Why The Impolite Snub From Our Royals?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2871364/Tears-loved-aunt-Belgian-European-royals-mourners-late-Queen-Fabiola-s-funeral-gets-underway.html

[jim360]

Perhaps they were genuinely busy.

[ummmm]

No Jim, that's too simple.

[Jomlett]

"Britain, whose Queen Elizabeth II is one of the world's longest serving monarchs, was represented by its ambassador to Belgium.
"There are some long-standing commitments preventing the presence of members of the royal family at the funeral," a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman"...told AFP.

[DTCwordfan]

Because Buck Pal is very wary of the Belgians. There have been long-running allegations of sleaze and revelations of family dysfunctionality in the Belgian royal family in Belgium.

King Albert was forced to issue a highly unusual statement confessing he had been "humbled" by tales of financial impropriety involving the 84-year-old dowager Queen Fabiola, the widow of Baudouin. She also was suspected of being a member of Opus Dei - and then on top of it, there has been thought to be the usual 'Randy Andy' antics going on within the family. There was also a lot of fall-out between the palaces over Charles and Marie-Astrid if you remember back to pre-Diana days, that thought to be a snub to London at the time, but reflecting this Catholic-Protestant division....

[anotheoldgit]

DTCwordfan

One lives and learns.

[anneasquith]

A) the British royal family now have no need to marry their cousins, they marry '' commoners'' so why attend a funeral. B) too busy wrapping xmas presents, rolling their eyes, and being touched inappropriately by a sportsman.?

[anneasquith]

how refreshing to see '' royalty'' showing some emotion.

[jno]

they refused asylum to their cousin Nicholas, didn't they? One must be wary of these continental types.

[DTCwordfan]

I presume you mean that New York basketball player wrapping his 9ft arm around the Duchess, anne?

[anneasquith]

not only did the athlete 'touch' royalty, there is a suggestion he was sweaty!!

[chaptazbru2]

Considering you hate the royal family, you don't half know a lot about what's going down with them !!

[DTCwordfan]

"Oh my goodness!" mops his brow in astonishment

Nearly as bad as the Ozzie with his hand on the Liz's rump.