Princess Eugenie's wedding.... are you going to watch?

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Anonymous wrote:she has a gorgeous figure! That dress really shows it off, wow.

When did she change? We saw her getting into the car in her bridal gown. I'd like this dress if it weren't for the cape-like shoulders.

The wedding happened over two days with three parties. She kept her first gown on for the ceremony, official photo with Queen and the ride in the silver car. Then changed for the party Friday night and again Saturday afternoon. Friday night was the peach gown.

Two days and three celebrity-studded parties later, the wedding celebrations of Princess Eugenie and her new husband, Jack Brooksbank, were last night approaching an end. The same could not be said of the row over how much it all cost.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/princess-eugenies-blowout-marriage-to-jack-brooksbank-needles-palace-dhb763j8w

The bolded is kind of weird. She's a honest to god princess! Of course she's going to want a splashy, princess type wedding. She's also just as much the queen's granddaughter as Harry is her grandson and no one protested the cost of his wedding like this.

There is a growing republican movement in the UK and there is some public resentment about taxpayers paying for royals who don't contribute back, like Andrew's daughters.

Harry and William are the children of the heir to the throne. Andrew's children are not. Princess Anne's kids managed to get married without such brouhahahas.

That's on top of the fact that if you want to compare Harry and Eugenie's wedding, they know that every dime they put into Harry's wedding they've already gotten back in spades. Tourism revenue went through the roof, hotels, restaurants, public transportation, souvenir purchases - it all matters when you're throwing a splashy, multi-million dollar celebration in the royal family.

She had a thousand or so spectators show up. Harry had over one hundred thousand.

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Anonymous wrote:Eugenie looks like Monica L...ky

Truth.

And, I agree that this wedding was WAY over the top compared to Anne's children. There's no call for this lavish waste of taxpayer money. Especially the carriage which put the costs into the astronomical numbers. Andy pushed for this and is responsible for the inevitable backlash he'll have created. He's a spoiled brat, always has been. Daughters are similar - no charitable efforts, only celebrity chasers. Demi Moore? Ricky Martin? Gimme a break.

Eugenia does charity work with the cuildren's hospital that did her scoliosis surgery.

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So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

This actually happens? How silly.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

This actually happens? How silly.

That doesn't happen as much as you would think which is why the Yorks are always in such a snit.

Honestly, Andrew had a choice about the way he raised her. He could have followed the example of his elder sister Anne, the Princess Royal, who didn't give her children titles at birth or an HRH. They're now successful with families and businesses of their own. Unlike Bea and Eugenie.

There are plenty of ways to do a royal wedding and the way Zara Tindall did hers (she would be the same rank of Eugenie had her mother chose to do so) was perfect for someone without the stature and fame of a senior Royal.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

There are a lot of halfway measures - it's a hierarchy based on your distance from the throne. Harry's other first cousins (Prince Edward's children) are not HRH and wouldn't get this splashy wedding either. Princess Anne's daughter Zara - also a granddaughter of the Queen and not HRH either - was married in a much more modest ceremony.

Eugenie is not a working member of the royal family (like Harry is) and certainly didn't need this much fanfare made about her marriage to a commoner. She'll return to her job and so will he.

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Anonymous wrote:No bearing. I have heard the younger women thing but I actually think Andrew and Fergie are very close.

Don't understand why Andrew doesn't stand next to Eugenia in the family photo and then Fergie and then Beatrice.

The kids can’t sit in front of the Queen? So the line of adults has to extend all the way around? Kind of makes Beatrice look lonely. Also its funny my eyes immediately went searching for a Middleton haha. I’m so used to them all hamming it up for every royal photo they can squeeze into.

What a weird thing to say. You mean the Middletons shouldn't appear in any family portraits having to do with Kate or their grandchildren?

Np but yes. My parents and inlaws don't see each other. Same with our siblings' parents and inlaws.

My god, think of the rumors and horrible press that would create for Kate and Will.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

There are a lot of halfway measures - it's a hierarchy based on your distance from the throne. Harry's other first cousins (Prince Edward's children) are not HRH and wouldn't get this splashy wedding either. Princess Anne's daughter Zara - also a granddaughter of the Queen and not HRH either - was married in a much more modest ceremony.

Eugenie is not a working member of the royal family (like Harry is) and certainly didn't need this much fanfare made about her marriage to a commoner. She'll return to her job and so will he.

Anne and Edward’s children don’t have an HRH but only because their parents declined those titles at their birth. Otherwise they would.

Anne raised her kids to know that they wouldn’t be representing the monarchy as adults (and therefore getting paid to do so). Sophie has also mentioned raising her kids with the intention of them being self supporting as adults.

That wasn’t how the York girls were brought up until late teens/early twenties. A lot of damage had probably been done by then.

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Anonymous wrote:Eugenie looks like Monica L...ky

Kind of cheesy

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For all of Eugenie's privilege, why couldn't she have chosen a better dress? Her wedding dress looks very 80s and is sooo not stylish. I'm not usually one to comment on dresses but it's quite unflattering.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

There are a lot of halfway measures - it's a hierarchy based on your distance from the throne. Harry's other first cousins (Prince Edward's children) are not HRH and wouldn't get this splashy wedding either. Princess Anne's daughter Zara - also a granddaughter of the Queen and not HRH either - was married in a much more modest ceremony.

Eugenie is not a working member of the royal family (like Harry is) and certainly didn't need this much fanfare made about her marriage to a commoner. She'll return to her job and so will he.

Anne and Edward’s children don’t have an HRH but only because their parents declined those titles at their birth. Otherwise they would.

Anne raised her kids to know that they wouldn’t be representing the monarchy as adults (and therefore getting paid to do so). Sophie has also mentioned raising her kids with the intention of them being self supporting as adults.

That wasn’t how the York girls were brought up until late teens/early twenties. A lot of damage had probably been done by then.

Anne and Sophie are smart and planned well for their kids. Once Charles ascends to the throne everything will be focused on his heirs and the rest will just become extended family.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

There are a lot of halfway measures - it's a hierarchy based on your distance from the throne. Harry's other first cousins (Prince Edward's children) are not HRH and wouldn't get this splashy wedding either. Princess Anne's daughter Zara - also a granddaughter of the Queen and not HRH either - was married in a much more modest ceremony.

Eugenie is not a working member of the royal family (like Harry is) and certainly didn't need this much fanfare made about her marriage to a commoner. She'll return to her job and so will he.

Anne and Edward’s children don’t have an HRH but only because their parents declined those titles at their birth. Otherwise they would.

Anne raised her kids to know that they wouldn’t be representing the monarchy as adults (and therefore getting paid to do so). Sophie has also mentioned raising her kids with the intention of them being self supporting as adults.

That wasn’t how the York girls were brought up until late teens/early twenties. A lot of damage had probably been done by then.

Anne and Sophie are smart and planned well for their kids. Once Charles ascends to the throne everything will be focused on his heirs and the rest will just become extended family.

I hope that means we won’t see Megan. There’s just something about her that makes me dislike her

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

There are a lot of halfway measures - it's a hierarchy based on your distance from the throne. Harry's other first cousins (Prince Edward's children) are not HRH and wouldn't get this splashy wedding either. Princess Anne's daughter Zara - also a granddaughter of the Queen and not HRH either - was married in a much more modest ceremony.

Eugenie is not a working member of the royal family (like Harry is) and certainly didn't need this much fanfare made about her marriage to a commoner. She'll return to her job and so will he.

Anne and Edward’s children don’t have an HRH but only because their parents declined those titles at their birth. Otherwise they would.

Anne raised her kids to know that they wouldn’t be representing the monarchy as adults (and therefore getting paid to do so). Sophie has also mentioned raising her kids with the intention of them being self supporting as adults.

That wasn’t how the York girls were brought up until late teens/early twenties. A lot of damage had probably been done by then.

Anne and Sophie are smart and planned well for their kids. Once Charles ascends to the throne everything will be focused on his heirs and the rest will just become extended family.

I hope that means we won’t see Megan. There’s just something about her that makes me dislike her

Too bad for you. Charles has already made clear that as King Charles III he will be leaning heavily on his two sons for public engagements and events. He'll need them as King and Head of the Commonwealth and they plus their wives are well aware of the necessity.

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Anonymous wrote:So what if Harry had more crowds, what does that have to do with anything?

She’s a blood princess of the realm. You can’t raise a person in a palace, surrounded by servants and people curtsying to her and calling her an HRH, and then expect her to be a regular middle class person. That’s just dumb.

Either do away with the monarchy or don’t but these halfway measures (Harry gets a splashy wedding but his first cousin doesn’t) are contradictory and ridiculous.

That's all on her parents, though. She didn't have to get the title as other people have pointed out.

Those empty fields with the expensive, tax-payer-paid coach going through it are embarrassing.

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She looked radient and lovely as a bride. Her DH has a full head of hair...so a win there.

I loved, loved, loved her tiara. Fabulous piece of jewellary. Sarah Ferguson could have looked better without her visigoth hat!