Lilibet Diana — what do we think?

I suspect Harry's lawyers will tell him to back right off. He has to show that this will have lowered him in the eyes of right-thinking members of the public. All the BBC really has to do is to point to all the recent adverse publicity and the untruths he's been caught out in, to show that he was already pretty thoroughly lowered in people's eyes and that this won't realistically have made any difference.

I just don’t see how a grandson and his wife deciding to honour his grandmother is such a bad thing.

It's more that it's weird, when you've just been slagging off said grandmother and her children. And it's not really honouring her, otherwise they would have used Elizabeth. It does smack of populism, given that there is a wave of further goodwill to her after Philip's death and the fact that he used that nickname for her has been given a lot of recent publicity.

It’s almost as though people are trying to find a reason to be angry at Meghan and Harry no matter what
Hardly.
It more like adults have opinions of the publi actions of attention seeking celebrities. Fanclub decide this means there's a conspiracy where everyone hates their beloved couple.

If they named their daughter after a relative under many other circumstances, most people wouldn't particularly care. Naming their daughter after a relative following months of them slagging off their family, calling their family toxic, going on Oprah to accuse their family of being racist, subsequently commenting on how awful the parenting has been over generations and so on makes very little sense. It does make sense that members of the public might roll their eyes at things the couple have said and done in public their don't quite add up.

A really over the top dramatic article in the daily mail today by Jan Moir saying that using the name Lilibet is akin to stealing the Crown Jewels, make it stop !!

It’s almost as though people are trying to find a reason to be angry at Meghan and Harry no matter what. I might not agree with every single thing they do,

I think you’re overestimating how many people are emotionally invested in their doings.

It’s just a spectacle or vaudeville when the royals go off-script (Abdication crisis, Princess Margaret and her first love, War of the Waleses) and a bit embarrassing that our country is run by a soap opera family.

It’s only a few obsessives who get deeply psychologically attached to any of them.

It’s almost as though people are trying to find a reason to be angry at Meghan and Harry no matter what. I might not agree with every single thing they do, but I just don’t see how a grandson and his wife deciding to honour his grandmother is such a bad thing. If he didn’t at all, then some people would still be fuming because they’ve somehow snubbed the royal family just as some believed was the case for their first born. It’s an unfortunate catch-22 situation, they can’t do right or wrong and they’d inadvertently make some people unhappy but life goes on.

Compensation for hurt feelings due to defamation is very low in the UK.

As RickiTarr says, if the BBC can show they are simply reporting what the Palace said, they can tell Harry to fuck off.

In any event, it's a stupid thing to sue about. How much damage can he realistically claim to have suffered from this?

Apparently now Harry has got his lawyers onto the press who said he didn't ask the queen.

Good for him. They were deliberately printing lies.

Apparently now Harry has got his lawyers onto the press who said he didn't ask the queen.
Why don't he and Megan just bugger off! He's either selling his soul for money or suing the press.

A cute name in itself

Given the context...completely innapropriate.

Not in the spirit?

Have we had the Behave thyself? Or else message yet?

Well, this is escalating quickly.

Really ? 😀 Am I ...? 👍🏻

Once again Ricki you know it all.

I can see that you’re in the anti-fact camp @sunglassesonthetable

Whatevs Ricki . Not trying to misrepresent anyone.

I know NOTHING about media law but maybe take a look at how your post reads to the random viewer.

See this post just a few posts - and less than half an hour - before yours @sunglassesonthetable ?

Stop trying to misrepresent people.

The journalist and the publisher are covered in this scenario as long as they’ve accurately reported the source. Assuming the BBC news department haven’t gone rogue, Harry’s fight is therefore with the palace.

And as I’ve said about eight times now he isn’t “suing” (he’s just issued a legal letter) and it won’t go well if he tries to.

Don't agree or disagree Ricki but finding it fascinating that you can so confidently tell Harry what he SHOULD do.

You sound more across all the details than he is.

And really is he "suing "? Really.🙄

Well they've won all their cases so far.

(Try again).

That would soon change if MM and the lawyers sat back and let H make his own legal decisions.

Even the incredibly hyperbolic DM are only saying that he’s “threatening legal action”, ie that he has sent a legal letter.

“Harry to sue” is a huge exaggeration at this stage. Calm down.

I should have corrected that on reading the details but someone else had already done it.