Come on lets give the old girl...ermh.. princess rather, a hike back up the table shall we....I doubt she'll stay on the first page for long, but heck why not!
I ask because Anne seems to do a real job by the standards of what the most acceptable RF job description has become over the last century. I know many of us love to gasp with frissons at her apparel and her other faults, but she is still regarded nonetheless as the exemplar of an industrious, modern British royal and yet many seem to love to mock and ridicule her for her lack of style etc or ignore her when she isn't dressing up or down as opinion takes you. Where does such contempt end and real regard begin then? I wonder....? Is it merely down to the fact that she recycles clothes and does not suffer fools gladly? Is it because she doesn't coo over babies, hug OAPs and visit hospitals in the night having made sure somehow that someone has tipped off the press before hand, to make sure a press piccie is taken for posterity?
Ironically, Anne is a British Princess born and bred with both parents born in the purple. She and Alexandra are the last of their kind in fact! I do not count Bea and Eugenie as they have yet to 'really' grow up and start behaving let alone dressing like Princesses!(Oooh how very dare she say that!!!! I can imagine some readers may gasp! Especially when 'she' is comparing them to their aunt....but.....) They have to demonstrate that they are in any way prospective 'workers' in the firm as such IMHO! I'll wait and see on the York girls! I shan't even go there with regard to parentage as otherwise I may go all Harry Potterish and half blood prince like!!!!!!
Nonetheless, I do wonder why we generally seem to be so harsh on Anne, or more pertinently as is demonstrated by the lack of movement in this thread since October last year! (Most of the movement on this thread at that time was to do with the poxy marriage of Peter and Summer or Autumn or whatever her name is!!!!) I do wonder why her thread is not updated like Charles' is, and why none seem interested in her as a person rather than the parody she is perceived as? Is it because Tim isn't quite like Camilla. Is there perhaps a general whiff of tabloid-ism here now?
I wonder why Anne is given such short shrift by us all here? Many of us profess an interest in Royalty, some negative some positive, but few take any real interest in Anne one way or the other, unless she is wearing a dress that is twenty years old (I hold up my hand as I was guilty of voicing an opinion on that one at the time when she wore that fried egg 'get up' to a second family wedding!!!) or says something brusque, or exceeds the speed limit or says something else a little brusquely!!! OK, so she does do lots of unglamorous and 'earthy' work! No tiaras, no pretty gowns, no Bruce Oldfield etc to chatter about... does that mean she merits a yawn!
This work ethic counters criticisms from the anti monarchy factions here, but what of the others amongst our number, the ones who love the ethos of monarchy and the merits? Are there so many amongst us seeking the glamorous, the trivial and the comfortable rather than the real nitty gritty here in the present. If so I find it amazing to consider that there are so many here who seem to relentless want to dig and hunt for the nitty gritty in the lives of those HRHs long dead and dust? It is a fascinating and rather provocative contrast in double standards IMHO!
I will be very interested in any responses but am not holding my breath!
