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marble falls

(62,428 posts)
4. Nah. Its my comment on the sexist nature of commenting on a person's look and....
Tue May 15, 2018, 09:32 AM
May 2018

the almost anal attention being paid to to her over her racial status. Plus the fact that the royals ARE a bit shallow in their gene pool.

Nitram

(24,674 posts)
5. The comment about her hair was a bitchy criticism.
Tue May 15, 2018, 09:51 AM
May 2018

Charles and Diana were 11th cousins once removed, which makes them very distantly related. No inbreeding in Harry. For comparison, Barack Obama and George W Bush are about 10th cousins twice removed. Also, a google factoid: Diana was related to Winston Churchill and to ten U.S. presidents: George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, both Bush presidents. She was also related to the actor Humphrey Bogart.

marble falls

(62,428 posts)
6. Her hair is fine. Whenever hair is mentioned, its almost always about a woman.....
Tue May 15, 2018, 10:02 AM
May 2018

and the UK Royal family is a tight gene pool. Look up the Hanover family problems.

Denzil_DC

(8,012 posts)
7. I very seldom participate in royal tittle-tattle,
Tue May 15, 2018, 11:47 AM
May 2018

but a persistent rumor over years (and the evidence of people's eyes) is that inbreeding may not be a problem where Harry's concerned ...

csziggy

(34,189 posts)
9. I was wondering how a ginger came out of the royal gene pool
Tue May 15, 2018, 03:32 PM
May 2018

What little I have seen of him makes me like him more than most of the royals. Like the picture posted here the other day from his trip to New Zealand with the little boy with the ginger sign.

Denzil_DC

(8,012 posts)
10. I'll just say that you're far from the only one ...
Tue May 15, 2018, 03:36 PM
May 2018

I'm not a royalist, but the way the media devours those it sets on a pedestal for clickbait disgusts me, then it has the cheek to cry crocodile tears when they meet with tragedy.

The rumors I referred to are out there if anyone's interested.

muriel_volestrangler

(102,647 posts)
11. The Spencers are often ginger
Tue May 15, 2018, 05:19 PM
May 2018

Harry's uncle Charles:



and his cousin Louis:

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/72f3e504d48ffac1d37aae95ad15052f

And Harry with his cousin George McCorquodale (son of Diana's elder sister):



So I don't think the ginger hair means that much.

(if you go back a couple of centuries to the 2nd Earl Spencer):
http://www.rococo-in-art.org/portrait-of-george-john-spencer,-viscount-althorp,-later-2nd-earl-spencer-1758-1834-c.1778.jpg

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