that claim not seem a all bizarre to her?

Her idea of balance is to ignore the Sussex’s very bizarre and enormously filthy behaviour towards the royal family and the British public and to assume the King’s inability to see his grandchildren is due entirely to him

You can write “punchy” and intelligent criticisms of the royal family. For that you should read Christopher Hitchens, for example, and not this writer, who would be an embarrassment to most high school magazines

The Tower would be totally safe. Many royals have stayed there.

[quote] Zara and Mike will never be "working royals" in the way Edward and Sophie and the Kents and Gloucesters are. What they are an example of, however, is how you can still be a member of the royal family with your own public profile - even a "fun", cheeky profile - whilst at the same time securing your private life.

I agree. That’s the point I was making, and why I referred to them as “semi-official”. They will never have the formal position, but everyone knows who they are and who their relatives are. Doors will always be open to them, and business opportunities too, but they are wise enough to know that it is in their interests to be good team players too.

If the Sussexes had been more intelligent and less ego-driven, they would have emulated Harry’s cousins, and (at least pretended to) profess delight at being part of the pack of minor royals, able to pursue their own careers free of public duties, but with their own philanthropic interests.

Everyone would have known who Harry was, and their status as loved members of the RF for life would be assured. All they had to do was hide their resentment and appear to be happy people and there is not a boardroom or ballroom door which would have been closed to them on either side of the Atlantic.

Instead, they bombed their bridges as soon as they crossed them, and no longer seem too fascinating. How many people will be interested in them by the time George, Louis and Charlotte are out of their teens?

Look at the pictures from Ascot. Everybody was there, everybody was smiling, everybody was hugging and kissing. Even Sarah Ferguson is back in the ranks. They are plainly a family who enjoys one another's company and, if you're not a petty, damaged, rivalrous malcontent, have no problem living within the rules. Even Andrew's daughters were there, happily, and if anybody has grounds for grievance or resentment, who better? They love their odious father, obviously, and yet are happily part of the wider family.

So the other challenge the exiles face is with each passing year, the rest of the family get used them not being a part of anything≥.

Zara and Mike, Sarah Chatto, they attend every royal event. Weddings, funerals, Jubilee celebrations, Christmas at Sandringham, summers at Balmoral, Ascot etc They have no official royal duties but are included in everything.

Harry and Meghan could have also had all of this if they had played it differently. I wonder if they regret doing what they did, it cannot be denied the rest of the family all seem to get on great these days, and they seem to be having a great time at these events.

R585 l don’t think Chris is posting much commentary these days.

R489 It's very interesting to see that the family really has united and become much more openly affectionate since H&M left. I think both the shock of Harry's betrayal, the death of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and then Charles' and Kate's cancer, has brought the family much closer together. Even Beatrice and Eugenie, who were allegedly closer to Harry than William, have come around.

I don't think Meghan is capable of regret and Harry probably too stupid and immature to get what he's done. I think it will only sink in for him if he and Meghan split. Of course, had Queen Elizabeth agreed to their half-in, half-out demands, there is no way H&M would've so openly trashed the family. As Samantha Cohen, the late Queen's former private secretary and then assistant to Meghan once said, Meghan and Harry have the maturity of teenagers.

I still think they can probably rehab Harry if he divorces Morgan le Fay.

Harry is beyond rehabilitation, r492. The British public don't want him.

I hear you, R493, but I still think people as a rule like a happy ending. Now, the Brits are a particularly resentful culture, so maybe he is past hope. I certainly don't think he'll be restored the former affection, but I'm not unconvinced he can be restored to some extent. Not her.

Nothing to do with being resentful, r494. It's simply that Harry has no place in British public life anymore and never will. You might find it hard to understand this, but royals aren't royal simply because of birth but also behaviour and showing the British people that they care about and want to serve us. Harry has done the opposite. He's also not needed in any way, so what's the point?

I don't find it hard to understand at all, R495. You ignorantly assume because I don't agree with you. See you at the "darby".

R493 that’s Rishi “Harry” Sunak

R493 Harry's public life is over. Even if he had been more amicable towards his family, Queen Elizabeth made it clear that once you're out, you're out. She gave H&M a year to change their minds (I actually think H&M thought it would be the royals that would change their minds and let them do the whole half-in/half-out thing). The moment that year was up and the late Queen cut the last ties with them, they did the Oprah interview. I think even if by some miracle Harry and William did reconcile (and that will only happen if Megz is out of the picture), he still won't be allowed to resume royal duties. The royals will not change course whatever happens down the road. If you want all the perks of being a royal, it comes with a life long commitment to public duties. If you say you don't want to do it any more, fine, but you're out for good.

Agree, r498.

Even when (and I maintain it's not a matter of if) the Sussexes divorce, he's still out.

He better hope he has enough money to financially settle a divorce and live a comfortable lifestyle, especially after King Charles dies.

In fact, if he had any sense, he'd be thinking of filing before she does, while King Charles is still alive.

Harry has no place in British public life anymore

I think it is up to Chuck as to the status of his second son. Chuck can reinstate him to working Royal on both of their terms. It's not like Harry abdicated with a charter never to return, like The Duke of Windsor. Harry is in self exile unlike Uncle Andrew.

The royal family survived the departure (through death) of the Queen Mother, a beloved presence in British public life for almost 80 years and a link to the glory years of World War III. Harry was witness to her death and the continued popularity of the family in spite of it. Yet he and his deluded wife thought the family would collapse if deprived of Meghan’s presence so great was their supposed popularity and the goodwill established over her five or six dozen public appearances.

Glory years of World War III r501? Well, I wouldn’t call them quite that. Perhaps Apocalypse Now.

^World War II

Was she really a beloved figure? (Queen Mother.) I guess she was a colorful character.

Millions of Britons aspired to have teeth just like her—that’s why she was beloved: they got their wish!

She was a beloved figure. You had to be there. She just lived so long and was off to the side for so long her prominence in national life was obscured.

[quote] It's not like Harry abdicated with a charter never to return, like The Duke of Windsor.

I was going to ask how similar Harry and Meghan are to the Windsors. They seem to have been welcome among the "Beautiful People" of their day - no?

They were largely seen as Nazi loving freeloaders although she was famous for her style. Most people seem to have thought he was an idiot.

The people who welcomed them were, on the whole, social climbing arrivistes. The Establishment largely considered them beyond the pale.

Ahh, that whole class thing.

[quote]When Kate dies, does Diana’s ring revert to Meghan? Wouldn’t that be the fair thing?

Nothing reverts to Meghan, ever. She's not a Royal, she's some fool in California who sells jam on the internet.

Technically, I think she's giving it away.

Nothing to do with the “class thing” as you call it, R510.

More about the whole “Nazis are bad” thing. That’s probably more than you can process in your tiny parochial worldview.

[quote]Technically, I think she's giving it away.

There's a first time for everything.

The ring most likely will be held for Georgie to curse the next Princess of Wales.

Kate should just give that ring (in due time) to Charlotte. Let the boys buy engagement rings for their spouses when the times come.

R515 brings up an interesting point. If the PoW does not recover, the ring could well be considered cursed and no one will want it. It would really take 3 incidents for it to solidify its Cursed status, but I doubt Charlotte would want to take one for the team by wearing it to see if she dies early.

I'd back down from trying to take on Charlotte.

[quote]It would really take 3 incidents for it to solidify its Cursed status, but I doubt Charlotte would want to take one for the team by wearing it to see if she dies early.

I will gift the ring to Aunt Meghan

[quote]Was she really a beloved figure? (Queen Mother.)

During the Blitz, where in 1940 alone London was bombed for 57 nights in a row, she and the King continued to live in London, and to visit people whose homes had just been shattered. The night Buckingham Palace was bombed she famously said, "At last I will be able to look the people of the East End in the eye."

You'd have to do something pretty bad to cease to be beloved after that, even if you lived a hundred years.

Eye teeth?

Sorry, wandering slightly off-topic, but (for r520 and r504) I have always love this letter from the Queen Mother to Queen Mary…

Meghsn doesn't give a fuck about white supremacist Taylor Swift and her crimes against the environment. Meghan already got pictures with Beyonce.

You Klan clowns got so much wrong.

You said Meghan & Harry's marriage would only last a few years. It's been six and they look closer than ever, unlike Wills and Kate.

You said their children would 'look like Doria' but Lilibet is the only grandchild with bright blue eyes. Even Charlotte's are now a sludgy brown, like George's and Louis'.

You said M & H would go bankrupt and lose the Montecito house. They're still happily living in it.

You said that after a couple of years in California, Harry would be desperate to return to his shabby cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace. In actual fact, that would be his worst nightmare.

Divorce isn't round the corner, fraus. Give it up.

Wrong thread, r524.

[quote]You said their children would 'look like Doria' but Lilibet is the only grandchild with bright blue eyes.

More proof that spray-tanning aficionado Meghan isn’t black. Despite her love of pulling out that race card anytime she thinks she can grift something out of it.

Another Klan Granny Thread?

Zara and Mike have stepped up…but not in the sense of wanting to be working royals. They both earn their living with lucrative media gigs and, in her case, endorsements. Ascot this year featured Zara in a daily parade of stylish outfits and professional hair and makeup. She found an ideal partner in Mike, as he loves the attention. They are also genuinely liked by William and Charles, so they may have a bit of leeway when it comes to cashing in on a royalty adjacent lifestyle. Eugene and her husband Jack would probably like to emulate them, but they do not appear as well liked (or trusted) by the family.

Zara has for years "cashed in" on her position, doing a range of clotbing, jewelry and equestrian related endorsements. Easy for pro athletes.

It's funny when people say that Zara is "stepping up" to do things that she's done probably every year of her adult life.

They money honeys

Hanging at the racetrack isn’t exactly working, now is it?

Unless you’re a rail bird.

It’s good that she still talks to people despite being the princess of whales, which I always thought was a weird British thing. I mean what is she supposed to do if she’s sick and needs someone to talk to, put on a wet suit and jump into the ocean?

Sad Zara 'close to breaking up' with live-in boyfriend by RICHARD KAY, Daily Mail

Zara Phillips's relationship with jockey Richard Johnson is in trouble, it was feared last night.

Friends say the couple are on the verge of splitting up after a series of rows that have left Princess's Anne's daughter 'miserable'.

She has been spending more and more nights away from the £400,000 house they share in the Cotswolds, staying with a friend in a nearby village.

The arguments are believed to centre on what Zara sees as Johnson's determination to put his racing career first.

'She is very unhappy. She feels that with Richard racing comes first, second and third while she comes a poor fourth,' a friend of Zara's told the Daily Mail last night.

It is understood the romance was pushed off course in May at Zara's 21st birthday party, a lavish Windsor Castle ball at which the Queen was guest of honour.

Johnson is said to have arrived two and a half hours late, missing dinner completely, because of his riding commitments. Friends noticed that Zara was upset at his absence, not least because of how rude it seemed to her grandmother.

In recent weeks Johnson, 24, is said to have spent an increasing amount of time drinking with racing figures and other friends rather than being with Zara.

After the Grand National, in which he was beaten into second place, he is said to have gone out drinking with two girls. However, no third party is involved in their troubles.

A friend of Johnson's said: 'He always feels very much on the leash with Zara because of the royal connection. Is it any wonder he wants to let his hair down occasionally?'

Last weekend the strain on both was clear when they appeared at two charity polo matches.

At one stage as they watched play at the Beaufort ground in Gloucestershire, Johnson appeared to recoil from his girlfriend as she sought a consoling embrace. Twenty-four hours earlier the gulf was equally stark as they walked across the ground at Tidworth, Wiltshire, each in a world of their own.

The relationship, which started more than three years ago, has always been tempestuous.

Eighteen months ago, Zara embarrassed the Royal Family when police were called to a fracas involving the couple.

It was claimed that Johnson had dragged her out of a car and thrown her to the ground.

The pair were said to have kicked and punched each other, screaming insults before Johnson ran off in tears.

But they were soon reconciled. Last Christmas there was more controversy when they posed at home for Hello! magazine.

The spread, for which Johnson was paid around £125,000, confirmed that Zara, tenth in line to the throne, was living with her lover.

The magazine apparently had to give the untidy house a makeover before the cameras could start clicking.

The Royal Family has generally approved of the romance. In April, shortly after Zara had qualified as a sports masseuse, the Queen spoke proudly of how her granddaughter's skills had helped Johnson recover from a broken leg.

The jockey has been a frequent visitor to Gatcombe Park, Princess Anne's home, and Zara's father's farm nearby. Anne considers Johnson a calming influence on her headstrong daughter.

Zara, also, has dropped into Johnson's family home in Madley, Herefordshire.

Earlier this year friends were even talking of a possible engagement.

But last night Zara's friends said they believed the relationship was all but over.

'It a dream turned sour for Zara,' one told the Mail.

'She is unhappy and disappointed with his behaviour.'

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Zara in brawl with boyfriend by LOUISA PRITCHARD, Mail on Sunday

Princess Anne was last night said to be shocked and furious after it was revealed that police had been called to an ugly late-night brawl between her daughter Zara and the teenager's boyfriend, Richard Johnson.

The Queen's eldest granddaughter was pulled from a car and thrown to the ground by National Hunt jockey Johnson and the couple were seen screaming, swearing, kicking and punching each other in a fracas which left 19-year-old Zara sobbing hysterically.

The astonishing scene - said to be a jealous row over Zara flirting with one of Mr Johnson's friends - took place outside the Gloucestershire home of jockey Warren Marston last Saturday.

It was witnessed by chauffeur Jeremy Hill, 26, who said: 'She [Zara] was doing as much as he was. They were kicking and hitting out at each other. Dickie [Richard] ripped her puffa as he tried to pull it off, there was a lot of screaming, he was swearing at her demanding his car keys.'

Zara and 22-year-old Mr Johnson, who have been together for nine months and spent a romantic holiday in Mustique, had spent the evening at Rosie O'Grady's pub in Oxford with Mr Johnson's friend Mr Marston, 28, and his girlfriend of six years, Kelly Lane.

The two jockeys both ride at the Ford Farm Racing Stables in the Cotswolds, although they compete for different people.

The four were collected by Mr Hill just after midnight and driven back to Bourton-on-the-Water in Mr Marston's black BMW.

But tempers flared when Mr Johnson and Miss Lane, 26, got out of the car while Zara, a talented horsewoman, stayed in the back seat to chat to Mr Marston.

Miss Lane, a fitness trainer in nearby Cheltenham, is understood to have playfully accused the young Royal of having a secret relationship with her boyfriend. The remark enraged Mr Johnson who pulled Zara out of the car and threw her to the ground.

Mr Hill, who has been driving for Mr Marston for a year, was reluctant to discuss the incident but admitted: 'Dickie suddenly ran over to the car, ripped Zara from the back and threw her to the floor. He was asking for his car keys but she wouldn't give them to him. He was swinging at her, she was crying hysterically and tears were running down her face. I think she was crying with the shock - it was out of the blue. I chucked him on the bonnet of the car to get him off her.'

The two couples then went into Mr Marston's house, but once inside, Mr Johnson, a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, turned on Zara again demanding his car keys. Her screams during the 25-minute fight alarmed neighbours in the quiet cul-de-sac so much that they called the police.

But before officers could reach the house, Mr Johnson stormed off and began walking the ten miles to his house in nearby Toddington. Zara, who first met the jump jockey in 1999 at the Gloucestershire stables owned by David Nicholson, a close friend of Princess Anne, jumped into his green Mercedes and raced after her boyfriend, along the country road near the spot where she crashed her £19,000 Land Rover last month.

Neighbours yesterday confirmed there had been a 'rumpus' outside Mr Marston's house. One, who did not want to be named, said: 'There was a hell of a row out there, there was a girl screaming at a bloke. Every time he went near her she screamed. There seemed to be a fight and the dustbin went flying. I don't think he was hitting her, she was hitting him more.

'Every time he went near her she'd let out a scream. He wasn't a big chap - not nearly as tall as Warren. I don't know who they were.

'The girl who was screaming was blonde, I couldn't see what she looked like. She was wearing a pullover and jeans. The man she was fighting with was very short. One chap went wandering off up the road and I called 999.'

Two officers from Stow-on-the-Wold police station arrived at Mr Marston's house at 1.30am. They left five minutes later after investigating reports of two couples arguing.

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The articles at r534 and r536, from over 20 years ago, when Zara was still a teenager, show that she's always had the media after her, especially trying to get scandal stories on her private life, which were of no public interest at all. The idea that she's only now, in the past few years, been in the limelight is hilarious and very wide off the mark.

Yet, unlike a certain someone, she managed to ignore this intrusion and just get on with her life and now has a happy balance between her public appearances and her private life. It can be done!

For the right amount of £. Don’t kid yourself.

It’s somewhat doubtful that Royal Ascot would be paying Zara Tindall appearance money R539, given that:

Ascot is owned by King Charles as monarch,

Zara Tindall is his niece,

She has attended Ascot all her adult life and;

It’s one of the high points of the British social calendar - nobody in the Royal Family needs to be paid appearance money to attend their (hence the “Royal”) event.

However you seem better informed, R539 - when were you last at Ascot? BTW it’s not pronounced “Ass-cott” - just a tip.

R530 Ascot, yes, but this year she looks noticeably more polished. She and Mike have been out in society more.

I’m sure that designers lend her outfits due to her high profile (quid pro quo, really) but that’s not the same as being paid cash (which I assume you meant with the £ above).

Nice try, though, R541.

No one wrote that they were paid to be at ASCOT.

Posters noted, separately, that showing up at a racetrack is not work or helping out….and that she gets paid to do shit.

Fair enough R543 - if not Ascot (or even ASCOT) which events do you know that Zara Tindall was paid to attend? Or, to use your parlance, she was paid “to do shit”.

Just one example will do, as you seem so well informed.

It's easy to hurt the Klanners by pointing out how very healthy Meghan is. Sailed through pregnancy without getting sick. Remains thin without smoking or having an eating disorder. Didn't develop cancer aged 41.

That's right Meghan doesn't smoke. Haaahaha! She never met a spliff she didn't like. Even gave them out as wedding favors when she married Trevity Trev Trev.

This poster who claims Zara is being paid to do something. What exactly does he think she is being paid to do?

The people you attempt to smear with your infantile term "Klanners" wish everyone good health, r546, including Meghan. It's you haters who take joy at someone's health misfortunes.

Meghan's band of miserable sows must really feel like it's all slipping away, the way they're carrying on, the lows they're sinking to.

Now Princess Anne.

Has God joined Labour or Repubilic?

Princess Anne is in hospital with minor injuries and concussion, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The Princess Royal is believed to have been injured by a horse while walking within the Gatcombe Park estate yesterday evening, leaving her with minor wounds to the head.

It is understood that the head injuries are consistent with a potential impact from a horse’s head or legs.

An ambulance treated her on the scene before she was transferred to Southmead Hospital in Bristol for appropriate tests, treatment and observation.

Her Royal Highness remains in Southmead Hospital, Bristol, as a precautionary measure for observation and is expected to make a full and swift recovery.

The King has been kept closely informed and joins the whole Royal Family in sending his fondest love and well-wishes to the Princess for a speedy recovery.

BREAKING. Princess Anne has been admitted to hospital with minor injuries and concussion following an incident at her Gatcombe Park estate yesterday. The King is being kept closely informed.

King Charles is very close to her, isn't he?

It is understood….yet another idiotic Britishism. Did it happen? Did they think it happened? Are they not sure it happened? Are the waiting to find out what happened?

It is understood makes is perfectly understandable, R554, but thanks for the irony in your post.

I'm gonna suggest Metamucil for you.

What is understood by saying it is understood, honest question. Just say it happened.

So much for freedom of speech.

‘The head injuries are consistent with a potential impact from a horse’s head or legs.’

Potential?

"It is understood" is perfectly reasonable for a breaking news item when not everything has been confirmed 100% yet. Same with "potential".

"It is understoo" and "believed to have been" likely indicates they got their content from a reliable single source, rather than double source confirmation.

Still waiting R543 for just one example of an event for which Zara Tindall was paid appearance money to attend.

Just one - shouldn’t be too hard. Unless you pulled that factoid out of your fat doughy arse.

Designers do not "lend Zara outfuts" either. Lies lies lies.

R561 then quote the source…how hard is it. The understanding didn’t come from a vacuum-sealed container…

[QUOTE] Meghan's band of miserable sows must really feel like it's all slipping away, the way they're carrying on, the lows they're sinking to.

Kate's the one who's slipping away. Meghan is hale and hearty.

[QUOTE] The people you attempt to smear with your infantile term "Klanners" wish everyone good health, [R546],

Love how angry any reference to the Klan makes you. Own your hate, frau! If Meghan had cancer you'd be turning cartwheels with joy and talking about karma.

Geez can’t we just gossip about these people without wishing/hoping they get cancer?

Calling you infantile is just a statement of fact, r566. No emotion involved. But thanks for admitting you're literally a troll!

And, no, we're not like you - unlike you, we don't take joy in hearing someone has cancer.

But you don’t like the blacks … we get it.

There you go again, r569, deliberately trolling, saying whatever incendiary garbage that little pea of a brain of yours can squeeze out, looking to cause a fight.

And, let's be honest, the one who doesn't like black people is you. They're just a tool for you, you don't actually care about them at all. You're just a sad little person with a sad little life who is driven by an urge to attack others online to make yourself feel important and hate yourself less. You need help more than anything.

r565, Meghan is as healthy as the horse that kicked the shit out of Anne.

R570 thanks Eric!

Someone should remove that insidious English ivy off that beautiful weeping willow.

If Charles, Kate and Fergie die, will that bring the remaining family members together?

And Andrew.

R564, your understanding of sources speaks for itself.

Speak to us R576 do tell.

Stoppit! Poor Princess Royal got her head kicked in by a horse. She concussed. She probably puked in the horse barn, because of it. And why? Because she farted. Anne's well kept secret is that likes to let let rip those loud, smelly, disgusting, wet farts that stink like a dead body was inside her colon. Her loyal steed had enough. She was brushing him off and he just reared up and screamed ENOUGH! and kicked her in the head. It took the first responders longer than usual to get to her because...the smell.

There used to be so much intelligent humor on Datalounge. Sadly, R578 is a perfect example of where we are now,.

Anne - killed by a horse

Charles - died of cancer

Kate - died of cancer

Wills - remarried within two years of Kate's death

George - gay and out

Charlotte - working as a dominatrix

Louis - autistic

R580 - humorless idiot

Anne is NOT GOING TO DIE!!!! At the appropriate time, she will go into cold storage.

OMG, OMG, things are much worse than we could ever imagine. Reports are that The Princess Royal has suffered memory loss as a result of the Horse/Fart accident. She was seen curtseying to her doctor and calling him "Your Majesty" and later she told visitors she had just had a wonderful luncheon with The Queen, Mummy.

Why do I picture Charlotte in the shadows moving up her anointing date as Princess Royal?

Hilarious

Well the jist of it were she got knocked on 'er head and was out! Like, unconscious. We thought, she's a goner, right? But the old girl is that tough. So the emergency ambulance was called, but before you knew it there she was lying there blinkin' her eyes singin' "God Save the Queen!" She was always close to her Mum. But we knew somethin' had to be off with her when she curtsied to the ambulance driver.

I chuckle at the sudden lack of input from the UK on DL in the last 48 hours on these posts and the other very funny Anne thread. No pushback, compared to most anything else related to the BRF.

Pushback against what, r587?

American-style sarcasm that typically flies right over the heads of Brits. Whoosh!

R589, the problem is that you think you're a lot funnier and wittier than you actually are.

[quote] I chuckle at the sudden lack of input from the UK on DL in the last 48 hours on these posts and the other very funny Anne thread.

I admire that they are refraining at this time out of respect for Princess Anne.

What's the point, R587? You've all declined from being ignorant and hostile to revelling in being ignorant and hostile when it comes to the BRF. And if we're getting real, the power of the usual and inevitable we fought a revolution to get away from it sagged some time ago.

Cue the Yankee Doodle spluttering.

They can all barely stifle a yawn at the “American style sarcasm” / juvenile attempts at being funny.

Ah so, the Earth does still rotate on its axis. Do better R590, R591, R592, R593

Come and get us ;)

R592 you tell them off

[quote]. American-style sarcasm that typically flies right over the heads of Brits. Whoosh!

I condole you, r589, for not knowing the difference between sarcasm and fart jokes.

D/L is usually better than this,

Fart is favorite Britishism, yes? Also cunt and wanker?!

The word for you, r597, is fanny.

Those are just words, R597. It takes a little intelligence to use them or any other words to construct something that appeals to anyone other than the lowest common denominator.

You blokes sure do blather. Anything of substance to share?