OT: Harry & Meghan

You've got to be as dumb as Cursitor Doom to pay any attention the UK royal family's latest publicity stunt.

It's more reality TV - any moment now one of them will be standing for president of the USA.

The official story is that he's had a heart attack. Of course, there are a lot of other stories.

Let Harry marry a woman that he likes. What's weird is this obsession with even minor royals.

The previous one was for the middle class demographic. This one is courting the black/ethnic/underdog/foreign demographic.

The Firm continues to be good at ensuring continuing popularity amongst the more credulous section of the population who hasn't got more interesting things to concern them.

Not sure whether a president would be any better/cheaper, though.

I'd be pretty cheesed too, if one of my daughters married a royal/politician/billionaire.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

tirsdag den 15. maj 2018 kl. 18.01.15 UTC+2 skrev Cursitor Doom:

afaiu she never had much to do with her half siblings or her dad and on top he just got 100k to have pictures taken by some paparazzi

Maybe they just like one another. That happens.

Rich brit males have a long history of falling for USian women.

He isn't all that minor a royal though he was once third in line to the throne - though his rank decreases as his elder brother's family grows.

And they are very good for tourism especially around London and Windsor.

Prince Charles as next in line to the throne has already passed normal UK retirement age (so perhaps we should skip a generation).

I'm not aware of those. I don't even read so-called respectable newspapers. But the heart attack was only last week, so that can't possibly be the reason.

That's not how it works here, John. Even among what's left of the 'ordinary' middle class it is expected that the bride and groom are to be presented to the other partner's parents as soon as the relationship becomes serious. Multiply that rule up by about a hundred for the regular upper class (long established titled families) and by about 1,000,000,000 for royals.

Oh yeah, like Edward VIII. So that's all fine then; can't go wrong. :P

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Considering that we got George VI and not the Nazi sympathizer and probable traitor Edward VIII, all I can say is "Thank God for Wallis Simpson."

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I hope they do, but that always has been unimportant where royalty is concerned. For them marriage == business, and love == mistresses.

Retort 1: and vice versa. Retort 2: or their money :)

I can't see it. The RF succession doesn't work that way and it's all Charles has ever lived for anyway.

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he could abdicate, skipping him and his controversies with Diana, Camilla and a divorce might be preferred by the royal family

One of my favorite books is Wodehouse's "A Damsel In Distress", with two great big-money trans-Atlantic romances.

Umm... checks calendar to be sure... this is the 21st century!

Yet another example of Mr Doom's tenuous connection to life in the UK.

Perhaps he gathers it second-hand from books like, say, PG Wodehouse, or Kipling, or Saki (HH Munro) - or Russia Today.

Not quite right.

Lots of young women with the title of princess were bundled off to vario us. royal abodes in the UK on the arm of a nanny with the escort of an amba ssador or ducal uncle to be the queen of the realm, usually with nothing mo re then a portrait sent ahead..

Steve

That's by no means the whole of it, though! Everything that *could* be discovered about the other family was made known to their counterpart well in advance. Such marriages were arranged to shore-up monarchies, guarantee peace, begin or cement dynasties or simply to gain vast fortunes in exchange for status and kudos. In *all* cases, the families involved were fully-informed about the standing and character of prospective spouses because of the sheer prominence and provenance of the families concerned. I'm wondering if this guy, the father, has some kind of genetic psychiatric issue that would become apparent only during a face-to-face meeting and something that can't be discerned by inspecting mere photographs. It would certainly explain a lot. If such info came out prior to the wedding, it could prove a serious deal-breaker, although I suspect we're too far into the process now to call it all off.

Gossiping about "nobility" and royal marriages is gay.