[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by Osem

You seem to be missing the point that on balance I'm fairly neutral - I don't hate the royals and do think the younger ones have simply been doing the sort of thing that many young people would do given the chance. That doesn't make it any the less silly though and nor does it mean that nothing they do is brave, worthwhile or positive. For the purposes of an interesting debate in a forum I simply posed a question based on a current situation which was in the news.

We're certainly able to have a debate on all the good works the royals do/don't do and since you're so wound up about it all I invite you to start one so you can see what my contribution is, hopefully then you'll be able to judge what I write rather than what you think I mean.

Well the way you worded it has got the usual grouping of people who will just use the thread to bash the royals.Now if you had come at it from the other angle of what useful activities the young royals get up to I would have perhaps been less inclined to point out what a non story it was(and still is).The subject heading is hardly neutral is it?It certainly gives a biased feel to the thread.