1. There has to be a transition at some point, right? She is the future Queen and it would have been a great precedent to send them to school, especially when Queen Mary wanted to send them. Princess Margaret later said in an interview that her life would have been far better and meaningful, had they gone to school. And what are you saying about security? You think Germans are more likely to bomb some boarding school in countryside, rather than BP? They would have been much safer in school. The QM reportedly said "All my sisters had governesses, and we all got good husbands" So she never came out of that way of thinking..Just thought that elegance and graciousness is enough for Royals to get over.
Your "quote" says everything about why QM didn't send her children to school. It wasn't 'done' in those days, and with hindsight i'm sure Princess Margaret would have loved to have gone to school, might have helped her out a little in life.
As for safety, they would have been much better with their parents at Windsor than at some boarding school, which would have been in London anyway. Not to mention the huge trauma of being away from their parents during WW2, thousands of families went through that and if two children could stay with their parents they should have.
2.Charles thought that Diana will be a dutiful,calm,obedient wife. Diana thought Charles will spend his entire life cuddling her in bed. QM should have told him Diana being from a emotionally starved background, cannot cope up with pressures..
You're talking as if The Queen Mother was to blame for the whole Diana situation because she apparently didn't mention something she probably didn't even know about. Charles married Diana, Diana married Charles - where do you put The QM in that? Diana had massive unrealistic expectations of her marriage and future life and Charles didn't explain royal expectations clearly enough.
3.Every second child of a monarch will be prepared to become the King, until the first one has got a heir and a spare. In fact, every royal should be prepared for. That what they are raised and groomed in the extravagant way for, since birth. And its not like the King and Queen are taking decisions daily on troop movement, strategic attacks, geopolitical alignments and all..There is the Prime Minister and entire Cabinet to take that stress..
I'm not sure what your point is here? Elizabeth and Margaret were both taught the same things, both "groomed" correctly until Elizabeth had Charles and then Anne (although it was even more secure when Andrew appeared). Your country is at war, your people are suffering, soldiers are fighting for their King, do you not think that comes with a severe amount of stress?
Lumutqueen, I think we already had an arguement about this before.
I seriously dont agree Wallis ruined her life. It is just destiny. If she wanted that carefree, stress-free life, she shouldnt have married a royal in the first place. Once she is married, she has to go on with him. And she did just that. If not for Wallis, Edward would have married another German divorcee..Then?
If not for abdication, she and her daughters would have passed on as minor royals in some countryside manor, and no one would have bothered to even care her smiles, waves and freckles.
The very spirit of monarchy is BY GRACE OF GOD.. Then she should have the common sense to ackowledge all the events as by the grace of God, not as some plan by aliens to send Wallis to destroy her life. And mind you, the King died ONLY and ONLY and ONLY because of his lifestyle. It has nothing to do with the so-called DUTY or abdication or anything..
Not destiny, fate and all that BS. Give me a break.
She married the second in line to the throne, he was never going to be King unless his brother died. I never said she wanted a stress and carefree life.
You have no idea who Edward would have married nor do you know what The Duke and Duchess of York would have done if they hadn't have become King and Queen. But I'm pretty safe in saying they would have been "minor" royals who disappeared from royal life.
Sorry, but it was Wallis that came into Edward's life not God. You can't see God, but you could see Walllis.
Please, please don't write speculation as fact, it's really annoying. The King might have died because of his lifestyle, but you can be damn sure being King had something to do with his early death.
I've seen the ideas that you point out about the Queen Mother every so often on the boards and elsewhere and I do admit that they make sense looking back at things as they happened.
