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

865 replies

elprup · 03/10/2019 13:30

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

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angell84 · 03/10/2019 19:24

If I was her, I would personally sue Piers for harassment.

He is obsessed with her

Puzzledandpissedoff · 03/10/2019 19:27

Princess Anne used to get lambasted for not being charming to the press ... (she) was tough enough not to care about her public image and to plough on regardless

Exactly. Granted she went through most of it before the days of social media, but she's never struck me as the type to blast herself all over it even if she could

As Harry would do well to learn, there's often a value in keeping your head down and getting on with the job without undue comment or endless self publicity

Span1elsRock · 03/10/2019 19:31

FFS Diana died because she was in a car being driven by a drunk driver, without a seatbelt on and having shunned royal protection. You can't blame the media for that.

William and Harry have turned into arrogant petulant young men with complete distain for the media and the public and little sense of duty. Today that showed.

KatyCarrCan · 03/10/2019 19:47

Honestly if Piers Morgan ever ends up on MN, he'll love it. All these posters thinking he's so influential and powerful that he orchestrated a global smear campaign against H&M Grin

ChardonnaysDistantCousin · 03/10/2019 19:50

Yep. I'm always disappointed that more of the public are not capable of thinking for themselves. It amazes me when people are so easily swayed.

But people are not swayed by the media, they are perfectly capable of seeing things for themselves and making their own judgement.

The use of private jets while preaching about the environment is what made me change my opinion on Harry. Not what the papers say about him, I don't need the tabloids to make my decision.

timshelthechoice · 03/10/2019 20:14

What's horrifying is how the media, including the BBC paid for by the public users, has divided this country on the issue of its very political structure whilst its economy is circling the bowl and numpties are pre-occupied with a scrounger like Harry playing a victim. FFS.

morningcoffee22 · 03/10/2019 20:54

I think as long as we have a royal family we’ll criticise them. That’s because most of us know it’s inherently wrong.

Octonaught · 03/10/2019 20:54

Harry is burning his bridges in the UK.
This article by Valentine Low, Times reporter linked to on Twitter, shows how much Harry fucked up with his statement.
He doesn’t have the (intellectual) capacity to differentiate between between the different members of the press.
When the cameras are off, he is aloof and disengaged from the press.

Harry was there to do a job as Commonwealth youth ambassador, but the tour has been overshadowed by his ranting and rudeness.
There is very little goodwill left for Harry if at all.
Meghan was (apart from DM and piers Morgan) was universally praised.
This tour could have been a turning point for them, but Harry,( as it has been said by royal correspondents who have followed him for many years; )has a very thin skin.

MonChatEstMagnifique · 03/10/2019 20:58

But people are not swayed by the media

Of course many people are. You have been. The rest of your post showed that. It's the way it's reported and worded that whips the hatred up. I don't know why so many people can't see it.

morningcoffee22 · 03/10/2019 21:01

Yes Harry you’re very badly done to aren’t you, hope you enjoyed your working tour, must have been exhausting. Hmm Perhaps that’s why you got irritable with that reporter, asking you those damn pesky questions.

anothernamejeeves · 03/10/2019 21:10

I really worry for Prince Harry's mental health. Constant 'jokes' about being the result of Diana's affair with James Hewitt. Being known as the wild one out of the brothers, not being favoured as the future king, continual slating of his mother and being under the microscope in the most intrusive aftermath of her death and now the constant derision of the woman he loves. The press need to stop and think. He is a person- with a lot of baggage. Be kind and try not to be the cause of someone's downfall

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 03/10/2019 21:15

Of course many people are [swayed by the media].You have been. The rest of your post showed that. It's the way it's reported and worded that whips the hatred up.

Some people may be influenced by what they read but there is plenty of other material put out by H&M themselves on which one can form a view. The Instagram and Twitter feeds, videos of them both giving speeches etc, the engagement interview, the way Archie was introduced here and in SA. All information that supports how they wish to be seen.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 03/10/2019 21:18

Harry was there to do a job as Commonwealth youth ambassador, but the tour has been overshadowed by his ranting and rudeness

Given that the Commonwealth's very much the Queen's plaything, largely created in lieu of an empire, this is why I wonder what she'll make of it all

Or maybe, at her great age, things have got to the point where she just can't be bothered any more. After all she's done her best by her own lights, and there's only so much she can do to affect a future she'll no longer be part of

ChardonnaysDistantCousin · 03/10/2019 21:30

Of course many people are. You have been. The rest of your post showed that. It's the way it's reported and worded that whips the hatred up. I don't know why so many people can't see it.

What rest of my post? I see that Harry likes to use private jets, I see that he also wants to be environmentally aware and that he endorses some travel initiative, and I can make my own decisions on what that means.

I don't need someone to tell me what to think. Sorry you can't see that. Maybe you have been influenced some way or the other?

timshelthechoice · 03/10/2019 22:02

He thinks he's incredibly important, a real power player, and this coupled with his earnestness and hypocrisy isn't going to make him popular. People on Universal Credit have to account for every penny to the DWP, HMRC, Job Centre and yet Harry and his ilk are handed tens of millions of pounds to blow whilst screeching about how violated their privacy is and how hard done by they are, how abused they are, blah blah blah. He comes across as a pompous a-hole.

RoseQuartzGlow · 03/10/2019 22:07

I really worry for Prince Harry's mental health. Constant 'jokes' about being the result of Diana's affair with James Hewitt. Being known as the wild one out of the brothers, not being favoured as the future king, continual slating of his mother and being under the microscope in the most intrusive aftermath of her death and now the constant derision of the woman he loves. The press need to stop and think. He is a person- with a lot of baggage. Be kind and try not to be the cause of someone's downfall

Absolutely this . He is also a new father.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 03/10/2019 22:07

Well if this thread is anything to go by do you really think that if they took a flight with the great unwashed that they’d be left alone?

Anyway, it has been explained already elsewhere why the Royal Family sometimes need to take a private jet and even though I’m not a fan of them all, it made sense to me. Can’t remember what the reason was now and frankly I can’t be bothered to look it back up. But some people just don’t really delve past what’s in front of them. Jeremy Kyle audience....

elprup · 03/10/2019 22:10

After all she's done her best by her own lights, and there's only so much she can do to affect a future she'll no longer be part of

Not sure why but I found this rather poignant! Sniff

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Anoni · 03/10/2019 22:30

I dislike the royals but god piers is an insufferable twat. He really can't comment on good behaviour when he was head of newspapers that hacked a deads girl phone and head of a newspaper that falsely accused soldiers of war crimes

Rachelover60 · 03/10/2019 23:03

anothernamejeeves, I agree wholeheartedly with your post above.

angell84 · 03/10/2019 23:11

Why is Piers let anywhere near a paper. Didn't he get fired AND commit loads of bad practice

QualCheckBot · 03/10/2019 23:25

I often wonder if Harry lives in a very dramatic scene of his own making, and is addicted to characterising the women in his life as "victims". He comes across as arrogant and thinking himself much more important than he is. For me, he is beginning to typify the ludicrousness of having a royal family in 2019. I can't imagine how awful it would be to live in a country where the press weren't allowed to print anything slightly negative about certain people, just because of how important they considered themselves. One of the RF's main functions in British society is to provide a topic for gossip, and being Britain, that gossip has always contained quite a nasty element. Wallis Simpson was treated horribly and is still regarded as evil incarnate!

timshelthechoice He thinks he's incredibly important, a real power player, and this coupled with his earnestness and hypocrisy isn't going to make him popular. People on Universal Credit have to account for every penny to the DWP, HMRC, Job Centre and yet Harry and his ilk are handed tens of millions of pounds to blow whilst screeching about how violated their privacy is and how hard done by they are, how abused they are, blah blah blah. He comes across as a pompous a-hole.

This too. Its actually ludicrous. All this fuss about Harry and people suffer far worse every day.

angell84 · 03/10/2019 23:32

I think is he married anyone foreign there would have been a problem.

I think that people think - we pay alot of money to the royal family, but harry william charles etc have been here a long time and have done something for the country. Gone to events, met people, opened buildings etc

It is annoying to pay for things for them anyway, but it seems even more annoying to pay for a free house, and for private jets and extravagances, for someone who has barely been in this country.

Campervan69 · 03/10/2019 23:35

I can't imagine how awful it would be to live in a country where the press weren't allowed to print anything slightly negative about certain people, just because of how important they considered themselves.

Absolutely agree.

And if he hates it all so much, then retire from the limelight.

JoObrien7 · 04/10/2019 04:50

A day doesn't go by when Piers doesn't mention her and this is all because she ignored him in a pub! Get over yourself Piers!! I might tweet this to him and see what his reply is. I personally would find it flattering if Piers mentioned me on tv every day but that ain't gonna happen because I am not his type Grin