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Showing posts with label Protocol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protocol. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Meghan Markle Continues to Piss Off the Queen By Breaching Royal Protocol
We’re sure being royalty has its perks.
You get to call people peasants and sit in the fanciest chairs … all-in-all, it’s probably a pretty sweet gig.
But there are just so many freakin’ rules you have to follow.
It’s like someone combined being a celebrity with being in fourth grade and tossed in crowns to sweeten the deal.
If you’re raised as royalty, that’s one thing.
You’ve known since childhood that you would be forced to spend your adult life wearing a fake-ass smile and waving to the masses in a way that makes it look like you just learned how to wave.
But if you marry into the Windsor clan — especially after a relatively brief courtship — the culture shock is probably quite severe.
That’s what Meghan Markle seems to be learning the hard way these days, as she attempts to navigate the byzantine labyrinth that is royal protocol.
At one of her first public appearances as a royal, Meghan’s bare shoulders resulted in clutched pearls and shattered monocles all over the British Empire.
Shortly thereafter, Meghan had the audacity to try and hold Prince Harry’s hand in plain view of the plebes.
Needless to say, another scandal ensued.
One would think that after being thoroughly admonished by royal traditionalists in the press, Meg would cool it on the modern attire and PDA, right?
Not so fast, guvnah!
According to several media outlets, Meghan stepped out sporting bare shoulders and clutching Harry’s arm at the 100th birthday celebration for the Royal Air Force yesterday.
And the insults to the crown didn’t end there.
Apparently, Meghan once again crossed her legs at the knee (a no-no, according to royal etiquette experts) in open defiance of the unwritten code of royal conduct.
For shame!
This is probably exactly what the Queen was afraid of when Harry married an American.
This is like that dreadful ordeal with those blasted New World colonies all over again.
Next thing you know, she’ll be downing hot dogs and Budweiser to commemorate the day that impertinent document was signed.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Meghan Markle Attempts to Break Royal Protocol, Gets Shut Down By Prince Harry
Being royalty may sound like a blast — in fact, as far as fantasies go, it’s up there with winning the lotto and showing up to your high school reunion the exact same size as when you graduated.
But the reality is, those fancy titles come with a whole list of rules that must be followed at all times — and for the rest of your life.
It’s a sad fact of palace life that Harry has known about since birth and that Meghan Markle is just now finding out about.
Harry and Meghan have been married for about six weeks now, but it seems she still has a lot to learn about life in the Windsor court.
We’re sure Harry and others tried to prepare Meghan for the many strictures of royal protocol, but that’s like trying to prepare a college kid for the real world.
You just don’t know until you’re really in it.
Anyway, Meghan is a new Duchess, but she’s also a new wife.
And it seems that the required formality of the former occasionally comes into conflict with the romantic giddiness of the latter:
As you can see, it looks as though Meg makes a move toward holding Harry’s hand here.
And he shuts down the maneuver with the speed and agility of a born athlete.
If Harry hadn’t been born a prince, he could’ve played quidditch, or whatever the hell they do in England.
We’re sure Harry meant no harm in refusing to take Meg’s hand, but such a public rebuke had to sting a little.
It’s not hard to see why Meghan may have thought it would be okay to hold Harry’s hand at a royal engagement.
In fact, those no written rule against it.
“The Queen rarely holds hands with her husband in public and this seems to have set an unwritten precedent for the other royals,” Body language expert Robin Kermode tells The Daily Mail.
Kermode adds that Harry may have simply been taking a cue from his older brother, saying:
“It is very clear that William and Kate are emotionally close, however, they do not seem to feel the need to prove their love – particularly when on official state business.”
We guess it’s just one of those things you learn with time.
To extend out earlier college/real world metaphor, there’s no law against getting hammered on two-for-one Tuesdays when you have work in the morning, but you quickly learn that it’s not the best idea.
These days, Meg is like a 22-year-old intern retching into her wastebasket and giving closer consideration to the possibility of grad school.
You know, we may have just taken that analogy a step too far.
As with royal PDA, we didn’t know where the line was until we crossed it!
Thursday, January 5, 2017
U.S. Army Honor Guard Soldiers Followed "Man Down" Protocol
Members of the U.S. Army Honor Guard did NOT leave their fellow soldier hanging after he fainted and face-planted at President Obama’s farewell ceremony … they were just following procedure. Maj. Russell Fox tells TMZ … the Honor Guard soldiers…
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