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Harry - regretful?

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Brasschamberstick · 20/09/2022 10:40

Do we think after seeing the magnificence of yesterday that he is regretting giving it all up?

He looks so angry and unhappy all the time now?

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Concerned3 · 20/09/2022 13:50

Posted too soon.

I was eye-rolling about the uniform thing at first, just let him wear it! But turns out those are the rules for all ex-soldiers unless they reach a certain rank.

So seems fair, given every other former soldier if H's rank cannot wear their uniform for their family services, that H isn't allowed to wear his either.

daisychain01 · 20/09/2022 13:54

How can people possibly judge Prince Harry's demeanour at his grandmother's funeral.

How did you all look at a beloved relative's funeral. Not at your shiny happy best right?

Tootiredtoogiveatoss · 20/09/2022 13:58

daisychain01 · 20/09/2022 13:54

How can people possibly judge Prince Harry's demeanour at his grandmother's funeral.

How did you all look at a beloved relative's funeral. Not at your shiny happy best right?

Agree...didn't notice any smiley faces yesterday!

Teddletoddle · 20/09/2022 14:04

@MissingNashville and @Lampzade

I worried a lot about Harry when he was younger. He was always in trouble.He constantly made racist remarks or did wildly inappropriate things.
Famously when in the army filming a tv documentary, he made a number of racist comments
In the film, the 24-year-old prince calls an officer from the Pakistani army, who was on the course with him, "our little Paki friend", and when he sees another officer cadet wearing a camouflage veil, exclaims: "Fuck me, you look like a raghead."
www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/12/prince-harry-video-pakistani
The palace were constantly covering up for him. He caused a lot of distress.
That is why a lot of people find his behaviour now so hypocritical

Ellatella · 20/09/2022 14:04

I was looking at him wondering if he has regret and guilt for what he put his grandmother through and not visiting her more. But then he did the same to his grandfather and didn't stop after his death so I'm guessing he doesn't feel bad.
He does look very angry these days.

oakleaffy · 20/09/2022 14:04

Harry perhaps is a man who likes to be told what to do?
It looks as if he is under the thumb if his wife, He is the spare in that relationship too.
He seems quite submissive.
Maybe he likes living like that?
Some men do.

RaisingYankeesinParis · 20/09/2022 14:10

ZenNudist · 20/09/2022 12:54

His gran died. No wonder he looks sad. I bet he will be glad to get back to his california mansion. He's not that deep and probably isn't too fussed if his wife takes centre stage from now on. I think she's bound to be awful to live with. So fake. So agenda driven. Eventually she will have got everything worth having out of harry and then there will be the stories about their big break up to cash in on.

She's set for life but he's going to make a fool of himself and worse end up with dc who are US basedand he will either have to stay in the USA or move away from them back to Britain.

She's not "set for life". He can come back to England when they separate, remarry some former model and live discretely. Which is what I think he would LOVE to do.

She is 40 now, and her hustling days are therefore very numbered. Acting opportunities will not exist: she's too recognisable and notorious. She has no talents, is too controversial. A divorce won't benefit

Money is a very finite thing, and the public is easily bored. Stuff gets old fast. I just don't know how they do it now, let alone when they/she have no game left.

justasking111 · 20/09/2022 14:11

He's well out of it to be honest. I have sons and would tell them to run if they got entangled with a family like this

oakleaffy · 20/09/2022 14:11

Re Harry and racism- Agreed, he has made some seriously racist comments about fellow Servicemen-
It is hypocritical that now the stories they sell are about alleged racism in RF when Harry himself made hurtful comments.

SilverLiningPlaybook · 20/09/2022 14:11

antelopevalley · 20/09/2022 13:11

If the family can't even be polite to her, why the hell would they come back?

I imagine that Sophie has the inside track on how all of the upset H and M have caused the family has upset the Queen. She is probably very angry and upset about it as she was very close to the Queen. What would she have to say to Meghan after all that? In families if someone betrays them and bad mouths them, that person is usually treated as a black sheep. This one is no different.

Tillsforthrills · 20/09/2022 14:15

He looks permanently stressed even in California.

He might possibly regret causing his grandmother stress, worry and heartache to see him and MM spilling all and then some seemingly wanting to bring down her institution.

Then again the scrutiny they’re under is unfair too even if they seem to want the limelight.

Samcro · 20/09/2022 14:16

Purplefoxes · 20/09/2022 13:00

This! On the small clip I saw of him on the news which was the only bit of the funeral I watched, William and Charles were allowed to salute the various military on route whereas it was clear he had been told not too despite having served himself in Afghanistan. Just uncomfortable. And he was the youngest when his mother died and was forced to walk behind his mum's coffin that day in front of everyone, I don't know who would do that to a kid who has just lost their mum but it's cruel and had probably done him lasting psychological damage at that age. I bet the funeral has brought back some kind of PTSD. The last thing he wants is to be paraded through the streets again after having just managed to extricate himself and his family. I used to think Harry was a bit of a pr*ck due to the partying, drug taking and dubious I'll advised nazi uniform incident. However I think he went off the rails in his youth and probably no real surprise given what happened. I have a lot of respect for him now for deciding to get out of there. And why should we mock them for wanting to tell their story. If the royal family are such an amazing institution we and should all worship them then they really don't have anything to be afraid of that he might say. Or do they? Even Prince Paedophile (Andrew) gets better treatment than Harry. And why all the hate on Meghan for Pete's sake?! He has chosen her and they seem to be in love! Just because she is not some spineless goody two shoes dolly bird blinking prettily in multiple outfits but saying nothing meaningful. Meghan has a voice and damn right she should use it. I hope her and Harry are truely happy together. I also think once he has got the stuff off his chest he needs to tell then he will find his niche. It will be part of the healing process to tell his side of the story.. I think they are being respectful on holding off with some of it but with the queen gone they will unleash the truth now! I think they have some serious dirt on Charles the petulant prince and now king. People ought to know the truth behind those golden gates. Harry and Meghan have chosen to pay their own way and for that I respect them more than any other member of the royal family. Let's hear their story and make your own mind up and then everyone can move on! Oh and if anything were to happen to either Harry, Meghan or their kids before they tell us, I would say Perhaps Mohammed Alfayed was not so crazy after all....

spot on

Kissingfrogs25 · 20/09/2022 14:16

StandingInTheMoment · 20/09/2022 12:18

If theres an inheritance, he’s entitled to it. And he can talk about his past if he wishes.

There is no automatic right to any inheritance. I would be very careful assuming he won’t be disinherited. If that book is as damaging as some people say all bets are firmly off
It will be his biggest mistake and miscalculation but what else does he have to sell?

i would also remind pp that LA is Harry’s idea of hell - he moved there for Meghan

YanTanTetheraPetheraPimp · 20/09/2022 14:17

I imagine that there’s a constant undercurrent of avoiding absolutely anything that will give Harry and Meghan further material to bring up at the earliest opportunity.
I know that I am like that with one member of my family who slews everything around to make themselves the victim.
They have only themselves to blame for that but I bet they neither recognise that nor will ever admit it.
I just hope they go back to California and shut up but I very much doubt that’ll fund their lifestyle.

daisychain01 · 20/09/2022 14:17

Teddletoddle · 20/09/2022 14:04

@MissingNashville and @Lampzade

I worried a lot about Harry when he was younger. He was always in trouble.He constantly made racist remarks or did wildly inappropriate things.
Famously when in the army filming a tv documentary, he made a number of racist comments
In the film, the 24-year-old prince calls an officer from the Pakistani army, who was on the course with him, "our little Paki friend", and when he sees another officer cadet wearing a camouflage veil, exclaims: "Fuck me, you look like a raghead."
www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/12/prince-harry-video-pakistani
The palace were constantly covering up for him. He caused a lot of distress.
That is why a lot of people find his behaviour now so hypocritical

So Harry has to be hung, drawn and quartered for the rest of his life for the folly of his youth.

That is why a lot of people find his behaviour now so hypocritical

Hypocritical? Or just a person who has matured with age and recognises his mistakes from the past. Just like every human being on earth has the capability to do, if they so choose. We all learn and grow. If he carried on saying the same things now as he did then "people" would have reason to judge him, but because he isn't like that now and is no longer the immature youth he once was .... um.... people judge him. Can't win can he.

Badbadbunny · 20/09/2022 14:17

Hadjab · 20/09/2022 13:11

So, you're going to pretend that the Invictus Games aren't a thing then?

A few hours work occasionally is hardly a proper job. He's not running it all personally, there'll be a load of staff who do the actual day to day work.

Teddletoddle · 20/09/2022 14:17

@antelopevalley
How do you think the RF felt about constantly having to cover up Harry's crass and racist comments only to have him turn on them? I don't think the Muslim Council of Great Britain thinks he is wonderful.However, I do wonder if to some people anti islamic remarks do not count as racism in their eyes

DillDanding · 20/09/2022 14:17

I admittedly only watch a bit of the coverage late last night. But this idea that Sophie was giving Meghan the cold shoulder in the car is just daft. I saw Kate and Camilla in a car. They weren’t chatting either. The occupants of both cars were being appropriate and sombre.

But of course, people will invent stuff to suit their hateful narratives.

Kissingfrogs25 · 20/09/2022 14:18

Samcro · 20/09/2022 14:16

spot on

That assuming it isn’t all bitter bullshit. They seem to have form and a proven record of lying

Teddletoddle · 20/09/2022 14:21

@daisychain01 . So if Harry should be given his many follies, should we forgive Andrew his indiscretions which were never proved?
I am afraid I think Islamophobia is often ignored when compared to other types of racism
Mohammed Shafiq, director of Muslim youth organisation the Ramadan Foundation, said the comments would be offensive to many Asians.
"The use of this sort of racism has no justification and I am saddened by those that are advocating using this term is not racist," he said.

WimpoleHat · 20/09/2022 14:21

But this idea that Sophie was giving Meghan the cold shoulder in the car is just daft. I saw Kate and Camilla in a car. They weren’t chatting either. The occupants of both cars were being appropriate and sombre.

They were all probably aware that - was it 4 billion? - people could be watching them at any moment and would’ve been very careful to look appropriately respectful. Can you imagine the stick any of the Royal Family would have got if they’d been seen chatting and laughing in one of the funeral cars?

JanetheObscure · 20/09/2022 14:22

We saw fleeting glimpses of various royal women in cars yesterday and none of them were talking to each other - neither Kate and Camilla nor Beatrice and Eugenie. I didn't see any of the royal women chatting to Meghan outside the Abbey, but then, I didn't see any of them chatting to each other.

Similarly, who didn't look sad yesterday or during the other ceremonial events of the week? Yes, we've seen royals smiling during walkabouts, but equally we saw Harry smiling when he and Meghan met the crowds at Windsor.

I think my point is that appearances can be deceptive and none of us have the first idea what's really going on.

Peaceandcalm · 20/09/2022 14:24

Riapia · 20/09/2022 13:49

A gorgeous wife, two kids, millions in the bank.

The California lifestyle.

Get real.

Exactly!

idonotmind · 20/09/2022 14:24

He doesn't look like a happy man

I think he regrets not marrying Arabella from the Home Counties, or whoever

idonotmind · 20/09/2022 14:25

So, you're going to pretend that the Invictus Games aren't a thing then?

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