to wish Harry and Meghan would stop holding hands when on official engagements

[FleetwithPike]

I think she is beautiful and he seems like a nice chap. I wish them a long and happy life with their child/ren.

But for the love of God, could they stop holding hands - they're not on a date, they're carrying out official business!

Makes me cringe, so it does.

Maybe keep your nosey beak out?

You're not being 'realistic', you're being gratuitously spiteful and you knew it with your pathetic (hides and prepares for onslaught). Don't add disingenuous to it. You want to be a vapid snide, then own it.

They live in the public eye. It's the nature of life for people who accept living their lioves financed by taxpayers. This whole thread is about their relationship and how they should behave. There are (haven't checked but Im sure there are) tons of articles out there speculationg about their relationship. I only mentioned it because it is my expereince that people who are very affectionate in public don't tend to last, so rather than seeing them holdings hands as inappropriate for work, I rather see it as a sign of a relationship under pressure.

I only mentioned it because it is my expereince that people who are very affectionate in public don't tend to last, so rather than seeing them holdings hands as inappropriate for work, I rather see it as a sign of a relationship under pressure.

What a load of nonsense! Holding hands is a sign of a relationship under pressure 😂 I’ve heard everything now

Well, London, you try to excuse your poor manners all you like. People seem to have been better way back when, not speculating about other people. Or perhaps there just wasn't the platform for the Madam Defarge guillotine-knitter types that there is now? Urgh.

Pitiful. All of these threads.

I'm also incredulous that you think that people on this thread are any arbiters of how anybody else should behave.

More like some kind of 'fly paper' for inadequates...

More like some kind of 'fly paper' for inadequates...

How charming you are.

This thread is on AIBU. Do try not to get so personally involved, do try to embrace all opinions and refute them politely.

Holding hands occasionally is one thing, clinging on for dear life is another. Sweet and heart-warming or unprofessional?

With such a public role (not to mention considerable financial support from the tax payer) I think it's fair to have differing opinions about Meghan and Harry without being labelled a bitter old witch!

she will get fed up with the crown, she's too normal and feisty.

So the abnormal wet limpet is really Kate then, the one whose marriage WILL last?

I don't think anybody on this thread is qualified to recognise 'charming', silent. You feel free to 'embrace' opinions as you like, I'll continue to disparage where I see that others have got there first.

You think there was a time when people didn't speculate about other people and especailly the rich and people in power? Have you seen /read anything about the extremely harsh comedies actors used to perform making fun of royals at markets etc in the past? the songs they sang etc? Today's press is practically angelic in comparison.

Needing to cling on to each other in public to feel secure is a sign of insecurity, either in the situation and/or the relationship. Most psychologists and body language experts will say the same.

As you may have guessed I'm a staunch anti-royalist, and I see this precise speculation and discussion about royals holding hands or their marriages lasting as a sign of how absurd the institution is. The job of these people is to perfom a role as themselves, all the while obvs being other people behind closed doors. They have no real function other than being puppets acting out public personas. So all the public is left with to justify their existence is gossiping about their personal lives and judging their manners such as a small thing like holding hands or not. Of course this doesn't matter at all in the great scheme of things. But there's so little else to say about them, yet we are being subjected to their images in media constantly and are paying for their expensive upkeep.It's no wonder people's minds have to come up with something to think about while looking at these people all the time.

Btw by no means do I wish they won't last, or think all royal marraiges won't last.

"clinging on to each other" ... .Lol

Relic, Kate seems very proifessional, wouldn't say abnormal, jsut very professional, and certainly not a wet limpet. Judging from the complete outside and only based on media images, I would say she seems more aware of the institution she has chosen to deddicate her life to, whereas Meghan seems jsut giddy and head over heels in love w Harry and the idea of being a princess.

Jeez all these people pontificating about someone they've never met and making predictions on a marriage they know nothing about astound me

Likewise, there are people getting flustered over nothin. They are also pontificating - at some length - about other posters who have the temerity to give honest opinions on the saintly Duchess.

I was not aware that this forum had poster-monitors! Lol

But what else really can you say about the royals? Is there anything else to talk about when they're concerned? They're not allowed to say or do anything of interest. All you can talk about is their clothes, apperance and personal lives. Or just try to block them out and ignore them, it's hard w Harry and Meghan as they're all over and have been since the wedding.

...nothing

Meghan is not a princess. (Just to be accurate.)

oh isn't she? I'm glad I'm less well-informed about the Royals than I thought I was.

what is she then?

A common or garden duchess?

Holding hands occasionally is one thing, clinging on for dear life is another.

Any photos of them clinging on for dear life?

also, to add, it's very intersting how some people find it very offensive and rude to say anything negative about the royals. I would assume seing them as immaculate is a way for them to feel immaculate as well, whereas for me, I'm exposing my gutter-mind with my negative speculations. The royals truly are a tabula-rasa for the public. We see in them what we wish to see, to make ourselves feel better about our lives. I.e. we watn to feel professional because We would not hold hands at work, or we are open adn down to earth and think it's okay etc. As such, they serve a psychological function in society, which is however, sad and unhealthy. Better for people to focus on their own lives and those real people aroudn them instead of wasting brain time on these people who do nothing for them.

It's not the royals, London, I'm completely ambivalent about them, it's that you and others feel the need - and think you have the right - to comment on other people's relationships. I would HATE it if somebody would do that to me so I can't fathom or feign acceptance of it when other people do it, and so nastily too. It really is very telling.

I won't mention your psycho-analysing but honestly, how arrogant must somebody be to feel qualified to do that when they clearly aren't.

HRH The Duchess of Sussex is a Princess. Had Harry not been elevated to a Royal Dukedom upon his marriage, he would have remained the common or garden Prince Henry of Wales and Meghan would have been Princess Henry of Wales. However, her Princess title is lesser than her Duchess title, which is why it isn't used.

It's not the royals, London, I'm completely ambivalent about them, it's that you and others feel the need - and think you have the right - to comment on other people's relationships. I would HATE it if somebody would do that to me so I can't fathom or feign acceptance of it when other people do it, and so nastily too. It really is very telling.

Exactly this.