tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post8684374070853540814..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Royal Beloveds in the Times of ScorpioTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-73413267510462549332014-11-18T12:40:47.940-06:002014-11-18T12:40:47.940-06:00mike ~ Tradition, tradition, tradition - that'...mike ~ Tradition, tradition, tradition - that's all it is. I'm no royalist myself, but it was difficult, when living in the UK, to ignore it all totally.<br /><br />Regular folk? In some ways, perhaps, in others - about as "regular" as the Koch Brothers, or Rockerfeller, or the Pope. The royals at least have little, or no, power to screw the people as corporations are doing in the USA - apart from the money they regularly receive, of course.<br /><br />They ensure tourists will continue to gaze at their "stuff" read about their doings, and visit their castles, so they do have a little value to the nation.<br /><br />The public knows only a fraction of what actually goes on in Buck. Palace and Windsor Castle. Locals in the environs of Windsor, I understand, have various salty tales to tell. <br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-52343784926508415112014-11-18T12:30:29.865-06:002014-11-18T12:30:29.865-06:00Sonny ~ With hindsight it's easy to see that ...Sonny ~ With hindsight it's easy to see that the Charles/Diana combo was a tragedy waiting to happen, one way or another.<br /><br />Charles, as you say, is no oil painting. Maturity (or Camilla and happiness at last) have softened his look a lot.<br /><br />I'm not a royals fan at all, but at times, in the UK, it was difficult not to find oneself interested in their goings on...it all seemed something like a living soap opera!Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-14017125843061456742014-11-18T09:48:45.929-06:002014-11-18T09:48:45.929-06:00I've viewed a fair number of documentaries abo...I've viewed a fair number of documentaries about the royal family, their consorts, affairs, misters and mistresses, gay & straight. It's unfortunate that their position requires intellectual, sexual, financial, and romantic considerations of societal acceptance regarding their personal entanglements. They seem like regular folk...LOL.<br /><br />Princess Margaret was an ego force to be reckoned, from what I've seen and read: jealous of Elizabeth and determined to take center stage...aka "Bitch". It's difficult to know whether she and Townsend had their secret liaisons post separate marriages, as Prince Charles managed with Camilla. Margaret's marriage to Snowden was thought to be a sham:<br /><br />"The marriage began to collapse very early and publicly. Various causes may have been behind the failure. In 1953 Margaret had been dissuaded from accepting the proposal of Group Captain Peter Townsend. On her side there was a penchant for late-night partying, on Snowdon's, an undisguised sexual promiscuity. ('If it moves, he'll have it', was the summing up of one close friend). To most of the girls who worked in his Pimlico Road studio, there seemed little doubt that Snowdon was gay or bisexual; to which he himself responded, 'I didn't fall in love with boys — but a few men have been in love with me'".<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Armstrong-Jones,_1st_Earl_of_Snowdon<br /><br />I'm not enamored with the royal family and I can't comprehend why they exist, except to drain the British economy, but I understand the need for the commoners to have ancient, traditional, expensive puppet(s) to both revile and adore.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-56100362063600873052014-11-18T09:34:13.920-06:002014-11-18T09:34:13.920-06:00Ican only hope for all the future Royals sake that...Ican only hope for all the future Royals sake that marrying someone because you're "supposed to" has been abolished. <br />Surely they see now how many lives were lived in abject misery and in today' world can be put asunder with the scrolling of a pen:) <br />I always thought Prince Charles was pitiful ugly and then he married Camilla and overnight he got much better looking, even though his outward featured had not changed- it was his happy heart shining thru them that caused the change. I mean seriously, he'll never be Clark Gable- but still the difference is nothing short of a miraculous transformation.<br />Just goes to show what LOVE will do for you. Its totally verifiable by simply looking at his before and after photos.<br />Charles is a scorpio sun and Camilla a Cancer sun as was Diana, but two totally different women. I'm sure there are major differences in the 2 ladies chartsSonny Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06926830309207639536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-75005248280367751142014-11-18T09:32:16.440-06:002014-11-18T09:32:16.440-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sonny Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06926830309207639536noreply@blogger.com