My interest began when I was about 12 years old. It was the summer that the great BBC series "
The Six Wives of Henry VIII" came on and I was hooked out of my mind. I read everything I could get my hands on about Henry VIII and his wives and it sort of grew from there..to Mary Queen of Scots, Marie-Antoinette, all of European royal history.
I was also enchanted by picking up movie mags and reading about Princess Grace of Monaco and her gorgeous daughter Princess Caroline.Caroline was at the height of her beauty then, and was regular tabloid fodder.
My friends at school would pick up the books I was reading and give me a look like I was a Martian. Occasionally someone would make an unkind remark("She thinks she's a PRINCESS!") My family teased me with a mixture of exasperation and pride.
But I didn't care. And when I discovered TRF about a decade ago I knew had found MY PEOPLE.?
angieuk, please don't let anyone shame or guilt you for enjoying Royal gossip. what's the harm? Would they think better of you if you had some dark interest in the occult, or stalked movie actors or something?? Almost every time I log in here I learn something new not only about Royals and aristocrats but about different posters all over the world. It's great.
Please stay here with us, and when your "friends" give you a hard time just smile and roll your eyes or shrug or something. It's nicer than telling them to BUZZ OFF which you are perfectly entitled to do in response to their rudeness!