Will and Kate's Royal Wedding

[cupcake]

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Do the royals still own the yacht that Charles and Di went on?

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<p>Yacht Britannia is tourist attraction in Scotland</p>

<p>[Welcome</a> to the official website for The Royal Yacht Britannia](<a href=“http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/]Welcome”>http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/)</p>

[geeps20]

<p>means nothing to me. Hate royalty. Much more impressed with someone who has actually earned something, not given to them.</p>

[Pizzagirl]

<p>I don’t see the issue with the ring. My mother divorced my bio father when I was a little girl – I wear the stone from her first engagement ring on a necklace around my neck; just because they divorced doesn’t mean that the stone wasn’t given to her in love and with all the best hopes for the future. Sometimes life doesn’t work out how we plan it, but that hardly makes it a “symbol of a farce.”</p>

[Dionysus58]

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She reportedly now works for her parents’ company, an online children’s party goods company. I don’t consider that not holding a job or living off one’s parents. My own father worked for the family owned business that his father owned and then my father owned it and then my brother worked for my dad’s business. They all worked hard even if it was the family business. They went to work every day. This was not considered “living off one’s parents” as each individual held a job.

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<p>Kate Middleton doesn’t work, not for her parents or anyone else. She allegedly was employed for a few months working for her parents company, but that’s hardly a real job (all she did was model for the website) - and she couldn’t even sustain that. I don’t consider posing for a few cameras and a few charity engagements, interrupted by intermittent African safaris work.</p>

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On the subject of jobs and Kate Middleton…I also think it is prejudicial to assume all women will be career oriented. I have two daughters who are young adults and pursuing careers. However, in Kate’s case, while she has worked here and there, I don’t begrudge if she is not that career oriented, as her future life may be as princess/wife and mother and charity work, as Diana did. She is educated. I do not frown upon women who are not career oriented. Kate is not poor and has options obviously that not all young women have.

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<p>You don’t think an educated young woman like Kate should earn a living and establish her own independence, rather than be a trophy girlfriend who follows her man obediently everywhere he goes?</p>

[geeps20]

<p>^that would be here choice…now wouldn’t it?</p>

[Marian]

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You don’t think an educated young woman like Kate should earn a living and establish her own independence, rather than be a trophy girlfriend who follows her man obediently everywhere he goes?

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<p>In most instances, the more desirable path is the one in which a young woman earns a living and establishes her independence – but there are exceptions. One of those exceptions is a person who marries into a royal family. Military wives also come to mind. </p>

<p>Prince Edward’s wife had a career before she married him. She attempted to continue it after the marriage. It didn’t work out, which certainly must have been a disappointment. Kate won’t face the same disappointment that Sophie faced.</p>

[Rachacha]

<p>The previous poster regarding royal naming protocol is correct. Since Kate is not titled, she would formally become Her Royal Highness the Princess William of Wales, Duchess of (insert whatever Dukedom is bestowed upon Wills by the Queen). I think though Princess Kate would be cute, even though that title is already taken by my two-year old niece!</p>

<p>Have already told H’s cousin in London to expect me to come over for the wedding, even if it is to stand on the street somewhere!</p>

[Dionysus58]

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In most instances, the more desirable path is the one in which a young woman earns a living and establishes her independence – but there are exceptions. One of those exceptions is a person who marries into a royal family.

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<p>I don’t agree that merely being a royal somehow entitles you not to work. Royals can and do maintain normal working lives if they choose to. Peter and Zara Phillips for example, the Queen is their grandmother yet they’re able to work as a banker and equestrian respectively. Kate did not know ten years ago she would marry the future king, so I hardly see the fact that she is soon to be royal as an excuse for a decade of idleness.</p>

[CountingDown]

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Kate did not know ten years ago she would marry the future king, so I hardly see the fact that she is soon to be royal as an excuse for a decade of idleness.

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<p>Ummm…she did get a university degree during that time…surely that counts for something in <em>this</em> forum, at least! </p>

<p>While Sophie had a career before meeting and marrying Edward, Kate has been affiliated with William since their college days. Makes it a bit tougher to start up a career in those circumstances, especially when one is trying to keep the press at bay.</p>

[Dionysus58]

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Ummm…she did get a university degree during that time…surely that counts for something in <em>this</em> forum, at least! </p>

<p>While Sophie had a career before meeting and marrying Edward, Kate has been affiliated with William since their college days. Makes it a bit tougher to start up a career in those circumstances, especially when one is trying to keep the press at bay.

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<p>Yes she did, but she graduated 8 years ago - what has she done in that time?</p>

<p>Yes the couple dated at university, but it was not considered serious by the public for a long time after she’d graduated. I had never even heard of her until 2006, so I fail to see how apparent public interest was such that it prevented her from working. Interestingly Prince Harry’s girlfriend is able to work for a law firm in London, if she can why couldn’t Kate?</p>

[mythmom]

<p>Kate’s not having employment makes her less attractive to me for a variety of reasons. Work requires sacrifice and perseverance. However, that is not relevant here. Prince William doesn’t find her less attractive for it, and he certainly has the right to choose.</p>

<p>There is another way to look at it though; she has left the jobs to those who must earn their livings.</p>

<p>All the years Jackie O was at Viking, although I found it personally appealing, I wonder who didn’t get bumped up the ladder because Jackie took his/her job.</p>

<p>Beyond that, I don’t care because neither of them is very interesting to me. I wish them well as I would any young couple.</p>