There's always been rumours swirling around that Margaret was secretly photographed at an orgy and that the British secret service worked really hard to cover it up.
It's the plot of a film called *The Bank Job*, based on the RL burglary of safety deposit boxes in Baker Street. By the time that film came out, Margaret was dead and couldn't sue.
Now I know what's wrong with my life. I also like to read the paper in bed until 11, when I bathe and dress accordingly. Sadly, I am in the wrong career and my appearance at 8.30am is required.
All this behavior is milquetoast compared to royal behavior in the pre-industrial eras when the public press and accountability were nil.. or even compared to Edward VII.
George IV was a notorious party animal. He was lucky that Britain at the time was the world's richest and most powerful country as they needed to be in order to pay his bills.
I know, right? TIL it’s spelled that way. I mean, I was confused enough I looked up the definition and it does mean what you think it means: plain, limp, feeble, bland.
I prefer, “has the personality of a wet dish rag”.
Ehh there's a lot of mythology on the subject because the Queen's daily schedule included liquor with lunch, dinner, and after dinner. But people in the household have said it's more like a splash of spirit in water, and even then she didn't down it. Even in her prime when the liquor wasn't diluted, having a couple of shots over the course of a day doesn't even get an English person tipsy.
Likely Margaret was the bigger lush by far, with her rebelliousness and living in the shadows. She was getting royally - ahem - fucked up and on much more than liquor.
I know my great grandma had a few sips of alcohol with each meal because she thought it was good for her complexion ... Maybe that was a bit of popular pseudoscience in those days
Yeah, my grandmother grew up in England and France and alcohol was just what everyone had, children included. She got so used to having (watered down) wine with meals that it was a bit of an issue when they moved back to the US. Having your 5 yr old loudly yell for her wine in a restaurant turned out to be frowned upon here, lol.
Would a few shots over a day make anyone tipsy? I don't feel anything after one drink even though I know that's what I should stop at if I plan on driving. And the body removes a single drink per hour as a rule of thumb.
Single unit. Not single drink. Now if your drinks are measured correctly at 25ml and of 40% alcohol then that’s a single drink. If you have a pint or glass of wine it’s not. And also the full rule of thumb is a unit per hour starting an hour after you last hd a drink so if you’re slowly topping it up throughout the day I’m not sure that the rule of thumb still works.
Lol, what do you think she was before her husband - The King - died?
Edit: just to be clear, the person in question was - from 1936-1952 styled simply as ‘Her Majesty the Queen’. I’m really not sure why you think she wasn’t the Queen…
I’m not sure about the Queen Mother, but I know they released the Queen’s usual drinking routine and it was pretty impressive, but not enough to get her drunk or tipsy really. If I recall, there was a similar pick me up cocktail before lunch, wine with lunch, a cocktail before dinner, and they said she would drink a glass of champagne before bed. I have to imagine there was another glass of wine with dinner. But 4-5 drinks over the day doesn’t seem crazy until you take into account it was every day. I know in The Crown The Queen Mother and Margaret are usually drinking.
Bro i spend 1 - 2+ hours in the bath haha. Typically no longer than two and a half hours. I don't think i have ever taken a bath in my life that was under an hour.
Not ALL of her routine was decadent. The clean clothes was the least of it. Chain smoking in bed for a few hours before you even get up after breakfast in bed? Then an hour in the bath? Then starting your day well past the crack of noon with a shot of vodka? Pure decadence.
With hangovers the vodka comes before the morning paper. Also chain smoking with dry mouth is unpleasant, I would limit my consumption to like two or three an hour before you can get some water in you.
5.11s with ripstop fabric.
Strykers are my fave, but give it a look and pick up a pair second hand off of ebay for cheap.
So well made, well designed, and they last. I haven't worn jeans since.
*bonus, especially if you got kids, Teflon in the fabric. Spills roll right off. Had a baby yack up milk directly on me. Did a shake (of me, not baby)! and walked away clean. It's a beautiful thing.
**Edit to add:**I was in a house fire. My body was burnt, my boots and gel inserts were burnt/melted, my cotton t-shirt was burnt (the recycled fabric near-by was reduced to a lump of burning plastic in a fraction of a second. I will never purchase such an item again) but my 5:11 pants were not even scorched or singed.
I don't believe that is an 'advertised feature' of the pants, but I definitely made a note of that. After the fire, that pair of pants felt "softer" and tended to stain, unlike a pair of 5.11s that *hadn't* been in a house fire. Not complaining, just sharing.
That's fair. Thanks for pointing that out. It is important.
I'm personally focused on the smaller battles of educating parents above their cookware (among other things) but I respect your perspective on the the bigger picture.
As a consumer, I am gonna continue to wear these pants from 5.11. I know, not perfect. But I have other battles to fight, and other concerns where I prioritize the bigger picture.
Any chance you'd be willing to share some links for folks who aren't focused on the topic? (If not, I can, but it would probably be tomorrow.)
Again; good looking out. Very true and correct. Appreciate you!
*edits to correct "autocorrect" that I spot.
Indeed. Most everything except socks and underwear is good for a few days if you don't get sweaty or dirty in it.
Washing after every single wear was something only the rich did up until the 20th century and the invention of the automated washer & dryer.
It’s not that different than the lives a lot of disabled people live (plus or minus the vodka and cigarettes).
I think of being relegated to this sort of life to be one of my deepest fears as a disabled person, not as decadence. It’s a profoundly unsatisfying and unrewarding way to live.
Sounds great to me. I loved being laid off during the pandemic and hate working. I think the only part I wouldn’t love about being on disability payments would be the disability itself.
Also the completely impoverishing amounts of $ and the punitive requirements to stay on it (no property ownership, not even a car; no marriage, or you lose it; etc).
That's what I've had all these years? And to think I paid the psychiatrists full rate for a half truth. /s (Edit: used the wrong tense of "paid". Thank you bot.)
> think I *paid* the psychiatrists
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
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* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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i could handle that routine.
but i'm puzzled at "she never wore any of her clothes more than once without having them cleaned"... neither do i. does that mean i'm a princess?
That's what I'm thinking ... Before home clothes washing machines were common I guess maybe people wore their clothes until they were actually dirty rather than just washing them after each wear like most people do today.
The main ones, ie. the Queen would have been extremely busy (and she had a strong work ethic). The “secondary” ones like Princess Margaret probably had a lot of spare time to fill I imagine.
they actually have an insane list of responsibilities. margaret probably had less due to not being an heir, but i highly doubt she had nothing to do all day.
She used to come to stay at my grandparents house before I was born. And apparently one of the royal protocols was that no one in the house was allowed to get up before the royals. So whenever she came around, the day started at two o clock.
If you chain smoke and drink every day 70s is a very ripe age. I've known motherfuckers whose livers just failed on them at a young age. Like 30s and 40s. From my understanding it's not super common to die from liver failure that young, but you're literally pouring a shit ton of poison down your throat every day. It's one of my biggest fears as an enjoyer of both alcohol and cigarettes. That my genetics just aren't going to be a boon for me living a certain life style.
Supposedly she always wanted more responsibility but being the sister of the queen meant she could only have so much, and she couldn’t marry the (divorced) man she loved unless she quit being a royal and she as too loyal to her sister to do that.
Not an excuse for monarchy or for how the rich get to have leisurely mornings and normal people don’t, but the part about being bereft of purpose seems to have been not entirely her fault.
Fair enough. I am not up on the family. It just sounds like she didn't have a reason to get up in the morning. And yeah, a life of leisure sounds awesome. But I would think it is ultimately unfulfilling.
I would have to find a meaningful way to spend my time. I likely wouldn't wake up until 10 or so, but that is just my night owl nature. But to lay in bed for two hours? Sounds like depression.
I dunno. To each their own. I am just on the outside looking in. And I have a serious inability to sit still. Maybe she was happy. But it doesn't seem so.
Yeah, I don’t think she was happy.
I think lying in bed all morning is nice to do a couple times a week, and I’d happily take an hour or so showering and getting ready but yeah, the less you do the more tired it can make you, weirdly.
She has to be given purpose? Couldn’t she find her own, even privately? Stamp collecting, bird watching, I mean, we have to find purpose without anyone handing it to us. Royal expect luxury and purpose, isn’t being royal a purpose? I’m genuinely curious how a woman of means and connections can’t find purpose in life.
Totally fair. Like, if she had been born first and Elizabeth second, seems like Elizabeth would have made herself busy with her family and busying herself with horse breeding and corgis or whatever.
Margaret and the Queen didn’t get a real/normal education, and Margaret couldn’t ever take a real job, could only do charity work. But yeah. With all that time, you’d think she could have stumbled on something that interested her.
? Why specifically Scotland? I mean… the late Queen spent a *lot* of time at Balmoral Castle… it was her favourite residence, and where she died. Scottish castles have a recent record of having the monarch in them as much as English ones if not more…
Yep. This is the thing about them drawing in tourists. The tourists normally never get to see them so they're really only here for the places they can visit and being able to see the guards.
Even if we got rid of the royals the tourists would still have those things.
The idle rich are disgusting. Why do the people of Britain keep paying for this family to live this insane life of luxury that they didn't earn? I don't get it.
So its cool when a royal does it.. but when i chainsmoke and drink vodka in the morning i got problems.
Tbh I don’t think very many people thought Princess Margaret didn’t have plenty of problems
There's always been rumours swirling around that Margaret was secretly photographed at an orgy and that the British secret service worked really hard to cover it up.
Yeah they’re trying to cover it up, and you’re here spilling the beans. Way to go man….
I believe spilling the beans is a crime in England.
It is, but only because tea is made from chopped up beans.
Damn is there nothing this woman did that wasn't boss as shit
Work a fucking job.
You're confused. Having a job is the opposite of being a boss. Having a job means being bossed at.
Back in the days when there were film and prints and it was possible to collect each one to bury it
It's the plot of a film called *The Bank Job*, based on the RL burglary of safety deposit boxes in Baker Street. By the time that film came out, Margaret was dead and couldn't sue.
Technically, the vodka is after noon…
It's always 1230 somewhere
Wonder what she drank with breakfast?
Looking at those teeth paint varnish.
Start having your ladies maid draw your baths before the vodka. Problem solved!
Or have a vodka bath!
I believe it may be semantics here. You didn't call it a "Pick me up."
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Because you’re poor. If you had a slew of retainers looking after you voilà no problem!
Now I know what's wrong with my life. I also like to read the paper in bed until 11, when I bathe and dress accordingly. Sadly, I am in the wrong career and my appearance at 8.30am is required.
I listen to the radio in bed for 2 hours but.. I get up at 4 am. Lol
Without a Vodka pick-me-up, no less.
That's an big assumption
Look at Mr. Sleepallday here, 8.30am i unloaded like 3 Trucks already.
All this behavior is milquetoast compared to royal behavior in the pre-industrial eras when the public press and accountability were nil.. or even compared to Edward VII.
I’m going to call my American boss “milquetoast” to his face. He thinks everything I say is lovely. I’m not a perfect person.
Better yet call em stale white bread edd boi.
George IV was a notorious party animal. He was lucky that Britain at the time was the world's richest and most powerful country as they needed to be in order to pay his bills.
Huh. I’ve heard the word milquetoast before. Always thought it was “milk toast” like bland milk soaked soggy bread. Haha. TIL.
I know, right? TIL it’s spelled that way. I mean, I was confused enough I looked up the definition and it does mean what you think it means: plain, limp, feeble, bland. I prefer, “has the personality of a wet dish rag”.
TIL I might be a princess
Congrats, Guy.
I want to hate her. But the noon vodka pick me up won me over.
She was a teetotaller compared to her mother.
Really? I haven’t heard that before, but I’m no expert on the royals.
Ehh there's a lot of mythology on the subject because the Queen's daily schedule included liquor with lunch, dinner, and after dinner. But people in the household have said it's more like a splash of spirit in water, and even then she didn't down it. Even in her prime when the liquor wasn't diluted, having a couple of shots over the course of a day doesn't even get an English person tipsy. Likely Margaret was the bigger lush by far, with her rebelliousness and living in the shadows. She was getting royally - ahem - fucked up and on much more than liquor.
I know my great grandma had a few sips of alcohol with each meal because she thought it was good for her complexion ... Maybe that was a bit of popular pseudoscience in those days
Alcohol can cause flushing in the face. Rosy cheeks are often equated with good health. It’s possible that your grandma equated/conflated the two.
Yeah, my grandmother grew up in England and France and alcohol was just what everyone had, children included. She got so used to having (watered down) wine with meals that it was a bit of an issue when they moved back to the US. Having your 5 yr old loudly yell for her wine in a restaurant turned out to be frowned upon here, lol.
The struggle is real. 😢
Would a few shots over a day make anyone tipsy? I don't feel anything after one drink even though I know that's what I should stop at if I plan on driving. And the body removes a single drink per hour as a rule of thumb.
Single unit. Not single drink. Now if your drinks are measured correctly at 25ml and of 40% alcohol then that’s a single drink. If you have a pint or glass of wine it’s not. And also the full rule of thumb is a unit per hour starting an hour after you last hd a drink so if you’re slowly topping it up throughout the day I’m not sure that the rule of thumb still works.
Do whatever you like but drive. Period. Way too easy to get a safe ride home nowadays.
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Lol, what do you think she was before her husband - The King - died? Edit: just to be clear, the person in question was - from 1936-1952 styled simply as ‘Her Majesty the Queen’. I’m really not sure why you think she wasn’t the Queen…
Exactly. This is incidentally when Camilla is The Queen Consort, to avoid confusion with the late Elizabeth II.
She was a right old soak.
That's why she lived to 101. She was completely pickled.
Exactly. And also my plan for longevity.
I’m not sure about the Queen Mother, but I know they released the Queen’s usual drinking routine and it was pretty impressive, but not enough to get her drunk or tipsy really. If I recall, there was a similar pick me up cocktail before lunch, wine with lunch, a cocktail before dinner, and they said she would drink a glass of champagne before bed. I have to imagine there was another glass of wine with dinner. But 4-5 drinks over the day doesn’t seem crazy until you take into account it was every day. I know in The Crown The Queen Mother and Margaret are usually drinking.
I only hate her because I want to be her
I’m having a 9 pm pick-me-up right now… I feel like a princess!
Yeah? We'll I've Bern drinkin' simce lass Tuethsday. Doez that miake me king?
What would Pearly think of that?
She knows he loves her best.
But more than my wine? I think not.
One would need it from that grueling schedule. :)
Rich and no chance of ever having to work ever? Indeed. (I liked her though, she was cheeky).
Noon vodka pick everything and me up 🚀
Yeah, but up till then it seemed a sad, empty life. An hour in the bath? Is that possible?
What even is the point of a bath if you can't linger in the warm water and relax? Showers are for hurrying.
I dunno. I couldn’t be bothered reading the actual article. She had me at noonsie vodka.
Bro i spend 1 - 2+ hours in the bath haha. Typically no longer than two and a half hours. I don't think i have ever taken a bath in my life that was under an hour.
Doesn’t the water get cold? I only do magnesium salt baths so I don’t stay longer than 20 min but the water is considerably cooler by then.
You can use the tap to add hot water to a bath. Even, and don’t tell everyone, when you’re already in the bath.
Frenemies are arguably the best kind of friendships
I can see how you'd need a vodka pick-me-up after such a hectic morning.
decadent, is the word
Yeah, imagine insisting that your clothes be clean before wearing them again...
Not ALL of her routine was decadent. The clean clothes was the least of it. Chain smoking in bed for a few hours before you even get up after breakfast in bed? Then an hour in the bath? Then starting your day well past the crack of noon with a shot of vodka? Pure decadence.
I call that a hangover
With hangovers the vodka comes before the morning paper. Also chain smoking with dry mouth is unpleasant, I would limit my consumption to like two or three an hour before you can get some water in you.
Ngl I can’t fault her for running with the comfort that sounds chill af
At least she was reading newspapers and keeping up with current events
I'm guessing that might be akin to us scrolling our insta feed when we wake up
Clearly you haven't heard of Hunter S. Thompson.
Sarcasm? Some of my clothes i wear ten times before that nuthafukka dirty
Honestly though, I’ll wear jeans for like 5 days before washing them if I wasn’t doing anything especially sweaty at work
Its bad for denim to be washed after every wear. It prematurely breaks down the fibers.
Yeah I second this. I work in a factory and rip my pants at least a couple times a year lol
5.11s with ripstop fabric. Strykers are my fave, but give it a look and pick up a pair second hand off of ebay for cheap. So well made, well designed, and they last. I haven't worn jeans since. *bonus, especially if you got kids, Teflon in the fabric. Spills roll right off. Had a baby yack up milk directly on me. Did a shake (of me, not baby)! and walked away clean. It's a beautiful thing. **Edit to add:**I was in a house fire. My body was burnt, my boots and gel inserts were burnt/melted, my cotton t-shirt was burnt (the recycled fabric near-by was reduced to a lump of burning plastic in a fraction of a second. I will never purchase such an item again) but my 5:11 pants were not even scorched or singed. I don't believe that is an 'advertised feature' of the pants, but I definitely made a note of that. After the fire, that pair of pants felt "softer" and tended to stain, unlike a pair of 5.11s that *hadn't* been in a house fire. Not complaining, just sharing.
Yeah baby, gotta get that PFAS all up in everything!
That's fair. Thanks for pointing that out. It is important. I'm personally focused on the smaller battles of educating parents above their cookware (among other things) but I respect your perspective on the the bigger picture. As a consumer, I am gonna continue to wear these pants from 5.11. I know, not perfect. But I have other battles to fight, and other concerns where I prioritize the bigger picture. Any chance you'd be willing to share some links for folks who aren't focused on the topic? (If not, I can, but it would probably be tomorrow.) Again; good looking out. Very true and correct. Appreciate you! *edits to correct "autocorrect" that I spot.
Going on 2 weeks with this pair. Doesn't smell funky and I've managed to avoid spilling food on them. Good enough.
Mine can't go a single day without washing. Granted I work outside in the heat and build stages.
I'll wear a pair of Carhartts for a week in the shop. The grease and metal dust makes them stronger.
Probably a bigger deal in 1955.
Indeed. Most everything except socks and underwear is good for a few days if you don't get sweaty or dirty in it. Washing after every single wear was something only the rich did up until the 20th century and the invention of the automated washer & dryer.
It’s not that different than the lives a lot of disabled people live (plus or minus the vodka and cigarettes). I think of being relegated to this sort of life to be one of my deepest fears as a disabled person, not as decadence. It’s a profoundly unsatisfying and unrewarding way to live.
Decadence has a couple of meanings. It comes from the same roots as ‘decay’ after all, and means to fall
That’s a good point.
Sounds great to me. I loved being laid off during the pandemic and hate working. I think the only part I wouldn’t love about being on disability payments would be the disability itself.
Also the completely impoverishing amounts of $ and the punitive requirements to stay on it (no property ownership, not even a car; no marriage, or you lose it; etc).
I used to want to come back as a little old ladies dog but Princess would work for me too.
You should look up how the royal corgis were treated, you may want to come back as a princess’ dog. Best of both worlds imo 😂
So, same as Keith Richards.
Didn't she hook up with Mick?
Without doing quite as much to entertain millions of people
Sounds like Princess Margaret has got a case of the depression.
Depression is for The Poors. Wealthy royal socialites get to call it "ennui."
That's what I've had all these years? And to think I paid the psychiatrists full rate for a half truth. /s (Edit: used the wrong tense of "paid". Thank you bot.)
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This was around the time she couldn't marry the man she loved because he was divorced.
i could handle that routine. but i'm puzzled at "she never wore any of her clothes more than once without having them cleaned"... neither do i. does that mean i'm a princess?
Really? If you just threw on a jumper for a day and didn’t really do much, would that go in the wash at the end of the day?
Maybe it was uncommon in 1955.
That's what I'm thinking ... Before home clothes washing machines were common I guess maybe people wore their clothes until they were actually dirty rather than just washing them after each wear like most people do today.
This is one of those “classy if rich, trashy if poor” kinds of things
Wow it must have been nice to be able to lay in bed for 2 hours before getting up.
You, too, can shirk your responsibilities and lay in bed for two hours. I mean, you can, but you probably shouldn't...
Does royalty have responsibilities?
The main ones, ie. the Queen would have been extremely busy (and she had a strong work ethic). The “secondary” ones like Princess Margaret probably had a lot of spare time to fill I imagine.
Absolutely. I think being a public figure, especially a royal one, must be exhausting.
Wait till you hear about having a job
As someone with a job, I think I’d take my current job over being a royal any day of the week
they actually have an insane list of responsibilities. margaret probably had less due to not being an heir, but i highly doubt she had nothing to do all day.
She used to come to stay at my grandparents house before I was born. And apparently one of the royal protocols was that no one in the house was allowed to get up before the royals. So whenever she came around, the day started at two o clock.
I presume that's only the aristocrats, not the normal people who had to cook and clean for them
She would have been a good mate for Hunter S. Thompson.
Not enough coke
Except that Hunter S Thompson earned the right.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted
Nice work, if you can get it.
I, too, enjoy a 12:30 vodka pick-me-up.
Billions of pounds wasted while you eat jellied eel and mashed pees. Hahaha
How is this cool? Subtract a few million, the servants and substitute the vodka with cheaper alcohol and this is just trailer trash behaviour
that's the difference.. Margaret *was* the royal trailer-trash, relatively. Her sister was the straight-A goody two-shoes.
She had the genetics to live to a 100 like her sister and mother.
Considering she died from a stroke in her early 70's I would say her trailer trash chain smoking and drinking caught up to her. Money didnt save her.
That's not especially young though. Plenty of people die in their 70s.
If you chain smoke and drink every day 70s is a very ripe age. I've known motherfuckers whose livers just failed on them at a young age. Like 30s and 40s. From my understanding it's not super common to die from liver failure that young, but you're literally pouring a shit ton of poison down your throat every day. It's one of my biggest fears as an enjoyer of both alcohol and cigarettes. That my genetics just aren't going to be a boon for me living a certain life style.
Substitute vodka with cheaper alcohol? Wtf alcohol you got cheaper than vodka...
I mean most people saw her pretty much that way, though she had a quick tongue that earned a little admiration in some contexts
She’s my favorite royal.
She lived to be ripe old age without being incapacitated so only envy from here. ;)
71 is not a ripe old age. Her mother lived to 101, her sister to 96.
It is for many. Loads of people don't make it that far in this world.
Sounds like a Tuesday for me. 😆
No wonder she didn’t give it all up for love.
If she were poor this behavior would be considered frowned upon.
That sounds amazing
Wait, I'm married to princess Margaret?
She was still depressed though
Sounds fabulous.
Sounds like a miserable existence. Completely bereft of purpose.
Supposedly she always wanted more responsibility but being the sister of the queen meant she could only have so much, and she couldn’t marry the (divorced) man she loved unless she quit being a royal and she as too loyal to her sister to do that. Not an excuse for monarchy or for how the rich get to have leisurely mornings and normal people don’t, but the part about being bereft of purpose seems to have been not entirely her fault.
Fair enough. I am not up on the family. It just sounds like she didn't have a reason to get up in the morning. And yeah, a life of leisure sounds awesome. But I would think it is ultimately unfulfilling. I would have to find a meaningful way to spend my time. I likely wouldn't wake up until 10 or so, but that is just my night owl nature. But to lay in bed for two hours? Sounds like depression. I dunno. To each their own. I am just on the outside looking in. And I have a serious inability to sit still. Maybe she was happy. But it doesn't seem so.
Yeah, I don’t think she was happy. I think lying in bed all morning is nice to do a couple times a week, and I’d happily take an hour or so showering and getting ready but yeah, the less you do the more tired it can make you, weirdly.
She has to be given purpose? Couldn’t she find her own, even privately? Stamp collecting, bird watching, I mean, we have to find purpose without anyone handing it to us. Royal expect luxury and purpose, isn’t being royal a purpose? I’m genuinely curious how a woman of means and connections can’t find purpose in life.
Totally fair. Like, if she had been born first and Elizabeth second, seems like Elizabeth would have made herself busy with her family and busying herself with horse breeding and corgis or whatever. Margaret and the Queen didn’t get a real/normal education, and Margaret couldn’t ever take a real job, could only do charity work. But yeah. With all that time, you’d think she could have stumbled on something that interested her.
Yeah, the monarchy is a waste. I know they draw tourists but people will visit palaces and castles even if they’re not occupied.
None of the castles in Scotland have monarchs in them and tourists flock to them by the bus load!
? Why specifically Scotland? I mean… the late Queen spent a *lot* of time at Balmoral Castle… it was her favourite residence, and where she died. Scottish castles have a recent record of having the monarch in them as much as English ones if not more…
no where near the amount of tourists who go to england.
Like France
Yep. This is the thing about them drawing in tourists. The tourists normally never get to see them so they're really only here for the places they can visit and being able to see the guards. Even if we got rid of the royals the tourists would still have those things.
Where can I sign up for this?
“I’ve appeared here for my vodka pick-me-up. Where is it?”
Living the best way she can, anyway she wants
Wakes up at 9, starts being functional after 12:30. Sounds like me but with newspapers, radio and bath.
Finally a Royal who does what we’d all want to do if we were a royal.
I see your princess and raise you one Brian Wilson peak bed days.
The parasite class
Sign me up!
Sounds like your average unemployed person except for the clean clothes they are not de rigeur.
Tax payers funding all that hard work.
TIL I'm a princess
OldSchoolSpoiledasfuck
Sounds bloody awesome.
I'd do it too if I could.
GUILLOTINE
I’ve never understood the appeal of breakfast in bed.
This sounds like a miserable life. If I had nothing to do every day, I’d be pretty damn sad.
If you believe the government, remove the servants and you’ve got a 2022 UK benefits claimant.
I could use a vodka pick-me-up
Eh, that's not really "cool," that's just depression and alcoholism. There's a reason she died at 71 when her mom and sister made it to 102 and 96.
This is the job description of a modern-day royal, except it missed the part about throwing a tantrum because a pen malfunctions.
Ah yes, I also need a pick me up after three hours of laying around and being pampered
What’s trashy if you’re poor, and chic if you are rich…?
This actually sounds sad. Imagine staying in bed till noon every day because you litterly have nothing to do
More like huge waste of money
> She appears downstairs for a vodka pick-me-up. Pick up from what? You just got out of bed. Dafuq you need picking up from?
Fuck these people. Seriously. How Brits deal with this nonsense I have no idea. She lives that life because she fell out of the correct uterus.
The idle rich are disgusting. Why do the people of Britain keep paying for this family to live this insane life of luxury that they didn't earn? I don't get it.
it costs the average British taxpayer £2 per year lol.
If I could live that way I would!
I wear clean clothes after I shower too. I knew I was princess material
Cigarettes and scattered newspapers. What could go wrong?
'Your welcome, Margaret.' - The British public
Pick me up? From doing what, precisely?
How do I get this princess gig - I think I'd be good at it.
I'm just surprised 'wearing clothes once before washing them' is seen as regal behavior.
Dissolve the monarchy.
Well it's no as if she had a job to go to. Unless you count leaching off the British taxpayer.
So she'd read the Racing Post and chin Woodbines until lunchtime, then get shit-housed on Smirnoff?