The Queen is Dead. Long live the King.

[belamyi]

"You haven't watched "Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"..?"

I think I have but long ago.

The butt is supposed to be "a sign of good luck", which doesn't prevent the forty-something thirty-something to end up blasted in Korea while reporting from the war, and the thirty-something twenty-something to end up as an old spinster who spends the rest of her life schlicking to the memory of her nether chords being once fingered on the shores of Hong Kong, while she's not being the auntie of a stray kid.

 

[rareboy]

"Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"

So ironic considering what he and his doxie did to his first wife.

 

[belamyi]

"Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"

So ironic considering what he and his doxie did to his first wife.

Brand her as a genetically crazy manipulative bitch and let her rot in a 1940s mental institution in 1950, so that they can romp in good clean conscience.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[pigface]

One of the few instances where AI would have produced a better result.

 

[belamyi]

Few?

 

[unloadonme]

Royal Family: Unseen pictures to go on display for first time

A new exhibition captures the family's more private and intimate moments from the past 100 years.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[belamyi]

Because they are all so lovely to look at.

And I do not mean the kids with... "funny"... expression in the Kate&Will pic, or Katie as Ophelia about to drown herself.


To be royal and be THAT

And WTF...

 

[rareboy]

We knew it looked familiar ...Vigo from Ghostbusters

 

[belamyi]

YESSSSS!!!!! That was IT!!

Bt the technique and the geographical and social setting still give too much Dorian Gray.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Essex Boy]

Who is it? Answer here.

 

[rareboy]

 

[NotHardUp1]

The first official portrait of the King since the coronation has been unveiled.

He appears to be becoming an ent. May need to move about more.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That was mentioned on the TV news earlier. It's to reflect the King's interest in nature.

The artist also commented that it symbolized rebirth, and was a reference to the King's recent ascension.

I fear, unless he lives a lot longer than appears likely, it may eventually have a connotation of his imminent departure.

 

[NotHardUp1]

"Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"

So ironic considering what he and his doxie did to his first wife.

That poses a question.

Royals or no, the common (no pun intended) problem is that a man appears to have cynically married for appearances and success, while being duplicitous.

Consider the typical remarried heterosexual man. He wed young (statistically). He married a woman he wanted to raise his children. He often married a girl who adored him, and allowed him to lead or dominate. The woman often saw the man's career as the dominant one and the anchor for her security.

Later, they get to know one another, have conflict, and eventually do not accept the other.

Contrast that to a gay man's progress through relationships. He finds another, chooses to enter into a long-term relationship, but is under no pressue to marry or have community property or follow a partner's lead in career. After a period of best behavior and attempts to make it work, the split, without the pressures of the straight world, much less those on a royal couple. Gay men get away with the same fickleness without the heteronormative condemnation for the re-do. Gay privilege?

I'm no apologist for the King, nor fan of royals in general, but I don't see his behavior as either atypical or outrageous. Diana's alleged naivete, innocence, or subordination doesn't change the pattern of a great many royals, especially kings, both before and during Victorian times and after.

If there is any justice in reigns, maybe the outworkings of the crisis of King Edward are due, as the same family that forbid him to marry and reign now conferred the King's privilege to do it in a sibling's line of succession. From outside the kingdom looking, the empire doesn't seem to resent the new King for it.

 

[pigface]

He made a promise before the nation and before his god, to love and honour etc. etc. as long as they both shall live until death do them part. All a lie, we discovered. He has no moral compass and is of no value.

 

[rareboy]

 

[luckynumbah7]

All Hail the Crimson King! (It works on so many levels)

 

[rareboy]