Furious father fights back
Well, this is going to be awkward.
Yesterday we brought you the story of the mother-in-law from hell; whose angry email to her future daughter-in-law has gone viral online.
Carolyn Bourne didn't think too kindly of her stepson's choice of bride and she wasn't afraid to tell her.
She sent her future daughter-in-law Heidi Withers a vicious email about her behaviour after a weekend away, telling her she was 'staggeringly uncouth' and 'lacked grace'.
The email is now making its way into inboxes around the world, leaving everyone who reads it in shock.
Today, we bring you the other side of the story.
Carolyn's father Alan Withers, 64, has stepped into the fray to defend his daughter’s honour.
Displaying his own unique way with words, Mr Withers has let the world know what he thinks of his future in-law.
Speaking of Mrs Bourne, Mr Withers claims she "has her head stuck so far up her own a*** she doesn't know whether to speak or fart."
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Mr Withers said he would never forgive Mrs Bourne for the pain she caused his daughter.
"Heidi was very upset and the two of them obviously don’t see eye to eye. I met Carolyn and her husband Edward for dinner at a pub in London last year.
Edward was a jovial chap but Carolyn was quite snotty. She had a look about her which made us think she thought she was better than us.
She kept talking about her five horses and how it made her part of the Queen’s set.
Ever since that meeting we call her Miss Fancy Pants. I don’t care if she apologises. You can’t take back what has been said once it's said."
It should be some wedding.
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The full email:
It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you.
Unfortunately for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you. It may just be possible to get through to you though. I do hope so.
If you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family I suggest you take some guidance from experts with utmost haste. There are plenty of finishing schools around.
Please, for your own good, for Freddie’s sake and for your future involvement with the Bourne family, do something as soon as possible.
Here are a few examples of your lack of manners:
- When you are a guest in another’s house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat – unless you are positively allergic to something. You do not remark that you do not have enough food. You do not start before everyone else. You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host.
- When a guest in another’s house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early – you fall in line with house norms.
- You should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not in public. I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.
- You should have hand-written a card to me. You have never written to thank me when you have stayed.
- You regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why.
- No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behaviour.
I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding. (There is nothing wrong with that except that convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters’ marriages.)
If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes."
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