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To feel really sorry for Prince Harry breaking down

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AviationLifystyle · 16/10/2019 09:56

At the awards show. I have been a little skeptical about him recently but my heart really went out to him when I saw the footage.

I have a feeling that having a child has triggered a huge amount of unresolved grief and anxiety. Now he has this dear little boy who is at the mercy of the tabloid press, as is his wife and there is little he can do to protect him.

It's time the press laid off. This is a human being breaking in front of us.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/prince-harry-wellchild-awards-speech-emotional-meghan-pregnant-tears-a9157751.html

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imalloutofideas · 18/10/2019 16:01

I think she never intended to stay married to prince harry and this is just her way of paving her way out of it all. He's running along with it all to save the marriage cos he genuinely is besotted by her but I think she emotionally checked out on day one.

BertrandRussell · 18/10/2019 16:06

@ Blingandrings so if it was just a comment on them trying to do without a nanny for as long as possible, why did you add “ M has a nanny, can jet off anytime she wants, has friends in London and enough money to cushion any problem.“ as if somehow Kate didn’t also have those huge privileges?

Pitterpatterpettysteps · 18/10/2019 16:08

They are absolutely cringeworthy, the pair of them.

Pitterpatterpettysteps · 18/10/2019 16:12

@BertrandRussell these endless comparisons with Kate really aren't doing your cause much good. If anything, Kate's modesty and restraint casts Harry & Meghan's utter lack of self-awareness into even sharper relief.

timshelthechoice · 18/10/2019 16:24

Gawd, get rid of all this 'royal' and titled fucking nonsense once and for all! Or at least, stop publicly funding any of it they can all live off their own means and moan away as much as they want. Load of sponges the lot of them. FFS. Outdated codswallop.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 18/10/2019 16:29

One thing's for sure ... I'd just love to be a fly on the wall to hear the Queen's views (and, heaven help us, Philip's) on all this

escapade1234 · 18/10/2019 16:31

Oh god, snippets of the Tom Bradby interview are out. Meghan: not a lot of people ask if I’m ok. Blah blah, the immense struggles of “being a newlywed” and a new mother.

FFS. The struggles of being a newlywed? What on earth does that mean?

escapade1234 · 18/10/2019 16:32

Cry me a bloody river Meg. Never seen such narcissism.

ChardonnaysDistantCousin · 18/10/2019 16:35

Trying to be a newlywed?

Sorry, but how is that a hardship?

escapade1234 · 18/10/2019 16:35

That clip has actually made me feel annoyed.

“Not a lot of people ask if I’m ok”

Can anyone on here imagine actually saying that to anyone in their life? Let alone on national tv?? How utterly full of yourself would you have to be? She has no idea. This sort of crap gets the ratings for Tom Bradby maybe but loses them a lot of sympathy from the public I think.

They strike me as a pair of spoiled brats.

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HowlsMovingBungalow · 18/10/2019 16:38

Who should've been asking Meghan if she is Ok? Surely her/their family and friends and not journalists or us mere plebs.

Strange statement.

escapade1234 · 18/10/2019 16:41

Just back from Africa, spending time with very poor underprivileged children who apparently moved them greatly. Back home, poor me and my newlywed struggles with my servants and nannies - won’t anyone ask how I am??

Yes, I know being rich doesn’t solve all your problems, but who could be as lacking in self-awareness as to even utter such a thing.

Bluerussian · 18/10/2019 16:43

There has been little handwringing over the media. Meghan and Harry said nothing at all for ages, I was even hoping they were blocking everything so as not to see. However they did see and a comment was made, good for them.

There's nothing wrong with the couple, people are scraping the bottom of the barrel and nitpicking.

People who live a privileged lifestyle are quite capable of being not OK at times.

It's unfortunate that there are many people who are actually jealous of them and boy does it show!

Inspiralcarpetry · 18/10/2019 16:44

I can't believe how self absorbed the pair of them are. Can they not see how spoilt and whiny they are projecting as? Access to money, security, home help, top quality childcare, not really doing actual work so getting to spend lots of quality time as a couple/family. Jeez.

imalloutofideas · 18/10/2019 16:45

lol on one ever asks me if I'm ok either love, get over it! And "Trying to be a newlywed"...err you did date him first love!
I like the way she insinuates being a new mum is hard but can't finish the sentence because she's probably hardly bothered with the baby is very weird and Tom Brady has to step in!! Awks

joyfullittlehippo · 18/10/2019 16:46

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Inspiralcarpetry · 18/10/2019 17:07

I personally do see them as human beings. Insofar as you can 'like' someone you don't know, I thought H and M were great at first. But the self absorption, it needing to be all about them, the litigation, the comments to the media certainly make me think they are spoilt, entitled and immature.
Just ridiculous to comment on being a 'newlywed', as if that's a thing to cope with. She has been a newlywed before, how did she cope then?

TheFairyCaravan · 18/10/2019 17:12

Kate has hinted at how hard she found motherhood at first, and I suspect there is a lot more to the story. She was isolated in a farmhouse in rural Wales , miles from family and friends with William at work much of the time

Oh please give over! And at that time she wrote in a book of what it's like to be a military wife. They could have asked any random woman in the street that because her experience was as far removed from every other military wife that it was insulting.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 18/10/2019 17:15

Who should've been asking Meghan if she is OK? Surely her/their family and friends and not journalists or us mere plebs

In fairness, can I suggest some issues around American culture might be being missed here?

Not everyone does the British "stiff upper lip", and IME of the US a schmaltzy sobfest about how a celeb's "feeling" is pretty par for the course. It might not chime terribly well with the RF's way of doing things, but at the risk of repeating myself this is exactly why Meghan should have had much longer to come to terms with it all before marriage to a RF member

Pitterpatterpettysteps · 18/10/2019 17:58

In fairness, can I suggest some issues around American culture might be being missed here?

What's Harry's excuse then?

bluebells100 · 18/10/2019 18:04

We don’t want to hear their tales of woe and self pity.....and that speech Harry made where he made it all about himself.......in front of those poor families going through horrific times was abhorrent. They must have been appalled. He recovered very quickly from that “cry” too. Not a tear in sight.

bohemia14 · 18/10/2019 18:04

Who on earth is she expecting to ask her if she is ok? Surely friends and family and why wouldn't they do that, and if they do or don't it's certainly not something for a tv interview. These 2 are an utter joke and embarrassment. I've always been a monarchist but I'd now like a referendum on abolishing the monarchy.

heykarumba · 18/10/2019 18:06

It's a heartbreaking event and the emotions when you have a child is intense. Bless him. A wonderful father.

bluebells100 · 18/10/2019 18:12

I wonder if Meghan ever considers asking the homeless, cold and hungry how they’re feeling, or the sick and disabled who’ve just had their benefits stopped..

I’m appalled at such a comment from someone who has such wealth and privilege. Shock