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The D. And D. Of Sussex In The News Again.

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Calendargirl Wed 02-Oct-19 07:42:53

Looks like the Daily Mail is being sued by them regarding a private letter from the Duchess to her estranged father.

Who is behind the letter being shown to the paper? An unhappy member of their staff? Or Mr. Markle maybe?

Bridgeit Fri 11-Oct-19 19:54:31

‘Another boy & he has red hair, ‘what is wrong with that,? That is what the new born Harry was & is a boy ( now man) with red hair, the inference being portrayed on here is that PC said,
? Another boy, and ?he has RED hair !

MissAdventure Fri 11-Oct-19 18:44:36

Surely undisturbed is virginal?
What's the big deal about the word tidy?

grapefruitpip Fri 11-Oct-19 18:41:11

ew....I thought it meant like undisturbed by previous lovers...WTH does it mean?

MissAdventure Fri 11-Oct-19 18:28:11

I need to go and have a lie down, I think. Got one of my heads coming on!

SirChenjin Fri 11-Oct-19 18:26:41

grin

Quick - uncork the smelling salts!

MissAdventure Fri 11-Oct-19 18:25:14

I'm almost fainting at the sheer filth, here! grin

SirChenjin Fri 11-Oct-19 18:23:30

I thought being ‘tidy’ meant you were a virgin? confused

MissAdventure Fri 11-Oct-19 18:23:08

I don't see anything remotely vulgar about the word "tidy" referring to someone keeping their virginity.
Geez!

notanan2 Fri 11-Oct-19 18:18:57

Its really not comparable. Having a "lady garden" doesnt imply that those that dont are dirty/damaged goods.

And if members of the RF are annonomously discussing how they tend their lady/lad gardens on GN/MN, well fill your boots!
But I would not expect them to chat about it in interviews!

notanan2 Fri 11-Oct-19 18:15:41

Di is only being judged by her own standards!

We do not know C&Cs personal views on the subject, nor have they ever asked the public to share them.

annsixty Fri 11-Oct-19 18:15:03

Now I am going to be vulgar ( most unlike me)
We have had several threads on GN about one's "Lady Garden"
Would it have been better if she said her garden had not been dug?

notanan2 Fri 11-Oct-19 18:13:27

The thing is, if Diana is to be castigated for having affairs with married men, then the same rule applies to Charles and Camilla.

But it's not the same because Charles and Camilla were never hypocrites about it!

Di set out to publically villify them for things she had done herself (and she had done those things herself at times when she was doing so!

notanan2 Fri 11-Oct-19 18:04:38

What else is there to say about a baby?

When I had no 2 I told people I had had "another" girl and she had no hair! And her weight! Benign factual statements. It was DH that told me her sex (I saw the hair for myself before they put the hat on)

Camilla would make a good consort because she is dignified! Nobody would know squat about her private life had Di not aired it all!

As for her being "tidy" (and other women not) what a vile vulgar thing to say in public!
She never did strike me as a woman who would ever get on with other women anyway but that really is low

paddyann Fri 11-Oct-19 16:15:32

amongst themselves sure ,its like the folk who put HAppy Heavenly birthday posts on FB its just attention seeking

Sparklefizz Fri 11-Oct-19 15:25:46

Don't assume, Annie - you know nothing about what I believe or don't believe, or what I find acceptable. Please don't tell me what I think.

Anniebach Fri 11-Oct-19 15:20:40

Sparkle would Charles have said ‘ another boy when he saw the baby ‘, would he have not know the sex of the baby before
birth.

Can you not see you believe everything Diana said ?

I criticise some things Diana said, you believe everything she said was true, you believe she was a Saint, I do not,

How can i criticise anything Camilla or Charles said when they
didn’t say anything. They took the flack from the public and media and didn’t give interviews, I respect them for this,

Good grief , Diana even said how often Charles wanted sex, you find this acceptable?

MissAdventure Fri 11-Oct-19 15:09:18

Why wouldn't her sons bring her up in conversation?
Normal, surely?

paddyann Fri 11-Oct-19 15:04:05

to leave her to rest in peace..flippin keyboard

paddyann Fri 11-Oct-19 15:03:08

Thing is Becket her sons dont want the world to rest in peace..they keep bringing her up as part of conversations and the recent re-enactment of the minefield scene with Harry .
While there are still people who remember her ,they'll continue to use her for PR ...like mother ..like son
s?

Sparklefizz Fri 11-Oct-19 15:01:26

Annie
^Yes Sparkle the same rule applies to Charles and Camilla so
why not understanding for Camilla who was married to a man
who had affairs?^

I have said nothing against Camilla. She was married to a man who had affairs while she was having an affair with Charles. She and Charles are welcome to each other.

I just don't understand how you could say a few pages back that she would be the ideal consort for Charles when he is king. You haven't condemned her at all, yet you condemn Diana. Why not be kind about both of them?

And I agree that Diana should not have repeated what Charles said about Harry when he was born .... but where is your criticism for Charles saying it in the first place? His wife had just given birth for goodness' sake! It was hardly a loving comment.

Your posts are full of justification and defence of Charles and full of harsh judgment against Diana - there is no balance.

Anniebach Fri 11-Oct-19 14:40:51

Charles did not give an interview on that tape and Diana did not gIve an interview on the squidgy tape.

Charles only spoke of his marriage once and it was one answer
to a question by Dimbleby , asked about his affair with Camilla he replied ‘yes when the marriage had broken down’

Beckett Fri 11-Oct-19 14:39:45

Diana has been dead for 22 years and people are still arguing about her - can we not just let the woman rest in peace.

jo1book Fri 11-Oct-19 14:32:37

I never thought much of either of them for giving television interviews when they had small children who would have been subject to sniggers at school. Diana, "St. Diana of the Doe Eyes" won the cringe award; with the "tampax" Prince coming second.

Anniebach Fri 11-Oct-19 14:30:04

Yes Sparkle the same rule applies to Charles and Camilla so
why not understanding for Camilla who was married to a man
who had affairs?

Anniebach Fri 11-Oct-19 14:26:15

May I give one example of something which I found cruel ?

Diana wrote her book published 1992 , Harry was 8.

in it she said of Charles reaction to Harry’s birth ‘he looked at the baby and said ‘another boy and he has red hair’.

Would they not have known the sex of the baby whilst she was
pregnant? Would any scans have been kept a secret from Charles and the Queen ? No way.

Was this kind to Harry ? Was it necessary?