Prince Andrew

DS hasn't called DH Daddy since he was about 5; usually it's Dad or Pa
I get called all kinds of other things as well.

driving a boat
or chaffeuring a helicopter
Love it.

I called my parents Mammy and Daddy until they died, still refer to them as this.

We are Mummy and Daddy to our three.

To be honest I thought they'd change it to Mum and Dad as they aged but it never happened

" driving a boat"

I call my mother something unrepeatable.

We have close naval friends who were serving when PA was. PA, in the navy, was not that different from the PA we know now: arrogant, with an overweening sense of his own importance, not the sharpest knife in the box and not much liked. Driving a boat does not call for the same interpersonal skills that Prince Harry needed when he was in Afghanistan. Anyway, PH is a naturally more empathetic person.

I called my parents mummy and daddy to the end, I was 64 when my father died. DD us calls mummy and daddy, DS has changed to ma and pa.

It is weird. They were still child and Mum.

trisher. You don't have to like your comrades in order to fight alongside them.

It's true Andrew was not popular but that wouldn't have made any difference to the way they behaved in combat.

Not at all weird, 66 years ago and surrounded by the press

Ah. See what you mean. Did they just shake hands? Bet they did. Weird.

Eh?

Photographs can talk ?

I think Epstein killed himself. Couldn't stand the thought of years in prison.

I agree moggie. I think there is more love there now though.

Younger daughter calls me Ma. Or uses my Christian name. Loudly. In shops.

Oh, my son calls me Mummy. Even though I told him not to when he was sixteen.

I quite like it now.

and so does DS.
He did yesterday.

andreww ruled by a rod of iron.
I don't think so.

I do know people who call their mothers Mummy. In fact, DD sometimes calls me Mummy.

product of our family .the royal family and so called spokes people.give advise...andreww ruled by a rod of iron. i still cant believe the photos of charles and the queen when greeting each other as a child saying how do you do mummy?
wherews the hugs and cuddles. ok they seem to have thawed a bit with william and kate.but you never see them hug in public. all protocol.. strict up bringing.

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Is he still an Admiral or has he had to step down from that too?

Even at 60 we are the product of our family

That's very interesting. Might make a good thread.

and trisher feels some sympathy for him which I find strange.

Andrew is in this mess because of his association with a convicted paedophile and child sex trafficker Gonegirl.

trisher was trying to work out why he followed this route and added that his time in the Army would have contributed to this.

As he wasn't in the Army we can dismiss this argument anyway, it is a non-sequitur.

Callistemon I leave you to work out why you immediately construed my comment as linking the armed forces with child abuse.
Actually, trisher I did not, so you perhaps need to read my post again.

Keep digging.
and not, not funny.