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Why can’t Harry just pay for his own private security?

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jennylamb1 · 03/05/2025 14:36

Don’t get it. He says that he can’t ever visit the UK again because his security won’t be provided. Loads of celebrities and high profile business people pay for their own security, why should tax payers pay for his security when he isn’t a working royal anymore?

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CathyorClaire · 04/05/2025 20:42

As the head of the Catholic Church

Working through the thread and I'm sure it's been said but... 😂

You threw him to the circus the minute he was born

Clown still clowning.

this is the royal family YOU want from birth in your country

Not all of us.

You don’t just expect the royals to work, you expect them to dance and live in the public eye and create entertainment for you.

Any and all are free to walk away at any time. In the overwhelming main they don't. If the life's so awful you really have to wonder why.

LivelyMintViper · 04/05/2025 20:20

King Charles is the head of the Catholic church?? He is moonlighting from his job as British monarch? An undercover pope. Wonder if the Vatican knows.@Lavenderfarmcottage you need to go public with this. It's very worrying. Especially as he is deceitfully masquerading as a Protestant

DdraigGoch · 04/05/2025 20:16

BlueandWhitePorcelain · 03/05/2025 15:19

We can’t see how he feels safer in the US, where anybody can buy a gun, compared to here? Trump was shot in the ear last year - presumably a near miss for a fatal shot to the head? Who is likely to have more security than Trump?

We talked about risk. DH missed the IRA bomb at London Bridge by 15 minutes. He was in Kings Cross when he heard the bomb on the bus go off - the very area, he used to walk through every day on his way to the office. He was late getting up that day! His office was on Shaftesbury Avenue and the police regularly cleared the area, due to bomb threats.

I should have caught the train in the Wembley train crash. There were two trains on the platform and that was the first out. I was too tired to walk the length of the second train to get on it, when probably all the seats had gone. I decided to get on the train at the back and have a sit down. Later, they led us along the tracks at Wembley past the train crash.

Anybody in London in particular can be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get stabbed?

Strange how chance can change your life. A friend of mine grew up in NYC. Her mother worked in the World Trade Centre. She extended her maternity leave by one day. Everyone else on her floor died. Her husband (my friend's father) was frantic, he thought that his wife was supposed to be in work that day.

foreverblowingbubbless · 04/05/2025 20:00

BigWillyLittleTodger · 04/05/2025 16:55

I think I hear a bugle………

This?

Why can’t Harry just pay for his own private security?
foreverblowingbubbless · 04/05/2025 19:56

Lavenderfarmcottage · 04/05/2025 17:40

Am I Harry ? How ridiculous… Are you all from government or whoever is politically motivated to exile Harry ?

I never mentioned the Pope.

I’m from one of the Commonwealth nations colonised by the UK.

Anyone can cut out key words and rearrange them to mark someone sound a certain way. Try harder.

Yes ‘you’ who criticise Harry constantly & have no charity.

I think the world looks down on the UK for how they have treated Harry.

Who told you that? 😂

Kinkyroots · 04/05/2025 19:16

Do you make jam, @Lavenderfarmcottage ?

CleaningSilverCandlesticks · 04/05/2025 18:31

Right they have a selection of one person over at Scotland Yard.

Why does he need to have a choice of people to send his email to? It would just confuse matters to blur responsibilities in that way.

FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 18:30

IdaGlossop · 04/05/2025 18:15

Ahhh, Donald Trump. Of course.

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😂

Harassedevictee · 04/05/2025 18:29

Lavenderfarmcottage · 04/05/2025 17:27

Right they have a selection of one person over at Scotland Yard.

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No, but equally they don’t have people sitting there twiddling their thumbs waiting a call from Harry. If he doesn’t give notice then they have to drag several officers back from rest days, leave or leave someone else less well protected. 28 days allows them to plan rotas etc,

NewAgeNewMe · 04/05/2025 18:20

I think the world looks down on the UK for how they have treated Harry.

it’s not the world who will be paying for his security so I could not care less that the world looks down on the U.K.
which I don’t believe to be true for a single moment.

IdaGlossop · 04/05/2025 18:15

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/05/2025 18:09

Lavenderfarmcottage
I never mentioned the Pope.

You did, you know. Today at 15:37
The exact quote is "As the head of the Catholic Church."

The Pope is head of the Catholic Church. But I am fairly sure you were just displaying abysmal ignorance (again).

Ahhh, Donald Trump. Of course.

CleaningSilverCandlesticks · 04/05/2025 18:15

IAmATorturedPoet · 04/05/2025 18:05

We have all had a memo?😂
Who is this ‘someone high up’ you speak of?

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Sadly it couldn’t be the Pope. Perhaps a steeplejack?

CleaningSilverCandlesticks · 04/05/2025 18:13

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Don’t you know? There are only six of us on here, and thousands of 🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦

IAmATorturedPoet · 04/05/2025 18:12

FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 18:06

I'm guessing @jeffgoldblum , she knows all about the Constellations. They're high up.

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Yes of course, it’s obvious now 🤣

jeffgoldblum · 04/05/2025 18:09

FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 18:06

I'm guessing @jeffgoldblum , she knows all about the Constellations. They're high up.

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🤣😉🤣

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/05/2025 18:09

Lavenderfarmcottage
I never mentioned the Pope.

You did, you know. Today at 15:37
The exact quote is "As the head of the Catholic Church."

The Pope is head of the Catholic Church. But I am fairly sure you were just displaying abysmal ignorance (again).

FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 18:06

IAmATorturedPoet · 04/05/2025 18:05

We have all had a memo?😂
Who is this ‘someone high up’ you speak of?

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I'm guessing @jeffgoldblum , she knows all about the Constellations. They're high up.

FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 18:06

I had a neighbour who used to think those traffic cones were placed so that the government could listen in on people's conversations.

IAmATorturedPoet · 04/05/2025 18:05

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We have all had a memo?😂
Who is this ‘someone high up’ you speak of?

jeffgoldblum · 04/05/2025 18:05

And as you are new @Lavenderfarmcottage , you should know that accusing posters of being paid shills and bots is troll hunting and against mn guidelines!

jeffgoldblum · 04/05/2025 18:03

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Oh dear !
i naturally assumed you were joking!
all your comments where inaccurate and you dodged my very clear question!
I would love to have a robust debate but how can I when you are arguing from a place of inaccurate facts ?

Lavenderfarmcottage · 04/05/2025 18:01

Ahhhhhh an on it goes - dilute the public’s views 1101

jeffgoldblum · 04/05/2025 18:00

FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 17:59

Thank you! The voice of informed astronomy. 😃

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Thanks 🙏, it’s nice to get the recognition I deserve!

Lavenderfarmcottage · 04/05/2025 18:00

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FenellaFeldman · 04/05/2025 17:59

jeffgoldblum · 04/05/2025 17:54

No , no ! Alpha Centauri looks down on Betelgeuse, they are our supporters and we look down on the milky way!

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Thank you! The voice of informed astronomy. 😃