Does he hate Tony Blair?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Prince William of Wales
JimBallard — 14 years ago(May 02, 2011 11:18 AM)
So why wasn't Tony invited? If it was protocol it's a massive mistake by the Palace. However I suspect it may have been deliberate. Has William forgiven Blair for politicising his Mother's death? Was he annoyed at Blair for publicising their private conversations?
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MJC4861 — 14 years ago(January 08, 2012 10:37 AM)
Wills probably does not have any real personal dislike of the former Prime Minister, but his grandmother the Queen has always been wary of Tony and his left-of-center cronies who have forced Her Majesty to do some ridiculous things in public since Diana died. She has maintained her dignity in spite of these mishaps.
Yet it should be remembered that Prime Minister Blair supported the Monarchy in the week after Diana's death when the Royal Family could have been brought down in a mini-revolution of sorts. It was within his power to abolish the Monarchy and he probably regrets not having done so. When he published his memoirs, he was getting his own back because he has sacrificed so much political capital for both the Queen and her distant cousin George Bush's benefit and the two haven't fully appreciated this. Blair's "People's Princess" speech the Sunday morning after Diana was killed in Paris still takes my breath away; it was extremely well done even though it was obvious he did it to make the Queen found wanting by comparision. His political enemies (mainly those in the upper-class establishment) thought he was a grandstanding opportunist and it's hard to argue with that assessment.
While we cannot be certain of what kind of collective reaction Blair's revelations received behind palace doors (referring to the Queen as haughty ma5b4y have been accurate but not wise), it is obvious that William wanted to abide by his paternal grandmother's wishes and not invite Blair and his lackluster successor Gordon Brown, especially since Blair is now enormously unpopular thanks to his backing of the Iraq war as Georgie Porgie Bush's "poodle", and Gordon Brown equally so. Brown was such an inadequate politician that he would not run in an election of his own accord. And Ingrid Seward revealed as early as 1998 in her best-seller The Queen and Di that Her Majesty did not like Tony Blair. Today of course he is known in Great Britain, Australia, and Canada as Tony Bliar, meaning "Liar".
It was a stunning shock that neither Blair nor Brown were invited to the Royal Wedding, but it should not have been a surprise. Two of Blair's first major decisions as PM were to officially ban fox-hunting (one of the all-time favorite aristocratic pastimes) and put the kibosh on hereditary peers sitting (as they have done for centuries) in the House of Lords. You can just imagine how the Queen felt about this since most of the peers in the upper chamber of Parliament were of the Tory (meaning Conservative and therefore pro-Monarchist) persuasion. Thanks to Tony the Liar, the upper chamber is now packed with left-leaning Laborite anti-Monarchist career-appointed Life peers who are not genuine aristocrats as was Lady Diana Spencer before she became the Princess of Wales. 16d0Part of Diana's enormous appeal (aside from the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful) was that she was the genuine article, not a fake being foisted upon the British people.
The Queen is now more popular than Blair ever has been and the former PM cannot readdress the balance anymore than her firstborn son and heir can ever become more beloved than his late former wife, so this certainly must give Her Majesty a tremendous amount of immense satisfaction.
Also, William was apparently peeved with tabloid reports that compared his late great mother unfavorably with Mrs. Obama, who was reported to have said (which she probably did not) that Diana was a sex-mad clothes-horse. Michelle Obama was not invited either although I think she should have been even if William was worried that the First Lady might upstage his bride, who thank God, is far more attractive than either Fergie or Camilla. Come to think of it, Mrs. Obama is quite a clothes-horse herself, but fortunately not sex-mad (unless it's with her husband alone in the Lincoln bedroom). I could not begin to imagine the headlines if Mrs. O carried on the way Jackie did (even in her jet-set widowhood completely protected by the media) and the even more jet-set Diana with total media saturated coverage by the 1990s. No one would tolerate it for one second.
The May 2011 Good Housekeeping magazine poll (with the First Lady on the front cover) ranked Mrs. O at number six with the Princess of Wales at number eight according to fame and influence. This really shocked me because even now, the First Lady is not as well liked, much less beloved, as much as Jackie Kennedy was in 1961. And Diana became more famous, beloved, respected, and admired (and therefore more influential) than Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt (number five), and any other influential woman of the twentieth century including Oprah Winfrey (number one!) and Hillary Clinton (number two!). All of the trash written about Diana since her death has very nearly destroyed her posthumous reputation and poor Prince William does not want her memory disparaged in any way, which is understandable. In his eyes, she takes a back seat to no one livin