Anyone in the US? Did you watch the Meghan interview?

[Tankflybosswalkjam]

Apparently it’s already been broadcast!

Gosh. I do feel sorry for any patient that has the misfortune of coming across you.*

And me! Oh dear .. I'm crying with laughter.

[quote ChocolateSantaisthebestkind]@PicsInRed Ed 8 and Wallis undertook that trip without authorization and as private citizens. The Nazis presented it as a state visit to capitalize on it, but it never was one.[/quote]
Of course they undertook it as private citizens. The government would never have permitted such a trip.

I agree, I don’t think they should talk about the affair. Not theirs to disclose. And I don’t think they will allude to it.

Was he in the Marines? Don't think so - beside the point anyway, he flew military helicopters and served a short time, including in combat zones, for which he got a huge (disproportionate) amount of praise.

Yeah, you'd have thought he single-handedly won the whole thing

That flurry of apoplectic, unhinged media coverage this past week? That came from the Palace's people. All the activity this week has been driven by them

I don't doubt this for an instant, but then that's the way the RF behave if there's the slightest threat to their position

But here's the thing: rather than "pick a side", it's fully possible to dislike both the RF and the behaviour of someone who's left it ... or in other words it doesn't have to be one or the other

A quick google would have told her who he was, what his family stands for etc. She could have even, you know, asked him or his advisors what was expected of her. She could have then made a decision based on facts as to whether to marry him or even ask him beforehand to leave the royal family.
She is trading on the name now and that smacks of hypocritical behaviour. You don't what to be a royal? Then don't. But don't welcome all the freebies and perks that go with the role.

@PicsInRed so why are you using it as evidence for the whole of the RF being Nazis? W&E were not official members at the time

Yeah, you'd have thought he single-handedly won the whole thing

Just like when Andrew came back from his duty with a rose between his teeth?
Now that was cringe

Kate seems to 'mother' William, much as Camilla does Charles

YUK!

But here's the thing: rather than "pick a side", it's fully possible to dislike both the RFandthe behaviour of someone who's left it ... or in other words it doesn't have to be one or the other

Yes that's the opinion of most people I have spoken to IRL about all this. Sick of the over privileged lot of them. Money beyond the wildest dreams of any of us and still want us to feel sorry for them? Fuck right off with that shit. Ma'am.

@PicsInRed

The thing is why does Meghan say that she didn't know who Prince Harry was

She said she didn't really know much about him, she never claimed to never even have heard of him. A lot of Americans know vaguely who the main royals are whilst knowing bugger all specifically about them or how it all works. It's not their Royal family, so why would they?

They were introduced by a mutual friend.

what's hilarious is that haters are now claiming that no-one in the States know who they are...

So which is it?

But I agree, and I bet the majority of posters only have a very vague clue who other royals might be, even if we tend to be closer from our European cousins.

Really? Below are the standard behaviours, I think they all apply. Although I guess writing motivational words on bananas for sex workers might be 'empathetic'

Maybe she meant that someone who works in mental health giving a diagnosis for someone they have never met in any situation (nevermind a clinical setting) is highly unethical?

[quote ChocolateSantaisthebestkind]@PicsInRed so why are you using it as evidence for the whole of the RF being Nazis? W&E were not official members at the time [/quote]
To be clear, I dont think any of the royal family were actual Nazis and did not say so.

I know - as its public record - that Ed 8 and Wallis were Nazi sympathisers and we know from photos that the Queen Mother played along and did the heil herself, and also allowed her daughters to do so - at a time when tensions with Nazi Germany were already significant and concerns were high.

This is all public record.

@Roussette back are you? They do mother them, making the homes and families they did not have as children, encouraging and comforting them, keeping them level. Much like the QM did with George V. What's yuk? I didn't said they breastfed and swaddled them FGS! [hmm}

@willibald

Was he in the Marines? Don't think so - beside the point anyway, he flew military helicopters and served a short time, including in combat zones, for which he got a huge (disproportionate) amount of praise.

Yeah, you'd have thought he single-handedly won the whole thing

Someone referred to him in the Daily Heil as Hammer of the Taliban

@PicsInRed you can play with your words as much as you like but your sentiment is clear and unfair

Maybe she meant that someone who works in mental health giving a diagnosis for someone they have never met in any situation (nevermind a clinical setting) is highly unethical?

Precisely. Much like whenever posters say things like "My MiL is definitely a narc, she fed my 5yr old a jacob's cracker with a bit of cheese without first consulting me. I'm thinking about going NC but will see if DH will speak to her first."

Of course they undertook it as private citizens. The government would never have permitted such a trip.

So, what’s your point? It’s hardly a secret that the Duke of Windsor was a wrong ‘un.

[quote ChocolateSantaisthebestkind]@PicsInRed you can play with your words as much as you like but your sentiment is clear and unfair[/quote]
Sadly it isn't.
I was really shocked to see footage of Queen Mother, & Queen and others in RF supporting the Nazi 'Reich'.

It definitely takes the gilt off the gingerbread for me.

[quote HmmmmmmInteresting]OP, the reason you are confused is because the 'royal commentators' are talking out of their arses and spewing hate already, acting like they've already seen the interview.

Watch this to see what happened when some were paid to pretend they had seen the interview. One has the courage to say Meghan was acting the whole way through, when she was the one giving a raspberry-worthy performance. [/quote]
Wow. That's awful.

[quote ChocolateSantaisthebestkind]@PicsInRed you can play with your words as much as you like but your sentiment is clear and unfair[/quote]
What sentiment. I literally said Ed 8 was a Nazi sympathiser. It is a matter of public record that he was, in 1933, when that photo was taken.

Later, during the war, he was literally relocated by the British government to the Carribean for this very reason.

Facts are facts - even if they make one uncomfortable to read.

Now, let's rerail back to the matter at hand - Meghan Markle.

For a couple who left the goldfish bowl that is the royal family for some privacy, they are going about it in a strange way

@oakleaffy you are taking it out of context. There is no evidence that the RF exc. W&E supported the Nazis in any way. There is no evidence of collaboration. But there is tonnes of evidence of the RF keeping morale high during the blitz etc. HMQ in the Womens Service. As I said previously, many Britons and Politicians did not appreciate the seriousness of what was happening until later in the 30s. HMQ was under 10 yo in that video and the QM had no formal education and would not have been privy to political meetings etc.