To wonder why Prince Harry got annoyed with Sky News reporter?

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It seems very out of character for Harry? I wonder if he misinterpreted and thought she was asking about the lawsuit...

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Well we all seem to agree it looked a bit silly whomever was involved. Now I'm thinking how much the whole scene could have been improved by Morris dancing accountants.😂

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I couldn’t get the photo to load. My mind was conjuring bizarre Suffolk scenes

W&K in sedan chairs is not a good look

You're right it's not, but then it wasn't a good look when done for the Queen either, just as other grovelling welcoming ceremonies are also a bit much

But if hosts choose to do these things for "honoured guests", I'm not sure that refusing them wouldn't cause more issues than just getting them over with and moving on to something (hopefully) more worthwhile to British tastes

They should have declined. It looks terrible. Even if they were offered the chance to be carried - pretty sure there are advisors that could resolve the matter. The optics are terrible. Maybe William and Kate could have offered to carry one of the tribesmen instead.

Quite. And you'd hope people would have the sense to realise that this sort of thing is laid on by the hosts and not requested by the royals.

Sorry, I was replying to @Puzzledandpissedoff

And you'd hope people would have the sense to realise that this sort of thing is laid on by the hosts and not requested by the royals.

I wasn't suggesting it had. I have no doubt that it was something the hosts organised but it's still within the Cambridges' power to say no, that might've done for the Queen in the 1950s but maybe not in this day and age. I'm sure that something else could've been organised. I have to say the men carrying them didn't look best pleased!

It's seven years ago. Maybe they wouldn't do it now. Who knows? Let's see what happens in Pakistan.

7 years ago isn't another 'era'. Come on.

7 years ago isn't another 'era'.

It can be. The main thing is it's consigned to history.

Oh, so the sedan chairs were used on the advice of the Foreign Office? That makes perfect sense!

I cannot believe anyone thinks 7 years ago is "consigned to history". iPhones must now be considered historical artefacts.

This thread is batshit.

I cannot believe anyone thinks 7 years ago is "consigned to history"

You do understand what "the past" means?

Don't change the argument. If your argument is about semantics then yes - it took place in "the past". But you said:

It's seven years ago. Maybe they wouldn't do it now

Inferring that it happened in a bygone era; where this sort of thing would have been acceptable by any reasonable measure. It wouldn't have been.

FWIW I agree that the advisers could have "had a word" to avoid this ugly image, but let's face the fact that it may have been for the benefit of the British perspective rather than the local one - after all, if the local organisers believed it would cause massive offence to the people of Tuvalu I wouldn 't have thought they'd suggest it in the first place

Unless someone in the Cambridge's team said they expected it, of course - in which case they must have been quite mad

It would have been much more offensive for K&W to decline. It's not a custom for welcoming 'white' royalty. It's a custom for welcoming guests so would be extended to all important guests to the area (and by important I mean also extended to 'commoners' regardless of race).
Interesting what a PP said about other royal families looking down on our's. I've heard that the Danish RF think our's is nouveau riche and gauche.

What- you mean the accountants and IT consultants who dress up at the weekends to reenact their past (cf Morris dancers)?

I've just gone to make some coffee and can't stop laughing at this comment

I really wasn't inferring anything, Vlad. But you surely must agree that seven years can represent quite a shift in thinking - think of Me Too.

I agree it didn't look great. But I also know that these issues are finely balanced in diplomatic terms and take extremely careful handling. It really isn't just a case of refusing, it's far more nuanced than that.

The Telegraph reported that the Royals didn't even know it would happen until they arrived, so I doubt they were insisting upon it or ignoring advice to decline.

"The islanders had promised the Duke and Duchess would be carried off their aircraft, in keeping with the tradition of carrying visitors who arrive by sea, but the Royal couple had no idea how it would happen until the moment they arrived."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/tuvalu/9549814/Duke-and-Duchess-carried-on-thrones-in-Tuvalu.html

I've heard that the Danish RF think ours is nouveau riche and gauche.

They're not wrong.

I agree it didn't look great. But I also know that these issues are finely balanced in diplomatic terms and take extremely careful handling. It really isn't just a case of refusing, it's far more nuanced than that.

Totally agree with you on this. On a side note; I hadn't even considered what other royal families make of our own. So who are the most refined? Or regal? Thank goodness I'm just a pleb.

On a side note; I hadn't even considered what other royal families make of our own. So who are the most refined? Or regal?

I know, it's hilarious isn't it, to think of members of various royal families side-eyeing each other with thinly veiled contempt...

I don't know who is the most regal. For the Danish RF, I think they can trace their lineage back much further than our RF. Plus, I think they just consider themselves much more refined. Their Queen is a celebrated artist and iirc she assists (or assisted) the UN with translations as she's fluent in several languages, etc.