Posted on 05/20/2018 5:45:07 AM PDT by Twotone
Well, today was the big day for Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, so it seems appropriate to offer a few Royal romances as our Saturday movie date. The most directly relevant movie, Royal Wedding, made in 1947, was set in London against the background of Prince Harry's grandparents' nuptials and starred Fred Astaire and an actress whose dad was an actual guest at the actual real-life wedding - Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston. But I'll say a few words about that tomorrow night in our Song of the Week department, and today cast our net a little further afield in search of celluloid romances between royals and commoners:
To be honest, when a Prince of the Blood Royal marries in the presence of Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney a half-black American actress who's dated a porn star and divorced her Jewish husband by mailing back the wedding ring and has a violent alcoholic brother who's held a gun to his girlfriend's head and sent his soon-to-be brother-in-law an open letter warning that this will be "the biggest mistake in royal wedding history"... to be honest, it makes even the racier royal romances of yesteryear seem a little tame.
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I only saw one?
Okay, I'll bite: One what?
Oh geeze. When will this crap be over.
Remember…We left the monarchy behind 240+ years ago.
Besides…There would have to be a mass murder of royals for Harry and his progeny to be elevated to the throne.
There is no royalty. No such thing as royal blood. It is insane to pass power through heredity. Let the royals work for their living.
Poor Harry. He married a creature of Hollywood. By nature, they are by of and for themselves. Usually, everything a Hollywood creature does is driven by the need to advance their stature through publicity (usually putting forth a fake image that is at odds with the real nature of said Hollywood creature, think Weinstein at a feminist march wearing a pink hat).
Now that this particular Hollywood creature has gotten her main publicity boost from this, it is only a matter of time before she seeks Act II, namely, the breakup. My prediction, she gets bored, returns to acting and hooks up with a co-star.
Why would we want to be ruled like the pagans?
We’re much better off with the Bushs’, Clintons’, and Kennedys’...
And their “titles” aren’t ceremonial.
“Remember…We left the monarchy behind 240+ years ago.”
So?
You can just not read the stories or look at the photos. I haven’t.
The American Revolution =/= an expectation that Americans are not allowed to look or talk about this stuff even at obsessive levels.
When the Price of Wales visited the U.S. in the 1860s (which was a sensation at the time), no one was pitching a fit about, nor when the king and queen visited in the 1930s.
And besides, the kid is marrying an American girl. Like how would you think no one in America would be into this?
“It is insane to pass power through heredity. “
They have next to no real political power.
“Let the royals work for their living.”
What do you think they do now?
President Trump has shown only the greatest respect and affection for the United Kingdom and the British Royal Family.
It was President Trump who restored the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office immediately upon assuming the office of the Presidency, after President Obama, whom Prince Harry has flattered, removed it.
America offers her prayers and best wishes for the happiness of her daughter and Prince Harry, as she enjoins Prince Harry always to love and care for her daughter, but, sadly, she must hope that Harry will display better judgment and more benevolence in the future.
Then why are they such useful idiots, hmmmm?
The problem is what they get into behind the scenes, political prohibitions and niceties bedamned.
Yeah..... And despite whatever any of that means, the political power in Britain rest with the Parliament.
My dear lad, it rests with the people controlling the Parliament. The Parliament, like our Congress, is in reality a fig leaf. The UK has a uniparty and Deep State problem, too. And the royals are part of it.
I’d like to know why Meghan looked so unkempt? In the pictures I saw yesterday her hair style wearing the veil was like someone coming out of the gym or on a weekend morning doing housework and I read the dress cost 200k, maybe the veil and train were the expensive part because the main part looked unfinished at seams like it was just darted and not an attractive neckline and shape of dress for her. She’s looked much better in other photos than she did for her wedding - odd she would want that or settle for that.
Case in point, from 2016, and yes, I am considering the source...
Yeah the Brits have their Commons/Lords and parties. Their ministers can be even nastier than our congressmen, senators and presidents
Anyone who has ever watched "Prime Minister's Questions" on c-span can attest to that. I use to love watching Maggie rip those dolts apart.
Excellent points.
IDGAF.
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