Oh they will just drag it out again to sell a paper. You know the press. . .Well said, CP5!!! Now, if Only we could convince the press...
I also hold the traditional position that the royal family should strive to live out examples of Christian virtue to their peoples..
Anyone else getting excited about supposed events happening in this upcoming week?
Tina Brown's dates were the 3rd/4th June weren't they? So come Thursday or Friday Kate should be officially engaged shouldn't she?
Prince William will open the new Help for Heroes Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court. The Prince will make a short speech, view the specially designed bass relief, tour the new facilities and attend a reception for supporters and injured servicemen, Headley Court, Headley, Epsom, Surrey.
The problem is that society has moved on from the idea of Christian virtues, and monarchies eventually reflect where the rest of the nation goes.
I always feel especially sorry for the woman when a relationship drags on and on, without a wedding in sight. People here may think me an old fogey...which I probably am... but a woman's best childbearing years can vanish very quickly.
I also hold the traditional position that the royal family should strive to live out examples of Christian virtue to their peoples. Folks may laugh at this, but up until recent decades, this was the normal, healthy expectation of both RF and subjects. William and Kate's long-term relationship, without the benefit of matrimony, gives a poor moral example to other young people. Of course, the previous generation of royals were no shining stars themselves in this area, I know. But William is a future king, and he must consider the moral climate of his future peoples and try to better it.
Old-fashioned? Yes, and I might get flamed for this; but that is my two cents.
Time marches on, either march with it or get left behind.
. Maybe it's because even in the general society, people knew that marriage meant more duties, more commitment, and were still willing to go ahead with it as young people.
I have a problem with the idea that royalty and nobility lead in terms of morals and values. It was more a case of do what I say not what I do as for centuries it was the royals and nobles who had mistresses and fathered many illigitimate children but now we exect them to be different to their own forebears.
You make a very good point. Didn't the whole idea of the "family monarchy" come about in Queen Victoria's time?
I think June 3rd or 4th is very likely because on June 3rd William isn't doing anything, and even though other members of the royal family have official engagements, they aren't really part of the engagement announcement. Charles & Diana, Andrew & Fergie, and Edward & Sophie all announced their respective engagements alone without the Queen or DofE. It's also before trooping the color, so that can be her first royal "event", and Ascot, I guess we'll just have to wait and see and not get our hopes to high, all though I already am!
Does anyone find it just a bit of a coincidence that the day this woman said that W&K would get engaged is exactly the same date as her book comes out?
Seems to me a well thought out publicity stunt.
I believe the dates of the engagement were predicted by Tina Brown whereas the book "William and Harry" is authored by Katie Nicholl.