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Internet hit by Mother-in-law
2011-07-04
Brit mother-in-law's email rant to her coarse daughter-in-law goes viral A UK woman's email rant at her future daughter-in-law became a Net sensation on Thursday after she charged the bride-to-be of "uncouthness and absence of grace." In a withering message titled "your absence of manners", Carolyn Bourne took Heidi Withers to task over her screw ups of etiquette and suggested she attend a finishing college "with extreme haste." Withers, a 29-year-old private helper from London who is engaged to Bourne's step-son Freddie, also twenty-nine, was so startled by the e-mail that she sent it on to 1 or 2 buddies. They forwarded the message to a couple of others and by Thursday it had been widely circulated on the web and appeared in a few papers, with 60-year-old Bourne coming across as the mother-in-law from hell. Bourne, who cultivates flowers as a living, attacked Withers for her behavior in a visit in Apr to the family house in Devon, southwest Britain , criticizing her for staying in bed late. She also slammed her wish for a flamboyant marriage rite. In the e-mail, she told Withers it was "high time somebody explained to you about good manners. Yours are plain by their absence and I feel sorrowful for you." Withers' behavior in the visit was "staggering in its uncouthness and absence of grace," she revealed. "If you would like to be accepted by the broader Bourne family I recommend that you take some steering from mavens with greatest haste. There are many finishing faculties around," she wrote. In an in-depth list of feedback, she slammed her for lying "in bed till late morning in homes that rise early" and taking additional food during meals "without being invited to." She also advised the bride-to-be to avoid having an ostentatious marriage rite : "No one gets married in a castle unless they own it," she wrote, adding : "It is loud, celebrity-style behaviour." Bourne recommended her future daughter-in-law would be a perfect applicant for "Ladette to Lady", a Brit Real-life TV show in which ill-mannered, inebriated girls are taught the finer points of etiquette.
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