I just finished reading a surprisingly-not-trashy-and-well-written book about Princess Di. And then, because I couldn’t get enough of the Royal Family for one summer I watched a movie about them last night. (The Queen, if you must know. No, I hadn’t seen it yet. Remember I had a baby last year?)
Anyway, can I just say, there’s no work-life balance going on in Buckingham Palace?
We all think we have it tough because we have to juggle the demands of our family and our jobs. But, hello? We can’t really complain. For one, we don’t have to deal with that whole ”Divine Right” thing. And we didn’t foolishy make a statement awhile ago to the whole freaking country about how we’d be ”devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.” For our whole life. Who makes those kinds of promises? I can’t even promise to call my friends back. Â
I mean, seriously.  The Queen’s got some great jewelry, but her family is more dysfunctional than mine and she always has to pretend that she’s happy or content or something. Doesn’t she ever just want to rip off those heavy-looking dresses, let her curls loose and say, “bugger-off you all, I just want to watch Oprah in peace!”?
I’m just sayin’. I think we got it good.
Tags: The Queen, The Diana Chronicles, Royal Family, Queen of England, work-life balance
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Agreed. I sometimes wonder how much happier (and still alive) poor Diana would have been if she’d just gone on being
Diana Spencer, preschool teacher.
They are all dysfunctional because they are inbred – and I can say that, I hail from England!! Seriously, Philip is like the Queen’s cousin or second cousin or something, so no wonder they are all messed up!!! Sometimes I like to picture Queenie sitting there in her scruff, hair a mess, no make up, just living like the common people and watching Coronation Street (English soap opera) or something!
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