One demands privacy!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:11

The Queen is angry about intrusion by photographers and is prepared to take legal action against them.



Do the Royals deserve their privacy?

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:14

Everyone does at private times.



The trouble for her is that she has little private time.

everon


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Posts: 956

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:15

she lives in the biggest council house in the world!!!! you cant get more private than that x

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:17

Hi No 1. I thought it stange when I saw the news as they usually court the press. I expect the pressure is on the now xx

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:18

Surely everyone has a right to some privacy.

JohnW


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:21

Another thread serving no purpose.

smithy


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:23

I agree everyone deserves their own privacy, whether you are a Superstar or Royalty

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 20:37

Message 6. I could have said the same about your posts about guttering. However I chose to stay quiet becaue I was not interested.

gooligan


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Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:00

There is an announcement expected from Sandringham in the new year,obviously she doesn't want the paparazzi snooping on Wills shopping for rings.

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:06

No1Doyen



That thread serves a purpose. Right now, many people are very interested in guttering and as you introduced the subject here:



Owing to the amount of guttering we have installed lately we have been able to negotiate a substantial discount until the end of December.

We are happy to be able to pass on much this saving to our customers, so any guttering purchased between now and the end of December 2009 will attract a discount of 15%.

See us at Lambousa Market on Saturday or call us on 0533 836 7094



John Webster

Cyprus Solutions

JohnW


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:07

No1Doyen



Now you have taken this thread off topic - naughty boy.

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:09

Oh I see thats what its leading upto Wills getting engaged. Camilia will be in for a face lift so no photos.That or they will be busy renewing the guttering. Oh well gutter press to guttering xx

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:11

JohnW. Can I make a suggestion to you. When trying to sell a service/product to a captive audience try and be polite. There are many people here that have no interest in guttering but they will still read your posts and your comments about other peoples posts. I say once more, guttering doesn't interest me - however I won't comment on your post and say it's serving no purpose because it will interest someone. Exactly like my posts.

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:14

Gooligan



I don't think that he will be shopping for a ring in Fakenham.

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:16

No1Doyen



I thought the purpose of this forum was provide information relevent to the TRNC not Sandringham.

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:18

John W

You have e-mail

AJ

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:20

JohnW. So can we expect to see you comment on every thread that is not relevant to the TRNC?

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:21

Message 17



Bill - you must have read my mind.



J

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:25

Anyway, back to the subject (whatever it was).

JohnW


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Posts: 601

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:48

No1Doyen



As I have made just 150 posts in 8 months it's obvious that I don't post in response to every non relevent post. If I did I would be in the thousands by now, maybe even over 7,000.



However, enough of this. Got to go out now.



God Bless Her Majesty . LOL

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
07/12/2009 21:52

Quite correct that you don't post on every 'non relevant' thread, only mine it seems!

Jetski


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Posts: 584

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 22:25

A Challenge..... think of a thread title that JW can't hijack and construe with 'guttering or sewerage' advertising.

JohnW


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Posts: 601

Message Posted:
07/12/2009 23:55

Jetski



If you go to the bottom of this page and click on Page 30 you will jump back 30 page. Then in the address line enter instead of 30 say 200 you will go back some 20,000 threads and so on. Out of those tens of thousands of threads I have made just 151 postings. I don't think that is overdoing it, do you?

boglefan



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 511

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 00:12

That is their job. Don't know another that pays as well unless you work for the management of RBS. Sorry will start again. Wills and Harry are young men and ,like their mother or not ,she wanted them to have as normal lives as they could and (be honest now) how many of us in late teens and early to mid twenties would have been happy to have our most drunken stupid moments out on the front pages of a newspaper. They have to a certain extent a privileged life, but it is not one they have chosen but been born into.

Yes they are paid well but would we always want to be in the spotlight and our every movement disected and put under a miscoscope.

I am not a royalist but would not have their lives, just love slobbing around in my scabby jammies with no overactive photographer trying to catch me out.

adagirl


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 371

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 08:52

I dont think for one moment they will be trawling the various jewellry establishments!! Like when Diane bought clothes, they will take a selection to wherever the prince wishes to view them. As for privacy - they have private houses, apartments and palaces - I don't see why they are moaning when the people that pay through the nose for their luxurious lifestyles want to see them!!

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:23

They have acres and acres of private land (here in Windsor - the Great Park for instance) where they can wring peasants necks or gallop their horses until they are blue in the face. They also, as has been mentioned, have heaps of properties shored up/financed by us all, yet where we cannot visit and they can do what they like behind closed doors - so - no - we pay their wages, when 'working' (one has to use that in the loosest sense) they are in the public eye, when they wish to be private - unlike the majority of us - they have land and properties that none of us are privy too......... I remember standing watching Windsor Castle on fire, and the shock we locals felt, when reading later about their wanting the public to pay for the repair as they weren't insured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! None of us would get away with that......unspeakable......

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 475

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 18:30

Everyone deserves some privacy. No-one would want to be on public view all the time.

It's not the case that Queen does not want to be seen be seen and photographed on official occasions.

And there is no intention here of limiting what public engagements there are to view the Royal Family.

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 19:57

My husband is in the privilaged position of working for a Royal Family member. I can tell you that the only time they get any privacy is when they go to bed at night. There is no privacy in their grand houses as it is full of staff as well as themselves. They work jolly hard and what we think of as a privilaged life style is not really. The majority of their time is spent being nice to people they don't know and having to make conversation with people who sometimes do not know a word of English. Our Queen is in her eighties and still does a marvellous job. I am sure she must long for a night in by the fire, chilling out in her dressing gown and slippers watching the telly. Instead she has to get dressed up to the nines and go to another boring function with a smile on her face. Stop knocking them, the UK would be a much poorer place without them.





The butlers wife

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
08/12/2009 21:44

Totally agree with the butlers wife. The press should give them a break.

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 21:51

why ?????????

MsGarnet


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Posts: 989

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 23:37

Of course they get privacy - not as much as we all do (do we? CCTV cameras every few yards) but they spend months at Balmoral and Sandringham and go on shoots and have so many millions of private acres - they can and DO get away from everyone, often. Why is it a privilege to work for one of them, any more than to work for anyone else? aside from the fact the salary is not usually competitive in the job market - kudos? Wish I had every meal bought, prepared, cooked and served and cleaned up afterwards - the best of everything - my clothes made, tip top medical care and never having to clean or polish or iron a thing. Yes - boring to speak to people with whom one has no interest or connection, but hey ho - to travel there and back in style - never having to think about paying the bills or walking the dog if it's raining - small price to pay enduring The Royal Variety (for instance) when one isn't there by meritocracy, but merely accident of birth..........no sympathy from me.......

paddywack


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Posts: 959

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 00:25

If you enjoy the perks of the civil list,why should you have privacy,some body is paying.

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 08:47

Mess 28 "There is no privacy in their grand houses as it is full of staff as well as themselves"





Why do they need staff,surely they could just cook and clean for themselves or maybe that is below them



Nothing against them personally but it is just one of the sad things wrong with the UK that the tax payer has got to pay for these peoples privaleged lifestyle

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 08:53

Johnw, I sincerely hope your email from AJ is a ticking off, you are being very unpleasant and I am one of many posters on here who would like guttering as my patio gets filthly every day, I will not however be using your company now.

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 08:56

I am not a royalist by any means, haven't been since the death of HRH Princess Diana RIP.



However the Royals deserve privacy, we all do at times.

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 10:56

Ms Garnett,



Unless you have worked in that privilaged position you wouldn't understand and it would be a waste of time trying to explain to you. You just ask anyone who has worked for any member of the Royal family and they will tell you the same thing. It is only when you have been there, that you realise just how little privacy they have and what price they pay for being Royal. You have to remember they did not choose to be born into this family.



The butlers wife

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 11:27

Yes the butler is correct what a privelage it must be to work for the royal family.....which one did you work for

was it Jim Royal????

Mr Vince


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 696

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 13:01

If they do not like being in the limelight then they can pack it all in and resign and go live under a rock somewhere. The sooner all the extended hangers on are packed off the better. Lets have a proper Republic and to hell with this buch of parrasites. Monarchy is the minority in civilised countries. We are a democratic nation so we should be free to elect our head of state. Maybe Lizzie or Charlie could stand for election then after 5 years we would get a new one.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 13:03

Mr Vince. We are not even free to vote in a Prime Minister let alone a head of state.

Mr Vince


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 696

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 13:55

No1Doyen, we have never been able to vote in a Prime Minister. UK elections elect members who in turn vote in leaders who in turn may be Prime Ministers if their party wins more seats that the others.



If you are refering to Gordon Brown's elevation to Party leader/Prime Minister, then when he assumed power there was no other candidate to oppose him. No second candidate equals a solitary victory.

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 17:59

Hi Jim message 37,



Is that an attempt at humour? Being a fellow northeastener I thought you could have done better. If you read my posting carefully, it says my husband works for a Royal family member. It doesn't say our royal family or even mentions which Royal family it is. Discretion is the biggest part of his job and he would protect this family to the last, the same as anyone working for our Royal family will. All those people who knock them have really no idea what they are talking about, only people who work for them have that knowledge.



The butlers wife

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 18:50

Oh sorry Jim Royal has already got a searvant......his wife Sheila

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 19:22

I know which Royal family I would rather have!!!!!!!!!!