Thanks for your response. Maybe I'm just projecting because I miss my grandparents and talk and honour them all the time. I'd give anything to have so much footage of them, like there is of Grace. Grace films, Marilyn films, golden age movies are my happy place. I'm such a fan that I'm expecting them to be like fans and not children and grandchildren? I think because Albert speaks so much and jasmine also.
Like you said Caroline has kept things meticulously private so we can never know. And charlotte did wear the necklace. Like I said maybe it's just my projection and wanting them to be like how rest of fans are. Full of love and adoration
Did you know your grandparents??
I get if you knew your grandparents missing them and wanting a connection. But Grace died before she was a grandmother. None of the kids ever had a personal connection with her. You can hear as many stories as you want about your grandparents, but you will never have remotely the same connection with them if you never met them.
My maternal grandmother died when my mother was a child. I have heard stories and seen photos. But I have no connection to the woman at all. My 'grandma' is my mother's stepmother. My grandfather remarried after my mother had already married, but his second wife was in the picture when I was born. That will always be the grandmother I have a bond with.
We have no idea what Caroline has told her kids about her mother. I am sure they have heard plenty of stories about the woman. From their mom and other family like their Uncle as well. But to them she is simply pictures and videos, she isnt a living breathing person they have had any connection to.
William may tell his kids about Diana a lot, but it will be the same for them. The only grandparents they will ever have a real connection to are Michael, Carole, Charles and even Camilla. Diana will be 'the woman daddy tells us stories about before bed'. It says nothing about him not talking about her to his kids, its just the reality of her dying long before they were born. Same goes for Caroline and her children.
I think people tend to put women like Grace and Diana on a pedestal. The longer they are dead the more saintly they become to some people. People lokk at the photos and videos 'oh would be so amazing to be their family'. But we only see their public persona. We have no idea what these women were like behind closed doors.
William saw his mother's flaws, but he got the 'fun loving mom' behind closed doors. For Caroline it seems the flawed side also impeded on the private side of their mother. Perhaps if Grace had lived, and had been alive to see Caroline become a mom and such, their relationship would have evolved and got better. Unfortunately we will never know.
As for her kids being athletes, they probably have heard the 'well you know you are the great-grandchildren of an olympian' story. But again those are stories we are not around to hear. But again there is the question how much of a link did Caroline have to her own grandfather, to speak of him to her kids other then 'well this is your family history?" She did spend time with her grandparents but she was only three when John died. Her Uncle who was also an Olympian may have had more of a personal impact on her.
Is it really shocking to hear royals say their nannies were closer? Even William and Harry are close to their previous nannies. As loving as royals are, their kids do spend a lot of time with their nannies. It has got better in the recent generation, though they still have full time nannies. But a generation ago the kids would have spent little day to day time with their parents.
