Feeling rather sorry for The Queen

I wish I could wear a hat like she can. I might get some shoes like hers. I can't cope with high heels anymore, well, not for years, but hers seem just high enough to give a bit of lift without really being high.

If I was Queen I would only wear silk underwear. When we were in Harrogate last month the coach driver said that Rigby and Pelham? Who are the Queens corseteers sell bras for £1500!!

Yes her shoes are a good height. I suppose they are handmade - that would cost a bit.

I love hats, but honestly no one wears one now do they?

I have quite a collection of hats (some from the charity shop - people must send them when they have worn them just the once for a wedding). Probably I should throw them out but I keep them just in case.

In that article I read, by the secretary chap, it said how, at a banquet she was sitting next to a man who had been in the Iraq war. Talking about it got too much for him and he couldn't go on. What she did to help him out was to call for the Corgis to be brought in and she and the poor man fed them. Relaxed him. Really kind and understanding she was

You couldn't really wear those startlingly bright colours on normal occasions either. I think she wears those colours partly so that people can spot her easily and partly to look special.

I do like the queen. Bless her.

That sounds so thoughtful.

It was a surgeon jingle he'd been treated wounded children and been thoroughly traumatised. I read the book by the Knatchbull boy who survived the bomb that killed Mountbatten. He found the Queen one of the most understanding people while he was recovering.

Jings - that man, a surgeon named Knott, was on Desert Island Discs last week. I was very impressed both by him and by HM's compassionate and original response to his stress by suggesting that they fed the corgis and dorgis together. What a woman! She can wear any colour she likes by me!
My granny was right with her saying 'Pink and green, fit for a Queen'

Perhaps I can find that on catch-up.

I think she's very dutiful and professional and it can't have been easy for her being married to a serial philanderer...although I don't think he would have bored her. Quite a character is Philip, not for the faint-hearted!

A serial philanderer? Oh, give over. He's been an absolute rock to the queen and whatever has given him a twinkle in his eye has never embarrassed her. Yes, he's a character and thank goodness for that.

Yes! a serial philanderer, well documented. I don't dispute that he's been a great support to her but fact is fact.

My DH was in hospital with an ex-Daily Mail editor - poor man is now dead - who told a lot of stories about the Duke. Not sure they were all true, but I do believe the nights of riotous drinking were probably true.

Oh! Well-documented - where's the proof Linsco56? Do you have inside knowledge (perhaps those letters they send to one another along the corridor?)

The rumours of his alleged dalliances when he was young and struggling with his role as Royal eunuch (his words) have been well documented but never proven - as far as I know.

I think he's a really nice bloke. Anything else is their business.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3637757/KATIE-HOPKINS-weekend-happy-Queen-country-husband-sad-future-fragile.html

I'm no Katie Hopkins fan but I can really relate to this article.

Whitewave, Rigby and Peller bras start at about £40. I only know because getting a fitting and a bra from them was on my 60 things to do before I'm 60 list. This is now my 65 things to do before I'm 65 list. Eventually it'll be 95 things....and my boobs will be beyond saving even by R & P

I'm not surprised maggie I thought at the time that £1500 was excessive. I fancy being fitted by them. Trouble is just one bra seems a bit pointless.

Ooh! That article seems to be predicting the end of the monarchy and some of our best traditions. I don't like it. And all that 'happy but sad' stuff is a bit miserable.

Sorry merlot.

The bit about taking one's old man out onto the Ten Tors in just his slippers and leaving him there, was quite interesting though.

Bit unfair on Hilary too. I'm sure she wants to be President for more reasons than just being the first woman one.