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“Ah yes, because nothing says "we're raising a normal family" like having staffers go out to fetch a Big Mac from your megayacht holiday…” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“The Romanovs just couldn’t catch a break with bad luck. Besides the gruesome murder, DNA testing also showed that Maria was an Haemophilia carrier like her own mother, and she was the sister that wanted to be a mother the most. Had she lived and married, she would have suffered the same anguish Alexandra did.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“Congratulations Peter and Harriet on the engagement! So excited for another royal wedding and tiara ✨” - Submitted by Anonymous

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““No Royal roles for Archie and Lilibet when William is King” this is such a non-story I don’t understand why it was even published. Have Beatrice, Eugenie, Louise and James been given roles under Charles’ reign? I don’t know anyone who thought Archie and Lilibet would be working Royals instead of getting real jobs. I feel like this nonsensical article was only published as some kind of “gotcha” against Harry and Meghan, a couple who are famously not working royals either.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“I feel so happy when I hear that Gen Z Royals use WhatsApp too, like the rest of us older peasants LMAO. Princess Catherine-Amalia recently mentioned she's in a WhatsApp group with Princess Ingrid of Norway & Princess Elisabeth of Belgium. That's so cool, so I'm not the only one who loves WhatsApp. I've heard even older powerful royals like MBS and other Arab royals use it as well.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“It says a lot that the only BAME people William and Kate associate with in their private life are corrupt billionaire arab royals who have no respect for human rights, for women and for the environment and use murder as a way to deal with dissent (Jamal Khashoggi, anyone?). Not exactly the type of people you'd want around spending a holiday on a luxury yatch in Greece…unless you're exactly like them..what's the saying? Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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First of all, let me express my appreciation not only for the hard work you do running this blog, but for posting a genuinely broad sampling of royal-watching opinion without bias or favor to any particular perspective. You are a gem! I do wish you had a better class of commenter. So many visitors to this blog seem incapable of saying "I have a different opinion" or "My experience is different." You deserve thoughtful commentary that doesn't devolve to condescension, rudeness, or intolerance.

thank you !

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“It makes me uncomfortable when people look down on Charles for being close to Lord Mountbatten who allegedly groomed young boys. Because Charles was also a young boy at the time. I'm not saying Mountbatten groomed him, but we shouldn't be judging a man because he had a relationship with a creep as a child and teenager. It feels like victim-blaming and I hate it.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“I’m proud of the new generation of Malaysian royalty for breaking away from the disgusting tradition of marrying within royal families. Most of those in their 40s and older seem to have some kind of disability or, at the very least, appear strange. Marriage should be about love, not status or power. That illusion is over.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“The Halo Effect is a real thing. Whenever people criticise Charles, Camilla or even William, nobody bats an eye. People will carry on with their own lives. But god forbid somebody dares to criticise Diana or Kate, whom according to some are the most perfect and infallible women to ever princess, despite their own flaws and shortcomings. I mean Diana, Kate, Charles, Camilla and William are not divine beings, they are humans that make mistakes. Just because Diana and Kate are considered more beautiful/palatable than Camilla/Charles/William doesn’t mean that they’re better than C/C/W.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“Edward VII and George V's eyes look weird and cartoonish, help.” - Submitted by thelastcatonearth

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“Hunting makes me look down on all of the royals who partake in it, it’s not giving keeping tradition alive, it’s giving torture outing” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“Just saw the holiday video of Queen Rania and I must say oh boy Princess Rwaja is asserting dominance with that holding of Prince Hussein's shoulders at the family portrait. She aint a sweet princess being kept from distress, she is RUNNING her household so no wonder why the Queen and her have zero interactions.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“Is it just me who thinks the Wales are incredibly petty? 1) Days before the Oprah interview, KP came up with the investigation about Meghan's alleged bullying, where nothing ended up being proven. 2) The day before Meghan's Netflix show was supposed to air, Kate suddenly has the need to visit the hospital where she was being treated (because she couldn't do it earlier smh). 3) Days before the 'With Love, Meghan' is about to launch, who other than Jason Knauf has a 60-minute interview… not to mention Will and Kate's visit in Wales where they talk about jam of all things. I mean, I can't be the only who sees the "coincidences" here - but sure, lets go with the "Meghan is a narcissist" narrative.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“Going into Romanov territory and the potential marriages OTMA might have entered. Olga was perhaps the most trickiest of all for me to pick on who she could have married since she was the most headstrong out of all the girls and had a strong desire to marry Russian and remain in Russia. With that, I think she would have put her foot down and said no to any marriage proposals from foreign royals. As for Tatiana and Maria, I think they would have gotten married to foreign royalty, but it’s still up in there on who they could have married. I know Alexander I of Serbia (later Yugoslavia) had his eye set on proposing to Tatiana in 1913, but WW1 delayed all future talks of that happening. (Alexander, a massive Russophile, was angered and horrified by the Romanovs execution). Then we have Edward, Prince of Wales. Her mother was deeply fond of England and might have relented letting her favourite daughter live there as the next Queen consort. We also have both George II and Alexander of Greece. Tatiana could have married George instead of Elisabeth of Romania and become the next Queen of Greece. The instability and constant overthrows of the monarchy would have been difficult, but their marriage might have worked out unlike George and Elisabeth’s. Or she could have married his brother Alexander who was a puppet king of Greece under Venizelos’s government rule between 1917 and 1920. Alexander conducted a morganatic marriage with Aspasia Manos in 1919, but they could have arranged a marriage with either Tatiana or Maria to put an end to that affair. Despite failed talks of a marriage between himself and Olga, Carol of Romania visited Russia in Jan 1917 to ask for Maria’s hand, but Nicholas laughed and turned it down by saying that she was still “a school girl”. Queen Marie of Romania did hope that one of Nicholas’s daughters would marry Carol. So it’s possible that Romania would have had another Queen Marie. Unless there was another possibility, like an arraigned marriage with Alexander of Greece. I don’t think anything would have happened between Maria and Mountbatten as he was quite below in terms of royal rankings. As for Anastasia, I think she would have been Queen of Denmark had the Revolution not taken place. Queen Alexandrine herself considered either Maria or Anastasia as potential brides for her son, the future Frederick IX (b. 1899). My money is that in an alternate timeline, he would have chosen to propose to and marry Anastasia. And the Dowager Empress would no doubt be happy to see one of her granddaughters sit on the throne of her native country.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“Charles is about to host Jeffrey Epstein's other BFF, and William and Kate are having their 5th vacation of the year on a Saudi yacht, but of course, the sycophantic royal reporters won't say a peep and will undoubtedly drag other BRF family members into the headlines to detract from these stories and their implications.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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“I didn’t think this would happen, but I realized I like William more than Kate. Kate’s beautiful, but William just has a more interesting personality. He makes corny jokes and stuff. Let’s face it, Kate’s kinda boring. I never thought I would enjoy days more when it’s William who has a solo engagement. I still like it better when they have a joint engagement though.” - Submitted by Anonymous