Tim Lawrence is totally irrelevant to me. I had to Google him. However, I have heard of Ms Markle who ,apparently, is nothing to do with Agatha Christie but is known for wearing clothes in public. I understand that she may have done something inappropriate on a balcony.
The “survey”, to which you have referred, Sam, is, I think, one of those polls carried out by YouGov, which consistently
show that Kate is more liked than Meghan Markle, whilst Harry is very often the
most liked royal.
The reasons may be
plainly obvious to some but, it would seem, rather arcane to others. It is, I believe, generally recognised by the public, a royal has undoubted privileges but
behind those always lie some obligations. Perhaps her, not so infrequent, overt disregard for royal sartorial propriety doesn’t help to endear her to royalists.
Of
course, in hot weather royals do wear summer clothes, befitting the occasion
and their own status as people who belong to the British Royal Family:
One hopes she will be helped to understand. But, if her husband is as uxorious as it is
reported, one has to be pragmatic in relation to any early expectations....
Hi Helen, your use of “one” , reminded me of an incident involving my mother.
It was early December in 1985. On that particular day, I had an interview in
London, and arranged to meet my mother, who was doing some Christmas shopping
there with her sister, at London Bridge Station.
She rather forgot all about the time and
fearing she was going to be late, dashed in to the nearby Goodge Street Underground
Station and asked the first employee she’d met at the entrance, “ How does one
get to London Bridge from here?”
The man
replied, “One takes the Northern Line.”
When we’d met, she apologised for being a bit late and when she’d recovered a little she thought of the would-be
snooty tone the guard had employed when answering her question: “One takes the
Northern Line.”
To this day, we all use
those words and laugh when we say “one” instead of the more usual, “you”!
what a shame that people are judged by the way that they speak and that, in some situations, correct grammar is inappropriate. What if the poor bugger was a toff that had fallen on hard times and had forgotten to use the vernacular appropriate to his current station in life? ( pun intended)
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The “survey”, to which you have referred, Sam, is, I think, one of those polls carried out by YouGov, which consistently show that Kate is more liked than Meghan Markle, whilst Harry is very often the most liked royal.
The reasons may be plainly obvious to some but, it would seem, rather arcane to others. It is, I believe, generally recognised by the public, a royal has undoubted privileges but behind those always lie some obligations. Perhaps her, not so infrequent, overt disregard for royal sartorial propriety doesn’t help to endear her to royalists.
Of course, in hot weather royals do wear summer clothes, befitting the occasion and their own status as people who belong to the British Royal Family:
One hopes she will be helped to understand. But, if her husband is as uxorious as it is reported, one has to be pragmatic in relation to any early expectations....Hi Helen, your use of “one” , reminded me of an incident involving my mother.
It was early December in 1985. On that particular day, I had an interview in London, and arranged to meet my mother, who was doing some Christmas shopping there with her sister, at London Bridge Station.
She rather forgot all about the time and fearing she was going to be late, dashed in to the nearby Goodge Street Underground Station and asked the first employee she’d met at the entrance, “ How does one get to London Bridge from here?”
The man replied, “One takes the Northern Line.”
When we’d met, she apologised for being a bit late and when she’d recovered a little she thought of the would-be snooty tone the guard had employed when answering her question: “One takes the Northern Line.”
To this day, we all use those words and laugh when we say “one” instead of the more usual, “you”!
What if the poor bugger was a toff that had fallen on hard times and had forgotten to use the vernacular appropriate to his current station in life? ( pun intended)