Royal Rumours; which amuses/annoys you and why?

[crisiñaki]

Everything that comes out on the German yellow magazines
pure and unadulterated BS

[alex001]

I always find pregnancy rumours annoying - especially when they persist even after months of no visible signs - no matter which royal they're aimed at.

[Vanesa]

Originally Posted by kimebear

I can't stand the rumor that Princess Aiko is intellectually defective. Just because she is female and conservatives want to stop any action to make her Empress, it's not necessary to malign a little girl.

Well. I AM conservative, and I should never said she is intellectually defective. I think that one of the more effective rulers of the conservative world was...a woman: the Queen Victoria! If women remains women, no problem for them to be Queens or Empresses on their own. How more beatiful for a woman than becoming her country's mother?

Vanesa.

[BeatrixFan]

I find the myth that embalming Diana's body meant nobody could know if she was pregnant or not. Pulease, anyone who knows the slightest basics of embalming knows that if she was, it'd still be as evident after embalming as before the time of death. So that annoys me. It also annoys me when people call the Queen German which is she isn't - she's European.

[COUNTESS]

Originally Posted by BeatrixFan

I find the myth that embalming Diana's body meant nobody could know if she was pregnant or not. Pulease, anyone who knows the slightest basics of embalming knows that if she was, it'd still be as evident after embalming as before the time of death. So that annoys me. It also annoys me when people call the Queen German which is she isn't - she's European.

Well, cavity embalming involves a small incision just above the navel and pushes a trocar into the chest and stomach cavities to puncture the hollow organs and aspirate their contents. One could remove the "fetus" that way. I, though, too, do not believe she was pregnant. As for the queen, she has German ancestors and Scottish ancestors and English ancestors. What is the difference. Here in the States all our ancestors came from somewhere else and we are still Americans. She is British.

[kimebear]

Originally Posted by Vanesa

Well. I AM conservative, and I should never said she is intellectually defective. I think that one of the more effective rulers of the conservative world was...a woman: the Queen Victoria! If women remains women, no problem for them to be Queens or Empresses on their own. How more beatiful for a woman than becoming her country's mother?

Vanesa.

Oh, sorry. I should have clarified that I meant conservatives of the Imperial Household Agency and the Diet.

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by kimebear

I can't stand the rumor that Princess Aiko is intellectually defective. Just because she is female and conservatives want to stop any action to make her Empress, it's not necessary to malign a little girl.

ANY of the rumours about royal children are especially awful. "HRH_________ is retarded, autistic, deaf, mute, blind....." You get the idea.

[LadyK]

I completely agree with TLLK's post right above this. There is nothing more vile and despicable than the press picking on a child.


I also get sick of the "she's too thin, does she have an eating disorder" rumors, which seem to be especcially prevalent in the threads around the Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, and Letizia, the Princess of Asturias.

[Furienna]

That's been said about our Crown princess Victoria too.

[Verde Esmeralda]

Originally Posted by TLLK

ANY of the rumours about royal children are especially awful. "HRH_________ is retarded, autistic, deaf, mute, blind....." You get the idea.

You're right. Does anyone remember the amount of things said about Princess Amalia's eye (which was slightly desviated at first - I even heard/read the word 'cancer') or Princess Leonor's stain on the nose?

[LadyK]

Leonor's hemangioma (birthmark) and all the related conversation filled up almost a full thread! The poor mods had to really police that issue to finally get back on topic. It's a little birthmark, who cares- she's happy, healthy, and that's what matters.