British Royal Family Current Events 4: March 2007-July 2011


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The Royal Family: The Business of the Monarchy

The British royal family has a very private personal life but a very public profile. The queen and family members follow a heavy schedule of activities that range from the charitable to the commercial.
In the documentary "The Royal Family," anchored by Barbara Walters, ABC News offers a never-before-seen glimpse at the most famous royalty in the world -- the royal family of Great Britain.

From Queen Elizabeth II to Prince William and Prince Harry, the documentary crew from RDF USA filmed the British monarchy for more than a year, and was given unprecedented access to the working monarchy and its private spaces.
Culled from hundreds of hours of footage of the queen and her family in both public and private settings, this special marks the first time in the history of the British monarchy that anyone has been allowed such access.
 
I can't believe they're running that Barbara Walters special again, with no new footage or information. It just wasn't very good, although I'll probably wind up watching because I'm a royals addict and there's nothing else on. (Couldn't Barbara have found an addictive swine and asked her, "How do you feel being compared to Sarah Palin?":lol:)
 
Just finished watching 2 hours of the royal show available on youtube.com on a special program of the Barbara Walters' hosted "20/20" on the ABC network. All "stuff" that has already been wholly discussed here on the RF.

Still it was a well spent 2 hours.

Have to say I enjoyed seeing the coverage of Her Majesty's trip to Washington, D.C. and George Bush's white tie State Dinner and the faux pas of him saying HMTQ was around in 1776!
 
The Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry ( together with Tom and Andrew Parker Bowles and Tiggy Pettifer) attended a service of thanksgiving for the life of Captain Gerald Ward, who died last week aged 70.
St. Mary´s Church, Chilton Foliat, Berkshire.

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Pics 16.10.2008

Lady Gabriella Windsor, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent,
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and Princess Beatrice at
the Nicky Haslams Ball for Janet De Botton, Parkstead House,
Roehampton, London, Britain - 16 Oct 2008

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How "minor" do they have to be?

If a member of the BRF is overseas "on duty" I think logic should dictate the level of protection.

For example: If the Glouster's were on "official duty" in NY, max it! As opposed to The Princess Royal at the Canterbury Show (NZ). Minimised, I would wager.
 
Security is a specialist subject, so as a lay person, my comments are just my own thoughts. My view is that the more minor royals like the Kents, Gloucesters etc should not have any security detail at all, wether in the UK or abroad, unless there is a specific threat. When it comes to slightly more senior royals (Yorks, Wessex's and Anne), overseas security, they should rely on the country being visited to provide security. As regards the Queen and the Wales family, I think they will need top level security, but to the extent they can rely on the country being visited to provde it, they should.
 
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Well, now it's been made public I suppose we'll just have to wait for one of the "minor" royals to get killed on an overseas tour before they decide that perhaps this was a case of false savings. Either that or I hope they'll rearrange things so that the Queen is represented abroad by royals who are senior enough that their lives are considered worth protecting.
 
I can see the point of quietly cutting back on security in areas that are deamed to be safer than others. :)

Elspeth said:
Well, now it's been made public I suppose we'll just have to wait for one of the "minor" royals to get killed on an overseas tour before they decide that perhaps this was a case of false savings. Either that or I hope they'll rearrange things so that the Queen is represented abroad by royals who are senior enough that their lives are considered worth protecting.
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Elspeth said:
Well, now it's been made public I suppose we'll just have to wait for one of the "minor" royals to get killed on an overseas tour before they decide that perhaps this was a case of false savings. Either that or I hope they'll rearrange things so that the Queen is represented abroad by royals who are senior enough that their lives are considered worth protecting.
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I like this post. I think anyone who goes abroad to represent the Monarch should have security, period. I don't know what is the best diplomatic understanding of mutual responsibility between two countries (the represented and the honored). That depends, I suppose, on the discretion of the Foreign Office.
 
I fully expect there to be several assassinations and/or kidnappings of royals in the next five to ten years. I then expect all of Britain to raise a huge outcry about why the royals were not more protected!

It's really kind of funny that the government is cutting security for them now, when with every passing year it's much more likely for a royal to be attacked than it was in the past few decades.
 
thanks iceflower for the pic :flowers:
the queen looks fabulous in this wonderful dress and the hat is fantastic
i love this outfit :wub:
 
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Sophie really likes those flying saucer hats.:lol:

Nice pics. Thanks, iceflower :flowers:
 
i can see that the princess royal and her hasband are not with eache other in the pic
maybe the remoures are true ( they have some problemes).
iceflower camilla wasn't theire ?
i would love to see her with the rest of the family .
 
Pics 4.1.2009

chaimae said:
iceflower camilla wasn't theire ?
i would love to see her with the rest of the family .
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I think she did not attend that church service, otherwise there
would surely have been a pic of her and Charles..

Here are some pics from today:

The Queen, Prince Philip, Prince Edward and Countess Sophie
attending Sunday church service at Sandringham, Britain - 04 Jan 2009

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oh nice pictures , i like the style of the countess Sophie :wub:
specialy the hat , its the type that i like the most :wub:
 
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Thanks for the photos, Ice! I think HM looks wonderful in that color. Prince Edward looks exceptionally good.
 
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Thanks Ice! I don't recognize Prince Philip:ermm:
 
lallettac said:
who is the lady with Prince Philip?
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More to the point: who is the lady with Prince Edward!!!??? I think Phillip is walking with the Duchess of Kent.
 
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