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I am really looking forward to that book. That, and the official biography of the Queen Mother. Gotta get both sides of the story...;)

I've seen in both the recent pics she has on this bracelet with bright colored beads. Very cute. Almost looks like something one of the kids might've made for her.

It's not just you. I see it too.

I don't think it was as much that he didn't want to be King but that he didn't want to be the kind of King Stanley Baldwin and the like wanted him to be. Which was how his father and brother were. I think his ideal was more along the lines of what his grandfather had done, except much more...

I know. Marius is getting much taller than he was just a year or so ago. Ingrid Alexandra looks just like her father.

When George VI was a boy it wasn't well known that smoking was dangerous and even when he died of lung cancer there was still some questioning about how harmful it was.

I saw her too. She did a great job and looked very good. Young for her age. :flowers: It can be tough getting interviewed by Colbert because it is hard to keep up and he does try and get people to say things they really shouldn't say. but Queen Noor handled it wonderfully.

I wouldn't put Richard III on the list. He was only King for two years and he didn't screw up England nearly as much as some of the other people we've mentioned. As for Richard and the Princes in the Tower, I don't think there was an evidence they were still alive when Henry VII took the...

I think she would've let him in her home at least in her later years. I've always thought she was probably less racist than Prince Philip, or at least better at concealing it. Even if she was prejudiced I think she was a smart enough lady to realize the President of the United States is the...

Found a link to a picture on another forum I'd never seen before. Just thought some of you might wanna see it since this one is pretty rare and you can't find it in most books or websites. It was referred to in Frances Donaldson's book on Edward VIII though she didn't have the photo in the...

Of course Princess Diana and Princess Grace. Such tragedy. Nicholas II and family, especially the children who really were killed for no reason and Alexandra's sister Ella who's whole life was sad. Alexandra of Denmark who loved her husband very much but had to deal with all his affairs...

I certainly wouldn't put Edward VIII on the list. We don't know what kind of war time king he would've been and he was only king for 10 months, during which he had a lot of issues in his personal life and didn't really do anything at all (good or bad). For me it would be someone like Edward II...

To be fair (and I'm a Catherine fan rather than an Anne one) I think under different circumstances Anne Boleyn could've been a popular Queen. It was because people saw her as stealing the crown away from the popular and well-liked Catherine of Aragon they disliked her. Also she was seen as...

My grandmother's aunt knew that Duke of Kent (or at least she said she did; she was a small-time stage actress in London but we do know she knew some famous people) and apparently he wasn't the sort of person you would want as a king. He was a nice guy, very bright and charming, but he had a...

No, it's a dress. The skirt is just very narrow. That's the main issue with it; if it had been a bit wider and hung a little looser I think it would've looked better. I like the dress but I think it made her look skinny. The cut also made her look a lot taller than she actually was. Looking at...

I liked the wedding dress. IMHO it was the silly hat that ruined the look. Plus Wallis obviously wasn't a model and the poses and facial expressions she used for her wedding pics did not look good. Very few other women have wedding pictures that are so unflattering and I think one of the reasons...

Sounds kinda like some of the stuff Princess Diana was into decades later. It seems like quite a lot of royals have been into mystical things like that going back to Elizabeth I and John Dee or possibly even further.

Also Margaret Beaufort married at twelve and had Henry VII at thirteen so that one was certainly consummated right away. She also had another marriage that was annulled when she was seven.

That accent has to be fake. I'm from Virginia and my father and all his family on his mother's side grew up in the Baltimore area, also as one of those "old" families like Wallis and none of them talk anything like that. She almost sounds like Katherine Hepburn. You think she was trying to make...

I meant a woman like Wallis; I should've been more clear.

I hope he's okay. HM and his life is stressful enough, IMO they really don't need this, though I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I think Elizabeth II would still be Queen. Wallis couldn't have children and I don't think Edward would've married and had kids with someone else as long as he was still in love with her. Only if she ran off with Guy Trundle or her car crashed into a tunnel in Paris or something, maybe then he...

They're such a lovely family! It's nice to see Haakon and Mette-Marit with their beautiful little blonde children, though Ingrid Alexandra's hair seems to be getting darker, so I think when she's older her hair will be brown like her father's instead of the light blonde her mother and older...

The fact that they cited Michael Bloch to defend her only makes her look worse. Of course he's going to say she wasn't sleeping with von Ribbentrop; he thinks she died a virgin and was really a hermaphrodite! The guy is completely insane yet he considers himself the Windsor's chief "defender". I...

41 or 42 (she lied about her birth date and there's some debate as the records were lost.)