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I hope he looks at all the options, Laser eye surgery can be dangerous.
Harry's polo shirt said:I hope he looks at all the options, Laser eye surgery can be dangerous.
CasiraghiTrio said:Well, if he has laser eye surgery, then he can fly fighter jets. You cannot fly fighter jets unless your eyesight is 20/20 and this cannot be done if your vision is corrected by lenses or contacts. It has to be 20/20 without lens correction. So he'd only be able to achieve this with laser eye surgery. That could be part of his wanting this.
kpusa1981 said:I believe that Prince William would be to tall to fly fighter jets he is 6 feet 4 inches tall. He would however be able to do Helecopter training and be pilot.
CasiraghiTrio said:Well, if he has laser eye surgery, then he can fly fighter jets. You cannot fly fighter jets unless your eyesight is 20/20 and this cannot be done if your vision is corrected by lenses or contacts. It has to be 20/20 without lens correction. So he'd only be able to achieve this with laser eye surgery. That could be part of his wanting this.
Harry's polo shirt said:If something goes wrong he wont be able to fly--if he is blind.
Awww….this is the scary part. Any Doc (s) volunteers in this forum ? LMAOCasiraghiTrio said:.
Also, whoever performs the surgery will be so insanely careful because the person who messes up William's eyes will never work as a doctor again. They would be ruined for life.
King George V of Hanover (born a British Prince as Prince George of Cumberland). He lost his sight in one eye due to a childhood illness, and in the other eye in an accident. He was second in line to the British throne until the birth of Queen Victoria's first child.Harry's polo shirt said:have there been any blind kings before??
It would appear from this article that the Danish princeling isn't the only one suffering a touch of jaundice at the moment.Incas said:Anyway, here is an interesting take from Guardian on his army "career":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,2763,1599271,00.html
CasiraghiTrio said:God, William, can you be anymore boring? So conservative. So Blah. Why can't we have a truly liberal British royal who reaches out beyond his class?
chrissy57 said:William's whole education has been the archetypal rich, aristocratic education of his mother's class - Eton, University (Oxbridge or in his case St Andrews), and now followed by Sandhurst and possibly The Guards.
I have had two friends who taught for a couple of years each at Eton on exchange programmes and the thing they hated most about teaching there was the belief among the boys and staff that the boys were better than everybody else. I have had another friend who did an exchange to teach at Gordanstaun (sp) but she says that view is actively discouraged there. Having the three of them for dinner can be fun whenever there is news about Harry/William as they all believe they would have been better off following their father's schooling rather than Diana's family. They believe that at Gordanstaun (sp) they would have been more in tune with ordinary people than in the elitist Eton.
Hmm. Left of centre usually is republican leaning isn't it? at least in Australia anywayElspeth said:It's a paper that, editorially, is left of centre. As far as being republican, I'm not sure.
These days The Times, a Murdoch paper, seems to be fairly republican. The Independent always was.
Aussie Princess said:Hmm. Left of centre usually is republican leaning isn't it? at least in Australia anyway
florawindsor said:I don't think a laser eye surgery is a good idea. the surgery is a comparatively new tech, what if the bad symptoms start to show after 10 or 20 years of the surgery?
Charles of course was at Gordanstoun in the 1960s while my friends were teaching at those schools in the 1990s shortly before William and Harry went to Eton. They compare the schools' ethos now rather than in the 60s. The main point they make is that the two schools now have very different attitudes to how their students should regard themselves and the rest of the world - with Eton emphasising that the boys are better than everyone else just because they are Etonians while Gordanstoun encourages the pupils to believe in equality for all. It is that attitude of the schools in the 1990s that has them believing that the young princes would have been better off at their father's, uncles and grandfather's former school.CasiraghiTrio said:I don't know......... Charles went to Gordonstoun. Granted, Charles is a helleva lot more liberal than most royals, but he still sells out. Charles has tried breaking out of the box but people just laughed at him. So he dove back into the traditional box and played the game. The only way he could be taken seriously is a way he'd never go. He'd have to give up everything he knows, the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed. Charles won't do that. William sure won't. What would he do without his polo ponies?his precious motorcycle?
in the United States the right wing is republican...Aussie Princess said:Hmm. Left of centre usually is republican leaning isn't it? at least in Australia anyway
Yeah but USA is not a monarchy nor is a monarchist country. I don't see the relievence...Harry's polo shirt said:in the United States the right wing is republican...
I find the suggestion that Diana or any of the Spencer could possibly have any influence on him (especially political) quite ridiculous to be honest.chrissy57 said:His conservatism seemed to grow in the 1980s after he married a scion of one of the traditional aristocracy, whose father and brother had travelled that very standard aristocratic path that the boys then followed.
Idriel said:Yeah but USA is not a monarchy nor is a monarchist country. I don't see the relievence...
Thankx for the Quizz. I got all right (apparently I'm related). I know it's terrible but Philip makes me roar with laughter. I'd love a dinner with him.
Idriel said:Yeah but USA is not a monarchy nor is a monarchist country. I don't see the relievence...
Thankx for the Quizz. I got all right (apparently I'm related). I know it's terrible but Philip makes me roar with laughter. I'd love a dinner with him.
I find the suggestion that Diana or any of the Spencer could possibly have any influence on him (especially political) quite ridiculous to be honest.
Thank you for that and be sure the courtesy is mutual (sorry if I sounded harsh).chrissy57 said:Idriel, I respect your opinion.
Idriel said:Thank you for that and be sure the courtesy is mutual (sorry if I sounded harsh).
What makes me think Diana or the Spencers did not have any influence on him is that he did not really loved her enough to really care and anyway Diana was notoriously empty headed as far as politics (or any really serious subject) was involved, and the Spencers... well he was never remotly close to them, was he?
Maybe the difficulties of his marriage (and the fact that Diana did not turn out to be so maleable eventually) put a strain on him in the 1070s.
If a conservative influence there was (but I'm pretty sure Charles has always been like that), I would look at Camilla, who all her life lived tha typically upper-class country life.