After reading the Charles and Camilla thread, my thoughts wandered off to this...
How would you handle being born into Royalty, or into a family that is always in the limelight. i.e. I have no idea why but Paris Hilton comes to mind (no I'm not comparing her to the royals).
I know I would have trouble being in a Royal family, or a family in power, or one that comes from knobhill kind of life. (no offence ment if anyone is from knobhill 8) )
I'm always thinking of the underdog, or the person that doesn't cope, and want to make sure everyone is taken care of. So I'm not sure I could handle Royalty etc...
Although one side of me says I could handle the social life etc... So maybe I'm just playing both sides in my mind...
Could you handle the Royalty lifestyle?
Well i kinda ignore the royals there are such a bunch of wankers .
i lived within a few miles of buck pal and all the time i lived there NOT once did i get a invite to a party there .
i got my own back i didnt invite them to mine . lol
Could you handle the Royalty lifestyle?
Which one? The jetting-off to Gstaad for the skiing or the bit where the paparazzi catch you in a club dressed inappropriately? I could certainly swan around on the Civil List and wear a spiffy uniform just as easily as any of the chinless wonders.
/certainly don't fancy opening hospitals
//quite fancy being able to throw people in a dungeon and forget about them
I couldn't be myself if I was worried that everything I said or did "off the record" would be reported or photographed in a sleazy publication.
I could do the speeches and the formal engagements, although I'm better at speeches than small talk with strangers. I could handle foreign tours, but since I can never remember a person's name until I've met them more than a couple of times, I don't know how diplomatic I would be. However, when off duty I'd expect to be able to do my own thing without being noticed and that is where it gets tough.
Overall, I like my anonymity. It was better for the royals fifty years ago because then they could be anonymous when off duty because no-one followed them and no-one expected to see them in public. The paprazzi is everything we were taught not to be.... it's rude to stare, it's rude to shove things in people's faces etc.
I couldn't be myself if I was worried that everything I said or did "off the record" would be reported or photographed in a sleazy publication.
I could do the speeches and the formal engagements, although I'm better at speeches than small talk with strangers. I could handle foreign tours, but since I can never remember a person's name until I've met them more than a couple of times, I don't know how diplomatic I would be. However, when off duty I'd expect to be able to do my own thing without being noticed and that is where it gets tough.
Overall, I like my anonymity. It was better for the royals fifty years ago because then they could be anonymous when off duty because no-one followed them and no-one expected to see them in public. The paprazzi is everything we were taught not to be.... it's rude to stare, it's rude to shove things in people's faces etc.
Same here.
I certainly wouldn't be very diplomatic either. If I was watching the BBC News and there was a story of some major disaster I would be ordering all the spare rooms at Buc House and all the other homes/castles I owned to be opened up as shelter for the "common man"
One needs to show one's compassionate side occasionally you know :mrgreen:
Good question. I think if you are born into royality you know nothing else but that. you are taught how to behave and whats expected.
If you are not born into it. You would find it very hard to adapt you only have to look at diana and fergy for that.
I think you cannot answer the question since you would have been raised differently. Their education was/is very impersonal and they must keep the stiff upper lip. They can show formal sympathy, in the event of a tragedy, but not give you an informal hug. They must be impersonal. Queenie and Phillip, were certainly raised that way, and I suspect, Charles was too. They are taught what to do when the subjects bow and curtsey; try that without absorbing a feeling of superiority.
Think of living in the palaces, with all those huge, rich, rooms, completely impersonal.