Lilibet

“ you can
dismiss the Oprah interview as a mistake ? . ”

Error of judgment/ faux pas/ blunder/gaffe/miscalculation …..

I don't care what Catherine (I do think it is nicer than Kate) did at school or university. Like many many mothers she takes an interest in education. I left school at 15 with no qualifications but volunteered in schools for many years and as teachers I worked with would tell you I had great success working 1 to 1 with children who were struggling to learn to read.

Sometimes the people who do things have a useful perspective that the people who study things can benefit from, the most self confident of them will admit that.

Any interest in education, from anyone, but particularly from a royal, is helpful and beneficial.

Ellianne

Any interest in education, from anyone, but particularly from a royal, is helpful and beneficial.

Of course ! Agree.. (anyone ?!)

High profile people taking an interest in education can only be a good thing in my opinion. Especially in Early Years education.

I would always refer to The Duchess of Cambridge as Cartherine. My own daughter’s name is Catherine and apart from a couple of private, pet names I have for her, I always call her Catherine. My son in law actually told his mother in front of me that her name is Catherine, because he knows that’s what we call her. She had used the diminutive Cat, something some of her friends call her, but we never do.

Anniebach Meghan had taken a great interest in women's rights well before she met Harry and had spoken out on those issues for years.

I wonder if she thought she may have gained a higher profile platform after she married him to enable her to speak out on issues about which she felt passionately, but was constrained by the courtiers about what the RF can in fact do and speak about.

I am so wrong to say Kate, my darling daughter’s name was the same as your daughter maddyone, I find it so difficult to use
the name .

I absolutely understand that Annie

Thank you maddy

As this whole thread is all about names, doesn't that just show that a high profile royal is identifiable under various interchangeable names? In other words, they must have some sort of importance amongst the population who recognise the different names instantly?
So William = Wills = Duke of Cambridge
Kate Middleton = Catherine = Duchess of Cambridge
Does it matter which is used in a chat?
The Lilibet name is different, because it was a very personal nickname.

Resurrecting the “Who called the Queen, Lilibet in the first place?”…..

Have just perused my ‘Coronation Souvenir Book 1937’.

A page of pictures of Princess Elizabeth Heir Presumptive.

There is one of her entitled ‘1930: She called herself “Princess Lilibet” then’.

It’s a very interesting read.

Calendargirl I think my gran had that book when I was little. Are there photos of the princesses with a doll's pram and in a Wendy house?

It isn't any use any high profile royal 'taking an interest in education' whilst it remains such a badly funded and neglected area. Photo shoots of any member of the RF standing in a classroom with a small group of happy smiling, carefully picked children just perpetuates the idea that things are OK really, when most of us know the system is crumbling.

Who said the children were carefully picked ?

I would not say the education system is crumbling.
I would say that it is being expected to take on more and more responsibility for the consequences of poor parenting, which demands an ever-increasing amount of time, resources and money.

trisher you old cynic,

lighten up a bit.

I saw Kate Catherine and William once, by chance. They had popped up to talk to a carefully picked set of acceptable former young offenders who didn't look too scary.

As they come out, they were into that car and away quick as you like, no mixing with the hoi polloi.

I'm sure it was a security thing

I agree eazybee , always poverty blamed, never neglectful
parents .

Well said, eazybee

I agree,too,eazybee. Teachers are expected to be social workers, parents and therapists as well as teachers these days. Not good.

Anniebach

Who said the children were carefully picked ?

Everybody who has worked in a difficult school knows there are some people you keep somewhere else when an important visitor comes

trisher you do not know those children were carefully picked, fact. You assume they were carefully picked, you don’t
know if that school was a difficult school either.

Sophie (and Edward) planted a tree in our school garden. The visit was of no educational value, but the children named it Sophie's tree and anyone who was feeling sad or left out could go and sit on the bench under it. That was of far more value to them, as a little sanctuary, and made them feel safe and special. It's how you use the royals' visits. Little things.

Little things are so important

Exactly Elliane. The little things.

Another little thing, Charles still invites the ‘young wives’, not
now young to Highgrove , they are women from a village in
South Wales , Aberfan.