Thank God for 1776
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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She Kissed A Prince And He Turned Into A Frog.
Reason 8,967 to Thank God for 1776.
Glad the American public are not buying her contrived sob story. And his utter stupidity.
Huh?
As far as I can see, these articles are derived from anonymous sources. Why pay attention to that?
The British media like a pack of wolves will pick on a random member of the Royal Family to dump on; if there’s no dirt, they write nonsense articles pretending there is. Prince Andrew’s benign daughters were subject to years of this; the media have gotten bored writing inane articles about the York sisters and have moved on to Harry.
There are five people ahead of him in the line of succession. There are several instances in English history where that many people in the order of succession have been skipped, 4x due to conquest or armed revolt, 1x due to a mix of revolt and early deaths, and 2x due to a mix fertility failures and early death.
I fear that the Toxic Two are skating on increasingly thin ice.
It’s difficult to sort out the truth around the British royalty as it is happening. There’s a pissy inner circle of staff who react like outraged felines at the slightest provocation, and they start whisper campaigns.
Then again, it’s difficult for me to work up sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Sussex. Especially the former–you know what the job entails. And you should have let your intended know it’s an actual job, with responsibilities and all.
Not that she’s some blameless waif, either. She seems to want to be the Duchess of Santa Monica, not Sussex.
There’s a pissy inner circle of staff who react like outraged felines at the slightest provocation, and they start whisper campaigns.
Possibly. Not sure the stories aren’t made up out of whole cloth.
What ‘the job entails’ varies from one family member to another. Whatever Harry said to his fiancee, it shouldn’t have been too difficult for her to pick up the papers and see slam book in continuous composition in re his bewildered cousins.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1368932517298925574
I confess; I watched a good bit of the Oprah interviews Meghan and Harry show.. It got so the comments were always about race, yawn, but then Oprah was the interviewer. Meghan had that pregnant glow enhanced by apple roughed cheeks. I guess that makeup is the equivalent of Hillary’s pink suit. The Firm said; Meg and Harry said. Who’s to know the truth? It’s hard to believe that the Prince is the same person as the Royal Army soldier in Afghanistan. Though he obviously enjoys being a family man, he appears to be henpecked. Oprah didn’t ask about their multimillion pound renovation of the crown property they lived in. A sore spot with many of the public since the bill was paid with tax payer money and they took off for Canada shortly after the renovations were finished. Rather shabby. One wishes Harry were more like his grandfather Prince Phillip, a prince of .Danish and Greek royalty. His comments always are a bit pithy, never wimpy.
Oddly enough my husband decided to watch the Crown’s Marburg Files episode last night.
A sore spot with many of the public since the bill was paid with tax payer money and they took off for Canada shortly after the renovations were finished. Rather shabby.
Likely income from the Crown Estate, not the Treasury. IIRC, it’s been reported that they re-imbursed the Crown Estate.
“Not sure the stories aren’t made up out of whole cloth.”
I agree that some certainly are. Decency toward the hated is not a feature of courtiers in any time or place.
Still, Ms. Sussex’s behavior is making reassess my loathing for Wallis Simpson. From what I can tell, the latter allowed her husband a much longer leash.
Still, Ms. Sussex’s behavior is making reassess my loathing for Wallis Simpson.
I don’t think Wallis Simpson gave interviews. The two situations are similar in a couple of respects. One is that of all the women in the world who might take in interest in you and in whom you might take an interest, you land on this broad. In Harry’s case, he’s the son of a doltish woman with a borderline personality and, after a certain age, loose morals. What’s he do? Marries an actress (whose first marriage lasted just two years).
The Sovereign Grant was reimbursed by Prince Harry several months ago for the 4.2 M renovation of Frogmore Cottage.. The monies in this fund is given to the Queen for upkeep of the royal households by the government, i.e., the taxpayers. Frogmore Cottage is the residence of Harry and Meghan and stands empty while the couple resides in the US.
The Duchess of Windsor nee Wallis Simpson and her husband the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII were treasonous. She had an affair with the German Ambassador passing him state classified documents the Duke received. The Duke met with Adolf Hitler and even after the War started continued to correspond with Hitler with the hope that after the Germans occupied Britain he would again be king.
“he’s the son of a doltish woman with a borderline personality and, after a certain age, loose morals.”
So is Prince William, but he seems to have done a lot better in terms of meeting his personal responsibilities and in his choice of a spouse. I’d just as soon the Crown pass to him and bypass Prince Charles when the time comes (not that I, as an American, really have anything to say about it).
The monies in this fund is given to the Queen for upkeep of the royal households by the government, i.e., the taxpayers.
The allocation is made by parliament. The funds derive from the income on Crown Estate properties, not from taxation.
So is Prince William, but he seems to have done a lot better in terms of meeting his personal responsibilities and in his choice of a spouse.
Uh, that’s my whole point. Both men know bloody well their mother was a problem. William (and, I think, Harry) invited their childhood nannies to their wedding. This is, the one their mother fired and the one hired by their father that she couldn’t fire (but could and did slice up in the media). Wm. reacts sensibly and lassoes an emotionally stable woman out of the English bourgeoisie (it took some time, however, for her to get used to the photographers; Harry’s gals never did manage to do that). Harry reacts by landing a transposed version of his mother. Except we have reason to believe Diana was congenial to the help (as long as she didn’t consider them a threat) while Meghan’s been subject to inquiries by the personnel officer at Buckingham Palace. He’s 34 years old when he marries her, having blithely motored through one caution light after another. With this interview, we now know that she’s worse than we imagined.
I’d just as soon the Crown pass to him and bypass Prince Charles when the time comes (not that I, as an American, really have anything to say about it).
Some Canadian numbnutz insisted to me that Charles is a Muslim. Architecture critics (an occupational group that ought to be loaded into boxcars and sent off a cliff) complain about his real estate development projects. Others complain that he wrote handwritten letters to cabinet secretaries, annoying them. Others complain about his sidepiece (not bothered by the three other men with whom Diana kept company). High school never ends for some people.