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Post by Moose on Dec 6, 2012 18:35:24 GMT
That radio stunt was in somewhat bad taste but honestly, how can you just phone up and say 'this is the Queen' and get put through somewhere?!
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Post by tangent on Dec 6, 2012 18:52:25 GMT
Yes, I found it astonishing that the staff were so gullible that someone managed to do that. Presumably, a person posing as an equerry would have made the initial phone call on the Queen's behalf.
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Post by Moose on Dec 6, 2012 19:11:14 GMT
and all that 'I've got to go and feed the bloody corgis'...!
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Post by tangent on Dec 6, 2012 19:15:28 GMT
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Post by Karen on Dec 6, 2012 20:14:52 GMT
Well it does seem to be more prevalent with girls. I didn't have anything so severe, but my morning sickness was definitely worse when I was pregnant with my daughter than it was with my son.  |
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Post by charliebrown on Dec 6, 2012 20:55:17 GMT
I didn't experience any morning sickness, and I have 2 sons.
Meh...
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Post by Kye on Dec 6, 2012 21:33:00 GMT
I had it with my son, but not with either of my daughters.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Dec 6, 2012 23:32:24 GMT
Isn't that Kate Windsor now?  I saw something on the BBC website about the Change of Accession (who gets next go at gran's job) being confirmed. They could at least wait until the baby has been born!  Ah no: the various Commonwealth Realms had already agreed to change the various statutes involved - they now all need to get a move on so that the changes can take effect for this child because the legal view is that it would be too complicated to make the change afterwards - I can't remember which of the Scandinavian countries it was that disinherited their Crown Prince in favour of his sister but it left a bad taste in everybody's mouths. They don't have a surname I think. Definitely not windsor Sorry, Moosie but wrong on both counts: Windsor is the family name and is used by them, e.g. Lady Helen Windsor (until her recent marriage) one of QE2's cousins. That radio stunt was in somewhat bad taste but honestly, how can you just phone up and say 'this is the Queen' and get put through somewhere?! Although - apparently - if one were to telephone Huis ten Bosch there is a high change of Her Netherlandse Majesty answering the 'phone ... |
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Post by Moose on Dec 7, 2012 1:41:37 GMT
I am not wrong:) Senior royals do not officially have surnames
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Post by Moose on Dec 7, 2012 1:43:39 GMT
btw I am fairly sure that QE2 does not have a grandchildcalled Helen, Windsor or otherwise:)
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 7, 2012 9:17:20 GMT
Last time I looked, QE2 was a ship!  |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Dec 7, 2012 9:53:36 GMT
btw I am fairly sure that QE2 does not have a grandchildcalled Helen, Windsor or otherwise:) Sorry, I was writing from memory at the end of a long day. She is a cousin, once removed; now surnamed Taylor. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 7, 2012 10:01:26 GMT
I was about to post a link to The Royal Family Tree. Seems unfair that some get to be called Prince and Princess when others at the same level do not. It is also odd to see a picture of a Viscount who is only 5 years old in 10 days time!  |
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Post by Moose on Dec 7, 2012 15:36:32 GMT
So the receptionist who put the call through has killed herself. Great. Hope the radio station are very proud.
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Post by charliebrown on Dec 7, 2012 16:11:28 GMT
She was just a nurse who happened to answer the call.
This has turned the happiness of an unborn (royal) baby into something sad, even before he/she is born.
It's so sad...
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Post by Moose on Dec 7, 2012 17:25:54 GMT
yes it is.Ihope the DJs do the decent thing and resign
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Post by tangent on Dec 7, 2012 17:44:55 GMT
It's miserable that DJs or indeed the media in general will take advantage of people for financial gain without any consideration for the personal harm it may cause.
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Post by ceptimus on Dec 7, 2012 19:28:27 GMT
It's so very sad.  I feel for the children and other family and friends of the nurse. |
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Post by Moose on Dec 7, 2012 20:26:21 GMT
Hell yeah . She had two kids |
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Post by bill on Dec 7, 2012 22:24:53 GMT
I am not wrong:) Senior royals do not officially have surnames . They do usually use a surname but I understand that officially it is Mountbatten-Windsor. |
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Post by bill on Dec 7, 2012 22:44:16 GMT
yes it is.Ihope the DJs do the decent thing and resign Resign? They should be sacked. |
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Post by Moose on Dec 8, 2012 18:13:47 GMT
I checked out the papers in the newsagent today. Almost all had headlines along the lines of 'Kate's shock as nurse blah blah blah'.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 8:50:03 GMT
I'm not saying it was alright for those Australian DJ's to make that call, but don't you think that the nurse who killed herself might have had some issues already and this thing was just the final thing it too for her to end her life? Or is there something I don't know, like horrible consequences she would have been facing?
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 9, 2012 9:59:18 GMT
I have thought the same thing. The hospital said they were not holding her responsible and had been supporting her. Even if the papers had made a deal of it, they are very fickle and I expect it would have gone away in a few days. The newspapers are very two-faced and they will milk these things for everything they can get out of it and then go after the next thing. Even in this case, there have only really been a couple of stories' worth of information, but I have seen them churn out many articles, trying to take the moral high ground, even though without them there wouldn't be anything like the problem they have created. There have been many people at fault here. The poor receptionist was only a tiny part of it really. |
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Post by tangent on Dec 9, 2012 10:57:11 GMT
Throughout history, many people who were close to a king or great leader would be prepared to defend them to their death, such was their loyalty and sense of supreme purpose. Would any of us do that today? We are living in an age of cynicism where such actions are unthinkable. And yet there are people alive today who are still prepared to make the supreme sacrifice to defend their king or queen. Jacintha Saldanha, I believe, was one of them. This episode must have been such a shock to her psyche - she had betrayed the one person whose life had been entrusted to her - that she became lonely and confused, as the media have reported.
Taking ones life in such circumstances is not without precedent and has occurred many times in the past.
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Post by Moose on Dec 9, 2012 16:23:37 GMT
Apparently the DJs are in hiding. I don't want to ruin their lives either but still, I can't help but think of their smug gloating on twitter et al after this had happened. They were really pleased with themselves.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 19:00:09 GMT
Throughout history, many people who were close to a king or great leader would be prepared to defend them to their death, such was their loyalty and sense of supreme purpose. Would any of us do that today? We are living in an age of cynicism where such actions are unthinkable. And yet there are people alive today who are still prepared to make the supreme sacrifice to defend their king or queen. Jacintha Saldanha, I believe, was one of them. This episode must have been such a shock to her psyche - she had betrayed the one person whose life had been entrusted to her - that she became lonely and confused, as the media have reported. Taking ones life in such circumstances is not without precedent and has occurred many times in the past. Maybe you are right, tangent. It is sad and I think it is a horrible thing. People often don't seem to think about the consequences when they do something stupid like those DJ's. |
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Post by Kye on Dec 9, 2012 19:14:21 GMT
Actually, I feel most sorry for her children. They will be without a mother because she felt embarrassed about taking a prank phone call...
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 9, 2012 19:28:00 GMT
It is a sad indictment on today's society! |
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Post by Moose on Dec 9, 2012 20:17:22 GMT
You sound like the Daily Mail |
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I feel for the children and other family and friends of the nurse. 
