Harry and Meghan resigning?

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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.

Good on them. There are a lot of very bitter angry people In this country who don’t like to see other people happy and they are getting worse. People like Piers Morgan and the DM encourage people to focus their anger on these two. It will only get worse once the effects of Brexit kick in and the and angry, bitter people become even angrier.

Let them enjoy their family away from the spotlight. Wonder who the media will target next for the hard of thinking to aim their pitchforks at?

This is really embarrassing for the Queen. It sounds as though they had no idea they were going to release this statement.

So the trademarking of Sussex Royal before Christmas has taken on a new meaning.

They’ve dumped a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of George, Charlotte and Louis Not really - it’s the law of succession that does this. And when George eventually marries the responsibility will fall on his children and Charlotte and Louis will fall down the pecking order in turn.

I can’t say I am surprised but I am disappointed.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Harry after seeing him walk behind the coffin when he was so young. I was always rooting for him to find love and settle down.

I liked Meghan at first but with every article we saw how she was against tradition and protocol. She was desperate to make a name for herself above honouring duty. I think Meghan is very manipulative. She has played the victim when allegedly she was tearing the family apart.

Her own family don’t speak to her and now she’s ostracised Harry from his family. Harry never would have turned his back on them without her influence. Think about how close William and Harry were growing up!

I predict that she will go back in acting within the year, maybe have another baby with Harry. In the end I reckon they will divorce in the next few years and he will try and repair his relationship with the monarchy.

I am just in such shock that they didn’t even tell the Queen before announcing. That shows disrespect and petulance. What an absolute shame.

I really fail to understand how a proper opinion can be made of someone famous through the press, who seem to only want to build people up & knock them down afterwards

After all the Waity Katie abuse that the Duchess of Cambridge had to take, I can’t help but think that Harry and Meghan rushed things a little. I don’t think she had enough to time to really get to grips with what she was marrying in to. Mind you, with her being a bit older I can also understand the urge to crack on with the baby making.

she was desperate to make a name of herself

She already had a well known name even before he met Harry.

I do feel sorry for William and Harry being born into the royal family. It’s not a life I’d want. That said they live a life of absolute luxury. The amount of money Meghan has spent on clothes alone is obscene, not to mention all the public money that went towards the renovation of Frogmore Cottage.

I think it shows that all the apparent advantages they have are very much a double edged sword. I know they’ve had a lot of vile commentary on social media but it’s probably important that they have some idea of how they are perceived by some people. I hope this royal step back means that they have to completely support themselves financially, which should include not having access to the royal purse and royal security. He does of course have the option of fully walking away from any public royal attachment.

I think the most important venture that Harry does is the Invictus work. Hopefully he’ll keep this up.

I suspect this news is going to run and run for weeks.

They make me mad

Happy to court the press when it suits them and pissed off when the press has a pop

Live by the sword and die by it ?

Good for them, let’s hope the rest of the leeches follow suit...

Harry would have happily been left as a soldier, but the press stopped him being able to do that.

The press have been intensive in their lives since birth.

I should imagine Harry’s been looking for a way out of this since the day he had to walk behind his mother’s coffin in front of the wailing crowds.

He was born into that life and given no choice, he’ll never be able to go anywhere or do anything without being recognised and reported on, and never be able to be anything except the “spare” that is no longer required. They don’t call it a gilded cage for nothing. I wouldn’t swap with him for all the riches and free clothes in the world.

I’m not surprised if he wants better for his child.

@OP
"I have a feeling that Amylox is right in her assertions
So despite them resigning you have started a thread to kick her with your Jackboots...

"They'll be back."

I think so too.

I am not surprised, I saw it coming.

I am not a royalist and I am pretty indifferent to the whole thing. I don't go online much so haven't really read the comments about MM. However, I think they have had a really hard time, especially MM. The raciest and other horrible comments about her are unacceptable. But I do think they have brought some of the criticism upon themselves with some seriously bad decisions. Spending millions doing up their house but then not even allowing a picture of baby Archie. Preaching to people about climate change whilst going on numerous private jets holidays. I thought the SA documentary was pretty vulgar, using their fame as a platform for their causes, whilst saying how hard life it whilst in one of the poorest countries in the world. I can understand she's upset by the treatment of the press and some of the public but it was the wrong time and place to talk about it. But on the other hand I do think it must be hard to be compared to Kate and William so much as they are so perfect, never a step wrong. Perhaps they should have just followed suit?

I am pretty indifferent to them but it certainly does seem they want the best of both worlds. They don't want the bad bits of being a royal- scrutiny, royal engagements, Follow royal rules, private photographs but want the good bits- houses, wedding, lifestyle funded by the public, private jets, to use their status as a platform for their causes.

I think they now finally have this by stepping down. They will continue to be paid for by the state but not have to 'give anything back'

Presumably they are going to monetise their brand which they couldn’t do whilst working for the royal family due to rules and protocols.

We are always hearing how people want more of the royal family to be independent but I will reserve judgement until I see how they do this. They are hardly going to become the Kardashians but how will they earn money -lifestyle brand?, fashion? Endorsements? I can see Meghan doing some of this but how will Harry be involved?

I don’t get the ‘happy to court the press’ line. Anyone can see Harry has never been happy in the limelight, he’s only done what he has to do as a royal. I’m no royalist but I think some are being harsh. The future for the monarchy will be much scaled down imo so they may as well start to make themselves independent now.

Btw The Duke and Duchess of Windsor held no royal role but kept their titles.

Not quite correct. George VI made Edward VIII HRH Duke of Windsor after the abdication. This wasn't necessarily out of the goodness of his own heart, making him a Royal Duke meant that he could never be an MP or member of the Lords. So he could never use those as a route back to challenge George VI's authority. Wallis had no HRH, but the wife of a Duke is automatically a duchess so she was (much like Camilla legally must be Princess of Wales but she doesn't use it).

They did have a royal role during WWII in the Bahamas but that was mainly to keep them away and out of trouble.

They may actually show the potential route the Sussexes could take. They essentially retired from public life and led quiet, private lives outside the country, they did not work.

They had a great deal of personal wealth, probably more than Harry has. The Sussexes vague referrals to possibly being financially independent in the future suggests they don't think their wealth is enough to maintain them in the style they wish and that they want to make money and draw on public funds to make up the shortfall.

My feeling is that they are going to be told they either remain as working royals or entirely retire from public life like the Windsors. The semi detached idea they have won't fly.

We are always hearing how people want more of the royal family to be independent but I will reserve judgement until I see how they do this. They are hardly going to become the Kardashians but how will they earn money -lifestyle brand?, fashion? Endorsements? I can see Meghan doing some of this but how will Harry be involved?

Apparently a "charitable" foundation modelled on the Clinton Foundation. That's according to Blind Gossip who posted about it back in December and have been right about everything so far.

The press have acted like emotionally abusive parents over the whole thing. Sometimes it was right on the brink of "it's us or her". And he chose her and their child, and now the press has gone into wide eyed disingenuous mode. "What's their problem?! Are the millionaires who have everything unhappy for some reason?"

Harry wanted to leave years ago, he said as much. Now he has the extra incentive of protecting his wife from - let's face it - a huge amount of racially motivated hate. Plenty of useless white men and useless white women have joined the Royal family. The press have done exposes on a lot of them. None of them have had the relentless hate Meghan has received. Prince P*do has not had a fraction of the hate she gets.

So despite them resigning you have started a thread to kick her with your Jackboots...

They've not resigned. They're just ditching the bits of the role and its constraints that they don't like.

I wonder why some here don’t understand why Meghan has been the source of much public vitriol. She has had a tax payer funded home, a very expensive wedding, endless overly expensive clothes (and I said overly as I would expect some expensive clothes), she has lectured the plebs on climate change and flown privately in excess, she has cradled her bump for 9 months and then had a private christening and secret birth she has been to Wimbledon and insisted on privacy. She has flown to South Africa and then offered up an interview of her innermost thoughts. And then gone into hiding in Canada. She hasn’t done much for the UK in return. Aside from sell a few papers.

The inconsistency, publicity craving and then privacy demanding. The failure to respect traditions of this country - even a nod to wear something half smart at our most important tennis tournament - it’s such a small thing to do .... and also to respect the public in general recognising the responsibility of public office - this is my main beef. It’s not racism as some claim - she is just dislikable, insincere and fame hungry and slightly blind to why many people have such a strong view on her.

Despite all this I actually feel sorry for her. She has a young child, is far from home and is under heavy scrutiny at a hard time in anyone’s life. I would hate the life of a royal. But she hasn’t half done it all badly.

And people need to stop bringing up the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson. It's not anywhere near as dramatic as that, however much they hype it up in hopes that it might be. It's not actually dramatic at all.