Prince William & Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge News #2

[Mirik]

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[EVBC]

^Hmpf. The world was always her oyster but she just never made anything out of it then. Will it be different now that she has become a princess - or rather a duchess - perhaps. But I would certainly not understand the mentality that I'll just wait with doing something in my life until I've become a duchess...?

I was browsing through Kate's style thread and as I was looking at the pictures of her with the children doing art in LA a thought popped into my head: "what a farce". What a farce that she's being paraded around like some person of high regard and esteem. What's she done with her life other than get married to a very privileged man? Is she supposed to inspire people? Inspire them to do what exactly? Adhere to an out of date social model? To have wealthy parents? To wait around for someone to marry you?

 

[Squizree]

Is it true the Queen really hated the display?

 

[Aquila]

^^ Apparently when she saw the dress displayed on the headless mannequin she said it was "Horrid, isn't it? Horrid and dreadful!". I think she just found it a bit creepy perhaps.

 

[helen-rox]

When I saw the video of her saying that, she sounded sarcastic

 

[Boomer]

^ Sounded pretty insensitive to Kate- I wouldn't be surprised if that hurt her feelings- young brides are very sensitive about anything involving their wedding...

 

[bettygem]

Didn't Kate joke with the Queen, and said it looked 3D? I don't think Kate was hurt by it, the Queen just thought it looked odd without a head.

 

[Squizree]

^ She was. After Queen Liz expressed her strong disapproval of the display, Catherine was quite upset and disappointed. I read somewhere that Catherine looked "sallow" afterwards and had to fake agreeing with the Queen. But it was because the display was bad, not the dress itself. I guess Queen Liz is a tough critic.

 

[liberty33r1b]

When I saw the video of her saying that, she sounded sarcastic

is the video posted on youtube? i couldn't find it....

 

[helen-rox]

^I'm not sure if its online anywhere, but I saw it on a Australian morning show. Sorry can't be any more help then that

 

[JillianS]

^ She was. After Queen Liz expressed her strong disapproval of the display, Catherine was quite upset and disappointed. I read somewhere that Catherine looked "sallow" afterwards and had to fake agreeing with the Queen. But it was because the display was bad, not the dress itself. I guess Queen Liz is a tough critic.

from the video I saw she looked like she was agreeing with Kate....that it looked bizarre without her head and body...
the video is here for anyone who hasn't seen it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14257114

 

[liberty33r1b]

seeing them both together talking, they looked like best friends! great video

 

[chanelnumber5]

^^ That video of them together is cute I agree that it looks like Kate saying it looks strange and then the Queen agrees with her.

 

[dajrekshn]

you can't argue with the queen.
i do this term dreadful is a bit too much, i didn't find the display so bad, but that's just me.

 

[Deleted member 49693]

Kate is a Royal Barbie Doll...no inspiration to me.

 

[Flawless]

Kate is a Royal Barbie Doll...no inspiration to me.

Barbie Doll ??? Whaat?

 

[rox_yr_sox]

Girls equal in British throne succession

Sons and daughters of any future UK monarch will have equal right to the throne, after Commonwealth leaders agreed to change succession laws.
The leaders of the 16 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state unanimously approved the changes at a summit in Perth, Australia.
It means a first-born daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would take precedence over younger brothers.
The ban on the monarch being married to a Roman Catholic was also lifted.
Under the old succession laws, dating back more than 300 years, the heir to the throne is the first-born son of the monarch. Only when there are no sons, as in the case of the Queen's father George VI, does the crown pass to the eldest daughter.
The succession changes will require a raft of historic legislation to be amended, including the 1701 Act of Settlement, the 1689 Bill of Rights and the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
The change to the Royal Marriages Act will end a position where every descendant of George II is legally required to seek the consent of the monarch before marrying.
In future, the requirement is expected to be limited to a small number of the sovereign's close relatives.


Announcing the succession changes, Prime Minister David Cameron said they would apply to descendents of the Prince of Wales. They will not be applied retrospectively.
"Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be our queen," he said.
"The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic - this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we have become."
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard said it was an extraordinary moment: "I'm very enthusiastic about it. You would expect the first Australian woman prime minister to be very enthusiastic about a change which equals equality for women in a new area."
She said the changes appeared to be straightforward. "But just because they seem straightforward to our modern minds doesn't mean that we should underestimate their historical significance, changing as they will for all time the way in which the monarchy works and changing its history."
But the campaign group Republic - which wants an elected head of state in Britain - said "nothing of substance" had been changed.
"The monarchy discriminates against every man, woman and child who isn't born into the Windsor family. To suggest that this has anything to do with equality is utterly absurd," spokesman Graham Smith said.
Queen's speech On scrapping the ban on future monarchs marrying Roman Catholics, Mr Cameron said: "Let me be clear, the monarch must be in communion with the Church of England because he or she is the head of that Church. But it is simply wrong they should be denied the chance to marry a Catholic if they wish to do so. After all, they are already quite free to marry someone of any other faith."

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, said the elimination of the "unjust discrimination" against Catholics would be widely welcomed.
"At the same time I fully recognise the importance of the position of the established church [the Church of England] in protecting and fostering the role of faith in our society today," he said.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond also welcomed the lifting of the ban but said it was "deeply disappointing" that Roman Catholics were still unable to ascend to the throne.
"It surely would have been possible to find a mechanism which would have protected the status of the Church of England without keeping in place an unjustifiable barrier on the grounds of religion in terms of the monarchy," he said.
"It is a missed opportunity not to ensure equality of all faiths when it comes to the issue of who can be head of state."
In her opening speech to the summit, the Queen did not directly mention the royal succession laws, but said women should have a greater role in society.
"It encourages us to find ways to show girls and women to play their full part," she said.
Previous attempts The BBC's royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, said this was a hint that the Queen herself backed the change.
The Queen will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee next year and there are already two generations of kings-in-waiting - Prince Charles and his son Prince William.
In January 2011, Labour MP Keith Vaz tabled a Succession to the Crown Bill in the Commons to end gender discrimination in the succession to the throne.
He said his bill - due for its second reading on 25 November - could be used to introduce the reforms announced in Perth.
"As a society that values gender equality so highly, this is a long overdue," he said. "We will now have modern laws that fit our modern monarchy."
The royal author Robert Hardman said there had been 11 attempts in recent years by individual MPs and peers to change the succession laws.
The laws are not a matter for the 54-nation Commonwealth as a whole, only for the 16 countries which have the Queen as their head of state, known as realms.
These are Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Papua New Guinea, St Christopher and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tuvalu, Barbados, Grenada, Solomon Islands, St Lucia and the Bahamas.

bbc news

 

[Thefrenchy]

^That's really cool.

 

[VogueElle Addict]

Bored of reading about her scar during 4 days!! Papers must leave her calm

 

[KKnardi]

^That's really cool.

I would actually prefer to see a new queen, all the dresses and jewellery!