Prince Andrew Abseils Down The Shard

LOL

Would have been good to see his daughters do it.............about time they put something back into society.

Like your thinking merlot Though rather him than me!

Surely he had to do some hairy things when he was training as a helicopter pilot. Though he has certainly lost his figure since then!

He really did it! I thought *merlotgran* was joking

Was that a bit random or does he do a lot of abseiling?

"It's all about getting children involved in this sort of activity"!!!

Please no! I'm grey already.

Ha Ha jings, I had a feeling you'd come up with the link. Cheers
I'd have probably messed it up

In the defence of his daughters, one of them has a serious back condition and would be unable to do anything like abseiling. I quite like the girls. However, prince Andrew could abseil down from the moon and he'd still be a waste of space imo...

True Crimson, abseiling is probably not the best idea. For all I know the girls might also already be doing some 'good works' its just that, rightly or wrongly, unlike The Princess Royal's two, William and even 'unfortunate' Harry, my perception of them is of more social butterfly than any thing more useful.

HildaW I think the Duke of York expected his daughters to play a much more central role in the core part of the Royal Family – and still wants them to. However, HM the Q has obviously decided to focus attention only on the PoW and the Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry (she may yet change her mind about his inclusion depending on on his future activities), besides The Edinburgh and herself.

Prince Harry seems to have some striking similarities to his uncle what with lap dancers and so on. I wonder if he'll take up international golf.

Abseiling is over-rated. Sit back in a safety harness, stick your legs out to stop yourself banging into the thing you're abseiling down, get lowered on pulleys. Child's play. Still not impressed by Andrew. [humph]

Or his daughters.

As nobody has read it in the This Made Me Laugh thread, I shall repeat
.... and when he was only half way up he was neither up nor down...

Mamie

Oh this made me feel all hot and sweaty when it ws on breakfast news - no PA does not make me feel hot and sweaty heights do though. As for the Ugly Sisters when are they going to get a job?

I can't see how they are ugly tbh.

Me neither.

They do look very like their father.

Good one Mamie

Mamie ha ha!

i'm a peaceful soul but I do get a bit irritatexd when people criticize the Royals. We don't know them and they certainly have no chance of defending themselves or answering back. I agree with JO4 the girls are by no means ugly. At least one of them has a sense of humour and definitely had the last laugh with her outrageous ''pretzel'' hat which she sold on ebay for a vast sum of money which she gave to charity.

I agree with Hunt, the only thing we know about the Royals is what we are told - via the media mostly. They are a family, not in our sense a 'normal' family, but never-the-less, they must have feelings, and although they are no doubt used to some of the stories which are told about them, they might also be outraged and hurt by some of them. I think we are fortunate to have them - what else would we talk about, besides the weather?

I saw a very odd headline yesterday on the internet!!! 'World mourns Max Bygraves'!!!!! I don't think so........... His family will mourn him, close friends will mourn him, but the WORLD-No. I cannot imagine the sub continent having a national day of mourning, or the USA going into a state of mass mourning (Did they even know who he was) Come on head line writers, don't exaggerate, you've been told about it a million times!!!

Confession: I didn't know who Max Bygraves was. Still don't.

For the rich lifestyle the Royals get, I think I'd be prepared to put up with a bit of teasing and leg-pulling. Insulting even. They can always abdicate if it gets too much for their tender sensibilities. They don't have to do it

Bags I agree..the royals certainly do not need defending by the likes of us! They have a huge entourage of PR people to deal with it all. I do not think hurtful comments about personal looks are necessary but surely we can comment on ridiculous choices of clothing and mindless behaviour... there are plenty of those to choose from!