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Elizabeth seems sharper than you. |
DP. Was I the only person who saw the red tartan dress photo of Kate looking like a summer sausage? She’s a long skeletal torso. Built like Popeyes girlfriend. She has a gorgeous face and great hair but thin with short legs and no curves whatsoever is not most people’s cup of tea. Cameron Diaz, J.Lo, Teyana Taylor are examples of women who are thin but look healthy and strong. |
NP. It is a fact that IQ fluctuates with age. But I don’t think any of this matters because I don’t think Elizabeth is really running anything. I think there has been effectively a Charles regency from the moment he replaced her private secretary and prince Philip went into retirement. |
That is an interesting theory but if he was effectively running things why doesn't he have a better run of the BRF? - He let Andrew hold that disastrous interview inside of Buckingham Palace on national television - He let and/or propagated his newest daughter-in-law be smeared knowing he needed the couple for engagements - The whole H/M meltdown could have easily been handled better by someone properly in charge - The Brexit mess where the Queen pro-rogued Parliament for only the third time in a century - The scandal with the Queen's secret bank accounts in private shareholdings - The Prince Michael of Kent russia-gate affair |
DP. It's not Charles running the country. It's Boris. |
You’re blaming Charles for the Sussexes bratty behavior? |
Not immediate PP. of course he isn’t the cause of their bratty behavior. But the truth of the matter is that they were an asset that could have been used for Charles purposes if he had been able to handle them appropriately. Considering one of the chief justifications for the BRF is soft diplomacy the fact that Charles couldn’t handle that is an astonish failure. Also I disagree with PP saying that Charles was bothered by Andrew’s interview. They hate each other and Charles has been trying to push him out for decades. The interview permanently did all that. |
NP. No one has been able to handle the Sussexes’ bratty behavior. They are only on good terms with a single family member (Doria). |
You aren't an asset if you are an unpredictable loose cannon. |
Psh. Charles just needs someone with a pulse. Right now he is forced to rely on his octogenarian siblings until Williams kids come of age. He doesn’t want any of his nieces or nephews to pick up the slack because he doesn’t want them to be full time working royals. He could have held his nose and dealt with the Sussex for a decade. Now what is he going to do when his siblings and his mother, who together do the bulk of royal numbers, start to die? He can reduce the number of events but if his mom, who is way more popular than Charles, dies people are already going to be looking with increased scrutiny of UK taxpayer support so timing would be bad (doing less for the same money). People forget that him and Camilla were attacked in their car when college fees were increased. His relationship to the public is not that strong. |
Oprah has. But then again she has competent managerial skills… |
They can scale back like the Swedes and Spaniards have done. He doesn’t need to hold his nose with the Sussexes. Their popularity is in the toilet with the British public anyway. |
They can scale back but the Swedes and Spaniards receive substantially less public money than the BRF. How will they justify doing less without a corresponding reduction in money? I mean the Spanish monarchy is all crammed into one castle…I can’t see them doing that. |