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Successful Actress Meghan Markle to Wed Former Soldier!

Manc Skipper said:
"Famous Hollywood actress Meghan Markle is to wed next year, it has been announced. The 36-year-old star of hit show Suits met her fiance - an Englishman by the name of Harry Windsor - in the summer of 2016. The wedding is set to take place in spring 2018.

As well as Suits, in which she plays senior paralegal Rachel Zane, Markle has also appeared in movies Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me, and Horrible Bosses. She is also known for her role as special agent Amy Jessup in the sci-fi thriller Fringe. ..."


https://www.joe.co.uk/news/successfu...soldier-150733

Theresa May thankful that attention has been distracted for her Brexit costs debacle. Bread and circuses hasn't changed.

Congratulations to the happy couple.


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I have to say that of all the royals in history, Harry's the one I'd most like to share a beer with...although, if even half of the movie "Victoria and Abdul" is accurate, I bet she'd have some wonderful stories to tell. And cheers to the happy couple!

On a side note, I never thought I'd care about the royals (and I still don't care for Charles), but as time has passed, I do hold the Queen and William and Harry (and their significant others) in high regard indeed. I wish our own leaders would send their sons to the military as a prerequisite to any candidacy for president...or at least show half the gumption and character that Elizabeth herself showed at the age of 16 - as a truck mechanic during WWII.
 
tres borrachos said:
She is a lovely girl, no question. And like William and Kate, it appears to be nothing but true love. Maybe this is a sign that the Royals have learned that the marriages that are made in love work out better than the ones that are sanctioned by the throne. I wish them both many years of happiness, love, and children, and I very much look forward to their wedding. Nothing is more interesting than Royal weddings, and this one should be as beautiful as many of the others have been.
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You want to see a successful royal marriage, look no further than HM. Seventy years together, and it worked out rather well, for a love match lol
 
joG said:
A Grace Kelly story in Big. She could be the first English Queen of color, so I hear.
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Harry and any children he may produce are quite low on the succession list. With Kate popping out another one, Harry moves even further down.
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Naughty...but never malicious. That's my yardstick - the presence or absence of malice. He (like William) seems to have no malice.
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Both men inherited there mothers empathy for others. Combine that with the OJT he is recieving from the Queen, William should be well placed to reign.
 
Superfly said:
:lol:

Um -- no! Not interested in looking like Cruella de Ville!
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SMTA said:
You can be his Camilla Parker.....
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Interesting trivia - due to her renown digestive system issues, Camila has been awarded the title, "The Queen of Farts" by British tabloids.

Since I haven't matured since age 12, I think that's funny!
 
Glen Contrarian said:
I have to say that of all the royals in history, Harry's the one I'd most like to share a beer with...although, if even half of the movie "Victoria and Abdul" is accurate, I bet she'd have some wonderful stories to tell. And cheers to the happy couple!

On a side note, I never thought I'd care about the royals (and I still don't care for Charles), but as time has passed, I do hold the Queen and William and Harry (and their significant others) in high regard indeed. I wish our own leaders would send their sons to the military as a prerequisite to any candidacy for president...or at least show half the gumption and character that Elizabeth herself showed at the age of 16 - as a truck mechanic during WWII.
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The Queen has done a steller job, the Brits are lucky to have a woman at the helm with such a high degree of service. She has done them proud, and I will be sorry to see the old girl push off when the time comes.
 
yankintx said:
You want to see a successful royal marriage, look no further than HM. Seventy years together, and it worked out rather well, for a love match lol
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Bess and Philip were a true love match. She was madly in love with him from the day she first met him, when she was a teenager and he was a young man.
 
Was nice having Prince Harry spending lots of time in Toronto the past couple of years as he was wooing Ms. Markle on the set of her television show here. They were very discrete, very dignified, and the Toronto media generally left them alone. It was an open secret for a long time that they were a serious item. I'm very happy for both of them finding each other, finding love, and committing to each other. They make a very lovely couple and their children will be adorable.

I do have one cautionary note and that is that Ms. Markle appears to have given up her acting career in order to become a full time royal - that seemed to be a condition of the Queen's approval of the marriage. In this day, it's very rare for an individual to give up their life and submit to that of their partner in marriage. I do hope she has the temperament and the stamina to make a go of it.
 
tres borrachos said:
Bess and Philip were a true love match. She was madly in love with him from the day she first met him, when she was a teenager and he was a young man.
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She chose Phillip, HM had eyes for no other man. The Queen Mother also had a successful marriage, though that was not quite a love match in the begining, Prince Albert grew on her, in the end she was devastated when the King died so young. I think its best if the Royals choose there own spouses.
 
lurchadams said:
Interesting trivia - due to her renown digestive system issues, Camila has been awarded the title, "The Queen of Farts" by British tabloids.

Since I haven't matured since age 12, I think that's funny!
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You reckon Trump will use that joke IF he ever gets an invite to the palace lol. Camilla does not mince words, she would give it back to the Don double lol
 
lurchadams said:
Interesting trivia - due to her renown digestive system issues, Camila has been awarded the title, "The Queen of Farts" by British tabloids.

Since I haven't matured since age 12, I think that's funny!
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That's hilarious!! :lol: I haven't matured, either, and if I've not done so by this stage in life, I don't think it's going to happen.
 
yankintx said:
The Queen has done a steller job, the Brits are lucky to have a woman at the helm with such a degree of service. She has done them proud, and I will be sorry to see the old girl push off when the time comes.
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No, QE II has been useless. She broke her coronation oath by sacrificing the freedom of the British people to a foreign power, the European Union. She should have had the moral courage to refuse to sign the relevant Acts of Parliament. That would have had the good effect of bringing on a major constitutional crisis.

That said I will be sorry when she dies and the reign of Charles the Foolish begins.

Ms Markle, in spite of being a greeny lefty - Madeleine Albright is her hero -
will be popular. This is good news for the Monarchy and, therefore, bad news for Brit republicans like me.
 
Superfly said:
Oh yes. Nota and I have been fighting over him for years. He was always the hottie. Poor Will just looks like his father.

I think Harry does, too. *naughty wink*
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I was going to say that. If tragedy should strike and Harry becomes next in line, I think a paternity test would be in order.
 
joG said:
A Grace Kelly story in Big. She could be the first English Queen of color, so I hear.
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Harry's the spare, so William and all his kids would have to die before he got the throne. (Shades of "King Ralph!")
The royal kids normally get a Dukedom on marrying, which would make Megan "Duchess" (probably of Sussex).
In the unlikely event of Harry turning the Dukedom down, he would stay Prince, and she would then be "Princess"

 
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tres borrachos said:
Bess and Philip were a true love match. She was madly in love with him from the day she first met him, when she was a teenager and he was a young man.
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I've just watched - via the Daily Telegraph - this evening's BBC interview with H & M. Stellar performances from both of them. And they came over as both much in love.
 
yankintx said:
The Queen has done a steller job, the Brits are lucky to have a woman at the helm with such a high degree of service. She has done them proud, and I will be sorry to see the old girl push off when the time comes.
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I was on the USS Ranger (CV-61) when the Queen and Prince Philip came to visit. We "manned the rails", standing outside in unseasonably cold and wet weather (it was in San Diego) for well over two hours, waiting for them to arrive. We had spent the entire weekend making the ship spotless from stem to stern, and we were all pretty excited about the visit. So they finally arrived and came up to the flight deck, and they allowed us all to gather around while they were given a replica of the ship's bell by our captain. We were looking forward so much to hearing the queen even give a short speech...but what happened instead was that Prince Philip accepted the replica, leaned forward to the mike and said "Thank you" - at which point they then went belowdecks to tour the ship with the captain. We were SO ticked that the queen didn't say a single word, even after all our work!

But as the years went by, I slowly came to realize that that's one crucial quality that gives the queen's words such gravity - the very fact that she says so little publicly (the much-loved and recently-deceased king of Thailand was called "the king that whispers" for much the same reason). But at the time, we were so very ticked...and, well, I'm glad the internet didn't exist at the time. And I've also come to comprehend a bit of the task she faced, the guidance of her nation (even given how little legal authority the royal family has) through the UK's decline, while still keeping the UK (which is about the size of Alabama) not just relevant, but even a moral leader in the eyes of the world. The very fact that so much of the world still reveres and honors the UK's royal family - more than any other family on earth - is a testament to the success of her efforts. I am of course patriotic to America (most of us retired military are), but I must admit I feel a real measure of patriotism to the UK as well.
 
Sweden said:
No, QE II has been useless. She broke her coronation oath by sacrificing the freedom of the British people to a foreign power, the European Union. She should have had the moral courage to refuse to sign the relevant Acts of Parliament. That would have had the good effect of bringing on a major constitutional crisis.

That said I will be sorry when she dies and the reign of Charles the Foolish begins.

Ms Markle, in spite of being a greeny lefty - Madeleine Albright is her hero -
will be popular. This is good news for the Monarchy and, therefore, bad news for Brit republicans like me.
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Back in the day, a wise man once said, "We must all hang together, or we shall surely hang separately." So it goes with the EU. Economically speaking, it's the largest economy on the planet, and gives it much more influence (economically and geopolitically) than any of the European nations would have separately if the EU did not exist. This is especially critical given the rise of China and their One Belt One Road economic initiative. China's economy will eclipse America's (especially given how Trump's screwing America on a daily basis), and their only competition would be the EU. If there's no EU, then there's no real competition to counter-balance China's rising global influence.

In other words, sometimes reality and pragmatism are more important than pig-headed nationalism.
 
yankintx said:
She chose Phillip, HM had eyes for no other man. The Queen Mother also had a successful marriage, though that was not quite a love match in the begining, Prince Albert grew on her, in the end she was devastated when the King died so young. I think its best if the Royals choose there own spouses.
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Bertie fell in love with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when he first laid eyes on her at a debutante dance. He hounded her to go out with him, and she rejected him the first few times he asked her. Eventually she agreed, and there is no question that she loved him as dearly as he loved her.

The Queen Mother had grace, class, and elegance. And she was a wonderful mother and a wonderful help to her husband who, bless his heart, wasn't raised to be King, and didn't want to be King.
 
Glen Contrarian said:
I was on the USS Ranger (CV-61) when the Queen and Prince Philip came to visit. We "manned the rails", standing outside in unseasonably cold and wet weather (it was in San Diego) for well over two hours, waiting for them to arrive. We had spent the entire weekend making the ship spotless from stem to stern, and we were all pretty excited about the visit. So they finally arrived and came up to the flight deck, and they allowed us all to gather around while they were given a replica of the ship's bell by our captain. We were looking forward so much to hearing the queen even give a short speech...but what happened instead was that Prince Philip accepted the replica, leaned forward to the mike and said "Thank you" - at which point they then went belowdecks to tour the ship with the captain. We were SO ticked that the queen didn't say a single word, even after all our work!

But as the years went by, I slowly came to realize that that's one crucial quality that gives the queen's words such gravity - the very fact that she says so little publicly (the much-loved and recently-deceased king of Thailand was called "the king that whispers" for much the same reason). But at the time, we were so very ticked...and, well, I'm glad the internet didn't exist at the time. And I've also come to comprehend a bit of the task she faced, the guidance of her nation (even given how little legal authority the royal family has) through the UK's decline, while still keeping the UK (which is about the size of Alabama) not just relevant, but even a moral leader in the eyes of the world. The very fact that so much of the world still reveres and honors the UK's royal family - more than any other family on earth - is a testament to the success of her efforts. I am of course patriotic to America (most of us retired military are), but I must admit I feel a real measure of patriotism to the UK as well.
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You got it, she keeps her mouth shut. Some of our politicians should follow her lead.
 
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haymarket said:
I never heard of her as an actress and when i looked up her wiki page - I still have not seen anything she was in.
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Suits is a good show, but not because of her. She was the pretty girl the nerd couldn't get and then did.
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Back in the day, a wise man once said, "We must all hang together, or we shall surely hang separately." So it goes with the EU. Economically speaking, it's the largest economy on the planet, and gives it much more influence (economically and geopolitically) than any of the European nations would have separately if the EU did not exist. This is especially critical given the rise of China and their One Belt One Road economic initiative. China's economy will eclipse America's (especially given how Trump's screwing America on a daily basis), and their only competition would be the EU. If there's no EU, then there's no real competition to counter-balance China's rising global influence.

In other words, sometimes reality and pragmatism are more important than pig-headed nationalism.
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No, not 'nationalism' but self government and democracy. But incurring large additional costs and imposing endless regulation. The EU subtracts from the European economy.

The pathetic, inefficient, posturing, unlove EU which cannot even balance its own budget, even with vast nett contributions from the UK as a counterbalance to China! Pure fantasy.

The EU with its pretend 'parliament', flag and anthem will not long survive. If it is replaced by something along the lines of EFTA then well and good.
 
Manc Skipper said:
"Famous Hollywood actress Meghan Markle is to wed next year, it has been announced. The 36-year-old star of hit show Suits met her fiance - an Englishman by the name of Harry Windsor - in the summer of 2016. The wedding is set to take place in spring 2018.

As well as Suits, in which she plays senior paralegal Rachel Zane, Markle has also appeared in movies Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me, and Horrible Bosses. She is also known for her role as special agent Amy Jessup in the sci-fi thriller Fringe. ..."


https://www.joe.co.uk/news/successfu...soldier-150733

Theresa May thankful that attention has been distracted for her Brexit costs debacle. Bread and circuses hasn't changed.

Congratulations to the happy couple.


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Ohhhhh, now you're congratulating the ultra-rich in their endeavors, while the poor and destitute still hunger in the gutter. The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
 
American said:
Ohhhhh, now you're congratulating the ultra-rich in their endeavors, while the poor and destitute still hunger in the gutter. The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
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That weird noise you just heard was the point soaring over your head.
 
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