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Does anyone else think that the Harry & Meghan show isn't going to be that explosive?

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HelloThereMeHearties · 07/03/2021 09:46

I really doubt that loads of dirt will be raked, or muck spread. I'm guessing that there will be a few "it was hard to speak" type complaints, which the media will blow up, but that it's not actually going to be as exciting as we're all being led to believe?

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JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 08/03/2021 09:52

@MissFlite I agree, I don't believe lots of it, including the nonsense about not giving t Archie a title because he is mixed race Hmm that's not how it works he would never have got a title

JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 08/03/2021 09:52

At least not until Charles ascended the throne

teentipans · 08/03/2021 09:53

For whatever reason they assumed Archie would have a title &/or funded protection. That seems to be the crux of it all.

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GetOffYourHighHorse · 08/03/2021 09:54

'Sadly it seems that in the media and online people still haven’t learnt from what happened with Caroline Flacks suicide. Nobody is perfect, everyone is trying their best'

What about Kate's mh, William's mental health, Thomas markle's? They're probably 'trying their best' too,

You don't do this, complain about one sided attacks then go and do exactly the same yourself 🙄.

Toddlerteaplease · 08/03/2021 09:54

The bit about no knowing she needed to curtesy to the Queen. Surely Harry would have told her what to expect!

Bluntness100 · 08/03/2021 09:55

I’m also a bit confused by the whole thing on Archie being a prince, I did not think he would be due to his distance away from the line of succession.

Although I can see why Harry would be upset because his brothers kids are princess and princes. But they would be, as William will be king and then George. It’s very different being the kings brother Ie louis, in future years, to being their cousin, Ie Archie. I’m not sure if there’s sibling rivalry/jealousy there causing this issue.

They clearly wanted Archie to be a prince. And have his security paid for, but that’s not how it works, take Beatrice and Eugenie, their security is not paid for, Andrew pays it. So it’s hard to understand why Harry and Meghan had these expectations.

The accusation that it was because of his potential skin tone rather than the pre existing rules on titles and who has security paid, is shocking for everyone to hear.

In all honesty I’m quite shocked they went on Oprah, did an interview that’s been sold to nearly fifty countries and literally launched a full on attack on the royal family. It’s still his dad, his brother, his relatives. I’m not sure there is any way back from it.

If any of meghans family reveals something private about her, she sues because she says she’s a right to privacy. But clearly she feels the rest of the royal family have no such right so she can reveal what she wishes.

wintertime6 · 08/03/2021 09:55

I feel really sorry for Harry. I just think that if Meghan decides she's had enough of him in a few years time and they divorce, then she'll be fine. She'll get a nanny, live the Californian lifestyle that she wanted all along, continue with her acting career and have all her friends around her.

But what's Harry going to do? He seems to have no one now apart from her. I can't see him being happy living the Californian lifestyle on his own, and he's burnt all his bridges now with his family so it would be humiliating for him to have to return home with his tail between his legs.

If this was the other way around and a husband had effectively orchestrated his wife being isolated and cut off from her family, people would be saying it's emotional abuse.

JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 08/03/2021 09:55

@teentipans

For whatever reason they assumed Archie would have a title &/or funded protection. That seems to be the crux of it all.
Yeah because someone who was born into and live nearly 40 years in that family simply doesn't have a clue how these things work Hmm of course they didn't assume and I'm amazed they think, when the protocol on titles is clear and public information, that they'd get away with saying this
teentipans · 08/03/2021 09:55

@Bluntness100 B & E security was paid until they were 20 or similar.

DarthWeeder · 08/03/2021 09:55

it seems to me that Oprah has basically given H and M a platform to air their views whether their views are true or not. They don't seem to have been questioned at all or corrected (as in Archie doesn't qualify to be a prince until Charles comes to the throne). Oprah could have done a lot to shore up the truth

Yes, Oprah was like a star struck super fan

Totally agree with this.

And their “oh we got married 3 days earlier, we didn’t actually want the big wedding, that was for the public, not us”. Well no they didn’t get married 3 days earlier (but a nice bit of headline creating sensational bending of the truth, a “ha we got one over on you, that wasn’t even our actual wedding that y’all paid for - suckers”) they exchanged a few words in front of the Arch Bishop or whoever. They could have made that small private exchange legal if they’d wanted to and forget the whole ceremony, 2 receptions, 2 dresses. Or had a much smaller private ceremony in Windsor Chapel. But they chose not to.

GetOffYourHighHorse · 08/03/2021 09:56

'If any of meghans family reveals something private about her, she sues because she says she’s a right to privacy. But clearly she feels the rest of the royal family have no such right so she can reveal what she wishes.'

This. As always it their inconsistent very hypocritical behaviour that jars.

YardleyX · 08/03/2021 09:57

@GetOffYourHighHorse

'Sadly it seems that in the media and online people still haven’t learnt from what happened with Caroline Flacks suicide. Nobody is perfect, everyone is trying their best'

What about Kate's mh, William's mental health, Thomas markle's? They're probably 'trying their best' too,

You don't do this, complain about one sided attacks then go and do exactly the same yourself 🙄.

Absolutely this.

And this is why, once the initial shock has died down, the royal family will come out of this far better than Meghan.

NotFrozen · 08/03/2021 09:57

The whole thing just makes me feel sad. What a mess. It’s been handled so badly. I feel really disappointed, especially as I think a lot of the world will now believe that the British public are a bunch of emotionally represses racists.

teentipans · 08/03/2021 09:58

Yeah because someone who was born into and live nearly 40 years in that family simply doesn't have a clue how these things work of course they didn't assume and I'm amazed they think, when the protocol on titles is clear and public information, that they'd get away with saying this

If it was that straightforward then as you say I'm not sure how they can get away with it?

WinnieThePoohWeNeedAPoo · 08/03/2021 09:58

The interview wasn't about her father or their relationship. I think she can choose who or what to talk about in her interview, as other famous people do. Not some agenda on anyone's part.

jimmyjammy001 · 08/03/2021 09:58

So she's estranged from her own family, now estranged from her husbands family, seems to be a pattern going on here, if they ever break up Harry is screwed, he will have no where to go.

JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 08/03/2021 09:59

Personally I'd laugh my head of if Americans (which is who this interview was playing too, on their ignorance of Royal life etc) thought Brits were the racist ones

Sidewalksue · 08/03/2021 09:59

We left and they didn’t give us money and security. Does he not know about Edward VIII. He had a miserable existence in exile without status and wealth. If he is worried about history repeating itself, well it is!
How much money can they make with Americans ‘feeling sorry for them’. I find the whole thing odd.

WinnieThePoohWeNeedAPoo · 08/03/2021 10:00

@ImAncient

I thought Prince Charles looked enchanted by her & Doria at the wedding. So what went wrong?
Yes I did too. I thought he had the least problem, among all the others, with her and Doria and tried more than anyone else to make Doria feel welcomed and included but who knows really?
JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 08/03/2021 10:00

@teentipans

Yeah because someone who was born into and live nearly 40 years in that family simply doesn't have a clue how these things work of course they didn't assume and I'm amazed they think, when the protocol on titles is clear and public information, that they'd get away with saying this

If it was that straightforward then as you say I'm not sure how they can get away with it?

Well I doubt they will because someone will go "actually because of the line of succession he was not going to be given a prince title, here, look, it says so right here".
JustAnotherPoster00 · 08/03/2021 10:01

@NotFrozen

The whole thing just makes me feel sad. What a mess. It’s been handled so badly. I feel really disappointed, especially as I think a lot of the world will now believe that the British public are a bunch of emotionally represses racists.
Theyre not?

People must be imagining the racism directed against them which increased after the uk voted brexit and the go home vans and lets not forget the turning point poster

MrsTabithaTwitchit · 08/03/2021 10:01

Archie will automatically become a Prince when Charles becomes King because then he will be the grandson of the monarch. Only George is a Prince by right amongst the great grandchildren . The Queen created Charlotte and Louis as Princess and Prince to make them the same as George. The will become Princess and springs in their own right in the same way as Archie and his sibling will.

So this stuff about him not being a Prince is nonsense

DinoHat · 08/03/2021 10:02

@GetOffYourHighHorse

'If any of meghans family reveals something private about her, she sues because she says she’s a right to privacy. But clearly she feels the rest of the royal family have no such right so she can reveal what she wishes.'

This. As always it their inconsistent very hypocritical behaviour that jars.

This is such a good point. She is of a very litigious nature, yet has sold the RF’s right to privacy detailing encounters the public would never normally have any visibility of.

I bet if her first husband had a story to sell she would have something to say.

Re Archie can the monarchy change thousands of years of practice and procedure (which is presumably entrenched somewhere, somehow) just because of his skin? Does the queen actually have authority to make that decision? Seems an bold move and a potentially slanderous claim.

VanillaIce · 08/03/2021 10:02

Why is having to quickly curtesy to the Queen such a problem? Just do it. It’s a quick bob, any little girl who’s had a ballet lesson knows what it is. She wasn’t being asked to hold a tricky yoga pose for five minutes for the Queen to admire.

ParkheadParadise · 08/03/2021 10:02

How can anyone take this interview seriously? A grown man in his 30's talking about daddy stopping his money 😂😂😂 and not taking his calls.
The whole family is and always has been Fucked Up. The biggest bunch of entitled arseholes ever😜

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