Prize for the Pettiest Mother of 2021

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and the prize for pettiest mother of 2021 goes to...drum roll.....HRH Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen has failed mention Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in her Christmas address while praising Prince William and Kate.
Her Majesty delivered a poignant traditional festive address this year as she lamented Christmas without her “beloved” husband, following his death aged 99 in April

She talked about how Prince Philip’s legacy was being carried on by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

‘I am proud beyond words that his pioneering work has been taken on and magnified by our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William — admirably supported by Camilla and Catherine — most recently at the COP climate change summit in Glasgow.”

But there was no mention of the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making a bold commitment to combat the climate crisis after announcing via their Archewell site that they will work to reach net zero carbon emissions by the end of this decade — the first time anyone in the royal family has made such a pledge.

I normally don't give a crap what the queen says but her pettiness over her grandson (and by proxy her great grandson) seems to take precedence over saving the planet from what is likely to be genuine global cataclysm that will take a united effort to avoid in the coming decades.

The old crone has forgotten the old saying "A house divided cannot stand", Climate change is a billion times bigger issue than her personal family squabbles. She doesn't seem capable of being a bigger person over this one issue.

So your royal highness, you thoroughly deserve this prize.

Do you mean the pettiest Grandmother?

Yes, pettiest grandmother

I’m a republican (in the uk anti-monarchist sense, not the GOP sense).

Probably best not to get me going on that one, but I’m sure once we have King Charles III things will slowly change… bacause he won’t be very popular. Charles is not a very lucky regnal name either… I actually heard he will be Henry IX.

But who cares?

^Thomas Wyatt was a great wit, and great with couplets. I looked closely at your avatar.

He was not the greatest poet ever, but placed in a unique period of history where the modern english language was coming into its own. He grew up near the Boleyn family and was a diplomat for Henry VIII (not a job with very good prospects) so intimately tied up with Henry’s foreign policy and with the reformation in both at home and overseas. He met many interesting figures from history, including Emperor Charles V and Machiavelli. He translated many of Petrarch’s sonnets so helped introduce the sonnet form in English literature.

He is a bit of an obsession for me… I could go on about him for hours… or even days.

I believe he died in prison.

I like his quaintly satirical couplets. Quaintly piquant.

I’m interested in the transition from Middle to Modern English, too—but probably not thoroughly schooled in it.

He was imprisoned in the Tower twice. The second time he was in serious trouble but was saved by special dispensation from the new queen… one of those quaint little perks you got if you married Henry (I think it may have been Catherine Howard, related to the Earl of Surrey, another poet of the time). He died at a relatively young age of a fever, sustained whilst riding overnight in a storm, on one of Henry’s errands.

I have taken a rather scholarly interest, but you read what you want and take whatever you want out of it… half the time I read sci-fi.

William and Kate are in the line of succession after Charles and Camilla.
Harry was never in line, unless sometime in the future William pulls an Edward VIII and abdicates for whatever reason. But then again Harry himself already basically abdicated. I'm not sure what he's expected to do about climate change. Is he teaming up with Greta Thunberg and Bill Nye?

I read the subject line as "prettiest" woman and was really surprised that it was the current queen.

Same here.

I’m curious as to what caused the Great Vowel Shift.

In terms of perception, I find Middle English to be a much more “Germanic” language than even Early Modern English.

Queen Elizabeth II never was “conventionally attractive—but she was a truck mechanic during WW II.

Middle english sounds more Scandinavian to me. I studied this stuff far too long ago.

The good news is Chuckles isn't nearly as popular as Lizzie. It's time to retire our monarchy.

She has been queen as long as I have been alive.

Not in the commonwealth, but I surely dislike Chuckles. But I love Harry.

That's on the cards, but the Queen is clearly ghosting/throwing shade on her grandson. To me that's awfully petty for somebody who is purported to be the head of state of the commonwealth.

In previous years she's been lauded as bending over backwards to not air her dirty laundry in public and showing the classic stoic "stiff upper lip" her people have been so famed for since the "grand" colonial days.

Perhaps in old age she is slipping.