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Meg and Harry supporting race and mental health charities in UK

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Sprining · 14/03/2021 06:52

Brilliant to hear this. They have approached three charities in UK including Mind and a charity to increase diversity in the media and press.

Great, doing good based on their experiences.

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Cokie3 · 15/03/2021 19:26

@ListeningQuietly There is no 'carbon footprint hypocrisy'.

Cokie3 · 15/03/2021 19:28

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

So the same people that have complained everything Kate or the Royal family have done in the last week or two is a PR stunt. Are know all how wonderful Harry and Meghan are for doing this 😂😂😂😂😂
You know these things are organised in advance, right, @Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum
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Sprining · 15/03/2021 19:29

Yup, and trump has coming with vile misogynistic and racist stuff about meghan...similar to what you hear by some posters here

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Marmaladeagain · 15/03/2021 19:33

I don't hate Meghan, what a ridiculous thing to keep throwing around at people. If you don't agree with someone you hate them - are you 13?

You're just wrong about some facts to do with how the role of the RF works and no-one in our country will tolerate random princes popping up any more. We didn't want Andrew's girls to be Princesses on the whole. Pointless title for them to have.

Harry is wilfully misleading the world and M on it. Truth will out. No doubt about that. Facts are facts.

Harry was becoming less important each year in the royal family and he didn't mention it to M. We all know this in UK, you don't because you're not in the UK. Harry was always slipping away, we've seen it each generation.

They don't usually accuse behave quite like this, although some's tantrums at not being King in the past did lead to a war or two.... the UK would have had sympathy for Harry struggling and finding his importance dwindling as George's ascends. But not so sure how much sympathy around now.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:36

I don't hate Meghan, what a ridiculous thing to keep throwing around at people. If you don't agree with someone you hate them - are you 13?

If you don't hate her then you're very, erm, passionate about her.

Marmaladeagain · 15/03/2021 19:37

What unhappy at being called racist or a vulture? no, not bothered I like freedom of speech so it's good for all to see how the "kind" people speak.

You do your heroes a disservice you realise with all your hate speech.

I am very shocked though at how little you understand on being told you're wrong about the role of H in the family and unimportant he is.

The focus moves to George and him growing up. I know you won't accept a fact, you prefer "feelings" - doesn't change the fact you're wrong.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:37

Harry was becoming less important each year in the royal family and he didn't mention it to M. We all know this in UK, you don't because you're not in the UK. Harry was always slipping away, we've seen it each generation.

He was glad about this. Said he didn't really like England anyway!

Marmaladeagain · 15/03/2021 19:40

No I hope M gets sat down and has someone explain to her how it's like the army. I certainly feel she was sold a bag of shite by Harry on what he could offer her.

Sorry, I know that doesn't fit the narrative of hate etc.

It's just that they're wrong about how Harry had any particular big role going forward. Follow orders like in the army was kind of what the job entails. Not a fairy tale and Harry has woefully let M down with no support at all from him. No feel M has been let down big time by H.

VocalDuck · 15/03/2021 19:42

I’m surprised that any British charities want to work with Harry and Meghan right now.

Cokie3 · 15/03/2021 19:43

Yes because Edward's children are married to a black woman who is being racially abused, receiving death threats etc. There is a REASON Meghan and Archie need protection, but the vultures on here keep side-stepping that RACISM is a big issue at play here, so they prefer to ignore it was all about 'slimming down monarchy' and all that bs, which is what it is. B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:44

Harry was always slipping away, we've seen it each generation.

Yup, he didn't like the gilded cage. Who can blame him:

twitter.com/Jasamgurlie/status/1343207182138028034?s=19

He's got his dream life now. Good for him.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:46

@VocalDuck

I’m surprised that any British charities want to work with Harry and Meghan right now.
Why? Their profile is huge now. Id imagine charities are falling over themselves to be linked to them.
VocalDuck · 15/03/2021 19:46

[quote HmmmmmmInteresting]Quoted in it's entirety because every paragraph is true. The vultures on this site who hate a woman for nothing more than calling out the racism and abuse she has experienced are disgusting. My only comfort is that karma has a habit of finding these abhorrent and nasty people, who were no doubt school bullies.

My comfort is that the world is seeing it for what it is:
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/03/08/media/uk-media-meghan-race-diversity/index.html?__twitter_impression=true[/quote]
If we are sharing race articles, look at Harry reassuring a friend it was ok he was dating Chelsy because she wasn’t black. One day the rest of the world will see Harry for what he is. Meghan needs to be far more worried about her racist husband than his family making a comment she didn’t even hear. www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/outrage-at-nazi-harry-7253087.html

HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:48

H &M are very popular with young people.

VocalDuck · 15/03/2021 19:49

Why? Their profile is huge now. Id imagine charities are falling over themselves to be linked to them.

In the U.K., and these charities are U.K. ones, they have never been more unpopular. Right now, in polls, only Andrew is less popular than they are. They have also yet to stick with any charity, as every vogue cause is something they have done a Zoom about and then not spoken about since. A year ago they promised us regular updates on Covid (we got one) etc. They need to prove themselves, stop being so annoyed by the lack of money and prestige the royal family is (or rather isn’t) giving them, and prove themselves rather than ghosting everyone they come into contact with who has any other view.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:51

If we are sharing race articles, look at Harry reassuring a friend it was ok he was dating Chelsy because she wasn’t black. One day the rest of the world will see Harry for what he is

He was brought up in a racist family so I'm not really surprised. He's woken up and seen the light.

PinkTonic · 15/03/2021 19:52

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

Does what you do pay well?😂
Must be costing a fortune for at least 3 of them full time 😂
HmmmmmmInteresting · 15/03/2021 19:53

In the U.K., and these charities are U.K. ones, they have never been more unpopular. Right now, in polls, only Andrew is less popular than they are.

These unbiased polls that target people according to their politics? The same polls that said nobody wanted to watch the Oprah interview?

gottakeeponmovin · 15/03/2021 20:30

I thought they didn't have any money. Kind of them to donate though. Probably paid for out of the serfs taxes but gets them some good PR eh?

gottakeeponmovin · 15/03/2021 20:34

@Marmaladeagain I agree with you. It was Harry's responsibility to inform MM of what she was getting into. He should have helped her with the national anthem etc. If I married into a family with strange customs I would expect my husband to do this. He also should have been the one to say don't go on TV slagging off my family. I also think MM thought she would be a bigger deal than she was and found that Kate and her brood were stealing the limelight. Still they've got Netflix now

Marmaladeagain · 15/03/2021 20:42

I can't imagine a reputable charity wanted to be involved with them at all. Very tricky for a high profile charity to get involved. Who'd trust them? Would you have a confidential conversation with Harry about something when you know he'll sell his own granny?

That's a phrase here in the UK about someone you wouldn't trust - that they'd "sell their own grandmother" - Harry actually doing it.

They really aren't very popular.

Marmaladeagain · 15/03/2021 21:01

oh wow vocalduck - that article you linked to is shocking and depressing.

Harry's girlfriend Chelsy Davy from Zimbabwe - article mentions about the SS uniform:
"The gaffe is not Harry's first. At a society wedding he was reported to have said about his new girlfriend Chelsy Davy: "She's not black or anything, you know."

wow, and to see Jewish representatives discussing Harry dressing as a white supremacist at the same time as Queen was welcoming Auschwitz survivors that year to UK. His family must be livid, all the awful things he's done that they've had to rehabilitate his image and then he goes and accuses an unknown of racism.

Cokie3 · 15/03/2021 21:16

@VocalDuck The Standard? The ultra conservative trashloid rag? With their "it was reported" that Harry made that 'she's not black' statement....reported by whom? By what? No sources, nothing. Just...."it was 'reported' ".

Geesus, why can't people arguing against Harry and Meghan post actual, factual, real sources, instead of trashloid articles? Are people really this gullible? Of course the H & M haters will lap up this garbage and actually take it as truth. Just out of interest, what did the rest of that edition say? Jennifer Aniston is pregnant (for the 214th time)?

Marmaladeagain · 15/03/2021 21:30

Perhaps read it cokie. Tells you what the Jewish community were discussing in year or 60th anniversary of Holocaust and how Harry had made them feel.

The same article says army don’t think it’s right he proceeds to attend for army training. They don’t think he will be suitable. They were obviously talked round and took him in at Sandhurst later that year and then two filmed incidents of Harry being racist surfaced and sent on army training courses. Harry apologised and in same breath defended it by saying Dave laughed along...

You won’t see it will you H has been in our press for years with these sorts of headlines.

I like the way an article in the standard which back then was a decent paper actually only in City and slightly more upmarket than you imagine -etc - changed with digital age , again you don’t seem to know much of real life day to day history in U.K. so look a bit silly dismissing the paper from when Harry was 20 as just a tabloid. Yes the size of the pages were but it was much more on City of London and upmarket type of paper.

Oprah reported lots of inaccuracies. Wasn’t an interview so surprised you’re sniffy where you get news from and you seem very uninformed on lots about U.K. life, bizarre.

MiaowMiaow99 · 15/03/2021 21:36

My understanding was that since the interview M&H have dropped in popularity.

Why? Their profile is huge now. Id imagine charities are falling over themselves to be linked to them

Their profile is huge at the moment, but not for the right reasons!