It’s ironic that Harry is now referring to HM’s 1947 speech where she devoted her life to saving the Commonwealth. The main objecting towards her successors is that they serve no one except themselves.
Although, from what I understand, the Commonwealth as a democratic institution would probably be better served by having an elected head, not a hereditary one. Keeping a hereditary head just continues the imperialism angle within the institution. Time for a change as all things must.
Being a Traditionalist isn’t going to help Will and Kate in the long run. The demo they are appealing too will probably be dead by the time he becomes King. Will needs goodwill with the Youth because they will be the majority once he becomes King. Harry is going out there and doing it. I think he and Kate are underestimating Harry and Meghan’s appeal and ability to connect with people. They might not ever be King and Queen but in the end, they probably won’t need to be. 2/?
outh, Vets, Women/Girls, and probably HIV/AIDS. Those are some hot demos and good places to build from. Will and Kate have mental health but I can’t name much else. Harry has Invictus on his own. They need to cover more ground. It says a lot that the star of this Commonwealth week looks to be Prince Harry. The Queen has put a lot of trust and faith in him. That hasn’t been extended fully to William 3/3.
Maybe, but I doubt. it. This is exactly what they did with Andrew’s “trade ambassador role,” where he had a British trade organization backing him up and he was supposedly going to sell the UK brand because the royal name added so much glamour and he was supposedly so popular overseas. In the end it was just a big slush fund that paid for his golf trips and Club Med holidays. LOL, the Prime Minister at the time also had “enormous confidence” in Andrew
Trade was the big thing in 2000 and in 2018 the big thing is “youth.” Harry likes Africa so he gets the Commonwealth and not the Middle East. Cue huge amounts of “learning” and “listening” trips to Africa.
If they really meant to turn this into a meaningful position, they really should have called it something else. “Ambassador” is what they roll out whenever they don’t know what to do with one one of their miscreants. Harry, for example, was briefly “foreign ambassador” after his Vegas antics.
You also have to add in her half assed apology (I’m sorry if it caused offence rather than if she caused offence) and her repeated racist incidents in the past. There’s no reason to give her any slack given the fact this was the latest in a long line of examples of her being a racist.
Sorry, it wasn’t a blackamoor brooch. Kuriozgirl is correct.
Lainey made an assumption that it was a blackamoor brooch simply because the character was black/of African origin, and it took off like wildfire in the gossip press because Princess Pushy/Princess Michael has said racist things in the past. Lainey did no research – she just assumed. Blackamoor works show the African character in positions of servitude or ridicule (see the article cited above); however, the brooch Princess Michael wore did no such thing. It was simply of an African man dressed in gold and jewels: a king.
It’s simply ignorant of art and religious history and tradition to simply point fingers accusing Princess Michael of racism with the Balthazar brooch. (That doesn’t necessarily mean she isn’t racist; it just means the Balthazar brooch itself is not inherently racist as are blackamoor works.)
Balthazar, as one of the three Magi, has historically always been portrayed as an African – just as the other two Magi have been historically been portrayed as Arabian and Mediterranean. This is a representation of the historical Christian diaspora and the traditional regional powers of the early Christian era. Recall that this is a religion born of the eastern Mediterranean, with connections to the surrounding areas.
A better representation of historical racism in European Christianity would surely be portraying Jesus as a blond or fair-skinned European. Or the fact that in Spain they still portray Balthazar using blackface instead of actors of African descent.
I highly doubt this one is going to happen. It really sounds like a newspaper trolling for clicks because they know people will get upset and click on the article.
I must say, though, Andrew is a wily old fox. He snuck his daughters into a state dinner while everyone is dazzled by Meghan’s “first fiancee EVER to go to a wine and cheese” press,. They’ve also been on a freaking charity rampage with some fairly impressive events and coverage. I mean. not long ago Bea was doing tiny charities in India with zero photographers. That’s a pretty big improvement.
If they aren’t working for the firm by the time they leave university then I don’t think they ever will. Eugenie, Bea, Zara and Peter are all adults who attend the occasional family event but they have lives and priorities of their own and haven’t been trained or prepared to be full time royals. People wouldn’t accept more royals being added to the payroll without someone getting cut anyway.
The way I see it happening is that people will continue to work but when they pass away their children won’t take up the mantle. If you think about it, Anne is unlikely to stop at all so I can see her going for a good twenty years yet and it’ll be much the same for the others. By that point George, Charlotte and Baby Cambridge will be able to work for the family anyway and George and Charlotte may well be married so there will be people to pick up the work.
I’m starting to wonder if this is the correct take.
I saw a lot of people interpreting Meghan’s Commonwealth Service outfit as following the agreed-upon navy dress code. I actually interpreted it the exact opposite. I think her cream ensemble was designed to make her stand out. Yes, I know Anne also wore cream, but no one looks at Anne.
I suspect they were told to dress in navy so they wouldn’t upstage the Queen’s cranberry dress, and Meghan hogged the spotlight with her white coat and hat. Yes, it technically fit the dress code, but I doubt anyone was amused with her cleverness. Mocking Liam’s performance didn’t help her cause any, imo. The fact that a ton of people interpreted the dress code as the BRF supporting Meghan and not as everyone stepping into line and supporting the Queen was also not good.
There isn’t really an exact reason other than the fact they’re different families with different systems. The UK is quite unique in the strict title system it has and the existence of peerages. Peerages separate “commoners” from the aristocracy and so they hold a lot of weight. In Sweden and others they don’t have peerages as such so they just aren’t as important culturally. It’s also much easier as when you’re talking about a woman in the BRF who marries in she would either be the Duchess title or Princess Husband’s Name whereas other countries make women a princess in their own right. Sweden is generally just a bit more relaxed, they kind of make it up as they go along.
The Queen and Sir David Attenborough team to protect forests in new documentary film.
ITV1 will air a one-off special documentary following ‘Her Majesty
the Queen and an ambitious legacy project to create a global network of
protected forests’ on Monday 16 April. Focusing on the Queen’s
Commonwealth Canopy and highlighting her little-known love of trees, the
film, titled The Queen’s Green Planet, will have at its heart a
conversation between the Queen and beloved nature broadcaster Sir David
Attenborough in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
“Don’t forget there’s a very double-edged sword. People tend to forget when she passed the longest reigning monarch, that was only because her father died so young. So you know for her that’s a very mixed blessing, and you know it’s a record that she would much rather not have been able to pass.”
— Princess Anne speaking about Queen Elizabeth II in a documentary looking
at the Queen as she turns 90 in the coming weeks. The documentary
titled, the Elizabeth at 90 – A Family Tribute features film taken by close family members and interviews with some detailing their experience with the Queen. (via royalwatcher)
Patricia Treble’s analysis of the Royals engagements. HM is actually 24% above last year. And she has comment about Harry’s leisurely work schedule. Thinks he wil drop out of the top 10 royals by April at this rate. Not good when your pregnant sister in law beats you. Will has almost doubled his numbers. PC as always with Anne are the workhorses of the RF along with HM.
House of Brat 