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Harry and Meghan resigning?

999 replies

TheMustressMhor · 08/01/2020 19:03

See link. News just announced.

www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2020/01/08/prince-harry-meghan-step-back-senior-members-royal-family-couple/

It does sound like they might be escaping from the public scrutiny and online abuse.

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lilgreen · 09/01/2020 18:53

*Tom

Amylox · 09/01/2020 18:57

Apparently the Queen is saying she wants their future decided in days, not weeks. That's very, very bad news for H&M.

If they're talking a matter of days that sounds like it's going to be a pretty brutal cutting off. If they were keeping a more substantial royal role it would take much longer for that to be negotiated. I think they're out. For good.

kateandme · 09/01/2020 18:59

we have all seen those royal 'official' sources.all bollocks.i think he queen is clever enough not to issue any of the shit people or saying about dissappointment. she knows exactly how that would be taken.
or if she has it will be kindly said.of course she will be sad and dissapointed he doesnt want to be part of the family business.thats normal reaction.but i gaurente its been spun into a entirely different context adding a shit on mm slant by the so called leaks.
im sure any mother or grandma at the head of a business might go "oh yes im really sad he doesnt want to join us"

Amylox · 09/01/2020 19:00

Of course they do!

They don't. They really, really don't. They'd be publicly decimated and their organisation banned from anything involving royals for eternity plus sued into oblivion.

Devereux1 · 09/01/2020 19:01

Apparently the Queen is saying she wants their future decided in days, not weeks.

Good for her. They have behaved disgracefully. They have been pandered to, for too long. Cut off the funding, take away their titles, take away Frogmore (we paid for that for them to carry out their roles, thanks), take away their protection, and send the little narcissists on their £34m way.

Pogmella · 09/01/2020 19:01

sussexroyal.com/media/

Has anyone actually looked at this...

kinsss · 09/01/2020 19:02

Yesterday's news already now.

Well played.

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 09/01/2020 19:06

His mother died whilst being chased by the press,

Nothing to do with the fact that she got into a car with a drunk driver and didn't put a seat belt on then.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 09/01/2020 19:06

What a pile of tosh that website is.

MrsBrentford · 09/01/2020 19:09

Well I guess there is always Beatrice’s wedding for them to announce the second pregnancy.

kateandme · 09/01/2020 19:17

Devereux1 wrong again sorry. WE didnt pay.THEY as royals and as a business make our country so much a year. 15% of that total goes back into the royal purse for them.so actually if your looking at it in YOUR way then WE are stealing effectively 85% o their earnings.

SophiaLarsen · 09/01/2020 19:17

😂

BBInSleepsCounting · 09/01/2020 19:22

Good luck to them.

malylis · 09/01/2020 19:22

"They" do not make money, the crown estates do, they do not belong to the royal family privately.

Devereux1 · 09/01/2020 19:28

kateandme
wrong again sorry. WE didnt pay

You're wrong. Our taxes make up the most amount from the Consolidated Fund. Public money paid for the renovations. Harry and Meghan didn't pay a penny of it. The point stands.

eaglejulesk · 09/01/2020 19:33

By the way I think those people that allow Kate their support but criticise Meghan at every turn should really check their closet racism .. it's so easy to package it as something else that she's "annoyed" you about .. but so obvious it's just because Harry chose a girl whose ancestry you don't approve of ..

I have heard of, and read posts here about, people who really liked Meghan at the beginning and thought she was a breath of fresh air. However, as time has gone by her popularity has waned. FFS how is this racist?? I am sick of people using the racist card! I wasn't a Diana fan really - so that is okay, but if I say I'm not a Meghan fan I'm racist. Diana, Fergie, Kate - they all faced criticism at one time or other. Grow up.

BoneyBackJefferson · 09/01/2020 19:37

Here is the thing.

Instead of this until they are "financially independent" BS

(how much money do they want before they are financially independent FFS.)

And the many hours of this in the news, in the papers and social media, which lets be honest is just advertising for the new brand.

JFDI

eaglejulesk · 09/01/2020 19:38

He has always had the option Anne took. Play it safe. Be quiet. Don't do any preaching on instagram or emotional videos. Turn up, shake hands and go home

This

eaglejulesk · 09/01/2020 19:43

We thought it amusing when the black preacher was laughed out of their wedding with shameless smirking that the royals didn’t even try to hide.

Really - I didn't think his colour had anything to do with it, more that it was over the top and went on and on and on .......

stuffedpeppers · 09/01/2020 19:44

the stuff on their website abut finances is just unbelievable.

They try to justify that the Queen and Chuck were not paying for much and how they brought in loads and got nothing.

it is so tacky and petty - like i said i liked them but the more they write the more I dislike them

You can do many things - upset chuck, will etc but you do not diss the Queen.

annualleavepurchase · 09/01/2020 19:48

We thought it amusing when the black preacher was laughed out of their wedding with shameless smirking that the royals didn’t even try to hide.

Was Meghan herself not pictured laughing / smirking at him too? Is she racist too?

MrsBrentford · 09/01/2020 19:52

The financial detail of it uncouth at best and extremely American, the very British Royal Family would never openly discuss money and worth to this degree, it’s cheap and distasteful and very unroyal, only an American would think this is ok.

This is the crux of it to some extent, and the silly fool has gone along with it.

malylis · 09/01/2020 19:53

The financial detail doesn't make out like they do lots for nothing at all.

pallisers · 09/01/2020 19:55

The financial detail of it uncouth at best and extremely American, the very British Royal Family would never openly discuss money and worth to this degree, it’s cheap and distasteful and very unroyal, only an American would think this is ok.

yes you can see how an american would feel very welcome in the UK.

mn thinks it perfectly ok to say americans are uncouth, cheap and distasteful. business as usual then.

MrsBrentford · 09/01/2020 19:56

Well ... she has kind of proved the point ..?