Would You Like A Life As A Working Royal?

[naomi24]

Being on show all the time, meeting and being nice to thousands of complete strangers, making speeches, your whole life mapped out for you from where you go to work to what you wear to work - and to paraphrase the late queen, having the smell of fresh paint up your nose wherever you go?  I always imagine Camilla - who on the day of the coronation looked for all the world like she'd much rather be somewhere else - getting home from her duties, kicking her shoes off, flopping down on the sofa and saying 'Thank God that's over'. Could you do the job?

[1ozzy]

Having someone to do my washing, cleaning, cooking, ironing, driving, yard maintenance and everything else would be nice.

Guess I could wear poncy clothes, pretend to like strangers and wave to the plebs whilst pretending I gave a *** about them would be a small price to pay.

 

[naomi24]

Untitled, you've no reason to declare them all mentally ill and I doubt the qualification.   

[10ClarionSt]

Someone mentioned Camilla earlier. She's not even a royal. She was Charlies bit on the side for most of his life. And now it's really a burden that she has to attend functions and the like. Poor kid!

[1ozzy]

Yes 10C, imagine having someone lick and spit polish your boots.

Oh the shame, how terrible their life must be.

[davebro3]

I read that in the UK 42% of marriages end in divorce annually - so much for a church or civil service with friends & family being a "lifetime commitment to someone you love".

I did once propose to a live-in partner but fortunately she turned me down. I think she has now been divorced 3 times and "tried out" a number of other intimate partners. But currently lives alone.

[1ozzy]

//I think she has now been divorced 3 times and "tried out" a number of other intimate partners//

Obviously you were a failure Dave😏

[barry1010]

I could not have shaken hands with Martin McGuiness.

 

[barry1010]

Dave, do you think it is somehow wrong for a woman to have sex with as many men as she wants to?

[Untitled]

"you've no reason to declare them all mentally ill and I doubt the qualification"

i think anyone who isn't a delusive monarchist can see that these people really are not well naomi

[naomi24]

Rubbish.  That's as childish as calling everyone who disagrees with you stupid.  

[davebro3]

//Dave, do you think it is somehow wrong for a woman to have sex with as many men as she wants to?//

Did I say that? I'm sure she entered into all her relationships in the hope that the guy would be "the one". It just didn't happen & either she hit on a whole series of unsuitable men or she has dificulty sustaining relationships.

[davebro3]

//I could not have shaken hands with Martin McGuiness.//

Quite right, a disgraceful moment. 

[sandyRoe]

I'm sure it was as distasteful for him as it was for her.

But in politics things like that need to be done.

[sp1814]

Untitled

 

Totally agree with your earlier post apart from the mentally ill bit. I don't think we on the outside can judge the mental capacity of members of the RF. They rarely "go off script" - so how can we judge their faculties?

Also - ignore anyone who calls you childish for stating your point of view.

[jackthehat]

sp - bear with me here......LoL

I, too, have similar thoughts as you regards the ease with which some people jettison their marriages....

but

I wonder whether that is because folks like thee and me, SP, spent so long unable to marry?

Like you, I married my long-term love, in front of family and friends and it felt (and still feels) deeply 'profound' and I can't imagine ever throwing away my marriage, or letting it be thrown away.

[barry1010]

It's very easy for people like me who are happily married and couldn't imagine a different life to say that marriage is for life, honour those sacred vows and promises til death do us part.

I remember battered women, cowed men, very unhappy and desperate marriages when divorce was expensive and frowned upon.  When it wasn't so easy for a woman to take her children from the family home (usually in husband's name only) and support them.

I knew one young mother in the 60s who tried to leave her husband when she found out he had made a 16 year old girl pregnant.  She went to her mother's with the children and was told to go home - she made her bed...

Is it really better to stay in an utterly miserable marriage with the possibility that one day one of them will reach breaking point and do something dreadful? 

[douglas9401]

Now I know you're not saying that gays have cornered the market on faithfulness, sincerity and longevity, Jack. 😙

[sp1814]

douglas9401

How do you make bold text????

[jackthehat]

As if, doogie.....😉

I know enough couples who haven't stayed the course. Unfortunately, it seems as if people 'across the board' get so caught up in the wedding that they forget about the marriage.

[douglas9401]

Click on the 'B' in the answer box, sp1814, it may just be a PC/laptop thing though, I don't have it on phone or tablet.

Top tip, don't forget to unclick or posts look like they've come fro Angry of Surbiton.