General Chat

I was always under the impression that the Football clubs have to pay for police attendance.


I feel the gutter red tops have always had in for Prince Andrew and Fergie and it has continued with their girls, some of the things written in media about them is beyond disgusting.

All this discussion about the wedding but Policing for concerts and football matches comes out of council taxes

Liz

JoyLouise, thought you was :-D

Yes, the two million is for security. The parents pay for the wedding. I didn't think anyone was in any doubt, BUT...….it is the alleged lavish plans that will call for more security rather than a lower key (9th in line) wedding.

Spot on Caroline. I is a lady! :-D :-D :-D

Enlightened despotism looked good fun.

JoyLouise would that be Lady Ga-ga?? :-D

Oh dear, I took Allan to be joking about the divine right of kings and joined in the banter pointing out that there was no way (until DNA tests became the norm in certain circumstances) that a man could be certain that the child his wife/and/or partner was carrying was his, king or no kng!

But it was good to get a revisionary history lesson of something that I (and likely Allan as he is of my age) learned around 60 or 70 years ago. Every little helps, as they say - especially when one's on the verge of going ga-ga. :-D

I agree with you, Sylvia. It is also my understanding that Eugenie's parents are paying for the wedding but security costs are down to us.

As I have read it ............... the cost is for security, Prince Andrew and his ex-wife are paying all the costs for the wedding.

I also read somewhere that Eugenie and Jack have refused a title for him, he will remain plain Mr.


Princess Anne's son married a Canadian, and we hear nothing about that couple over here .................. but I think they might have had a coach ride through Windsor streets (or have I got that wrong???)


I also think that the coming wedding is over the top for Eugenie's position within the Royal Family, compared with others ............... but she also moves in that socialite circle where big weddings that cost a lot of money seem to be the case rather than the oddity. Still, her parents should be paying everything, not the UK taxpayer!

Yes I think you're right - P.A exercising his divine right of kings maybe! Perhaps he hasn't heard that it became obsolete in Europe about 100 years ago, in Britain 300? odd years ago!!

Fireworks and chocolate fountain? :-0

Still say this upcoming wedding is too big and costing taxpayers too much :-)

The divine right of Kings meant that they were there by the will of God and were only answerable to him. It applied to Queens as well. Mary 1st, Elizabeth 1st but not later Queens as it had ceased to apply by the time of Queen Anne.

Course it's a bit late now, Magpie, but I was pointing out that it ought to have been the divine right of queens!

Bit late for that now!!! I don't think many of our Kings wives had even a whiff of scandal about them!! Queen Caroline did, but Princess Charlotte was born nine months after Carolines's marriage to Prinny, so her credentials were pretty secure!

The divine right of those who thought they were kings, is what it ought to be.

It would have been far more secure to have gone down the female line from the year dot for who knows for sure that the baby born to a couple is the offspring of the father? :-S

Who were they? Maybe poor Catherine Howard, and Caroline of Brunswick, but I can't think of any others?_

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*nods in agreement* mmm.... ;-) :-D

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Island, I totally agree

The Divine Right of Kings and now Queens! And there have been some screaming queens amongst the Kings over the centuries ;-) :-D