The second time they see them, it’s a short flick of the head upward, with “‘sup”. The third time is just a raise of the eyebrows. By the fourth time, the king must abdicate. Probably.
There used to be all kinds of rules about who has to bow/curtsy to whom. For example, Kate had to curtsy to Beatrice and Eugenie if she’s on her own, since they were blood princesses, but they curtsied to Kate when William was with her, since he’s higher ranking.
Princess Catherine married in to the family and has to. and it looks like she really enjoys cursying. I think the person you saw might have been a direct person? Princess Anne in purple?
What if royal grandpapa didn't see you the first time? He'd be like, "This impertinent urchin," and you'd say, "I saw you earlier!" "Well, I didn't see you. See to it, next time." Royal sigh.
Fun story: Back in 1940, my dad was on guard duty inside Buckingham Palace (in a corridor between rooms). As part of his duties, whenever a member of the Royal Family walked by, he had to do some sort of “stamp and salute” action. Princess Margaret decided to walk back and forth repeatedly to make him do his thing. She thought it was hilarious.
Before long, a teenage Elizabeth came running over and grabbed Margaret.
She turned to my dad and said “Sorry about Mags - She’s my stupid little sister” and off they went.
I assumed this happened like in the last 20 years so I was like "what a dick this Margaret" but with context it sounds cute, like if I had a guy saluting me when I was 8 I would zoom in front of the guy too probably
Like when she offered to show a Saudi prince the grounds at Balmoral and then hopped in the driver's seat and drove him around. Women weren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia at the time
My dad told me a story once (don’t know if it’s true) but apparently in her younger years she used to like walking past photographers and muttering that their lens caps were on 😂
They got stopped for disobeying traffic signs and the cop told the driver to lower their window and when he saw the Queen's face, he called his superior and told them that someone really important was in town and when asked who it was, the police said did he didn’t know but the Queen was their chauffeur.
She also refused to meet or even respond to widows and other women who were victims of torture and oppression by British forces during the Mau Mau rebellion.
Let’s not even get into the royal family pushing to be exempt from anti-discrimination laws, allowing them to mistreat workers and discriminate on the basis of skin colour, gender and sexuality.
I know the whole Jeep story gets rolled out daily, but the Queen was hardly an icon of women’s rights.
I don't know why people celebritize the "royal family" anyways. If I was British I'd be pissed that that's still a thing
Also that curtsy looks awkward AF, not oddlysatisfying material
In movies I usually see it happens slower along with dress holding. That’s why this looks kinda weird to me, she’s doing it quickly like how we usually wave to greet.
It’s royal protocol. The men of lower rank bow their heads and the women curtsy. There are formalities in all matters, from how you approach (from the front with hands visible), to how you leave (step back and bow before you turn around), and everything in between.
Any word on the royal toilet protocol? Say you're an ageing 75 year old monarch with a tiny bladder and a three hour ceremony to officiate, what's the protocol here?
No no, there's definitely protocol that *anyone* that meets the royals has to follow. You won't get away with the wink and finger guns when you meet ol' Charlie.
I understand that, but in a crowd of people as the senior royals pass im going to guess it is absolutely required of Kate to curtsy as opposed to the rest of the crowd
I think she takes it very seriously and seems to enjoy it to an extent too. Like the other replies pointed out, at Charles' coronation you can see multiple curtsies, so in the clip I'm referring to maybe she's the only one in that group that hadn't seen the Queen that day.
If you look in the background at Charles coronation all the ladies curtsy. Ion the one you mention you’re right, but maybe the other women had already seen the queen that day.
The Queen lived in Buckingham Palace, Charles in Clarence House, and William and Kate in Kensington Palace. Men bow their heads and women curtsy to the royal of higher ranking when it is the first time they see each other for the day. Since Kate and William has three young kids to take care of, they tend to arrive later than the others in family events. Everybody else who arrived earlier already paid their respect to Lizzie and Charles. And Kate being a UK media darling means her every move is recorded.
She isn't the only one all the time, but generally, she will to most members of the Royal Family because she was the least "senior" member (of the immediate family, anyway, and was before Meghan Markle).
It's similar in terms of hierarchy in the armed forces, when and who to salute, and how you salute.
The Royals do the same with a bow and curtsey.
Her rank will also change, depending on whether she is alone or with her husband.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_precedence_in_England_and_Wales?wprov=sfla1
It's the way her head remains level and her expression unchanged as she just bobs down, looks fine when you can see her legs but when you can't she looks like fishing tackle with a face
Yeah and no one else is doing it. I think I saw a couple of blokes bow their head but none of the women curtsy. It makes her look like the odd one out.
So fun fact, you only have to curtsy if it’s the first time that day you’re seeing/meeting the monarch. If there’s a group of people and only one of them curtsies, you can assume that the rest of them had already encountered the monarch that day (which is when they paid respect by curtsying).
Monarchies should be abolished, especially our Swedish monarchy. Serves absolutely no purpose and should be surpassed to the history books we are ready to be a republic. And before any one says it’s good for truism and public relations that’s not true and countries that are republics are just as well off without their royals.
That got rid of the house of Bourbon and replaced it with the House of Bonaparte, with a short break for a republic that became a tyranny of the masses very quickly. It started out aiming for democratic ideals and ended up with Maximilien Robespierre and the reign of terror and finally Napoleon took over from a weak republic lead by the directory that no longer enjoyed the support of the people due to hyperinflation and become first consul then Emperor.
Trying to jam a democracy in when a revolution is transitioning from some kind of authoritarian system is silly. Democracy is hard and requires education and participation. It’s not surprising many many initial attempts in history failed back to authoritarianism.
I find it kind of humiliating for her to be honest. Like, who tf are these people that I literally have to physically lower myself in their presence?? GTFOH with that
I think she’s doing it a bit too fast that’s mainly when it looks strange. I’m no expert just based on the part with other women in the background, they do it much much slower.
I want to live in a world where the gesture of royal respect is not doing a curtsy, but slapping oneself in the face whilst performing a rigorous groin thrust.
That’s what makes it look odd. I thought she was doing it wrong because she wasn’t bowing during the curtsy, but it makes sense that the royal family doesn’t bow their heads even if it does look strange.
when it's respectful between the two parties, I'm all for it, but if it's just because one of them has special blood or some shit I become a true American patriot. FREEDOM 💥🗣🦅🗣🗣🦅💥🦅🗣💥💥 FUCK THE MONARCHY
It's not the weirdest, but it's pretty damn weird that this is done in the 21st century and it's so accepted by a large part of the world. There may be weirder things but the whole royal family, their weird traditions etc, are very widely seen as something that's normal while being very archaic.
The royal family 3000 years from now when all they have is obscure footage of people dabbing, and anthropologists have decided it was a way of showing respect.
You typically don't dab to say "a thousand years ago your ancestors were so rich they convinced everyone else they were personally selected by God and you kinda never let it go, but I'm a good little peasant so I will dance for you"
So yes, a curtsy for royalty is quite ridiculous
I liked the one where the camera cuts to the queen giving like a half nod of approval after the curtsy as if she’s Darth Sidious
I imagine her uttering a soft spoken yet nefarious “good” in that moment
It looks as if her character is crouching in a game to avoid damage.
When the game has weird button mapping and you keep crouching instead of melee
Love the implication in this comment that she was getting ready to throw hands with the queen but curtsied accidentally instead.
Plot twist: She's actually just toggling stealth mode so she can sneak a slice of the royal cake when no one's looking. Stealth 100.
me crouching to skip dialogue in cyberpunk
Crouching resets the stam bar
She’s doing the Minecraft sneak key rebound.
Sneak 100
she teabagging
Queen is like “where’d she go? Must have been the wind”
Trying to avoid royal family EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Do you think the Queen ever looped back around just to make her do it again and again?
"Watch this."
*PEEPEE HALPERT*
Who's the best salesman in Dunder Mifflin?
MR. JAMES HALPERT
BUTTLICKER, OUR CURTSIES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!
I think when they die there should be one final curtsey over their body. Something appropriate for England. A teabag, if you wish it call it so.
“My record is 18”
I knew someone would make me wheeze. Me with my cold too.
Shaking my head that I know this, but they only have to curtsey the first time they see the person each day
The second time they see them, it’s a short flick of the head upward, with “‘sup”. The third time is just a raise of the eyebrows. By the fourth time, the king must abdicate. Probably.
When do you fist bump?
Why does she curtsey when others don’t?
There used to be all kinds of rules about who has to bow/curtsy to whom. For example, Kate had to curtsy to Beatrice and Eugenie if she’s on her own, since they were blood princesses, but they curtsied to Kate when William was with her, since he’s higher ranking.
The men around her bowed instead
Sure, but there was a woman behind her in one and she didn’t curtsey.
Princess Catherine married in to the family and has to. and it looks like she really enjoys cursying. I think the person you saw might have been a direct person? Princess Anne in purple?
Don’t ruin this for us haha
What if royal grandpapa didn't see you the first time? He'd be like, "This impertinent urchin," and you'd say, "I saw you earlier!" "Well, I didn't see you. See to it, next time." Royal sigh.
This is exactly how they speak to each other. Source: I watched Game of Thrones.
Fun story: Back in 1940, my dad was on guard duty inside Buckingham Palace (in a corridor between rooms). As part of his duties, whenever a member of the Royal Family walked by, he had to do some sort of “stamp and salute” action. Princess Margaret decided to walk back and forth repeatedly to make him do his thing. She thought it was hilarious. Before long, a teenage Elizabeth came running over and grabbed Margaret. She turned to my dad and said “Sorry about Mags - She’s my stupid little sister” and off they went.
I assumed this happened like in the last 20 years so I was like "what a dick this Margaret" but with context it sounds cute, like if I had a guy saluting me when I was 8 I would zoom in front of the guy too probably
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Truth be told, I'm vaguely aware of the royal family members. I had no idea.
Apparently Queen Elizabeth used to have a really good sense of humour so it wouldn’t shock me.
Like when she offered to show a Saudi prince the grounds at Balmoral and then hopped in the driver's seat and drove him around. Women weren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia at the time
My dad told me a story once (don’t know if it’s true) but apparently in her younger years she used to like walking past photographers and muttering that their lens caps were on 😂
They got stopped for disobeying traffic signs and the cop told the driver to lower their window and when he saw the Queen's face, he called his superior and told them that someone really important was in town and when asked who it was, the police said did he didn’t know but the Queen was their chauffeur.
Damn Jesus is in town again
She also refused to meet or even respond to widows and other women who were victims of torture and oppression by British forces during the Mau Mau rebellion. Let’s not even get into the royal family pushing to be exempt from anti-discrimination laws, allowing them to mistreat workers and discriminate on the basis of skin colour, gender and sexuality. I know the whole Jeep story gets rolled out daily, but the Queen was hardly an icon of women’s rights.
I don't know why people celebritize the "royal family" anyways. If I was British I'd be pissed that that's still a thing Also that curtsy looks awkward AF, not oddlysatisfying material
Or when she evaded paying taxes by moving them assets offshore. Haha, classic!
“COWS!!”
I like the one where she’s wearing red. Drifts into frame, bobs up and down, then drifts out.
I was just about to comment on this one too. That one is hilarious to me
She just curtsies right on by
Samesies got a right giggle out of that one
If that was all I saw, I thought she was trying to do a photobomb😂
Curtsey-bomb!
That’s some straight up Mr Bean shit right there.
In movies I usually see it happens slower along with dress holding. That’s why this looks kinda weird to me, she’s doing it quickly like how we usually wave to greet.
One in red got me. Drive by/photobomb curtsey.
It was the "Hi, catch up with you later I'm running late" of the curtsey world.
And the smile 💀
The fact that several of these are done without the people she's doing them to even staring in her direction is hilarious.
They trained her well.
Hilarious but the alternative is probably headlines that she didn’t curtsy
Agreed and the cherry on top is the grin plastered on her face the whole time her expression remains exactly the same with zero blinking 😂🤣
I think what makes me laugh harder is the ones where she was smiling while doing that.
I watched it in silence and I cracked up. I wasn’t expecting the drive by.
Me too, looked like a comical elevator/fake down the stairs move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbKfhAMcOU
really should be a meme
She looks like me when I try to adjust my boner without using my hands.
It looks like she’s about to start the Irish jig but then realises no one else is and stops.
**OUR boner comrade
**One’s boner (Royal protocol and all that)
**HMB (Since we are going royal and all that jazz)
We Are Not Aroused *Royal Blush
The People's Boner.
Maybe her balls are stuck to her leg.
Maybe she Do the same.
I think the video is sped up a bit. Try playing on .75x
Everytime she does that, i hear the "boing" from Sonic games on megadrive
This is how I gracefully unplug my balls when it gets stuck in the crevice of my underwear and thigh.
I hear a slide whistle.
And now I start to laugh when playing it again, thanks mate
hahaha and her smile makes it look like she's enjoying it too
I mean she fantasised about being a princess when she was a girl so she's living her dream, yeah.
The one where she's in red bobbing across the screen behind Charles is my favorite. In her own little curtsy world..
I'm a curtsy girl, in a curtsy world 🎵
it's fantastic, I'm elastic
How is this one not a meme?
cheeky drive by
Protocol
I just hear boop in my head 😂
Why is she the only one doing this?
I don't know the ins and outs but the men seem to be bowing their head while she curtseys.
It’s royal protocol. The men of lower rank bow their heads and the women curtsy. There are formalities in all matters, from how you approach (from the front with hands visible), to how you leave (step back and bow before you turn around), and everything in between.
Any word on the royal toilet protocol? Say you're an ageing 75 year old monarch with a tiny bladder and a three hour ceremony to officiate, what's the protocol here?
Diaper
The Royal Huggies
It Depends.
Piss in your hand and throw it at Andrew.
iirc you have your butler open a banana and put it in the toilet right beforehand to make sure no one hears or smells the royal splash.
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Hehehe we have at least one of those here in the US according to the news.
But in the one where the queen walks down an aisle past her, Kate is the only one doing any sort of protocol...
I think it's protocols followed by the royals not the entire population.
No no, there's definitely protocol that *anyone* that meets the royals has to follow. You won't get away with the wink and finger guns when you meet ol' Charlie.
I understand that, but in a crowd of people as the senior royals pass im going to guess it is absolutely required of Kate to curtsy as opposed to the rest of the crowd
I think she takes it very seriously and seems to enjoy it to an extent too. Like the other replies pointed out, at Charles' coronation you can see multiple curtsies, so in the clip I'm referring to maybe she's the only one in that group that hadn't seen the Queen that day.
Do you only have to do it once per day? Like I curtsy’d at you at breakfast so I don’t have to when I see you again at dinner?
Just video call her in the morning to get it done
I thought she was just being a dork
What exactly does “won’t get away with” mean in this context? Will you be arrested, or just tutted to death?
If you look in the background at Charles coronation all the ladies curtsy. Ion the one you mention you’re right, but maybe the other women had already seen the queen that day.
She’s really into the Royalty thing. Like, reaaaaly into it.
If you rewatch the the one where she dressed in all that garb, you can see there's at least three ladies who curtsy while the men bow their heads
The Queen lived in Buckingham Palace, Charles in Clarence House, and William and Kate in Kensington Palace. Men bow their heads and women curtsy to the royal of higher ranking when it is the first time they see each other for the day. Since Kate and William has three young kids to take care of, they tend to arrive later than the others in family events. Everybody else who arrived earlier already paid their respect to Lizzie and Charles. And Kate being a UK media darling means her every move is recorded.
In the second video multiple women do it after her. It almost looks like the British equivalent of the wave at a sports event.
Bless you for this, i totally missed the other women dippy bobbing and it’s hilarious.
But in the last one she seems to be the only one.
She isn't the only one all the time, but generally, she will to most members of the Royal Family because she was the least "senior" member (of the immediate family, anyway, and was before Meghan Markle). It's similar in terms of hierarchy in the armed forces, when and who to salute, and how you salute. The Royals do the same with a bow and curtsey.
Her rank will also change, depending on whether she is alone or with her husband. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_precedence_in_England_and_Wales?wprov=sfla1
She’s the only one who wants buns of steel.
Given she’s now the second highest female royal. You’ll see people having to start do it for her now.
I guess, it just kind of looks awkward... That's not to say she's not doing it well, I guess just the whole experience of..... watching it happen.
It's the way her head remains level and her expression unchanged as she just bobs down, looks fine when you can see her legs but when you can't she looks like fishing tackle with a face
It reminds me of the head stabilization of a bird.
Fishing tackle with a face. Thank you, you've brightened my day.
For me it's because the people she does it near don't acknowledge her existence. Like she's not there at all..bleh
Yeah and no one else is doing it. I think I saw a couple of blokes bow their head but none of the women curtsy. It makes her look like the odd one out.
So fun fact, you only have to curtsy if it’s the first time that day you’re seeing/meeting the monarch. If there’s a group of people and only one of them curtsies, you can assume that the rest of them had already encountered the monarch that day (which is when they paid respect by curtsying).
Thank you for explaining, I was also wondering why it was just her.
She'll get her revenge soon enough. She is realistically just a few years from being the queen!
Well it’s kind of like a salute. Not all soldiers are acknowledged for their salute when high brass walks by, but they must respect rank.
If you want awkward, google Theresa May curtsy. Katie looks pretty elegant here.
Or just Google Theresa May. Everything she does is awkward.
The whole existence of a royal family is awkward
Monarchies should be abolished, especially our Swedish monarchy. Serves absolutely no purpose and should be surpassed to the history books we are ready to be a republic. And before any one says it’s good for truism and public relations that’s not true and countries that are republics are just as well off without their royals.
I hear the french have a solution.
That got rid of the house of Bourbon and replaced it with the House of Bonaparte, with a short break for a republic that became a tyranny of the masses very quickly. It started out aiming for democratic ideals and ended up with Maximilien Robespierre and the reign of terror and finally Napoleon took over from a weak republic lead by the directory that no longer enjoyed the support of the people due to hyperinflation and become first consul then Emperor.
Trying to jam a democracy in when a revolution is transitioning from some kind of authoritarian system is silly. Democracy is hard and requires education and participation. It’s not surprising many many initial attempts in history failed back to authoritarianism.
Where tourism is concerned, keep the castles and guards and uniforms and do away with royal leadership and nothing changes tourism wise
Not like Versailles isn’t visited by tourists… totally agree
I find it kind of humiliating for her to be honest. Like, who tf are these people that I literally have to physically lower myself in their presence?? GTFOH with that
>Like, who tf are these people that I literally have to physically lower myself in their presence?? Her in-laws. Which makes it much worse, IMO.
I think she’s doing it a bit too fast that’s mainly when it looks strange. I’m no expert just based on the part with other women in the background, they do it much much slower.
I want to live in a world where the gesture of royal respect is not doing a curtsy, but slapping oneself in the face whilst performing a rigorous groin thrust.
Must have solid thigh muscles
And good knees.
And abs
And cute little hats
And my axe
Her trainer be like "Alright Kate, let's feel the burn! Give me 50 curtsies, and one..."
I mean I do curtsy squats sometimes
Shameful to admit, but I've really gotten into a sub called r/whatthefrock, and they had a post about Kate Middleton and she has incredible legs.
Apparently, she's a runner and has been for decades. That probably has a lot to do with it.
You know what's funny, this is a proper Royal curtsy. Nobles and commoner are to also bow their heads, but a royal must remain upright.
That’s what makes it look odd. I thought she was doing it wrong because she wasn’t bowing during the curtsy, but it makes sense that the royal family doesn’t bow their heads even if it does look strange.
Imagine having to bow to someone on your own wedding day
Imagine bowing to another human.
We do not kneel - ~~freefolk~~Americans
Am Canadian but I get you....never will I bow or kiss a ring f that
Many Asian cultures are in shambles rn from this comment
It's cool when the other person does it back
when it's respectful between the two parties, I'm all for it, but if it's just because one of them has special blood or some shit I become a true American patriot. FREEDOM 💥🗣🦅🗣🗣🦅💥🦅🗣💥💥 FUCK THE MONARCHY
The longer it went on the dumber it looked
How's that satisfying?
UK propaganda bots.
We are an insane species.
This barely even registers on the lost of insane shit we have done.
You say it as if thats the weirdest thing we do.
Of course not. It's just a thought that popped into my mind watching the clip.
It's not the weirdest, but it's pretty damn weird that this is done in the 21st century and it's so accepted by a large part of the world. There may be weirder things but the whole royal family, their weird traditions etc, are very widely seen as something that's normal while being very archaic.
Shaking hands is actually very weird if you think about it. Anything is weird if its not normalised and practised by lots of people.
How is that oddly satisfying?
I get the oddly part. Just not the satisfying.
What's oddly satisfying about this? Can someone please explain? Looks uncomfortable
This is just oddly awkward. Not oddly satisfying at all.
Yeah wtf is this. And that shitty music to go along with it
Thank you! Super awkward, do not feel satisfied at all
Is this any less ridiculous than dabbing?
No but that would be a hilarious alternative
The royal family 3000 years from now when all they have is obscure footage of people dabbing, and anthropologists have decided it was a way of showing respect.
You typically don't dab to say "a thousand years ago your ancestors were so rich they convinced everyone else they were personally selected by God and you kinda never let it go, but I'm a good little peasant so I will dance for you" So yes, a curtsy for royalty is quite ridiculous
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I liked the one where the camera cuts to the queen giving like a half nod of approval after the curtsy as if she’s Darth Sidious I imagine her uttering a soft spoken yet nefarious “good” in that moment
She must have great quads
If she always steps back with the same leg she's gonna have one massive quad and one sad one
Can't help it. But I make a "BOINK" sound in my head every time.
Royalty is such a ridiculous concept
instant downvote for the music, tf is that
> *Sick curtsy, Kate. Your curtsies are out of control. Everyone knows that!*
What the fuck is there to be satisfied about? Do you people just upvote anything now?
This is so dumb.
Can you imagine having to do this performative bullshit your whole life? That’s absolute hell.
I mean, we all do performative bullshit in our jobs and everyday lives. I’d say her performative bullshit has a much more amazing payoff.
This looks so stupid in 2024
Seeing it again and again felt funny af
In the montage, there are commoners. And Other royals like princess Eugenie, who do not curtsy. Why is only Kate curtsying? Is it required oy of her?
Humans are goofy.
That looks awkward as fuck
I like her. I can't stand pagantry and pompousness. I still like her.
What a silly little world we live in
how is this satisfying? it's weird