Meghan and Harry Expecting A Baby

Didn't we fight a war to get away from the crown?..........why do we here in America, care about this?

Don't get me wrong, I wish the mother & baby well........but the hype & hoopla , I couldn't care less.
 

I just hope Megan and Harry have a happy successful marriage. As a young girl I dreamed of being a Princess. Yikes. No thank you--too much nosy attention and negative criticisms. Wow. I'd end up wanting to live on an unknown island in a grass hut and known only by anyone I choose. :)
 
Don't get me wrong, I wish the mother & baby well........but the hype & hoopla , I couldn't care less.


Exactly.

We have so many minor Royals what's another one more or less.

As a British taxpayer it's just another mouth to feed.
 
Laurie said:
Don't get me wrong, I wish the mother & baby well........but the hype & hoopla , I couldn't care less.


Exactly.

We have so many minor Royals what's another one more or less.

As a British taxpayer it's just another mouth to feed.
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Never have understood the whole royals thing. With all due respect , what do they do? What purpose do they serve? Seems to me they are nothing more than 'official-celebrities' .
 
rgp said:
Never have understood the whole royals thing. With all due respect , what do they do? What purpose do they serve? Seems to me they are nothing more than 'official-celebrities' .
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I've often wondered what purpose the idiot Kardashians serve, but people seem to avidly follow their every move. At least the royals serve honorably in their military, spotlight and support charitable causes, and are generally quite gracious with the public.
 
StarSong said:
I've often wondered what purpose the idiot Kardashians serve, but people seem to avidly follow their every move. At least the royals serve honorably in their military, spotlight and support charitable causes, and are generally quite gracious with the public.
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You bring a good point & I agree...difference as i see it is that the royals are tax-payer funded. Although I admit, I don't even know why the Kardashians are famous?
 
rgp said:
Didn't we fight a war to get away from the crown?..........why do we here in America, care about this?

Don't get me wrong, I wish the mother & baby well........but the hype & hoopla , I couldn't care less.
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Well I would imagine you ..(americans ) care about it because Meghan Markles is American.... .. now I couldn't care less about her tbh... but they say if you have nothing nice to say then say nothing at all...so I won't!!
 
hollydolly said:
Well I would imagine you ..(americans ) care about it because Meghan Markles is American.... .. now I couldn't care less about her tbh... but they say if you have nothing nice to say then say nothing at all...so I won't!!
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Americans follow your royalty more than you might guess. Virtually everyone on the planet fell in love with Princess Diana and we were all devastated at her death. Most Americans can bring to mind the exact moment of our lives when we heard that staggering news - with the same clarity that we remember JFK's death. We mourned Diana's passing with you and for you.

Princes William and Harry have grown into fine young men. Most in the US are delighted to see them in apparently happy, supportive relationships and hope nothing but the best for them.
 
StarSong said:
Americans follow your royalty more than you might guess. Virtually everyone on the planet fell in love with Princess Diana and we were all devastated at her death. Most Americans can bring to mind the exact moment of our lives when we heard that staggering news - with the same clarity that we remember JFK's death. We mourned Diana's passing with you and for you.

Princes William and Harry have grown into fine young men. Most in the US are delighted to see them in apparently happy, supportive relationships and hope nothing but the best for them.
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I'm not doubting it, I was addressing RGP 's post!!
 
rgp said:
Never have understood the whole royals thing. With all due respect , what do they do? What purpose do they serve? Seems to me they are nothing more than 'official-celebrities' .
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Oh no, not quite as simple as that,

The senior Royals perform important functions, particularly the monarch, whoever she or he is. It is the minors who are such a drain on the economy.

It is no bad thing to have two different people as Head of State and Head of Government. It is also no bad thing to have a Commander in Chief totally separate from politics. She is also the highest judge in the land.

It might not be apparent from afar, but even in this day and age she is the one who dissolves Parliament, and she can do this at any time. She decides which party will form a government and asks someone to form a government.

No law is passed unless she signs it, and Brexit will not happen if she decides against it (she won't, of course, but it's important to us to know she can).

Don't let my occasional rants about the current crew lead you to think I'm against the monarchy. I'm not, just this lot. The world would be a different place if poor Charlotte had lived (the earlier, not George's sister)!
 
Laurie said:
Oh no, not quite as simple as that,

The senior Royals perform important functions, particularly the monarch, whoever she or he is. It is the minors who are such a drain on the economy.

It is no bad thing to have two different people as Head of State and Head of Government. It is also no bad thing to have a Commander in Chief totally separate from politics. She is also the highest judge in the land.

It might not be apparent from afar, but even in this day and age she is the one who dissolves Parliament, and she can do this at any time. She decides which party will form a government and asks someone to form a government.

No law is passed unless she signs it, and Brexit will not happen if she decides against it (she won't, of course, but it's important to us to know she can).

Don't let my occasional rants about the current crew lead you to think I'm against the monarchy. I'm not, just this lot. The world would be a different place if poor Charlotte had lived (the earlier, not George's sister)!
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Well, as i noted...I never understood....perhaps my ignorance is deeper than i know.

Thank you for the brief education.
 
Actually, the functions performed by the royal family are kind of similar to the functions performed by the First Lady of our country. I don't think anybody has ever objected to the expenses attached to whoever is in that office, although I do remember some grumbling about an expensive set of china that Nancy Reagan got the taxpayers to shell out for. But in general, it's just taken for granted. I think the First Ladies (and their causes) are generally accepted by the population, and so is the royal family.

I like the royals, and right now am enjoying "Victoria," a probably highly fictionalized but entertaining series about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Beautifully filmed, great costumes and sets, and pretty good acting, although Albert has the worst German accent I've ever heard.

To get back to today's royals, what do we really know about any of them, their familial problems and joys, or how they feel about anything? Diana was literally hounded to death. I get the feeling that since then, the rest of them have put up a protective wall around themselves.
 
Thank you for the brief education.


​Apologies, I did not mean to be so arrogant as to try and educate anyone!

From the point of view of my own mother country, Wales, it is marginally better to ruled by a German usurper than an English one!
 
"...better to ruled by a German usurper than an English one..." ? I haven't gone back over the past posts that might explain your opinion, so I'll just ask you why a German usurper? I ask because Hitler came to mind & I doubt that that particular German would be o k with you. :)
 
Elsie, many of the royals are of German descent, as are Elizabeth ll and Philip. Their surnames are German but they changed to Windsor after Windsor castle because during WW1 (before Hitler) they felt they needed to hide their German roots. As far as I know, anyway.
 
RadishRose said:
Elsie, many of the royals are of German descent, as are Elizabeth ll and Philip. Their surnames are German but they changed to Windsor after Windsor castle because during WW1 (before Hitler) they felt they needed to hide their German roots. As far as I know, anyway.
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Poor Elizabeth and her father King George, born here in the UK, served this country well, and still they get called German... . It's like me being called Scandinavian because of the Normans who invaded the UK who were my ancient ancestors.. it's unfair!!..same with prince Philip.. he's often derogatively called Phil the Greek..when in fact... he was only born on the Island of Corfu to the prince of Greece but his family were exiled from Greece when he was a baby and he was raised and schooled in the UK.. and as he's said in many an interview his great grandmother was Queen Victoria same as the Queen
 
Elsie said:
"...better to ruled by a German usurper than an English one..." ? I haven't gone back over the past posts that might explain your opinion, so I'll just ask you why a German usurper? I ask because Hitler came to mind & I doubt that that particular German would be o k with you. :)
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Because Charles, who calls himself Prince of Wales, has a father who is a Battenberg and a mother who is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

No amount of political correctness or long term residency will change that.


William is a Battenburg, and so is George.
 
...but their names Are Windsor, they were born Windsor's, , never have been Battenburg , nor will they, ..... whereas..Charles, Anne, Edward and Andrew are all Mountbatten -Windsor and only after a relatively recent battle by prince Philip who once stated he was the only man in Britain who wasn't permitted to give his name to his own children... it first appeared as Mountbatten Windsor when princess Anne signed her wedding certificate in the 70's
 
My ancestry, the little I know of it, is that my mother was full German & my biological father was fully Swede. My mother's German parent emigrated from Germany to the USA at age 15. I guess my German grandfather had arrived before her.
 
Elsie said:
My ancestry, the little I know of it, is that my mother was full German & my biological father was fully Swede. My mother's German parent emigrated from Germany to the USA at age 15. I guess my German grandfather had arrived before her.
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Interesting Elsie...were you raised bi or tri lingual... ?
 

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