Harry stepping down as a royal family member

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Just read this on their instagram page.
They plan on becoming private citizens

Awful posts on here reflect why they are right to go. It doesn't show England in a very good light but also reflects the truth of a country that is bitter towards successful women especially of colour. They are better off taking a global role where they can focus on good

B*llocks they will. All signs point tontgem planning to merchandise the sussexroyal brand.

The way they have gone about this without coming to a respectful agreement with the queen is disgraceful. If that's your idea of what 'sucessful woman' looks like you have poor role models.

Good on the them, he didn't choose his life, he was born into this, it has privileges and immense burdens.

I don’t think any reasonable person could disagree with this.

If Harry was tipping his hat goodbye, giving up his titles, giving back Frogmore and living as a private citizen financed by his inheritance, his own salary and anything Meghan brings in from her acting career, I’d be saying good on them and what an amazing statement to make.

But this plan and the cherry picking of the perks and dumping of the stuff they don’t like is just cheeky fuckery at the highest levels.

Why not Sussex Royal bandanas? You can get Duchy Original bananas and that's only one letter different.

Not exactly a bandana, but Prince Charles already sells socks and ties.

www.highgrovegardens.com/collections/clothing-and-accessories-socks-handkerchiefs

I think he’s very naive if he thinks that coming off the royal press rota is going to give them more control of the media

It’s just going to turn all occasions they are at into a complete media scrum

The Queen, Prince Charles & Prince William have met today.
Apparently their teams and governments (plural) are going to have discussions over the next few days.

Maybe Harry felt this should have happened when he first floated his idea and not been repeatedly told to wait.

Asking for costings etc is a form of stalling by the way. Maybe he just wanted them to engage him directly.

I think the palace haven't exactly come out of this looking good either.

The more minor royals break away the better. Time to phase this institution out.

Good luck to them.

To be fair Harry has been in Canada until a few days ago. Pretty normal in business to ask for costings with any proposal and the RF is a business.

Harry has been taught cheeky fuckery by the best, he's had shit since the day he was Born into a toxic crumbling marriage.

Cheeky fuckery? I wouldn't call wanting to bow out but on his terms cheeky at all.
This kid was forced into public view as a shocked grieving 12 year old boy, by the '' people '' and the establishment. He had to walk behind his own mother's coffin.

He had the astronomical cheeky fuckery of his mother's staff and confident stealing her and their personal belongings!!!! After she died!!!.
The cheeky fuckery of his own father inviting his mistress to his wedding destroying his mother and all the other awful cheeky fuckery of everyone else since, fayed etc. Endless inquests...

He has not been treated well at all. Fuck em. Choose what you want Harry and good luck to you!!

You just know that this won't end well. How do they plan on earning their own income? Whatever they do they will be trading on the name of the Royal Family and we've all seen how that turns out - Sophie, Fergie,Andrew, Diana to an extent.

How is this going to mean less press intrusion? Surely, without the protection of the Palace they risk even greater intrusion?

To be fair Harry has been in Canada until a few days ago. Pretty normal in business to ask for costings with any proposal and the RF is a business.

Exactly.

What H&M want is a significant break in royal tradition.

It's not in the slightest bit unreasonable to request more detail on how they expect this to work on a practical level.

No-one seems to have come back to say "no" as a complete sentence rather they wanted to open a dialogue and work through the issues to avoid exactly the sort of backlash this announcement has created.

I don't think many people have an issue with them making a decision to become private individuals who have full autonomy over their work, image and finances. Most people including myself would say they fully understand and wish them well.

But that's not what they are expecting. They want to retain all the privileges that HRH status provides whilst turning their back on the royal institution and their contribution towards it, whilst simultaneously milking the international platform it provides for their personal gain.

I'm not surprised HM wants this sorted "in days". Allowing this debacle to drag on is damaging to everyone.

However that can't be good for H&M because the only possible resolutions that can be agreed in a short timescale are those that fall well below their list of demands.

My best guess is that we will see them give up their HRH status, "free" security will provided only when in the UK (they will have to pay for it themselves when living in the US) and there will be a time limit put on how long they will get money from the Duchy of Cornwall.

In return they keep Frogmore, titles of Duke/Duchess, can live where they want in the US (self funded), mange their own press and earn a living with some pretty strict caveats on how they can/can't monetise their relationship with the royal family.

My interest in them has waned. America/Canada might have interest in them. They give us nothing. There's no point to them really. They're irritating. I'm sick of hearing about them to be honest because guaranteed about 10 posts into any discussion, you'll be accused of being racist if you don't like Meghan. We had great peace while they were away in Canada. Out of sight, out of mind.

How is this going to mean less press intrusion? Surely, without the protection of the Palace they risk even greater intrusion?

I suppose they could always start another court case if they feel anyone's intruded in future

Come to think of it, does anyone know how the last one's going ... ?

I suppose they could always start another court case if they feel anyone's intruded in future

My understanding has always been that the press abide by certain rules with regards the royals (largely at least) and it's when individuals step away from the RF that the gloves are taken off.

Once they no.longer have the protection from the palace are they going to be followed when out shopping, going about their business? I just cannot see them achieving what they hope to achieve.

They need to move to somewhere like LA where they're minor celebs or something.

For someone who isn’t interested you’re giving a LOT of time to discussing them today.

Have you heard the saying about protesting too much?

I mean what do you really want them to give us 😂

Would they be minor celebs though? I mean even Fergie was paraded around talk shows etc wasn't she?

They're a novelty maybe outside of the UK. I can't see any long-term interest in them.

It's all gone wrong since the abdication hasn't it? There's been constant scandals since.

They are basically saying that they are victims because they have all these golden opportunities to make mega millions that they haven't been allowed to seize. So now they are going to do what they want. They want our sympathy to allow them to make more money.

Issuing that nasty “disappointed” statement but making clear they are very much the opposite of disappointed at Andrew being a rapist.The Queen and senior royals are behaving exactly like Jeremy Kyle guests. Not an atom of dignity, discretion or decency in any of them.

This is spades. Bunch of self serving hypocrites. I hope Harry is the start of the dissolution.

I mean really. Issuing press release denials over newspaper articles about Kate’s hair and botox but not saying a word to defend Meghan from crazy racist libels. Issuing that nasty “disappointed” statement but making clear they are very much the opposite of disappointed at Andrew being a rapist.

Well said.

As if the public know one tenth of what the RF do and don’t do, spend and travel. The public know ONLY what the RF want the public to know and the public grab those snippets of info and delude themselves into thinking they are in a position to compliment or criticise them. The public are completely manipulated by the RF and a great many are too stupid to realise it.

In spades 🙄

Please stop saying the press killed Diana.

She got into a car with a drunk driver. She didn't wear a seat belt.

She changed her security I think from RF security to Al Fayed security - something H&M might want to be mindful of when making their own decisions!

And to the PP who said England - its Britain actually. Are you one of their overseas fans who are supportive simply because they don't understand how our royal family works?